World in Action

World in Action

1963 35 Seasons 1294 Episodes ⭐ 7.0 News Documentary

World in Action was Granada Television’s flagship ITV current affairs series, running from 7 Jan 1963 to 7 Dec 1998, and built a reputation for film-led investigative reporting and a forceful editorial stance. Its journalism produced major public and political repercussions—including investigations associated with miscarriages of justice such as the Birmingham Six—and it also served as a platform for landmark documentary projects, including the first broadcast of “Seven Up!” as part of the strand in 1964.

World in Action was Granada Television’s flagship ITV current affairs series, running from 7 Jan 1963 to 7 Dec 1998, and built a reputation for film-led investigative reporting and a forceful editorial stance. Its journalism produced major public and political repercussions—including investigations associated with miscarriages of justice such as the Birmingham Six—and it also served as a platform for landmark documentary projects, including the first broadcast of “Seven Up!” as part of the strand in 1964.

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Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

Beat the Clock on Defence Spending

Military budget over spending is presented as a game show.

EP 2

Atomic Arms Race

EP 3

Congo Conflict

EP 4

East Germany

EP 6

Lord Hailsham

EP 7

Supermarkets

An investigation into supermarket practices and their effect on a neighbourhood.

EP 8

The Fashion Houses

EP 9

Tibet

A look at the first years of China's occupation of Tibet.

EP 10

Harold Wilson

EP 11

The Gambling Business

EP 12

Typhoid in Zermatt

EP 13

Migrants

The plight of southern based Italians having to move to the North of Italy for work.

EP 14

The Airlines

EP 15

The Volunteers

The valuable contributions young volunteers make.

EP 16

The Der Speigel Affair

EP 17

The Petrol Business

An investigation into the UK petrol supply business and techniques used amongst rival firms to win customers.

EP 18

The Greek Royal Family

EP 19

Charities

EP 20

Stanley Matthews

EP 21

Litter

A look at the country's increasing litter problem.

EP 22

Don't Take the Risk

EP 23

Election Costs

EP 24

Ivanov

EP 1

The Guns

EP 2

Lord Denning

EP 3

Dick Gregory

EP 4

M.R.A

EP 5

Oxfam

EP 6

Blackpool Conference

EP 7

Living in the Slums

A look at conditions in Stepney, London.

EP 8

Repairs

EP 9

Power

EP 10

The Prime Minister - Sir Alec Douglas Home

EP 11

The Shadows

EP 12

Increasing Traffic

EP 13

The British Way of Death

EP 14

Dallas

A visit to the city of Dallas in the aftermath of the Kennedy assassination, focusing on the varying reactions and condi

EP 15

President Lyndon Johnson

EP 16

The Cost of Dying

Investigates that behind the solemn facade, a funeral service can be an opportunity to take advantage of the situation f

EP 17

Cooke on America

EP 18

Truth About Spain

An observation of Spanish Life under Franco.

EP 19

Alistair Cooke Reports

EP 20

Lakonia - The Facts

EP 21

The Thin Red Line

A profile of British Soldiers at various world trouble spots.

EP 22

Smuggling

EP 23

The Power of the Nanny

EP 24

Cyprus

The war in Cyprus between the Turkish and Greek Cypriots.

EP 25

Concorde

Profile of the world's first supersonic airliner.

EP 26

The Great Train Robbery

Reconstruction of the recent night mail train robbery

EP 27

The Williams Family

Plight of a South African family refused entry into Britain.

EP 29

Radio Pirates

Unique access to the new form of radio which is competing on a not strictly legal level with the BBC - the pirate statio

EP 30

How to Make a Million in One Minute Flat

A profile of the town of Timmins in Canada which became a boom town overnight over the recent discovery of large amounts

EP 31

The Face on the Cover

EP 32

Lord Beaverbrook

EP 33

Typhoid in Aberdeen

A typhoid epidemic in Aberdeen is traced to a rogue batch of Argentinian corned beef.

EP 34

Goldwater for President? or How to Win Friends and Influence People

A look at Barry Goldwater's run for President.

EP 35

John Bloom

The rise and fall of washing machine magnate John Bloom and his Roll's Razor Company.

EP 36

U.S. in U.K.

EP 1

The Story of the Sun

The launch of The Sun newspaper.

EP 2

The Flip Side

Various recording agents speak out on the pop music business, and whether the UK singles chart is a fair representation

EP 3

U.S. Elections

EP 4

Canada

French-Canadian unrest at the Queen's visit.

EP 5

Eyes

Investigation on how a bacterial infection got into a Birmingham Eye Hospital and caused several cases of blindness.

EP 6

How to Loose at the Olympics After Really Trying

An investigation into the poor training facilities available to Olympic contenders.

EP 7

Vietnam

EP 8

Air Safety

EP 9

Smethwick and Racial Tension

EP 10

State of the Unions: Unions and the Motor Car

A comparison of the industrial relations in the car making industries of the UK & the US.

EP 11

Sunday Laws

An investigation into Britain's age old Sunday trading laws and their effect on shops and similar businesses.

EP 12

Labour Party Conference 1964

EP 13

Ballroom Dancing

EP 14

Highlights of 1964

EP 15

The English Disease

Investigates if there is a link between bronchitis and road pollution.

EP 17

Malcolm X

Various black Americans give their views on Malcolm X, and an actor recreates some of his speeches.

EP 18

The Night Drivers

Investigates the transport and haulage industry and the dark practices that can leave drivers tired, open to hijack and

EP 21

The BBC

EP 24

The Middle East

Observations of the tensions growing between Arab and Israeli.

EP 25

Seventy Up

Companion piece to Seven Up! (1964), this time featuring the elderly looking back rather than the young looking forward.

EP 26

Water

A look at the water crisis and how the drought will affect the summer.

EP 30

The Other World

EP 31

Dukes

EP 32

The £.S.D. of MPH

EP 33

Jerry Builders

EP 34

The Tory Leadership

EP 35

Drugs

EP 1

A Girl Called Sharon

A look at the Royal Marsden's Hospital work in the treatment of Leukaemia and how Sharon's parents Bill and Annette Norr

EP 2

Some Grains of Truth

Investigates how some drugs are smuggled into Britain.

EP 3

A Duel in the Sun

EP 4

Defender of the Faith

EP 5

Mick Jagger

Mick Jagger gives a press conference after his recent conditional discharge for drug use. He then joins a discussion wit

EP 6

The Third World

A profile of Stokely Carmichael, a black campaigner against the West's dominance of the world, during his visit to Brita

EP 7

Scientology for Sale

EP 8

Colonels' Democracy

EP 9

The Professional Dreamers

EP 10

Hell No! We Won't Go

EP 11

The Militants

An investigation into the development of the Barbican Complex in London. Strikes and industrial action have stopped work

EP 12

The Born Losers

The plight of families in Britain living below the poverty line.

EP 13

The O'Rahilly File

After the government successfully suppressed pirate radio stations, a follow-up to a previous episode in 1964 with Radio

EP 14

Smith's Back Door

Sanction busting in Rhodesia.

EP 15

The Breathalyser

A report on the drink and driving laws of Sweden and Germany.

EP 16

Island Under Arms

EP 17

We Know What We Saw!

Unidentified Flying Object, or UFO sightings in the United States of America are analyzed by experts in various fields.

EP 18

King of Kings

The Coronation of the Shah of Persia and an interview with Queen Farah.

EP 19

Wanted: Kind English Lady

A report on the white foster mothering of black children in the UK.

EP 20

You Can't Find Uncle Tom

EP 21

East of Aden

EP 22

Mothers in Action

A group trying change society's attitude to unmarried mothers.

EP 23

The End of a Revolution

Bolivia after the death of Che Guevara, and at the trial of Regis Dubray.

EP 24

India on the Edge

A report on violence and chaos in Calcutta as India struggles to get a grip on democracy.

EP 25

An Outlaw's Life

An observation of Irish Travellers living in Britain.

EP 26

The Long Bridge

Report about The Allenby Bridge crossing between Israel and Jordan, used by refugees in the previous May

EP 27

Alas Poor Hippies, Love is Dead

The evolution of American hippies, their scene, drugs, pan-handling and other pastimes.

EP 28

Merchants of War

Investigates arms dealing and mercenaries on the way to the Nigerian state of Biafra.

EP 29

Episode 29

EP 30

The Twelve Year Engagement

Investigates the recruitment of boy soldiers and why some face difficulty trying to leave later.

EP 31

Death by Instalments

Examining a proposed parliamentary bill that will enable drug addicts to use free walk in centres to get heroin and coca

EP 32

Caught for a Baby

EP 33

Cold War, Warm Water

EP 34

No Entry

The plight of Asians trying to escape from Kenya and the difficulties some are having, despite having British Passports,

EP 35

Richard Nixon's Last Hurrah

EP 36

The Demonstration

Follows the Anti-Vietnam demonstration in Grosvenor Square London on 16 March.

EP 37

Episode 37

EP 38

A Group of Terrorists Attacked...

The guerrilla fight for independence in Portuguese Guinea.

EP 39

Listen, Whitey

The mood in some black communities in America after the death of Martin Luther King.

EP 40

Horoscope

With interest in astrology increasing, predictions from astrologer Ingrid Lind are put to the test.

EP 41

Wake Up and Work Together

EP 42

The Flame in Spain

EP 43

Below the Belt

An observation of the prospects of children born with Spina Bifida, which results in below the waist paralysis.

EP 44

The Star Spangled War

GI's waiting to invade the Ashau Valley share their thoughts on the Vietnam War.

EP 45

Stage for a Revolution

The Berlin demonstration of May 1st and the events that led up to it.

EP 46

Ward F.13

An investigation into the appalling conditions of the female geriatric ward of Powick Mental Hospital near Worcester.

EP 47

Stop That Bowing, Scrapin' and Scratchin'

Following the poor peoples' protest and demonstration for better conditions, in Washington DC.

EP 48

Robert Kennedy

EP 49

The Guinea Pigs

Grammar School boys are sent to Marlborough College.

EP 50

Election of Fear

The fall out from the student revolt in Paris France and how it will effect the Grenoble Election.

EP 51

Jeremy Thorpe

EP 1

Give Us the Works

An idea to give workers more say in the running of their company is put to the board of British Steel.

EP 2

Spies for Hire

EP 3

February's Children

An investigation into 7 children (expelled from Kenya) who have to live on their own in the UK as their parents cannot j

EP 4

Episode 4

EP 5

New Drugs, Same Needle

The banning of Methedrine and its implications for the drug taking community.

EP 6

A Score to Settle

Manchester United's allegations of foul play by Argentinian side Estudiantes.

EP 7

Backs to the Wall

A look behind the reasons for the Londonderry Civil Rights demonstrations in the previous weeks.

EP 8

Special: Vietnam

EP 9

A City Stumbles

A look at the crisis facing New York City with the decay of the administrative structure.

EP 10

Nasser's Fortified Ditch

EP 11

An Outbreak of Peace?

With peace in sight Vietnamese and Americans predict the future for Vietnam.

EP 12

A Buyer's Market

The recent Act of Parliament has increased dramatically the number of abortions but also a two tier system for rich and

EP 13

The Trail of the Vanishing Voters

World in Action tries to trace the overseas voters in Britain who have supposedly voted for The People's National Congre

EP 14

The Twenty Four Carat Kingdom

A profile of Laos, considered the most unproductive country in the world but rich and financially stable through its pas

EP 15

First Class Delivery

The medical practice of epidural injections to relieve the pain of childbirth and the religious groups who oppose them.

EP 16

Sorry, Nothing Doing

Update on the subjects of three notable previous films in the series, the gypsies of An Outlaw's Life (1968), the large

EP 17

The Making of a Prime Minister

EP 18

Next Year in Peking

EP 19

All Change at Newry!

EP 20

A New School of Thought

EP 21

Death of a Student

The events in Prague following the suicide and funeral of Jan Palach.

EP 22

Like Other Men

Looking at the priests rebelling in the Dutch Catholic Church over celibacy vows.

EP 23

Living in the Red

EP 24

A War on Ice

EP 25

Home for a Revolution

EP 26

Where People Don't Matter

The fallout from the earthquake in Sicily and the implications that corruption is preventing the decent rehousing of vic

EP 27

A Case to Answer

Locals complain of police corruption and extortion in Hong Kong.

EP 28

The Men Left Behind

EP 29

The Six Day War - Day 666

EP 30

The Owners and the Owned

Investigates slum properties in Notting Hill turning over vast profits for a company based in the Bahamas.

EP 31

Inside Out

A revolutionary new look at how mental patients should be treated, allowing them out into the wider world, and distancin

EP 32

A modest proposal

EP 33

Two Men in Two Tin Huts

Shows attempts being made to break up gangs on Glasgow's Easterhouse Estate.

EP 34

The Leftovers

Looks at the treatment of Negroes in Sudan.

EP 1

Untried, Inside

EP 2

No Surrender

Portrait of the Protestant working class and the vigilantes in Northern Ireland at the height of the Ulster riots in 196

EP 3

Crack of the Whip

Portrait of the Catholic working class and the riots in Ulster, when the barricades were going up in the streets of Derr

EP 4

Castro

Following Fidel Castro as he governs the country of Cuba from Jeeps and tents, spending many hours integrating himself w

EP 5

The Secret Life of Sam the Plumber

EP 6

Put to the Test

An observation of the Southwark mobile screening unit for detecting breast and other cancers.

EP 7

State of the Lion

EP 8

Unknown Soldier

EP 9

The Life and Death of James Griffiths

Reconstruction of Glasgow gunman James Griffiths running amok and the final shoot out with the police.

EP 10

Ken Petty, Alas No Longer with Us

Looks at the alternative life styles of young people who have dropped out of society.

EP 11

Five Days in Washington

EP 12

A Welcome in the Hillsides

EP 13

The Breadline

Lower income workers discuss how they manage to cope on poor wages, amongst politicians and trade union leaders.

EP 14

Where Crime Is a Habit

A look at the work of the New York Police Dept. and the vigilantes groups that have come about to also tackle crime.

EP 15

Wednesday's Children

A report on Muscular Dystrophy and examines what is available and what can be done for those suffering.

EP 16

Nancekuke Dossier

Investigates why the UK is still manufacturing nerve gas.

EP 17

Last Week in Biafra

Christmas 1969 and a reminder of the last terrible year in Biafra which was blighted by war and the consequent famine an

EP 18

Frontline Africa

The guerrilla fight for independence of the people of Portuguese Guinea.

EP 19

The 22 Year Itch

EP 20

Cold Comfort

An investigation into the elderly dying from cold in Winter and the effects of hypothermia which can show no obvious sym

EP 21

A Bit Apprehensive

EP 22

One Down,100,000 to Go

EP 23

Your Services No Longer Required

EP 24

Conspiracy

EP 25

St. Mungo's People

EP 26

Shalom

EP 27

Trouble Down the East End

EP 28

A Case for Benign Neglect?

EP 29

The State of Denmark

On the abolishment of censorship in Denmark, infamous morality campaigner Mary Whitehouse goes on an inspection of the s

EP 30

Seymour

Follows Seymour as he reconnects with life after being released from prison.

EP 31

Black Mood

EP 32

Ian Paisley

EP 33

Are You Alright Jackie?

A look at the lives of two schoolgirls, both named Jackie, and their juxtaposition with two representatives from the Wom

EP 34

This House Would Disrupt the SA Cricket Tour

EP 35

America Talking

EP 36

Quentin Crisp

World In Action interview filmed in Quentin's room in a London boarding house.

EP 37

Vic Feather

EP 38

Act of God

EP 1

Everybody's Children

School children at school are doing a play on freedom and the Vietnam war also playing a general

EP 2

The Quiet Mutiny

Embedded documentary, shot on site during the Vietnam War, showing how young draftees are critical about that war.

EP 3

The Man Who Made Biafra

EP 4

Pigs?

Members of the Cincinnati Police Force discuss the increasing animosity being dealt out by the public towards policemen.

EP 5

They're Only Human Beings Like Everybody Else

There are about 1,500,000 severely physically handicapped people in the United Kingdom. There are, therefore, 1,500,000

EP 6

A Business Arrangement

EP 7

S.A.L.T.

EP 8

Goodbye Mr. Smith?

EP 9

The Mountain People

America's poor whites of the Appalachia region, who fear there maybe violence against them in the future.

EP 10

The Final Harvest

EP 11

The Man Who Wouldn't Keep Quiet

EP 12

The Schemes of Jerome D. Hoffman

Follows the trail of New York financier Hoffman, who's empire had just crashed leaving investors in the UK out of pocket

EP 13

The Law Shop

EP 14

Oh! Birmingham

EP 15

The Dumping Grounds

The problems of malnutrition leading to mental and physical problems among the children of resettled black South African

EP 16

American Radio

A personal view by Denis Mitchell.

EP 17

Round One

EP 18

The Dutschke Affair

EP 19

The Village That Quit

A village is asked to give up smoking for a week and the results monitored.

EP 20

The Monday Club

EP 21

The Breaking Point

EP 22

Square One

With renewed fighting through Ulster, has the conflict gone back to square one?

EP 23

Lucky

Follows the life of an 18 year old from Devon who arrives in London penniless and has to sleep rough, but eventually wit

EP 24

Ford: The Inside Story

EP 25

The Truants

World In Action talks to three teenage truants about what they get up to when they "wag off" school.

EP 26

The Man Who Stole Uganda

A military coup has taken place in Uganda, but what is the real story behind the rumours?

EP 27

As It Was in the Beginning...

Uses footage from previous editions of World in Action to present a history of the troubles so far.

EP 28

The Year Britain Stopped Growing

Investigates the claim that lack of investment in the UK will seriously affect its competitiveness with mainland Europe.

EP 29

South of the Border

Attitudes in Eire to the IRA and the situation in Ulster.

EP 30

The Salvation Army

EP 31

The Sailors' Jail

EP 32

Going Private

Investigates the controversy surrounding private patients and their consultants and whether they are exploiting the NHS.

EP 33

The Tanzam Railway

EP 34

A 2.9% Swing to Democracy in Bradford

EP 35

Death Is Afraid of Us

Some people in the country of Georgia claim to be over a 100 years old and still working like people half their age.

EP 36

Conversations with a Working Man

Following one working class man through the struggles of his average day, to show how the forgotten majority are living

EP 37

Anthony Mascarenhas

EP 38

A Woman's Place

EP 39

The Dust at Acre Mill

EP 40

Episode 40

EP 41

Major Khaled's War

EP 42

End of a Journey

EP 43

The Man from No. 10

EP 1

The Village That Quit, Well Not Exactly

EP 2

The Sounds of the Clyde

EP 3

Episode 3

EP 4

Death of a revolutionary

The aftermath of the shooting dead of Black Panther George Jackson while allegedly trying to escape from prison. His fri

EP 5

Episode 5

EP 6

Episode 6

EP 7

Episode 7

EP 8

Does an M.P. Have the Right?

EP 9

The Most Widely Used Drug in the World.

Aspirins are used for a multitude of different complaints, or even just taken as a daily habit. But, do they have harmfu

EP 10

Episode 10

EP 11

The Backseat Generals

EP 12

Year of the Killing

Researching on Bangladesh liberation war movement in uk 1971.

EP 13

Episode 13

EP 14

Working the Land

EP 15

The Thirty Million Power Game

EP 16

Episode 16

EP 17

War in the Air

EP 18

Waiting for the Package

Attitudes in Ulster to the British government's proposals for direct rule.

EP 19

The Lump

A look at the reasons behind the continuing bad relations between building workers and management, which lead to a strik

EP 20

Het Dorp

EP 21

Out of the Melting Pot

EP 22

The Rule of Law

EP 23

Containers

Follows the industrial dispute between Liverpool Dockers and the Heaton's Container yard.

EP 24

Liberty Belles

EP 25

Conversations with a Single Parent

EP 26

The Runcorn Experiment

EP 27

The Siege of Kontum

World in Action reports from the battle of Kontum, Vietnam - highlighting the plight of the Montagnard mountain people w

EP 28

The Protestant Succession

EP 29

The Docks Dispute

EP 30

How to Make Enemies & Influence People

EP 31

Dust-Up at Northfleet

EP 32

In Search of Gusty Spence

An interview with the Irish Protestant who denies the murder for which he was convicted, and is being held by the Ulster

EP 33

How to Steal a Party

EP 34

Episode 34

EP 35

Episode 35

EP 36

Caught in the Act

EP 37

Eh! What?

Investigation into the problem of noise pollution at work, about which there has been silence for far too long.

EP 1

See for Yourself!

A London shop steward opposed to immigration is invited to visit Uganda, and see why Asians there have to leave for thei

EP 2

A Matter of Discretion

EP 3

A Question of Torture

EP 4

The Colenso Diamond

EP 5

The Children of Vorenezh

EP 6

Is the Press Biased Against the Labour Party? Wilson Verses Rees-Mogg

EP 7

Hotels

EP 8

Canadian Indians

EP 9

The Stripping of the Appalachia

EP 10

Police for Sale

EP 11

Wales for Sale

EP 12

The Case of Leopold Tresser - Master Spy

EP 13

On Site

An investigation into how the appalling accident record on construction sites can be improved.

EP 14

A Day in the Life of Kevin Donnellon

World in Action spends a day with thalidomide victim, 10 year old Kevin Donnellon.

EP 15

The Angry Brigade

Meeting the young anarchists involved in a guerrilla bombing campaign.

EP 16

The Cut Price Society of Sidney Carter

EP 17

How Safe Are American Nuclear Reactors?

EP 18

The Get Rich Quick Guide

EP 19

Ready Willing and Disabled

EP 20

Last Tangle in Paris

EP 21

Conversations with a Gay Liberal

Sam Green, a psychiatric nurse, has been elected to Durham council despite being open about his homosexuality. Are attit

EP 22

Episode 22

EP 23

The Coal Enquiries

EP 24

The Protestant Succession No.2

EP 25

The Watergate Caper

EP 26

The Bormann Business

EP 27

The Rise & Fall of John Poulson

EP 28

South Vietnam: A Question of Torture

EP 29

A Place in the Country

EP 30

A Small Case of Blackmail

EP 31

Trial 1001

Trade Unions are illegal in Spain, this looks at the mounting court cases as people continue to defy the law.

EP 32

Dr. Hammer goes to Moscow

EP 35

Who Goes Home?

EP 36

Frank's Bank

EP 37

Like It or Lump It

The principals of 'lump labour' appear to be the main cause of a dispute with unions, causing the delay in the building

EP 38

Dr. Burnham Does It Again

EP 39

Secrets

EP 40

A Message from the Underground

EP 1

A Question of Intelligence

EP 2

Something to Beef About.

EP 3

The Cost of a Cup of Tea

EP 4

Tomorrow's Women: Labour

EP 5

Tomorrow's Women: Conservative

EP 6

A Threat to the State

EP 7

The Squeeze

EP 8

The Squeeze Pt.2

EP 9

HM's Opposition

EP 10

An Accidental Death

EP 11

Drug Squad

EP 12

Chile: The Reckoning

EP 13

The Year of the Torturer

EP 14

The Morning After

Follows a group of people from different walks of life as they cope with the power cuts, resulting in 'the 3 day week' a

EP 15

Hotting Up & Slowing Down

EP 16

Centre Point

EP 17

Mr & Mrs Olley Learn the Facts of Life

EP 18

Flying Pickets

EP 19

A Political Journey: Part 1

EP 20

A Political Journey: Part 2

EP 21

A Political Journey: Part 3

EP 22

The Others

EP 23

The Trials of PC. Williams

EP 24

A Bad Week for the Speculators

EP 25

The Strange Story of Kevin Kavanagh

EP 26

Harold Wilson at No.10

EP 27

Death in the Family

EP 28

MP's Interests

EP 29

Business in Gozo

EP 30

The Ben Hunter Way

EP 31

The Day the Torture Stopped

EP 32

The Hefferon Affair

EP 33

The Selling of the Maharishi

With the promise of solving the world's problems through meditation, The Maharishi is now a global business worth millio

EP 34

The Leader of the Opposition

EP 35

Cancer Gas

Investigation into Vinyl Chloride Monomer gas, widely used in the PVC industry and maybe a reason for increased rates of

EP 36

Episode 36

EP 37

The Old Country

A visit to a remote region of Equador where some people are claimed to be over a 100 and still physically active. As a C

EP 38

The Group

EP 1

An Accident at Sea

Looks into the loss of the ship Burtonia and whether coastguards acted quickly enough to her distress signal.

EP 2

John Conteh

EP 3

The Special Unit

EP 4

It Won't Change My Life

EP 5

After the Hurricane

EP 6

The Granada 500

EP 7

Killer Dust: A Standard Mistake

EP 8

Birth of a Nation

EP 9

The Low Road

A report on the Scottish men who seek a new life in London but find themselves living rough on the streets.

EP 10

On the Trail of the Torturers

EP 11

Misery Magic

Investigates the cosmetic company 'Holiday Magic' who is alleged to have involved vulnerable immigrants into a pyramid s

EP 12

The Trials in Zanzibar

EP 13

Who Runs Ulster?

EP 14

Trouble Afoot

EP 15

Round Up of the Year

EP 16

Mr Grimshaw

EP 17

The Morning After the Year Before

Follow up to what happened to people featured a year ago who were coping with power cuts and oil shortages.

EP 18

Reverend Parker Says Goodbye

EP 19

No Smoke Without Fire

EP 20

Why I Want to Be Leader

Behind the scenes with Mrs. Thatcher as she prepares to run for leadership of the Conservative party, meeting members of

EP 21

Wanted: A Home of Their Own

EP 22

A Rebel's Dilemma

EP 23

The Siege of Phnom Penh

EP 24

Mr. Wilson's First Anniversary

EP 25

The Blood and Guts Shift

24 hours spent at the casualty department of a Liverpool Hospital, as it struggles on its budget to treat the wounded fr

EP 26

Tea - The Deadly Cost

EP 27

Tea: Too High a Price to Pay?

EP 28

Down with the Rates

With most local authorities increasing their rates this year, a look at Liverpool Council who have baulked the trend and

EP 29

The Dundee Dossier

EP 30

The Tip of the Iceberg

Investigates the illegal dumping of hazardous and toxic waste materials.

EP 31

Politics Is an Honourable Profession?

EP 32

Nuclear Power-For Peace or War?

Investigates if the west should give into Third World Countries demands for nuclear power for electricity.

EP 33

Here is the News

Follows the launching of a new newspaper called 'The Scottish Daily News' and how it came together.

EP 34

Sex & Violence

EP 35

Special: A Bus Round the Market - Part 1

EP 36

Special: A Bus Round the Market - Part 2

EP 37

Coming Out in Newport Pagnell

EP 38

The Rise and Fall of the C.I.A.: Part 1

An investigation into whether the American Central Intelligence Agency has become too big.

EP 39

The Rise and Fall of the C.I.A.: Part 2

An investigation into the ways the Central Intelligence Agency has sought to bring down entire governments in countries

EP 40

The Rise and Fall of the C.I.A.: Part 3

Investigation into wars waged by the Central Intelligence Agency together with American presidents, and the their longte

EP 1

The Reluctant Bride

EP 2

The Roche Affair

EP 3

Conversations with the Craigs

EP 4

Democracy in Bulk

EP 5

Jobless in Batley

A once thriving town, now in decline as the industrial base continues to shrink, asks where the jobs are coming from for

EP 6

The Guinea Pig Soldiers

Investigates a claim that some American soldiers were unwittingly used in drug experiments.

EP 7

The Luddenden Experiment

With meat increasingly becoming too expensive for ordinary households, a village undergoes an experiment in doing withou

EP 8

The Billion Dollar Grain Fraud

EP 9

Popular Power

EP 10

Scotland: A Political Journey Part One

EP 11

Scotland: A Political Journey Part Two

EP 12

An Element of Risk

Not to be confused with a later edition with the same title, this one is about the risk of error in police identity para

EP 13

Blood Money Part One

Some doctors express their concerns about the blood clotting drug Hemofil which is used by those suffering with haemophi

EP 14

Blood Money Part Two

EP 15

Episode 15

EP 16

How to Sell an Airforce Part One

Investigates bribery and corruption in the sale of military aircraft.

EP 17

How to Sell an Airforce Part Two

EP 18

Cut Off

The increasing number of people who are having their electricity and gas supplies cut off being unable to pay.

EP 19

Chrysler and the Cabinet - How the Deal Was Done

Investigates why the government (after declaring no more hand outs to private companies) had given Chrysler Cars payment

EP 20

Episode 20

EP 21

Episode 21

EP 22

The Republic of Rhodesia

The thoughts and concerns of ordinary Rhodesians.

EP 23

1936-1976 a Change of Life

EP 24

The Boss File

EP 25

In Labour

The aftermath of the shock resignation of Harold Wilson and where Labour goes from there.

EP 26

The Threat of Nuclear War

EP 27

Nuts & Bolts of the Economy: Healey's Eight & Half

EP 28

When in Rome...

Investigates bribery in the Italian Government by oil companies in order to influence policies.

EP 29

Out of Mind

Investigates concerns that there are those in mental institutions that should not be in there and should be given a chan

EP 30

Nuts & Bolts of the Economy: Patent No.18070/72

A new invention for containers is followed on its obstacle course from drawing to finished product, showing the difficul

EP 31

Nuclear Waste in the Irish Sea

EP 32

The Dark Societies

EP 33

The Trials of Popovic

EP 34

Proposition 15

EP 35

A Calculated Risk

EP 36

A Question for Europe

EP 37

Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - Somebody Has to Do It

EP 38

Mutiny on the Motorway

EP 39

Run for Your Life

MPs are put on a fitness program.

EP 40

A Question of Standards

EP 41

The Plutonium Economy

EP 42

Coup D'etat

EP 1

Unemployment - Who Cares?

Unemployment has now risen to the notable 1 million mark and this investigation shows the detrimental effect it can have

EP 2

Nuts & Bolts of the Economy: Delta's Dilemma

EP 3

A School of Thought

Examination of revolutionary and experimental new teaching methods.

EP 4

Mr Cork Examines the Books

An ordinary accountant is given the theoretical task of being Chancellor of the Exchequer and giving his take on the sit

EP 5

Campaigning by Numbers

EP 6

Yesterday's Truants

Follow up programme to one five years previous to find out what happened to some persistent school truants.

EP 7

Living Dangerously

The effects of the chemical Dioxin after a factory explosion in Italy.

EP 8

The Killing of Uganda

EP 9

The National Party

Following the racial violence in Blackburn, looks at the rise of the extreme right wing.

EP 10

The Long Arm of the Dina

EP 11

The Lawbreakers

EP 12

Made in Hong Kong - Child Labour

EP 13

Mr Opie Brings Bad News

EP 14

Doctor's Orders

Doctors complain that they are being put under pressure by both patients and pharmaceutical companies to prescribe certa

EP 15

Episode 15

EP 16

The Militants

Investigates why the Labour Party is allowing a group within to produce a newspaper like 'The Militant'.

EP 17

Waiting for Merlyn

An investigation into the Home Secretary's decision to declare two men as a threat to British Security and his moves to

EP 18

The Road to Amsterdam

EP 19

The Police Tapes

EP 21

Equal Pay Today-Or Tomorrow

EP 22

Do You Take This Man?

A report on the growing number of Asian girls in the UK who are rejecting the traditional arranged marriage to someone t

EP 23

From Death Row-To Downing St

EP 24

Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - Them and Us

EP 25

Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - The Vital Statistics: Part 1

EP 26

Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - The Vital Statistics: Part 2

EP 27

The Plane Makers

EP 28

The Prison Children

It is against the law in the UK to put children into prison, so how did 4000 under 17-year-olds come to spend time behin

EP 29

All Work and Low Pay

EP 30

What Mr. Paisley Didn't Know

EP 31

The Man Who Went Too Far

Follow up to 'A Calculated Risk' on the plight of dissident Anatoly Sharansky.

EP 32

Casualties of the Cuts

Looking at two hospitals that may have to close down, and another who's budget is not coping with the demand of an incre

EP 33

Without Limit of Time

EP 34

My Years with Amin

EP 35

Starting on the Dole

With the continuing rise in youth unemployment, follows two Liverpool teenagers as they look for work and examines the v

EP 36

The Very Public Death of Enrico Sidoli

In July of the previous year Enrico was beaten up in a London swimming pool by three youths and held under water, he die

EP 37

Jack's Last Stand

EP 38

Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - The Uncommon Market: Part 1

EP 39

Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - The Uncommon Market: Part 2

EP 40

Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - The Uncommon Market: Part 3

EP 1

The Man Who Talks to Terrorists

EP 2

The Life and Death of Steve Biko

Coverage of the immediate aftermath of the death of anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko while in the custody of South Afr

EP 3

No Compromise

EP 4

The Miami Experiment

EP 5

The Surgery Is Now Closed

EP 6

Eastern Promise

EP 7

The Accident

Investigates a claim by Russian Scientist Dr Zhores Medvedev, that the biggest nuclear accident of all, occurred 20 year

EP 8

The Disputed Land

EP 9

Got It Taped

EP 10

In the Name of the Law

Investigates the death of Liddle Towers, who was arrested while drunk, but then died in the custody of Northumbria Polic

EP 11

Thatcher Interview

EP 12

Cold Facts

People unable to pay their bills are still having their services cut off, despite a reassurance that it would not happen

EP 13

The Concrete Rings

Price fixing in the mixed concrete industry.

EP 14

Working for a Pittance

An examination of how 50 000 physically and mentally disabled people earn a maximum of £4 a week for up to 27 hours of

EP 15

Death by Request

One woman's plight to have the Suicide Act amended due to her deteriorating health condition.

EP 16

There's No Place Like Hulme

Investigates why houses in Hulme that were built in the 1960s are now being recommended to be demolished.

EP 17

The Right's Centre

EP 18

Black to Front

EP 19

In the Public Interest

EP 20

General Grigorenko's New Campaign

EP 21

Take Care, This Place is Unsafe

Investigation into the King's College Hospital after it closed down for several hours due to staff shortages and the dan

EP 22

Smoking - A Double Standard

EP 23

Dishonourable Discharge

EP 24

Wait and See

EP 25

Nuts & Bolts of the Economy: Made in Korea

EP 26

The Happiness Pill?

EP 27

The Nazi Party

Using sworn statements from an undercover police officer, an investigation into whether Britain's National Front is a th

EP 28

Prisoner of Terrorism

A look at the activities and history of the notorious Baader-Meinhof terrorist group, including an interview with one of

EP 29

Russian Justice

Follow up to 'A Calculated Risk' on the plight of dissident Anatoly Sharansky.

EP 30

Buying Time

Covert filming in Walton & Wakefield Jails provides evidence of corruption.

EP 31

Liable to Prosecution

EP 32

No Useful Purpose Would Be Served

EP 33

Power for Sale

EP 34

The Invisible Risk

EP 1

Paraguay - The Last Refuge

EP 2

Trapped Inside the Wrong Body

EP 3

Episode 3

EP 4

Mr Heath at the Miners' Club

EP 5

The Hunt for Doctor Mengele

Will Josef Mengele ever be caught? A year later, in 1979, while swimming at he coastal resort of Bertioga, Brazil, he su

EP 6

Kids United

EP 7

Episode 7

EP 8

Inside Europe - The Summit

EP 9

The Killing of Bruno Busic (1939-1978)

EP 10

It's Already Been Too Long

A comparison between the American and British Equal Opportunities Commission, and what they have achieved in new employm

EP 11

...And a Prosperous New Year

With inflation continuing to rise, asks the question is it fair to restrict the lowest paid public employees to the gove

EP 12

Episode 12

EP 13

A Report from Siege City

Bernard Nossiter, financial reporter on the Washington Post, gives his view on the economic crisis as he visits striking

EP 14

No Tears-But Fight

Follow up to the tragic death of student Jan Pallach in Prague 1968.

EP 15

The Reckoning

After doing a similar study in the USA, Prof. Harvey Brenner of Baltimore University is invited to do a similar study in

EP 16

The Life & Friends of Joseph Kagan

In exile because of tax evasion charges, Kagan gives an account of himself and his controversial relationship with PM. H

EP 17

Episode 17

EP 18

The Shutdown

A profile of the Vickers Works in Tyneside, once a successful manufacturer supplying arms in World War Two and tractors

EP 19

Strangers in Their Own Land

EP 20

Episode 20

EP 21

A Tale of Two Cities

A comparison between the steel towns of Corby and Longwy France, as Corby becomes threatened with the loss of 6000 jobs

EP 22

Banged Up

A day in the life of Manchester's notoriously overcrowded Strangeways Prison, as World in Action speaks to wardens and p

EP 23

Speke Out

The closure of the Dunlop Pirelli factory in Merseyside and its drastic affect on the community.

EP 24

Nuclear Nightmare

EP 25

The Shattered Lives

Investigation into the use of unsafe thin glass being used in large glassed areas such as patio doors.

EP 26

Armchair Inferno

Exposé on polyurethane foam, widely used in the furniture industry is highly combustible and when burning gives off tox

EP 27

Paying the Market Price

EP 28

The Luck of the Irish

EP 29

Special: Inside Amin's Terror Machine

EP 30

Episode 30

EP 31

No More School

Two families discuss their rights, and experts discuss the effects of educating at home because they believe the state e

EP 32

Gay Pride

EP 33

The Other Professionals

The British Army's assessment of the Provisional IRA.

EP 34

On Site - Capital Punishment

EP 35

On Site - Trade Union Power

EP 36

On Site - National Health Cuts

EP 1

Mr. Benn's Secret Service

Mr Benn questions the role of the Civil Service and whether it is becoming too powerful and unanswerable for the country

EP 2

Cambodia Year One - The Aid Crisis

EP 3

Cambodia Year One - Life After Death

EP 4

The Man Who Bought United

EP 5

The Steel Papers

EP 6

Behind the Paper Curtain

EP 7

The Pulse of America

EP 8

The Final Harvest

EP 9

Claimant, Scrounger, Snooper, Spy

Case studies of people on both sides of the current crackdown on social security fraud.

EP 10

Follow the Yellow Cake Road

EP 11

Decline and Fall

EP 12

Alive and Well in the U.S.A.

EP 13

Not in the Public Interest

EP 14

Spying for Survival

EP 15

The Pound in Their Pocket

EP 16

The Trial of Stanley Adams

EP 17

Britain Over a Barrel

EP 18

A Bad Day for Southall

EP 19

Mr. Kane's Campaign

EP 20

Special: What Do You Think of It So Far?

A review of Britain's membership of the Common Market.

EP 21

Market Day

EP 22

Fly the Flag, Pay the Price

EP 23

Russian Games

EP 24

Mr. Stock and the Thursday Gang

EP 25

Last Stand at Lisburn

With communities across Northern Ireland, from the end of the 1960s Lisburn suffered through three decades of political

EP 26

Vietnam - Prisoner of War

EP 27

A Dignified Exit

"EXIT" - the society for the right to die with dignity, are publishing a controversial suicide guide for terminally ill

EP 28

The Tirion Programme

EP 29

Suffer the Children

EP 30

The Chart Busters

Investigating allegations that the pop music charts are controlled not by consumers, but by manipulative tactics of the

EP 1

The State of Britain - The Road to Brighton Pier

EP 2

South Africa's Bombshell

EP 3

Creating Criminals

EP 4

Choosing Labour's Leader

EP 5

The Party's Over

EP 6

Death on the Dole

EP 7

The H-Block Fuse

Report at the beginning of the fifth week of the hunger strike in the H Block of Maze Prison by IRA prisoners seeking a

EP 8

The Rossminster Affair

EP 9

The Hunt for the Ripper

The Yorkshire Ripper is still at large, and this follows the hectic and demanding West Yorkshire police investigation.

EP 10

No Room at the Inn

EP 11

The Blood Business

EP 12

The State of Britain - The Secret in South Wales

EP 13

Michael Foot

EP 14

The White House General

EP 15

The Social Democrats

EP 16

The F.B.I.'s Secret Tapes

EP 17

Killing for a Cure

A look at vivisection, and the activities of the controversial Animal Liberation Front who believe more militant action

EP 18

The State of Britain - In for a Penny

EP 19

Off the Rails

A UK rail crash in 1978 was thought to have been caused by signalling equipment that was over 50 years old. Sir Peter Pa

EP 20

The State of the Nation

Journalists re-enact the political discussions around the economy on the eve of the budget.

EP 21

These Children Are Mine

Anwar Ditta is a mother. That is not disputed. But the government say she is the mother of one child. She says she is th

EP 22

The Fight for the Centre

EP 23

The Men from Argentina

EP 24

The Curse of the Klan

Report on the re-emergency's of the Ku Klux Klan in both northern and southern states of America and the rising tide of

EP 25

Comrades at Arms

EP 26

More Than Just a Few Perks

A civil servant who questioned the expense claims of the GLC found himself out of a job.

EP 27

The Shape of Wars to Come

EP 28

Home and Away

EP 29

Do Mind If I Smoke?

An investigation into new claims that non smokers are at risk in smoke filled rooms.

EP 30

To Russia with Love

EP 31

Tories for Turning

EP 32

Kevin at the Crossroads

Follows Kevin, a victim of the drug thalidomide as he enters the job market.

EP 33

The Silent Epidemic

Very few people have heard of Alzheimer's Disease, despite the fact that one in 12 over 60s will get and possibly die fr

EP 34

Guns to the Right

EP 35

A Dangerous Age

EP 36

A Conflict of Evidence

EP 37

Toxteth Revisited

Dr Ben Holman and Tommy Olds visited Liverpool eight years previously and predicted riots would happen in the future. Th

EP 38

The Agony of Angola

EP 39

When Night Comes to Kandahar

Report from Afganistan in which the World In Action camera team join a night time Afghan rebel attack, led by Ismael Gai

EP 40

Waiting for Justice

EP 41

A Picture of Health

EP 1

The Discarded People

EP 2

The Disarmament Man

EP 3

Two Out of 30,000

EP 4

Living with Poverty

EP 5

Dust to Dust

EP 6

The Preacher and the Peacemaker

EP 7

Bleeding to Death

EP 8

Families at War

EP 9

A Statistic - A Reminder

EP 10

Taste of Power

EP 11

The Price of Britain's Bomb

EP 12

Divided We Stand

EP 13

Deals on Wheels

Investigates why same model cars are cheaper on the continent.

EP 14

Private Darkin's Army

Documentary about a soldier, Private Darkin, who committed suicide after facing bullying in the Army. The filming took p

EP 15

The Tobacco War

EP 16

A Bankrupt Game

An investigation into football clubs' financial problems and the looming crisis, with a focus on Bristol City Football C

EP 17

The I.R.A.'s Arms Cash

EP 18

Caution to the Wind

EP 19

The Worried Men

EP 20

In the Name of the Lord

EP 21

Home Help

EP 22

Irish Lessons

EP 23

Britain on the Brink

EP 24

Special: The Falklands 100 - Part 1

EP 25

Special: The Falklands 100 - Part 2

EP 26

Special: The Falklands 100 - Part 3

EP 27

Special: The Falklands 100 - Part 4

EP 28

The Spoils of Peace

EP 29

The Falklands and the British Task Force

EP 32

The Real British Disease

Examines why young people are not leaving learning Establishments with the skills being demanded by industry.

EP 33

Falklands 100

EP 34

Weekend at War

EP 37

Paying for the War

EP 38

Home or Husband

EP 39

Britain's Other Islanders

In 1971, the British shipped all the inhabitants from Diego Garcia, having purchased the Chagos Archipelago in 1965, so

EP 40

Operation Quicksilver

Looks at the intense lobbying and scheming going on behind the scenes by other manufacturers trying to prevent Nissan bu

EP 41

A Small Town Tragedy

Victims of asbestos related illnesses in Blooming Dale Illinois question why they have yet to receive the awarded compen

EP 42

Operation Peace for Galilee

EP 43

Prisoner's Medicine

EP 44

Learning to Lose

EP 45

Cleaning Up the Yard

Operation Countryman was supposed to be the biggest ever investigation into corruption in Scotland Yard and the Metropol

EP 46

The Health Service

The health service today began 5 days' intensive strike action, leaving only emergency services running, in pursuit of a

EP 47

Streets Apart

EP 48

Israel's Other War

EP 1

The Mystery of Flight 163

EP 2

DeLorean - The Inside Story

EP 3

Losing Out to London

EP 4

An Adverse Reaction

The plight of the small minority of children damaged by vaccination against diphtheria, polio, and whooping cough, and t

EP 5

The Betrayal of British Industry: Part 1

EP 6

The Betrayal of British Industry: Part 2

EP 7

The Silicon Spies

EP 8

Voices from the Underground

EP 9

When the Cheering Stops

EP 10

The Power Brokers

EP 11

Too Cold to Live

EP 12

A Difficult Prisoner

EP 13

The Peace War

EP 14

Rich Law, Poor Law

EP 15

People Without a Land

EP 16

Arms to Argentina

EP 17

What the Papers Pay

EP 18

Operation Hit & Win

In the USA, the FBI have decided to start investigating the IRA.

EP 19

Michael Foot and the Darlington Election

EP 20

Harvest Gold

EP 21

An Offence Against the Person

EP 22

The Battle for the Atlantic

EP 23

Walter Cronkite's Campaign Trail: Part 1

EP 24

Walter Cronkite's Campaign Trail: Part 2

EP 25

The Election 500

EP 26

The Heroin Barons

EP 27

The System Builder

Investigates the building practices of one of the UK's largest house builders 'Barrett Homes' and whether their quickly

EP 28

Your Home in Their Hands

EP 29

A Law Unto Themselves

EP 30

Krugerrand Cricket

EP 31

The Man Who Left His Tribe

EP 32

The Trails of Hoffman

EP 33

The Race Against Reagan

EP 34

Colonel Rauff's Refuge

Comedian Jack Whitehall hosts the third show in the revived series, introducing a line-up of fabulous acts from around t

EP 35

A Widow's Story

A direct follow-up to Weekend at War (1982) reuniting with Elaine Evans, who had previously been shown awaiting news of

EP 1

Watching the Waste Go By

EP 2

Tea - A Bitter Taste

EP 3

A Farewell to Arms Control

EP 4

A Serious Medical Emergency

EP 5

In No Man's Land

EP 6

The Grenada Factor

EP 7

Devil's Advocate

Gus MacDonald recalls 200 previously unemployed Manchester youth in 1 hour live special "Devil's Advocate". Guests inclu

EP 8

Sea of Despair

Investigates piracy and rape claims by Thai fishermen against the Vietnamese boat people.

EP 9

Fit for Work

EP 10

After Doomsday

Are the dangers of a nuclear attack being exaggerated in order to keep people in a permanent state of fear?

EP 11

The Honourable Member for Belfast West

EP 12

For the Benefit of Mr. Parris

EP 13

The Sinking of Scott Lithgow

EP 14

From Rags to Riches

EP 15

Special: Here We Stand - A Protestant View of Ulster

EP 16

Countdown to a Coronary

EP 17

The Decade of Delay

EP 18

Gross Misconduct

EP 19

The Press Gang

Examines the press's attitude towards public figures. The Sun newspaper had written that an American Psychiatrist had de

EP 20

Tell Me More

EP 21

The City That Says No

Documentary report which examines the arguments of Liverpool City Council which have been put to the government for plan

EP 22

The Black Sheep of Whitehall

EP 23

The Food Factor

EP 24

Looking After Their Own

EP 25

Women on the Line

EP 26

For the Love of Boxing

EP 27

Caught in the Crossfire

EP 28

Robbing the Rich

EP 29

South Africa's Other Leader

EP 30

On the Rocks

EP 31

Your Starter for Life

EP 32

Drilling for Gold

EP 33

On the Scrap Heap

EP 34

Solidarity on Trial

EP 35

The Spy Who Never Was

Special report, based on an extensive interview with M15 and M16 investigator Peter Wright, on the case against the form

EP 36

Business in Oman

EP 1

Clap Trap

Although claptrap can mean talking nonsense, it can also mean talking in such a way as to inspire applause. Ann Brennan

EP 2

An Appointment with Mr. Mitchell

EP 3

Football's Mr. Fix-It

EP 4

The Coal War

With the recent coal troubles still fresh in people's minds, a comparison of strike action in British and American colli

EP 5

Apartheid's Back Yard

EP 6

Plans for Coal

Documentary report on the practicalities of returning coal mining to private enterprise in the light of the long-drawn o

EP 7

Ronald Reagan - The Second Coming

EP 8

The Politics of Starvation

EP 10

Kidnapped

EP 11

Belgrano - A View from the Conqueror

EP 12

Softly, Softly, Strike Force

The very different tactics of police in the West Yorkshire and South Yorkshire regions in dealing with the ongoing miner

EP 13

Tried, Untested

EP 14

Special: World in Action - The First 21 Years

EP 15

Taken on Trust

EP 16

The Miners and the Microchip

EP 17

Civil Unrest

EP 18

Father and Son

EP 19

Going Dutch

EP 20

The Knock on the Door

EP 21

Taking the Medicine

EP 22

A Conflict in Customs

EP 23

Death of an English Rose

Investigates the strange murder of famous rose grower Hilda Murrell who was also a fervent anti-nuclear protester.

EP 24

Our Health Service - Doing Better, Feeling Worse

EP 25

Our Health Service - The Pensioners' Ration

EP 26

Our Health Service - A Prescription for the Poor

EP 27

The Swan and the Plough

EP 28

Not for Love or Money

EP 29

The Baby Makers

EP 30

Children of the Loom

EP 31

Ken Livingstone - Destination Unknown

EP 32

First Strike

EP 33

The Betrayal of Bhopal

EP 34

Raising the Belgrano

EP 35

Britain's Cocaine Colony

EP 36

The Dream of John Delorean

EP 37

Hit and Run

EP 38

A Song for Africa

Behind the scenes with Bob Geldof in the weeks leaving up to the Live Aid concerts.

EP 39

Disunited Nations

EP 40

Bad Blood

Innocent haemophiliacs have been infected with HIV while being treated with what is supposedly a beneficial clotting age

EP 1

The Bishop and the Minister

EP 2

Mr. Kinnock Spells It Out

EP 3

The Great Food Scandal

EP 4

The Front Line

EP 5

The Last Days of Juliet Lima

A surprise fire has broken out on the normally safe Boeing 737, but what were the causes and how could this have been al

EP 6

In the Interests of Justice

Extended edition investigating the safety of the convictions of the Birmingham Six.

EP 7

Whites Only

EP 8

Shades of Blue

EP 9

Designed for Living

Can housing design affect crime levels?

EP 10

Children at War

EP 11

An Element of Risk (II)

Not to be confused with the earlier edition with the same title; this one is about the risk of accidents in the workplac

EP 12

Too Late for Lisa

EP 13

The Trouble with Derek

EP 14

The Honourable Member for the Unemployed

Harry Morgan and Matthew Parris previously met in World in Action's "For the Benefit of Mr. Parris", and unexpectedly be

EP 15

The Westland Affair

EP 16

Doctor, There's Something in My Soup

EP 17

Live from Westminster

EP 18

A Widow's Crusade

EP 19

As the Dust Settles

EP 20

The One That Got Away

EP 21

On Yer Bike

Two unemployed young men take the Thatcher's government's advice.

EP 22

The Selling of Telecom

EP 23

Bradwell Says No

EP 24

Inside Ponting's Whitehall

EP 25

The President's Private War

EP 26

The Hardliner

EP 27

The Threatened Generation

EP 28

No Place Like Home

EP 29

The Face Lifters

EP 30

Practically Impossible

EP 31

In Human Hands

In the light of the Chernobyl accident checks out safety procedures at the Dounreay Power Station.

EP 32

Without Due Care

EP 33

Taking on Gaddafi

EP 34

South Africa - Uncensored

EP 35

The Road to Mexico

EP 36

The Wirecutters

EP 37

The Man Who is Blackmailing Britain

EP 38

Behind Closed Doors

EP 1

Getting Away with Murder

EP 2

Something for Nothing

EP 3

Mrs. Currie's Sauce

EP 4

Death is Part of the Process

EP 5

A Most Unsatisfactory Customer

EP 6

Episode 6

EP 7

The Untouchable

EP 8

Dead End

Asylum seekers face being deported.

EP 9

Black Lessons

The Black Church in Britain and its role in national education policy.

EP 10

The Midas Touch

EP 11

A Surprise Witness

EP 12

What Sid Should Really Know

EP 13

The Road to Damascus

EP 14

The State of the Nation: Part 1

EP 15

The State of the Nation: Part 2

EP 16

The State of the Nation: Part 3

EP 17

Keeping Warm in Benidorm

EP 18

Starting from the Bottom

EP 19

Burning Questions

EP 20

Boys on the Blacklist

EP 21

A Message for the Money Men

EP 22

Plausible Denial

EP 23

Finders Keepers

Investigation into the discovery of the AIDS virus and rivalry between research teams in France and the USA.

EP 24

The British Connection

The consequences of the British not arresting Mafia leader Francesco di Carlo.

EP 25

Bleak House

EP 26

Westland: Behind Closed Doors

EP 27

Pray Silence for Judge Pickles

EP 28

Science Friction

EP 29

Attention All Shipping

EP 30

High on the Low Life

EP 31

Just Keep Taking the Tablets

EP 32

Politics in a Package

EP 33

Poison on Tap

Investigation into the state of Britain's tap water.

EP 34

Tigers by the Tail - An Island at War

EP 35

Land Battles

EP 36

An Unhealthy Relationship

EP 37

Born Survivors: The Thalidomide Generation

EP 38

U2: Anthem for the Eighties

Documentary on U2 based around a 1987 concert in their home town of Dublin.

EP 1

Fighting for Jennifer

EP 2

The Strange Case of the Disappearing Diamonds

About how billions of pounds' worth of gem diamonds were stripped from South West Africa (Namibia) over a 20-year period

EP 3

The Wrong Stuff

EP 4

They Are Under Starters Orders

EP 5

The People the World Forgot: Boat People in Hong Kong

The plight of Vietnamese boat people in the camps of Hong Kong.

EP 6

Your Life in Tired Hands

EP 7

The Planning Game

EP 8

A Dangerous Prescription

EP 9

The Secret in the Circles

EP 10

The Black Mist

EP 11

Eastenders

EP 12

Suffer Little Children

EP 13

Teachers in Trouble: Discipline in Schools

The problem of violence in British schools.

EP 14

Still Crazy After All These Years?

A follow up to what became of the angry young men featured in 1968.

EP 15

Dirty Money

EP 16

Sun, Sand and Secrets

EP 17

Cameras in the Commons

EP 18

The Secret Life of Ned Walsh

EP 19

Political Vetting of Job Applicants

EP 20

Yesterday's Heroes

EP 21

Tall Stories

EP 22

The Taming of the Beeb

EP 23

The Detox

EP 24

Faith, Hope and Charity

EP 25

Kurt Waldheim - The Man Who Lived a Lie: Part 1

EP 26

Kurt Waldheim - The Man Who Lived a Lie: Part 2

EP 27

Heartbreak Hotels

Homeless families living in hostels and hotels in London

EP 28

The Trial of Theresa

EP 29

The Hanging Debate

EP 30

Doctor Beale's Diagnosis

Exploring the theory of a link between redundancy and developing bad health.

EP 31

Help Yourselves

EP 32

The Sex Slaves of Europe

EP 33

Bitter Sweets

EP 34

TV-am Dispute

EP 35

Death of a Funny Man

The murder of Palestinian cartoonist Naji al Ali in London and the connection between a double agent spying on the PLO.

EP 36

The Violent World of Nicholas Hoogstraten

An exposure of the bullying and intimidation of the notoriously ruthless landlord.

EP 37

The Secret of the Safer Cigarette

Did US tobacco companies discover, test and then decide not to market a safer cigarette? A World in Action investigation

EP 38

No Porsche for Derek B

EP 39

Bhopal - Tragedy Without End

3 1/2 years after a poisonous gas cloud enveloped the city killing many citizens, an examination of the plight of the su

EP 40

A Very British Mercenary

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A Death in the Family

EP 2

Here's to a Happy Future

EP 3

Dr. Chiswick's Dilemma

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For a Few Pennies More

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A Dream Betrayed

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The Price of a Life

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The Last Days of a God King

EP 8

The Triangle of Terror-Triads Part 1

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A Myriad of Swords- Triads Part 2

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Wouldn't You Like to Know

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How Green Is My Valley

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A Trip Round Acid House

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Down Under and Dying

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Doing the Honours

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Nine Out of Ten Women

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Disaster

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Bending the Rules

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Secrets of the Diamond Ring

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The Race to St. Paul's

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Disposable Risk

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Costing a Bomb

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Mandy Is Missing

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A Home for Mandy

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The Lottery of Life

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A Sickness in the Air

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Scotland Yard's Cocaine Connection

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Murder Capital, U.S.A.

EP 28

Hillsborough Football Disaster

EP 29

Private World of Mr. Browne

Conservative MP John Browne is trying to restrict journalistic intrusions into MP's lives, this programme reveals he has

EP 30

Episode 30

EP 31

Spongers

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Ismael's War

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Jaguar - Racing for Survival

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British Settlers on the West Bank

EP 35

If Disaster Strikes

EP 36

The Killing Zone

EP 37

Three Minute Warning

A three minute test can now indicate dangerous amounts of cholesterol in a person's body and cholesterol dissolving drug

EP 38

Behind the Wall - Risley Remand Centre

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Blood on His Hands

Makes the claim that Palestinian Ahmed Djibril is a suspect for the Pan Am flight 103 explosion over the Scottish town o

EP 40

Flight Into the Unknown

Investigates air safety and follows the maintenance procedure of a 20 year old Boeing 737.

EP 41

Price of Liberation - The Agony of Lebanon

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The Right to Rape

A public survey into rapes within marriage, currently not illegal under English law.

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Playing with Fire

A look at the actions of the Animal Liberation Front and whether it could be classed as a terrorist organization?

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Hard to Swallow

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Primo and the Princess

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The Terror After Tiananmen

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A Question of Conviction

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One Thousand Nights in Beirut

Investigates why Britain is so unsuccessful compared to other nations in negotiating the release of our hostages, most s

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Last Brick in the Wall

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Unlocking the Door

EP 10

Dead End for Danny: Part 1

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Dead End for Danny: Part 2

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Toxic Trail

EP 13

Return of the Rebel

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M.P.s for Hire

EP 15

Send for the Sisters

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Who's Not Paying the Poll Tax?

EP 17

Trying to Save Sarah

EP 18

A Force to Be Reckoned With

EP 19

The Reconstruction of Mr. Dubcek

EP 20

A Bug in the Beef

EP 21

Freedom and Focsan

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Mortgage Misery

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Can You Live Without Your Car?: Part 1

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Can You Live Without Your Car?: Part 2

EP 25

Sting and the Indians

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A Safer Habit

EP 27

Better Safe Than Sorry

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Man's Best Friend

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Any Change for Tracy?

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Growing Up in Smoke

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The New Nazis

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Pin Down

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Arms and the Men

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Dark at the End of the Tunnel

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Heartbreakers

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No Way Out

A young couple are caught between the Chinese and British governments, who both want them for different reasons, They ha

EP 37

An Explosion of Guilt

While the Birmingham Six languish in prison, an anonymous man tells World in Action he was actually the person responsib

EP 38

In Bed with the General

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Inside Saddam's Stronghold

Examining the extent Iraq's support for its own leader's aggressive tactics in attacking Israel and Saudi Arabia.

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Blowing the Whistle

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Strike It Lucky

EP 4

The Allergy Business

EP 5

The Go-Between

EP 6

Mission to Baghdad

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Nurse Pink's Prescription

EP 8

The Lessons of Piper Alpha

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The Tarzan Factor

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Turning a Blind Eye

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Mrs. Thatcher's Secret Servant

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Twenty Years Hard Labour

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A Life of Pain

EP 14

A Time to Choose

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Episode 15

EP 16

The Child Killers of Brazil

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Waiting for the Land War

EP 18

How Safe Are Our Children?

EP 19

Under the Curfew

EP 20

Mafia Russian Style

EP 21

After the Storm

EP 22

World in Action Guide to Losing Your Job

EP 23

The Birmingham Six - Their Own Story

Following the release of the alleged 'Birmingham Six' pub bombers after 16 years, World in Action speaks to each of the

EP 24

Beat the Taxman

EP 25

Secret of Sebha

EP 26

Chariots of Fire

EP 27

Curse of the Superdrug

EP 28

The Hate Factories

The government claims that people are sent to prison for rehabilitation, but due to the brutality of some of the officer

EP 29

The Propaganda War

EP 30

The Ghost Train

Transferred from prison to prison and left in long-term segregation or solitary confinement, prisoners call this the gho

EP 31

Money for Nothing

EP 32

The Devil's Advocates

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On the Knife Edge

EP 34

When Housewives Strike

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Marked for Murder

The disturbing revelation that confidential police documents are ending up in the hands of gunmen.

EP 36

Should the Queen Pay Tax?

EP 37

What Liverpool Needs...

EP 38

Britain's Secret Slaves

EP 39

Defending the Realm

Nick Davies investigates phone tapping in the British security services.

EP 40

Making the News

EP 41

Reasonable Adjustment

Tracing the activity of the disabled armed resistance group Reasonable Adjustment including interviews with members of t

EP 1

The Price of Beauty

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Pirates

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That'll Do Nicely

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A Policeman's Lot

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Sex for Sale

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The Most Dangerous Job in the World

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Fallen Comrade

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A Woman Apart

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Trawling for the Truth

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The Repossessed

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From Here to Eternity

EP 12

The Front Man

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The Village That Quit: Update

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The Last Blockade

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Trouble with the Neighbours

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Episode 16

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Paying the Price

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The Cost of Living

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Calamity at Wheal Jane

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Old Money

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The Dirty War

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No Fixed Abode: Part 1

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No Fixed Abode: Part 2

EP 24

The Lost Vote of Martin Thow

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An M.P.'s Business

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The Granada 500

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L.A. Cops

Ride along with Hollywood Division Cops.

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Time to Kill

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Girls, Guns and Gangs

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No Fixed Abode: Part 3

EP 31

Lord of the Rings: Part 1

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Lord of the Rings: Part 2

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The Muscle Market

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The Monkey Business

Examinies the trade in monkeys for scientific purposes. The demand for monkeys cannot be met by breeding in captivity so

EP 35

The Job

EP 36

Private Grief

EP 37

The New Age Travellers

EP 38

Sins of the Fathers

EP 39

Dennis the Menace

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The Sultan of Sleaze

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Going Bust

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Death in the Fast Lane

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Mummy, You're Killing Me!

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Gifts from Russia

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Trust Me, I'm a Doctor

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Trials of Labour

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Time for Panic

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Will I Be Next?

EP 10

The Crack Connection

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Who Cares?

Does anyone care for care cases once they're actually released from care?

EP 12

No-One to Turn to

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The Black Sea

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Special: World in Action - Thirty Years

EP 15

Shadows of the Past

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Three Angry Men

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Don't Bank on Us

EP 18

The Walking Corpse

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Welcome to the Danger Zone

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Dear Bill, Love John

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The Poison on Your Plate

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Call 999!

EP 23

Britain's Untouchables

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The Child Snatchers

EP 25

The Forgotten Children

EP 26

The Terror Squad

Combat 18 is a neo-Nazi organisation. It originated in the United Kingdom, with ties to movements in the United States,

EP 27

B.A.'s Virgin Soldiers

EP 28

Murder... on Ward 4

Focus on the parents of those killed or harmed by nurse Beverl(e)y Allitt, and how her acts of evil have affected their

EP 29

Evidence of Execution

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School for Crime

EP 31

Dark Side of the Sun

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The Gentleman's Guide to Tax Avoidance

EP 33

Steals on Wheels

EP 34

The Great Food Challenge

EP 35

Your Home at Risk

EP 36

Car Crazy

Areas of natural beauty including the peak district and mountain ranges in Scotland are not even safe anymore due to our

EP 37

Dan Eldon's Last Assignment

Dan Eldon was photographer who's pictures brought to the world's attention the starving in Somalia. Returning later to S

EP 38

A Lesson for Teacher

EP 39

Ghostbuster

EP 40

Welcome to Britain

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The Life of Brian

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Children Having Children

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Shoot Out at Sunset

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No Money to Burn

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Doctor Knows Best?

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Fathers in Fear

EP 7

Carving Out a Life

EP 8

Violence with Violence

The untold story of how far left anti-racist groups are utilizing their protests as an excuse to mete out similar violen

EP 9

Special: The Taking of James Bulger

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The Baby Broker

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The Road to Safety

EP 12

The Club That Liked to Say Yes

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Dangerous Liaisons

EP 14

Born in Hope

Listen in as Kate Potter discusses how to love the unphotoshopped version of yourself and how Ayurveda works in to anti-

EP 15

Fields of Fire

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Episode 16

EP 17

The Mercury Murder Mystery

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Animal Traffic

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A Peculiar Practice

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Homicide U.K.

EP 21

The Tory Tax Bombshell

EP 22

Prime Suspect

EP 23

The Last Resort

EP 24

In the Line of Fire

EP 25

Your Baby or Your Job

EP 1

The Fag Lady

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Dying for a Holiday

EP 3

Flirting with Danger

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Smashed in the Summer

EP 5

One Woman's War

EP 6

People of the Apocalypse

EP 7

The Bugs That Drugs Cannot Kill

EP 8

The Peace Maker

The man credited with doing most to create peace in Ireland, John Hume, talks about his views and his methods.

EP 9

The Man Who Paid the Bill

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Give Us a Break

EP 11

Retired Hurt

EP 12

Open All Hours

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The Cure That Killed

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A Fatal Prescription

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The Journey

EP 16

The Wrong Arm of the Law

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Episode 17

EP 18

The Ministry of Bribes

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Citizen Cone

EP 20

A Shot in the Dark

EP 21

The Housing Hangover

EP 22

Mind Games

EP 23

Through the Keyhole

EP 24

Throwaway Children

Depicts England's street children. It is not only countries in distant parts of the world where children live their live

EP 25

National Health Secret Service

EP 26

The Back Seat Killer

Examines the safety of rear seated passengers in hatchback cars during an impact.

EP 27

Take the Low Road

Exposes the easy access to narcotics on the streets in Strathclyde Scotland.

EP 28

Victims of Their Success

EP 29

Sex Off the Streets

EP 30

Prisoners of the Past

EP 31

Shot in the Back

EP 32

Who's Gambling with Your Money?

EP 33

Parents in the Dock

EP 34

The Nightmare Returns

EP 35

In the Name of Charity

EP 36

Jonathan of Arabia

EP 37

Black and Blue

EP 38

Friends in High Places

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Safe Sex?

EP 2

Could It Be You?

EP 3

Dealing with the Devil

EP 4

Fast and Loose

EP 5

Car Wars

EP 6

What Killed Stephen?

Was the previously fit and healthy Stephen Churchill struck down by CJD, the human form of BSE or mad cow disease? At th

EP 7

Beyond Reasonable Drought

EP 8

The Legacy Lottery

EP 9

Silent Witness

EP 10

Promises on the Line

EP 11

Down and Out in New York and London

EP 12

A Family at War

One night in The Orange Tree public house in Winchmore Hill, Enfield, London a fight breaks out, resulting in the stabbi

EP 13

All Work and No Play

EP 14

Unlucky Numbers

EP 15

To Have and to Hold Off

As more people choose to cohabit without tying the knot, there are fears that the sanctity of marriage could become a th

EP 16

Too Much, Too Young

EP 17

The Informer

EP 18

B.S.E. - The Hidden Epidemic

EP 19

The Unseen Enemy

EP 20

The Shape of Things to Come

EP 21

The Lisi File

EP 22

St. Michael - Has the Halo Slipped?

EP 23

Marks & Spencer - Send in the Clones

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Fighting Back

EP 25

Leah's Legacy

EP 26

Terror in Store

EP 27

Gerry Adams Interview

EP 28

Strange Customs

EP 29

Debt Row

EP 30

Crisis in Casualty

EP 31

The Great Name Robbery

EP 32

Why Dunblane?

EP 33

The First Casualty

Professor Richard Lacey has had an orchestrated campaign against him to make him appear insane after he linked human dis

EP 34

Call to Duty

EP 35

The Republic of Britain

EP 36

The End of the Line?

EP 37

Fatal Attraction

Against a stark background and without interruption, save for a few captions, two women talk openly and candidly about w

EP 38

An Affair of the Heart

EP 39

The Price of Petrol

EP 40

Episode 40

EP 41

Her Royal Highness

EP 42

Neighbours from Hell

EP 43

Recipe for Disaster

EP 44

Dealing with Terror

A former militant from each side, both of whom have now laid down their arms, talk openly about their pasts.

EP 45

Cowboy Country - The Stagecoach Bus Co.

EP 46

Under Pressure

EP 47

Troubled Waters

EP 48

Bobby Moore and Me

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Peer Pressure: Boys & Girls of the Jury

EP 2

Shadow of the Bomb

EP 3

For King and Country

EP 4

Licence to Steal

EP 5

The Unteachables

EP 6

Tainted Blood

Examines the sudden increase in hepatitis C. A fairly new disease, originally only drug users who shared needles were co

EP 7

Bad Company

EP 8

The Nation's Teeth

EP 9

The Untouchables: Part 1

EP 10

The Untouchables: Part 2 - Wayne's World

Donal MacIntyre goes undercover in a gym in order to befriend and expose drug dealer Wayne Hardy.

EP 11

Veil of Fear

EP 12

The Young Turks

EP 13

The Chemical Cosh

EP 14

A Question of Class

EP 15

Keep on Trucking?

EP 16

Into the Minefield

EP 17

Who's Buying the Holy City?

EP 18

The Yard's Yardies

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A Man of Influence

EP 20

The Safety Catch

EP 21

Jailhouse Blues

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Many Behaving Badly

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In Front of the Children

EP 24

Outbreak

EP 25

Clamp and Deliver

EP 26

Many Unhappy Returns

EP 27

Episode 27

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Nowhere to Hide

EP 29

When Mourning Comes

At the dawn of a new peace process, three grieving relatives talk from the heart about their losses which need never had

EP 30

Making a Killing

EP 31

Profit Before Principle

EP 32

Through the Cakehole

EP 33

Jonathan of Arabia: Act II - The Dagger of Deceit

EP 34

B.P.'s Secret Soldiers

EP 35

Easy Money

World in Action sets up several entrapment scenarios in order to test how honest people from various different walks of

EP 36

Winning the Pools

EP 37

The Meat Factory

EP 1

Credit to the Nation

After half a century of silence, World in Action tells tonight how Britain benefited from the holocaust.

EP 2

Against the Odds

Revisits the former care subjects featured in Who Cares? (1992) and No-One to Turn to (1992) to see how they are faring

EP 3

How Green Is My Petrol?

EP 4

With This Ring

EP 5

Domestic Weapons

EP 6

Secret Ingredient

EP 7

Conduct Unbecoming

EP 8

House of Horrors: Part 1

EP 9

House of Horrors: Part 2

EP 10

Extreme Measures

EP 11

Nowhere to Run

EP 12

The Rat's Tale

EP 13

The Winning Formula

Formula 1 racing is one of the richest sports in the world, and sponsorship is a major part of that, but it seems to be

EP 14

Jam Today

EP 15

A Date with the Executioner

EP 16

Profit and Loss

EP 17

What a Business

EP 18

Sex, Lies and Audiotape

EP 19

Doctors Under the Influence

The risk to patients from alcoholic and drug dependent doctors?

EP 20

A Question of Justice

EP 21

In the Eye of the Storm

EP 22

Broken Dreams

EP 23

Beating Violence

EP 24

Licence to Kill

EP 25

Beverley's Choice

EP 26

When the Heat Is On

EP 27

Playing with Fire (II)

Not to be confused with an earlier episode of the same title, this one is the 3rd in a series exposing the neo-Nazi grou

EP 28

The Lottery Losers

EP 29

Is the Price Right?

EP 30

That Sinking Feeling

EP 31

The Price of Peace

EP 32

Robocop Strikes Back

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Third Party, Liar and Cheat

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Bad Air Days

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Viagra - The Hard Sell

EP 3

Eat Up Your Genes

EP 4

How Safe Is Your Cash?

EP 5

The Big E

EP 6

Our Man in Ibiza

EP 7

The Clinton Tapes

EP 8

Wish We Weren't Here

EP 9

Fatal Affection

EP 10

The Tracks of My Tears

EP 11

Fat Profits

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Britain's Most Dangerous Job

EP 13

Flood, Sweat and Tears

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Death Wish

EP 15

Don't Call Us

EP 16

Small But Perfectly Informed

EP 17

Too Close for Comfort - Fear of Flying

EP 18

Britain on the Booze

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