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World in Action

Season 7

1970 · 43 episodes

  1. 1. Everybody's Children

    1970-09-21

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

  2. 2. The Quiet Mutiny

    1970-09-28 · 28m

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

  3. 3. The Man Who Made Biafra

    1970-10-05

  4. 4. Pigs?

    1970-10-12

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

  5. 5. They're Only Human Beings Like Everybody Else

    1970-10-19

    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.

  6. 6. A Business Arrangement

    1970-10-26

  7. 7. S.A.L.T.

    1970-11-02

  8. 8. Goodbye Mr. Smith?

    1970-11-09

  9. 9. The Mountain People

    1970-11-16

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

  10. 10. The Final Harvest

    1970-11-23

  11. 11. The Man Who Wouldn't Keep Quiet

    1970-11-24

  12. 12. The Schemes of Jerome D. Hoffman

    1970-11-30

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

  13. 13. The Law Shop

    1970-12-07

  14. 14. Oh! Birmingham

    1970-12-14

  15. 15. The Dumping Grounds

    1970-12-21

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

  16. 16. American Radio

    1971-01-04

    A personal view by Denis Mitchell.

  17. 17. Round One

    1971-01-11

  18. 18. The Dutschke Affair

    1971-01-18

  19. 19. The Village That Quit

    1971-01-25

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

  20. 20. The Monday Club

    1971-02-01

  21. 21. The Breaking Point

    1971-02-08

  22. 22. Square One

    1971-02-15

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

  23. 23. Lucky

    1971-02-22

    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.

  24. 24. Ford: The Inside Story

    1971-03-01

  25. 25. The Truants

    1971-03-08

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

  26. 26. The Man Who Stole Uganda

    1971-03-15

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

  27. 27. As It Was in the Beginning...

    1971-03-22

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

  28. 28. The Year Britain Stopped Growing

    1971-03-29

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

  29. 29. South of the Border

    1971-04-05

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

  30. 30. The Salvation Army

    1971-04-19

  31. 31. The Sailors' Jail

    1971-04-26

  32. 32. Going Private

    1971-05-03

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

  33. 33. The Tanzam Railway

    1971-05-10

  34. 34. A 2.9% Swing to Democracy in Bradford

    1971-05-17

  35. 35. Death Is Afraid of Us

    1971-05-24

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

  36. 36. Conversations with a Working Man

    1971-06-07

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

  37. 37. Anthony Mascarenhas

    1971-06-14

  38. 38. A Woman's Place

    1971-06-21

  39. 39. The Dust at Acre Mill

    1971-06-28

  40. 40. Episode 40

    1971-07-05

  41. 41. Major Khaled's War

    1971-07-12

  42. 42. End of a Journey

    1971-07-19

  43. 43. The Man from No. 10

    1971-08-03

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