World in Action
Season 16
198030 episodes
Episodes
- E1
Mr. Benn's Secret Service
1980-01-07
Mr Benn questions the role of the Civil Service and whether it is becoming too powerful and unanswerable for the country's good?
- E2
Cambodia Year One - The Aid Crisis
1980-01-14
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E3
Cambodia Year One - Life After Death
1980-01-21
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E4
The Man Who Bought United
1980-01-28
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E5
The Steel Papers
1980-02-04
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E6
Behind the Paper Curtain
1980-02-11
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E7
The Pulse of America
1980-02-18
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E8
The Final Harvest
1980-02-25
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E9
Claimant, Scrounger, Snooper, Spy
1980-03-03
Case studies of people on both sides of the current crackdown on social security fraud.
- E10
Follow the Yellow Cake Road
1980-03-10
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E11
Decline and Fall
1980-03-17
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E12
Alive and Well in the U.S.A.
1980-03-24
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E13
Not in the Public Interest
1980-04-14
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E14
Spying for Survival
1980-04-21
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E15
The Pound in Their Pocket
1980-04-28
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E16
The Trial of Stanley Adams
1980-05-12
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E17
Britain Over a Barrel
1980-05-19
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E18
A Bad Day for Southall
1980-06-02
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E19
Mr. Kane's Campaign
1980-06-09
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E20
Special: What Do You Think of It So Far?
1980-06-10
A review of Britain's membership of the Common Market.
- E21
Market Day
1980-06-16
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E22
Fly the Flag, Pay the Price
1980-06-23
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E23
Russian Games
1980-06-30
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E24
Mr. Stock and the Thursday Gang
1980-07-07
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E25
Last Stand at Lisburn
1980-07-14
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.
- E26
Vietnam - Prisoner of War
1980-07-14
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E27
A Dignified Exit
1980-07-28
"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.
- E28
The Tirion Programme
1980-08-04
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E29
Suffer the Children
1980-08-11
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E30
The Chart Busters
1980-08-18
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.