World in Action

A look at the country's increasing litter problem.

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

The valuable contributions young volunteers make.

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

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

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

Military budget over spending is presented as a game show.

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

A look at Barry Goldwater's run for President.

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

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

Unique access to the new form of radio which is competing on a not strictly legal level with the BBC - the pirate stations. Those on the outside both for and against also have their say.

Plight of a South African family refused entry into Britain.

Reconstruction of the recent night mail train robbery

Profile of the world's first supersonic airliner.

The war in Cyprus between the Turkish and Greek Cypriots.

A profile of British Soldiers at various world trouble spots.

An observation of Spanish Life under Franco.

Investigates that behind the solemn facade, a funeral service can be an opportunity to take advantage of the situation for monetary gain.

A visit to the city of Dallas in the aftermath of the Kennedy assassination, focusing on the varying reactions and conditions of the people there.

A look at conditions in Stepney, London.

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

Companion piece to Seven Up! (1964), this time featuring the elderly looking back rather than the young looking forward. The average age of these women and men is 79.

Observations of the tensions growing between Arab and Israeli.

Investigates the transport and haulage industry and the dark practices that can leave drivers tired, open to hijack and dangerous vehicles on our roads.

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

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

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

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

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

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

French-Canadian unrest at the Queen's visit.

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

The launch of The Sun newspaper.

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

Grammar School boys are sent to Marlborough College.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The guerrilla fight for independence in Portuguese Guinea.

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

The plight of Asians trying to escape from Kenya and the difficulties some are having, despite having British Passports, in entering the UK under looming new immigration rules.

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

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

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

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

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

An observation of Irish Travellers living in Britain.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sanction busting in Rhodesia.

After the government successfully suppressed pirate radio stations, a follow-up to a previous episode in 1964 with Radio Caroline's crew and its director Ronan O'Rahilly

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

An investigation into the development of the Barbican Complex in London. Strikes and industrial action have stopped work on the building site for nearly a year.

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

Mick Jagger gives a press conference after his recent conditional discharge for drug use. He then joins a discussion with eminent people on what is expected of famous icons by society, and how much of this is their responsibility.

Investigates how some drugs are smuggled into Britain.

Looks at the treatment of Negroes in Sudan.

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

A revolutionary new look at how mental patients should be treated, allowing them out into the wider world, and distancing as much as possible from Victorian lunatic asylums.

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

Locals complain of police corruption and extortion in Hong Kong.

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

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

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

Update on the subjects of three notable previous films in the series, the gypsies of An Outlaw's Life (1968), the large family of The Born Losers (1967), and the elderly ladies of Ward F.13 (1968).

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

A profile of Laos, considered the most unproductive country in the world but rich and financially stable through its passing of opium products and dodgy gold.

World in Action tries to trace the overseas voters in Britain who have supposedly voted for The People's National Congress Party in Guyana's election.

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

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

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

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

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

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

An investigation into 7 children (expelled from Kenya) who have to live on their own in the UK as their parents cannot join them due to new laws.

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

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

A look at the lives of two schoolgirls, both named Jackie, and their juxtaposition with two representatives from the Women's Liberation Front.

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

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

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

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

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

Investigates why the UK is still manufacturing nerve gas.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Portrait of the Protestant working class and the vigilantes in Northern Ireland at the height of the Ulster riots in 1969.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Follows the life of an 18 year old from Devon who arrives in London penniless and has to sleep rough, but eventually with help manages to find a job and somewhere to live.

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

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

A personal view by Denis Mitchell.

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

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

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

There are about 1,500,000 severely physically handicapped people in the United Kingdom. There are, therefore, 1,500,000 handicapped families. This means there are 6,750,000 people directly involved with the problems of the disabled.

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

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

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

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

An interview with the Irish Protestant who denies the murder for which he was convicted, and is being held by the Ulster Volunteer Force who kidnapped him while he was on parole.

World in Action reports from the battle of Kontum, Vietnam - highlighting the plight of the Montagnard mountain people who are caught in the middle.

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

A look at the reasons behind the continuing bad relations between building workers and management, which lead to a strike at a Birmingham construction site.

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

Researching on Bangladesh liberation war movement in uk 1971.

Aspirins are used for a multitude of different complaints, or even just taken as a daily habit. But, do they have harmful side effects of which people are unaware?

The aftermath of the shooting dead of Black Panther George Jackson while allegedly trying to escape from prison. His friends, colleagues and family mourn and seek justice for what they say was a murder.

The principals of 'lump labour' appear to be the main cause of a dispute with unions, causing the delay in the building of a much needed Islington public housing project.

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

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

Meeting the young anarchists involved in a guerrilla bombing campaign.

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

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

A London shop steward opposed to immigration is invited to visit Uganda, and see why Asians there have to leave for their own safety and find a new home.

A visit to a remote region of Equador where some people are claimed to be over a 100 and still physically active. As a Catholic country World in Action checks the baptism records.

Investigation into Vinyl Chloride Monomer gas, widely used in the PVC industry and maybe a reason for increased rates of liver cancer for those who work with it.

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

Follows a group of people from different walks of life as they cope with the power cuts, resulting in 'the 3 day week' and spiralling vehicle fuel prices from oil shortages.

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

An investigation into the ways the Central Intelligence Agency has sought to bring down entire governments in countries Iran, Guyana, and Cuba.

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

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

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

Investigates the illegal dumping of hazardous and toxic waste materials.

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

24 hours spent at the casualty department of a Liverpool Hospital, as it struggles on its budget to treat the wounded from increasing alcohol fuelled violence at the weekend.

Behind the scenes with Mrs. Thatcher as she prepares to run for leadership of the Conservative party, meeting members of the public and spending rare time with her family.

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

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

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

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

MPs are put on a fitness program.

A new invention for containers is followed on its obstacle course from drawing to finished product, showing the difficulties that inventors have in trying to get their ideas off the ground.

Investigates concerns that there are those in mental institutions that should not be in there and should be given a chance to live in society.

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

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

The thoughts and concerns of ordinary Rhodesians.

Investigates why the government (after declaring no more hand outs to private companies) had given Chrysler Cars payments of grants and loans of over a hundred million pounds to keep them in Britain.

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

Investigates bribery and corruption in the sale of military aircraft.

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

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

With meat increasingly becoming too expensive for ordinary households, a village undergoes an experiment in doing without meat and finding alternatives.

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

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

In July of the previous year Enrico was beaten up in a London swimming pool by three youths and held under water, he died days later of injuries. Apart from one girl, nobody there appears to have noticed anything.

With the continuing rise in youth unemployment, follows two Liverpool teenagers as they look for work and examines the validity of government job creation schemes.

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

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

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 behind bars?

A report on the growing number of Asian girls in the UK who are rejecting the traditional arranged marriage to someone they do not know.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Examination of revolutionary and experimental new teaching methods.

Unemployment has now risen to the notable 1 million mark and this investigation shows the detrimental effect it can have on those people who loose their job.

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

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

A look at the activities and history of the notorious Baader-Meinhof terrorist group, including an interview with one of the gang's kingpins, Horst Mahler.

Using sworn statements from an undercover police officer, an investigation into whether Britain's National Front is a thinly-veiled modern Nazi Party.

Investigation into the King's College Hospital after it closed down for several hours due to staff shortages and the dangerous situation it left patients in.

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

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

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

Price fixing in the mixed concrete industry.

People unable to pay their bills are still having their services cut off, despite a reassurance that it would not happen anymore. Follow up to a previous programme a year ago.

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

Investigates a claim by Russian Scientist Dr Zhores Medvedev, that the biggest nuclear accident of all, occurred 20 years previous in the Southern Ural Mountains, where many people died.

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

The British Army's assessment of the Provisional IRA.

Two families discuss their rights, and experts discuss the effects of educating at home because they believe the state education system has failed them.

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

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

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

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

A comparison between the steel towns of Corby and Longwy France, as Corby becomes threatened with the loss of 6000 jobs as British Steel struggles with dwindling order books and losses.

A profile of the Vickers Works in Tyneside, once a successful manufacturer supplying arms in World War Two and tractors in peace time. Now facing closure and 750 redundancies.

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

After doing a similar study in the USA, Prof. Harvey Brenner of Baltimore University is invited to do a similar study in the UK, on the relationship between death rates with living and job circumstances.

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

Bernard Nossiter, financial reporter on the Washington Post, gives his view on the economic crisis as he visits striking lorry drivers in the city of Hull.

With inflation continuing to rise, asks the question is it fair to restrict the lowest paid public employees to the government 5% guidelines?

A comparison between the American and British Equal Opportunities Commission, and what they have achieved in new employment opportunities for women in what were considered traditionally male jobs.

Will Josef Mengele ever be caught? A year later, in 1979, while swimming at he coastal resort of Bertioga, Brazil, he suffered a stroke and drowned. Mengele was buried in Embu das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil, under the name "Wolfgang Gerhard", whose identification he had been using since 1971.

Investigating allegations that the pop music charts are controlled not by consumers, but by manipulative tactics of the big record companies, thus not being a true reflection of popularity at all.

"EXIT" - the society for the right to die with dignity, are publishing a controversial suicide guide for terminally ill people who require a dignified death.

With communities across Northern Ireland, from the end of the 1960s Lisburn suffered through three decades of political violence, "The Troubles". For Lisburn the first killings came in 1976: in the course of the year, five Catholic residents died as a result of gun and bomb attacks by the Ulster Defence Association and the new Ulster Volunteer Force, loyalist paramilitary groups that subsequently entered their own feud.

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

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

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

Report from Afganistan in which the World In Action camera team join a night time Afghan rebel attack, led by Ismael Gailani, on a government post in the capital, Kandahar and also look at the conditions for the Afghans under the present regime in the country. Looks at the way of life of the Afghan people under the regime supported by Russian forces.

Dr Ben Holman and Tommy Olds visited Liverpool eight years previously and predicted riots would happen in the future. They now make a return visit in the aftermath of the riots.

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

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

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

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

Report on the re-emergency's of the Ku Klux Klan in both northern and southern states of America and the rising tide of racism there. Includes interviews with Klan members past and present and members of the black community who have been attacked by them.

Anwar Ditta is a mother. That is not disputed. But the government say she is the mother of one child. She says she is the mother of four. However, the other three are in Pakistan, and that disagreement means she cannot bring them here.

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

A UK rail crash in 1978 was thought to have been caused by signalling equipment that was over 50 years old. Sir Peter Parker attempts to get more money from the government to invest in the railways.

A look at vivisection, and the activities of the controversial Animal Liberation Front who believe more militant action is needed to end unnecessary cruelty to animals.

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

Report at the beginning of the fifth week of the hunger strike in the H Block of Maze Prison by IRA prisoners seeking a recognition of their status as political prisoners including an interview with one of the prisoners, R.V. McCartney.

The health service today began 5 days' intensive strike action, leaving only emergency services running, in pursuit of a 12% pay rise. This is the most severe disruption the NHS has ever seen, and a massive backlog results. Studio discussion.

Operation Countryman was supposed to be the biggest ever investigation into corruption in Scotland Yard and the Metropolitan Police, so why did it result in such minor results?

Victims of asbestos related illnesses in Blooming Dale Illinois question why they have yet to receive the awarded compensation from the original supplier, Cape Industries.

Looks at the intense lobbying and scheming going on behind the scenes by other manufacturers trying to prevent Nissan building a car plant in the UK.

In 1971, the British shipped all the inhabitants from Diego Garcia, having purchased the Chagos Archipelago in 1965, so that is could be used as an allied military base with the US. But now people are beginning to question this treatment.

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

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

Documentary about a soldier, Private Darkin, who committed suicide after facing bullying in the Army. The filming took place at Blackdown Barracks, Deepcut, Camberley, Surrey, and included a Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC) platoon in training called Delhi Platoon. This contributor , David Kinsey, was a Private soldier in training and in that platoon and the programme includes what became a punch line 'Eyes front Di Pietro' shouted by the drill Sergeant, Colin Egan.

Investigates why same model cars are cheaper on the continent.

A direct follow-up to Weekend at War (1982) reuniting with Elaine Evans, who had previously been shown awaiting news of her husband Ken, away fighting in the Falklands. Sadly, she has now learnt of his death.

Comedian Jack Whitehall hosts the third show in the revived series, introducing a line-up of fabulous acts from around the globe. There is a special performance by the legendary Lionel Richie, The Script play their hit Superheroes, Hollywood actress and former Bond girl Gemma Arterton gives an exclusive preview of the West End musical Made in Dagenham, and there is plenty of comedy and some incredible speciality acts from around the world.

Investigates the building practices of one of the UK's largest house builders 'Barrett Homes' and whether their quickly built timber frame system houses are suffering quality issues.