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World in Action Season 14 Episodes
Season 14 Episode Guide
34 Episodes 1977 - 1978
Episode 1
The Man Who Talks to Terrorists
30 mins
Episode 2
The Life and Death of Steve Biko
30 mins
Coverage of the immediate aftermath of the death of anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko while in the custody of South African police.
Episode 3
No Compromise
30 mins
Episode 4
The Miami Experiment
30 mins
Episode 5
The Surgery Is Now Closed
30 mins
Episode 6
Eastern Promise
30 mins
Episode 7
The Accident
30 mins
Investigates a claim by Russian Scientist Dr Zhores Medvedev, that the biggest nuclear accident of all, occurred 20 years previous in the Southern Ural Mountains.where many people died.
Episode 8
The Disputed Land
30 mins
Episode 9
Got It Taped
30 mins
Episode 10
In the Name of the Law
30 mins
Investigates the death of Liddle Towers, who was arrested while drunk, but then died in the custody of Northumbria Police Force.
Episode 11
Thatcher Interview
30 mins
Episode 12
Cold Facts
30 mins
People unable to pay their bills are still having their services cut off, despite a reassurance that it would not happen anymore. Follow up to a previous programme a year ago.
Episode 13
The Concrete Rings
30 mins
Price fixing in the mixed concrete industry.
Episode 14
Working for a Pittance
30 mins
An examination of how 50 000 physically and mentally disabled people earn a maximum of £4 a week for up to 27 hours of menial work.
Episode 15
Death by Request
30 mins
One woman's plight to have the Suicide Act amended due to her deteriorating health condition.
Episode 16
There's No Place Like Hulme
30 mins
Investigates why houses in Hulme that were built in the 1960s are now being recommended to be demolished.
Episode 17
The Right's Centre
30 mins
Episode 18
Black to Front
30 mins
Episode 19
In the Public Interest
30 mins
Episode 20
General Grigorenko's New Campaign
30 mins
Episode 21
Take Care, This Place is Unsafe
30 mins
Investigation into the King's College Hospital after it closed down for several hours due to staff shortages and the dangerous situation it left patients in.
Episode 22
Smoking - A Double Standard
30 mins
Episode 23
Dishonourable Discharge
30 mins
Episode 24
Wait and See
30 mins
Episode 25
Nuts & Bolts of the Economy: Made in Korea
30 mins
Episode 26
The Happiness Pill?
30 mins
Episode 27
The Nazi Party
30 mins
Using sworn statements from an undercover police officer, an investigation into whether Britain's National Front is a thinly-veiled modern Nazi Party.
Episode 28
Prisoner of Terrorism
30 mins
A look at the activities and history of the notorious Baader-Meinhof terrorist group, including an interview with one of the gang's kingpins, Horst Mahler.
Episode 29
Russian Justice
30 mins
Follow up to 'A Calculated Risk' on the plight of dissident Anatoly Sharansky.
Episode 30
Buying Time
30 mins
Covert filming in Walton & Wakefield Jails provides evidence of corruption.
Episode 31
Liable to Prosecution
30 mins
Episode 32
No Useful Purpose Would Be Served
30 mins
Episode 33
Power for Sale
30 mins
Episode 34
The Invisible Risk
30 mins