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World in Action

Season 13

1976 · 39 episodes

  1. 1. Unemployment - Who Cares?

    1976-09-27

    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.

  2. 2. Nuts & Bolts of the Economy: Delta's Dilemma

    1976-10-04

  3. 3. A School of Thought

    1976-10-11

    Examination of revolutionary and experimental new teaching methods.

  4. 4. Mr Cork Examines the Books

    1976-10-18

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

  5. 5. Campaigning by Numbers

    1976-10-25

  6. 6. Yesterday's Truants

    1976-11-01

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

  7. 7. Living Dangerously

    1976-11-08

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

  8. 8. The Killing of Uganda

    1976-11-15

  9. 9. The National Party

    1976-11-22

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

  10. 10. The Long Arm of the Dina

    1976-11-29

  11. 11. The Lawbreakers

    1976-12-06

  12. 12. Made in Hong Kong - Child Labour

    1976-12-13

  13. 13. Mr Opie Brings Bad News

    1977-01-10

  14. 14. Doctor's Orders

    1977-01-17

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

  15. 15. Episode 15

    1977-01-24

  16. 16. The Militants

    1977-01-31

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

  17. 17. Waiting for Merlyn

    1977-02-07 · 30m

    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

  18. 18. The Road to Amsterdam

    1977-02-14

  19. 19. The Police Tapes

    1977-02-21

  20. 21. Equal Pay Today-Or Tomorrow

    1977-02-28

  21. 22. Do You Take This Man?

    1977-03-07

    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.

  22. 23. From Death Row-To Downing St

    1977-03-14

  23. 24. Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - Them and Us

    1977-03-21

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

    1977-03-28

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

    1977-04-04

  26. 27. The Plane Makers

    1977-04-18

  27. 28. The Prison Children

    1977-04-25

    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?

  28. 29. All Work and Low Pay

    1977-05-02

  29. 30. What Mr. Paisley Didn't Know

    1977-05-16

  30. 31. The Man Who Went Too Far

    1977-05-23

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

  31. 32. Casualties of the Cuts

    1977-05-30

    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.

  32. 33. Without Limit of Time

    1977-06-13

  33. 34. My Years with Amin

    1977-06-20

  34. 35. Starting on the Dole

    1977-06-27

    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.

  35. 36. The Very Public Death of Enrico Sidoli

    1977-07-04

    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.

  36. 37. Jack's Last Stand

    1977-07-11

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

    1977-07-18

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

    1977-07-25

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

    1977-08-01

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