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World in Action Season 16 Episodes

30 Episodes 1980 - 1980

Episode 1

Mr. Benn's Secret Service

30 mins

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

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Episode 2

Cambodia Year One - The Aid Crisis

30 mins

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Episode 3

Cambodia Year One - Life After Death

30 mins

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Episode 4

The Man Who Bought United

30 mins

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Episode 5

The Steel Papers

30 mins

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Episode 6

Behind the Paper Curtain

30 mins

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Episode 7

The Pulse of America

30 mins

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Episode 8

The Final Harvest

30 mins

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Episode 9

Claimant, Scrounger, Snooper, Spy

30 mins

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

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Episode 10

Follow the Yellow Cake Road

30 mins

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Episode 11

Decline and Fall

30 mins

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Episode 12

Alive and Well in the U.S.A.

30 mins

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Episode 13

Not in the Public Interest

30 mins

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Episode 14

Spying for Survival

30 mins

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Episode 15

The Pound in Their Pocket

30 mins

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Episode 16

The Trial of Stanley Adams

30 mins

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Episode 17

Britain Over a Barrel

30 mins

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Episode 18

A Bad Day for Southall

30 mins

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Episode 19

Mr. Kane's Campaign

30 mins

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Episode 20

Special: What Do You Think of It So Far?

30 mins

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

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Episode 21

Market Day

30 mins

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Episode 22

Fly the Flag, Pay the Price

30 mins

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Episode 23

Russian Games

30 mins

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Episode 24

Mr. Stock and the Thursday Gang

30 mins

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Episode 25

Last Stand at Lisburn

30 mins

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.

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Episode 26

Vietnam - Prisoner of War

30 mins

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Episode 27

A Dignified Exit

30 mins

"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.

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Episode 28

The Tirion Programme

30 mins

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Episode 29

Suffer the Children

30 mins

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Episode 30

The Chart Busters

30 mins

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.

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