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Season 1984

  • S1984E01 The Summer Holiday / Goodbye Joey

    • January 3, 1984
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    The Summer Holiday - Documentary about a group of mentally disabled young men taking a holiday in Teignmouth, Devon, UK. Goodbye Joey - Documentary about the plight of kangaroos killed by hunters. Millions of kangaroos are killed each year in Australia.

  • S1984E02 The Town that Builds the Bomb / Survivors of the Kwai / Heavy Metal

    • February 7, 1984
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  • S1984E03 Families Who Wait / Aunt Annie's Bomb Factory

    • March 6, 1984
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    Families Who Wait - Documentary which looks at the legal battles of two families to be reunited after the children have been taken into care. Aunt Annie's Bomb Factory - Documentary which examines the real facts behind the 1974 IRA bomb campaign in Britain and asks if the real perpetrators escaped.

  • S1984E04 Down and Out in Calke Abbey / Warship Usa / Return to Windscale

    • April 3, 1984
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  • S1984E05 The Promised Land / Kim Phuc

    • May 1, 1984
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    The Promised Land - Documentary about the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. Kim Phuc - Documentary in which Kim Phuc, a Vietnamese girl who was pictured in a Vietnam photograph burning after a napalm attack, is interviewed about the incident and events after it.

  • S1984E06 A Place for Stephen / A Safe House

    • June 5, 1984
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    A Place for Stephen - Documentary about seventeen year old Stephen Brown, born with sight loss and profoundly deaf after his mother contracted German measles during her pregnancy. Gives an account of Stephen's three-month trial at Manor House, an assessment and further education centre specialising in young adults handicapped by rubella. A Safe House - Documentary which looks at the moral dilemma of families who offer sanctuary to refugees from Central America who are illegal immigrants to the USA.

  • S1984E07 The Miners' Strike

    • July 4, 1984
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  • S1984E08 Blind Faith / Something to Write Home About / Where Did You Get That Woman?

    • August 7, 1984
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    Blind Faith - Documentary about the discovery of a disease thirty years ago which causes blindness in babies. Something to Write Home About - Documentary about the work of British based news correspondents from other countries and the way in which they interpret the news in Britain. Where Did You Get That Woman - Documentary about a washroom attendant working in Chicago.

  • S1984E09 The Bard of Stepney

    • September 4, 1984
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  • S1984E10 Autumn Leaves / The Video Prophet

    • October 2, 1984
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    Autumn Leaves - Documentary which follows a group of pensioners on an autumn holiday to Spain. The Video Prophet - Documentary on Swansea minister Ray Lewis who deploys video recordings of the preachings of American Kenneth Copeland in his services.

  • S1984E11 Return to Nagasaki

    • November 6, 1984
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    Documentary about the return of Ron Bryer and Arthur Christie who were prisoners of war in Nagasaki to Japan, thirty-nine years after the dropping of the atom bomb on the city.

  • S1984E12 Jim Crow's Army / Who Killed Nora Mccabe?

    • December 4, 1984
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Season 1985

  • S1985E01 The Last Voyage of the Artic Raider / The Longwood Thump

    • January 1, 1985
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  • S1985E02 The Unofficial Famine

    • February 5, 1985
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    A documentary on the civil war in Tigray, Eritrea, a region that has become one of the most forgotten areas affected by the famine in Ethiopia.

  • S1985E03 Many Rivers to Cross / Jamaican Exile

    • March 5, 1985
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  • S1985E04 Lebanon: A Family at War / Insult to Injury

    • April 2, 1985
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    Lebanon A Family at War - Documentary in which reporter Martin Short looks at the personal history of a Lebanese family into which he married during the ten years of war in Beirut. Insult to Injury - Documentary about racial attacks on Asian and black people in London's East End, examining the motivation behind them and the efficiency of the police in dealing with them.

  • S1985E05 Yanks Meet Reds

    • May 7, 1985
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    Documentary which examines the stories of the Russian and American troops who linked up at the Elbe in the last days of World War II which signified the end of hostilities.

  • S1985E06 Goals Not Dole / The End of the Line?

    • June 4, 1985
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    Goals Not Dole - Documentary which explores the experience of unemployment through the views of members of a South Yorkshire village football team and their families. The End of the Line - Documentary on the near-doomed Settle to Carlisle railway line.

  • S1985E07 Our First Year / Visiting Day

    • July 2, 1985
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    Our First Year - Documentary in which ten of eighteen German women who were sent to Southport to avoid the Nazi domination of Germany in the 1930's meet again in Southport to discuss their experiences, based on their communal diary. Visiting Day - Documentary about women who prepare and undertake prison visits to their husbands from Glasgow to Peterhead Prison.

  • S1985E08 Made in Huddersfield / A Death in the Family

    • August 6, 1985
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  • S1985E09 Invitation to Disaster / Comrades at Arms

    • September 3, 1985
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    Invitation to Disaster - Documentary about the circumstances surrounding the explosion at Abbeystead waterworks in Lancashire, which killed 16 people and injured 28 others during a public open day in 1984. Comrades at Arms - Documentary which traces the lives of Sir John Hackett and Lipman Kessel, who escaped from occupied Holland in 1944.

  • S1985E10 An Officer and a Lady

    • October 1, 1985
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    Documentary about the life of women cadets at Sandhurst.

  • S1985E11 'Trevor, It's the Bailiffs' / Akong and the Big Shrine Room

    • November 5, 1985
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    "Trevor, It's the Bailiffs" - Documentary which looks at the work of Jim Ellis and Terry Allen who are bailiffs in Nottingham repossessing furniture. Akong and the Big Shrine Room - Documentary about Akong Rimpoche who fled his native Tibet after the Chinese invasion and is now abbot of the Samye Ling Tibetan Centre in Eskdalemuir, Dumfrieshire.

  • S1985E12 Inside Britain's Bomb

    • December 3, 1985
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    Documentary about the health risks and environmental pollution caused by Britain's nuclear arsenal.

Season 1986

  • S1986E01 In the Line of Duty / The Valley

    • January 7, 1986
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    In the Line of Duty - Documentary about people injured or killed whilst on active service in the army. They are prevented from being compensated by the immunity of the Crown from litigation. The Valley - Documentary about a community of people who have left their urban lives and come to live in a secluded Welsh valley in a self-sufficient community.

  • S1986E02 Sugar Ditch Alley

    • February 4, 1986
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  • S1986E03 Len Harding: Born a Number / Kent Coal: Staying on Top

    • March 4, 1986
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    Len Harding: Born a Number - Documentary which follows up on the story of Rampton patient Len Harding, and looks at his life since his release from the secure hospital at Rampton. Kent Coal: Staying on Top - Documentary in which Kent miners and their families discuss their industry in the aftermath of the year-long coal strike of 1984-1985.

  • S1986E04 Children Who Wait / The Seveso Inheritance

    • April 1, 1986
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    Children Who Wait - Looks at the story of two children who have liver transplants in a Cambridge hospital - Jonathan O'Rourke and Reut Haddad, both nearly two years old. Set against the background of a shortage of live donors and the balance the NHS strikes between transplants and less glamorous activities. The Seveso Inheritance - Looks at the destruction of lives in the Italian town of Seveso after the accident in the area with dioxin gas ten years ago.

  • S1986E05 Fall Out from Chernobyl

    • May 6, 1986
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  • S1986E06 The Futures Game

    • June 3, 1986
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  • S1986E07 The Guildford Time Bomb

    • July 1, 1986
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  • S1986E08 Twilight in Belize / Good Vibrations

    • August 5, 1986
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    Twilight in Belize - The lives of two sisters in the 70s are traced. Joan Shaw stayed in England and lives in Scunthorpe surrounded by her family. Her sister Dorothea left England and now lives alone in a jungle clearing in Belize. Good Vibrations - About the career of concert musician Evelyn Glennie, who has been profoundly deaf since the age of 12 years.

  • S1986E09 Come on in the Waters Fine / Kicked Into Touch

    • September 2, 1986
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  • S1986E10 When Did You Last See My Father?

    • October 7, 1986
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    Documentary about the life of Laszlo Rajk, leader of the Hungarian opposition party whose father Laszlo was arrested and executed after a famous show trial in Hungary in 1950's on treason charges when his son was three months old.

  • S1986E11 Death Row: A One Woman Band

    • November 4, 1986
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    Documentary about the work of Marie Deans who takes up the cause of condemned prisoners in Virginia who have no legal representation.

  • S1986E12 Abandoned Babies / Your Champagne, Sir

    • December 2, 1986
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    Abandoned Babies - Documentary in which women talk about the phenomenon of abandoned babies. Your Champagne Sir - Documentary about the employment of unemployed people from the North as servants to the rich inhabitants of the South-East.

Season 1987

  • S1987E01 New York: The Quiet Catastrophe / Dancing on Her Grave

    • January 6, 1987
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  • S1987E02 Family on the Run / Surf's Up at Port Talbot!

    • February 3, 1987
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    Family on the Run - Documentary about the case of David and Linda Arthur, who have left Britain to protect their child from being taken into care, after their daughter was not returned to them after they had been cleared of child abuse. Surf's up at Port Talbot - Documentary about a surfing club created by unemployed men in Port Talbot, South Wales.

  • S1987E03 A Case That Won't Go Away / Gone Dancing

    • March 3, 1987
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  • S1987E04 The Falklands War: The Untold Story

    • April 7, 1987
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    Documentary in which people involved in the Falklands War, which began five years ago, discuss their views of it, from both the Argentinian and British sides.

  • S1987E05 Bitter Harvest / Save Our School

    • May 5, 1987
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    Bitter Harvest - Documentary about people injured and killed in accidents on Britain's farms. Save Our School - Documentary about a village school faced with closure in Ardentinny, Scotland.

  • S1987E06 June 2, 1987

    • June 2, 1987
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  • S1987E07 Leftover Children

    • July 7, 1987
    • ITV1

    Documentary which looks at the care of behaviourally abnormal children, and at the lack of facilities for special care of children in need.

  • S1987E08 August 4, 1987

    • August 4, 1987
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  • S1987E09 Mexico Street Kids / Home to Haddo

    • September 1, 1987
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  • S1987E10 The Granny Business

    • October 6, 1987
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    Documentary report on private care homes for the elderly, followed by a studio discussion with politicians and experts.

  • S1987E11 A Home for Laura / Place in the Midnight Sun

    • November 3, 1987
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    A Home for Laura - Documentary report on the 'Parents for Children' organisation which was set up to find homes for handicapped children, who would otherwise have spent their lives in institutions.

  • S1987E12 Black Belt / Goodbye Divis

    • December 1, 1987
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    Black Belt - Documentary about people living in Camden, Alabama, USA. Despite the Black Civil Rights movement, there is still racism in Alabama, and black and white people continue to live in a segregated city. Goodbye Divis - Documentary about people living in the Divis Estate in Belfast.

Season 1988

  • S1988E01 Killing the Dragon

    • January 5, 1988
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    Documentary about the drug rehabilitation work carried out at the Thai monastery of Tham Krabok.

  • S1988E02 The Man Who Shot John Lennon

    • February 2, 1988
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  • S1988E03 The Fatal Factor / Last of the Little Mesters

    • March 1, 1988
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  • S1988E04 Cambodia: Children of the Killing Fields

    • April 5, 1988
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    Inspired by John Pilger's famous documentary about the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, Peter Kosminsky went to SE Asia for First Tuesday to make this documentary about Cambodian refugees living in a refugee camp in Thailand.

  • S1988E05 The Swap

    • May 3, 1988
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    Two working class families swap places in a social experiment to see whether, under Thatcher's Britain, the North-South divide is actually more stark than the class divide.

  • S1988E06 A Quiet Scream / Sato: A Child Apart

    • June 7, 1988
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    A Quiet Scream - Documentary about people emotionally scarred by cancer. Sato A Child Apart - Documentary about Sato, a Cambodian child refugee living in Britain.

  • S1988E07 Bridge Across the Foyle / Albania: The Last Outpost

    • July 5, 1988
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  • S1988E08 Children of the Third Reich / Last Exit: Berlin

    • August 2, 1988
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    Children of the Third Reich - More than 40 years after the end of World War II, the children of Nazi soldiers are still coming to terms with the awful truth. Last Exit Berlin - Documentary about Palestinian refugees, who had fled the war in Lebanon, seeking asylum in West Germany.

  • S1988E09 The Bofors Affair

    • September 6, 1988
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    Documentary about Sweden's illegal trading of arms.

  • S1988E10 Afghantsi

    • October 4, 1988
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    Documentary about the Afghantsi who are the military veterans of "Russia's Vietnam", the Afghan war. The film follows the Red Army from the start of the withdrawal in May 1988. It goes in the barracks of the crack paratroop regiment; the wards of Kabul's military hospital; on a helicopter gunship to a mountain outpost where Soviet conscripts serve unrelieved for 18 months.

  • S1988E11 The Apostle and the Prophet / School Is Out

    • November 1, 1988
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    The Apostle and the Prophet - Documentary about the Restoration Church from Bradford, an evangelical church led by a charismatic man many people believe to be prophet of God. School Is Out - Documentary about two dyslexic schoolboys.

  • S1988E12 Too Close to Home

    • December 6, 1988
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    Documentary about the people who have died of asbestos cancer because they worked in or just lived near asbestos factories or buildings containing asbestos.

Season 1989

  • S1989E01 Murder in Ostankino Precinct

    • January 3, 1989
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    Documentary which follows a murder investigation in Moscow from the discovery of the body to the arrest and interrogation of the final suspect.

  • S1989E02 Pedigree Chums / The Wigan Hold

    • February 7, 1989
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  • S1989E03 A Heartbeat Away / Woman v. Bull

    • March 7, 1989
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  • S1989E04 The Buggist

    • April 4, 1989
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    A glimpse into the life of MI5 'cut-out' David Coghlan, a free-lance agent whose work for that organization was in the secret, shadowy world of covert surveillance and telephone tapping. The program was presented by Olivia O'Leary, narrated by Roger Finnigan and produced by Yorkshire Television.

  • S1989E05 Four Hours in My Lai

    • May 2, 1989
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    "Four Hours in My Lai" is a documentary film made by Yorkshire Television in England concerning an infamous massacres of Vietnamese civilians in Tu Cung sub-hamlet, better known to the US Army as My Lai (4) and commonly referred to as "Pinksville", on 16th March 1968. This massacre was carried out by "Charlie Company" - members of C Company, 1st battalion, 20th Infantry, 11th Light Infantry Brigade of the US Army. The film-makers interview participants in and survivors of the tragedy, trying to understand how such an atrocity could have happened.

  • S1989E06 Sister Martin's Profession / Last Chance on Death Row

    • June 6, 1989
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    Documentary about the community of 25 nuns who live in a convent near Marble Arch and whose lives have remained unchanged by the outside world.

  • S1989E07 Shakespeare - Midsummer Nights Mystery

    • July 4, 1989
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  • S1989E08 For Queen and Country

    • August 1, 1989
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  • S1989E09 The Hunting Ground

    • September 5, 1989
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    Documentary about the disastrous effects of the actions of the New Tribes Mission in Bolivia and Paraguay.

  • S1989E10 A Well-Founded Fear / Hearts of Oak

    • October 3, 1989
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    A Well-Founded Fear - Documentary about Tamil refugees seeking asylum in Britain. Hearts of Oak - Documentary about the friendship between Herbert Herrmann and Taff Davies, who were on opposing sides in World War II at the time of the sinking of the Royal Oak in Scapa Flow by a German U-Boat in October 1939.

  • S1989E11 Guildford Four: Free to Speak

    • November 7, 1989
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  • S1989E12 Uncle Sam's Refuseniks

    • December 5, 1989
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    Documentary about Soviet Jewish refugees stranded in Italy because they had been refused entry to the US.

Season 1990

  • S1990E01 South Africa's Death Factory

    • January 2, 1990
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    A documentary following the families of prisoners on Death Row in Pretoria, South Africa.

  • S1990E02 Disaster at Hillsborough

    • February 6, 1990
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    Documentary giving an account of the Hillsborough Disaster and looking at the outcome of the enquiry.

  • S1990E03 Firefighter

    • March 6, 1990
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    Documentary about Sarah Skelton, the first woman firefighter in the South Yorkshire Fire Brigade.

  • S1990E04 Sonia's Baby

    • April 3, 1990
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  • S1990E05 The Power of Healing: Apply Within

    • May 1, 1990
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  • S1990E06 Vicious Circles

    • June 5, 1990
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    Documentary about the involvement of international companies in the high death levels of babies in Pakistan.

  • S1990E07 Driven to the Limit / Liquid Cosh

    • July 3, 1990
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    Driven to the Limit - Documentary looking at joyriders in Belfast who account for half of all car thefts and do so despite the fact that 7 joyriders have been shot by security forces since 1980 and 2000 'punished' by the IRA. Liquid Cosh - Documentary looking at the use of tranquillisers in the treatment of the mentally ill, and at the claims that they can cause very serious side- effects.

  • S1990E08 Angel Is Missing

    • August 7, 1990
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    Documentary about the plight and search for Angel Escobar, a human rights worker in Peru, who "disappeared" while compiling a dossier on the military.

  • S1990E09 Murder in Glodwick

    • September 4, 1990
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    Documentary looking at the events surrounding the murder of 14 year-old Tahir Akram in Glodwick, Oldham, UK.

  • S1990E10 Swing Under the Swastika

    • October 2, 1990
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    A documentary on jazz music under the Nazi regime in Germany and the case of the Madlung sisters, who were sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp for owning jazz records.

  • S1990E11 Sweetening the Medicine

    • November 6, 1990
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    A documentary on the efforts of drug companies to persuade doctors to prescribe their products and the methods used to influence medical professionals.

  • S1990E12 Paul Sykes: At Large

    • December 4, 1990
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Season 1991

  • S1991E01 M25: The Magic Roundabout

    • January 1, 1991
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    A documentary following the Hertfordshire Constabulary as they patrol the M25.

  • S1991E02 Poisoned Lives

    • February 5, 1991
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    Documentary looking at the Spanish cooking oil disaster of 1981 in which 25,000 people became ill with contaminated oil.

  • S1991E03 21st Century Medicine / Last Chance on Death Row

    • March 5, 1991
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    21st Century Medicine - Documentary about mind over body approach for treating heart disease and cancer.

  • S1991E04 Gitmo: Cold War in Cuba

    • April 2, 1991
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    Documentary about Gitmo, a US naval base in Cuba.

  • S1991E05 The Secret of Castle Hill

    • May 7, 1991
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  • S1991E06 The Prime Minister, the Junkie and the Boys on Death Row

    • June 4, 1991
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    A documentary investigating the human cost of the drugs war in Malaysia, examining police raids, the lives of addicts, those convicted of smuggling and facing death row, and the government's efforts to combat the illegal drug trade and use.

  • S1991E07 Britannia Waives the Rules

    • July 2, 1991
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    Documentary following 18 women recruits on the first mixed officer-training course at Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth.

  • S1991E08 A Picture of Health

    • August 6, 1991
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    Documentary about the health divide between rich and poor in UK, focusing on the people of South Teeside, Cleveland.

  • S1991E09 The Great British Burglary

    • September 3, 1991
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    A documentary about the human cost of burglaries in Great Britain.

  • S1991E10 The Good, the Bad and the Earthquake

    • October 1, 1991
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    Documentary about the financial scandal surrounding the misuse of money given to the earthquake stricken area in Southern Italy in 1980.

  • S1991E11 After the Wall

    • November 5, 1991
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    A documentary tracking down the border guards of the Berlin Wall who shot people attempting to escape East Berlin to the West, featuring interviews with the victims' relatives.

  • S1991E12 Food (Eat Your Heart Out)

    • December 3, 1991
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Season 1992

  • S1992E01 Cold Blood: The Massacre of East Timor

    • January 7, 1992
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    Examines the nature of the Indonesian occupation of the former Portuguese colony of East Timor. Reviews the personal and collective calvaries experienced by the people of East Timor, and considers Australia's inaction before the litany of human rights abuses committed by the Indonesian regime, in particular, the Dili Massacre of 1991 (Shot both in East Timor and Australia).

  • S1992E02 Subway City

    • February 4, 1992
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    Documentary about the New York City subway.

  • S1992E03 Suspicion of Abuse

    • March 3, 1992
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  • S1992E04 April 7, 1992

    • April 7, 1992
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  • S1992E05 Called to the Bar

    • May 5, 1992
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    Documentary looking at the day to day dealings of a cross-section of barristers based at three contrasting sets of chambers in London's Inns of Court.

  • S1992E06 Tobacco Wars

    • June 2, 1992
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  • S1992E07 Under Interrogation

    • July 7, 1992
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    Documentary about the interrogation of criminal suspects by detectives in a Birmingham police station.

  • S1992E08 August 4, 1992

    • August 4, 1992
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  • S1992E09 Nuclear India: A Dream Gone Sour

    • September 1, 1992
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  • S1992E10 Hostage to Fortune

    • October 6, 1992
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    Documentary about private American psychiatric hospitals that have been kidnapping perfectly sane people purely for profit.

  • S1992E11 Locking Up Women

    • November 3, 1992
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    Documentary about prison officers and prisoners in Holloway Prison.

  • S1992E12 Brezhnev's Daughter

    • December 1, 1992
    • ITV1

Season 1993