World in Action
Season 7
1970 · 43 episodes
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. 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. The Man Who Made Biafra
1970-10-05
4. Pigs?
1970-10-12
Members of the Cincinnati Police Force discuss the increasing animosity being dealt out by the public towards policemen.
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. A Business Arrangement
1970-10-26
7. S.A.L.T.
1970-11-02
8. Goodbye Mr. Smith?
1970-11-09
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. The Final Harvest
1970-11-23
11. The Man Who Wouldn't Keep Quiet
1970-11-24
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. The Law Shop
1970-12-07
14. Oh! Birmingham
1970-12-14
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. American Radio
1971-01-04
A personal view by Denis Mitchell.
17. Round One
1971-01-11
18. The Dutschke Affair
1971-01-18
19. The Village That Quit
1971-01-25
A village is asked to give up smoking for a week and the results monitored.
20. The Monday Club
1971-02-01
21. The Breaking Point
1971-02-08
22. Square One
1971-02-15
With renewed fighting through Ulster, has the conflict gone back to square one?
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. Ford: The Inside Story
1971-03-01
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. 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. 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. 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. South of the Border
1971-04-05
Attitudes in Eire to the IRA and the situation in Ulster.
30. The Salvation Army
1971-04-19
31. The Sailors' Jail
1971-04-26
32. Going Private
1971-05-03
Investigates the controversy surrounding private patients and their consultants and whether they are exploiting the NHS.
33. The Tanzam Railway
1971-05-10
34. A 2.9% Swing to Democracy in Bradford
1971-05-17
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. 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. Anthony Mascarenhas
1971-06-14
38. A Woman's Place
1971-06-21
39. The Dust at Acre Mill
1971-06-28
40. Episode 40
1971-07-05
41. Major Khaled's War
1971-07-12
42. End of a Journey
1971-07-19
43. The Man from No. 10
1971-08-03
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