First Tuesday – Season 3
Episodes
Insult to Injury/Lebanon: A Family at War
Two stories of racial tension. The first, a highly personal one for Martin Short as he reports on the dangers faced by his wife's family in war-torn Lebanon. The second closer to home in London, where the National Front target Bengalis.
Yanks Meet Reds
Goals Not Dole/The End of the Line?
Goals Not Dole - Documentary which explores the experience of unemployment through the views of members of a South Yorkshire village football team and their families. The End of the Line - Documentary on the near-doomed Settle to Carlisle railway line.
Our First Year/Visiting Day
Two documentaries about women's pilgrimages: the German wartime ones who came to Southport to avoid Nazis, and the present day ones who prepare and undertake prison visits to their husbands from Glasgow to Peterhead Prison.
Made in Huddersfield/A Death in the Family
Invitation to Disaster/Comrades at Arms
An Officer and a Lady
'Trevor, It's the Bailiffs'/Akong and the Big Shrine Room
"Trevor, It's the Bailiffs" - Documentary which looks at the work of Jim Ellis and Terry Allen who are bailiffs in Nottingham repossessing furniture. Akong and the Big Shrine Room - Documentary about Akong Rimpoche who fled his native Tibet after the Chinese invasion and is now abbot of the Samye Ling Tibetan Centre in Eskdalemuir, Dumfrieshire.
Inside Britain's Bomb
In the Line of Duty/The Valley
Sugar Ditch Alley
Len Harding: Born a Number/Kent Coal: Staying on Top
Len Harding: Born a Number - Documentary which follows up on the story of Rampton patient Len Harding, and looks at his life since his release from the secure hospital at Rampton. Kent Coal: Staying on Top - Documentary in which Kent miners and their families discuss their industry in the aftermath of the year-long coal strike of 1984-1985.