World in Action — Season 16

Jan 1980

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

Jan 1980

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Feb 1980

Feb 1980

Feb 1980

Feb 1980

Mar 1980

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

Mar 1980

Mar 1980

Mar 1980

Apr 1980

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May 1980

May 1980

Jun 1980

Jun 1980

Jun 1980

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

Jun 1980

Jun 1980

Jun 1980

Jul 1980

Jul 1980

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.

Jul 1980

Jul 1980

"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.

Aug 1980

Aug 1980

Aug 1980

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.