1988

Panorama1988

1988
40 Episodes

Episodes

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S36E01

Thatcher's 3,000 Days

Mrs. Thatcher has now been in office for 3,167 days - overtaking Asquith as longest serving Prime Minister this century.

04 Jan 1988
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S36E02

Arthur Scargill Evermore?

Later this month Britain's 100,000 miners will vote on future direction of their leadership and in particular on Arthur Scargill.

11 Jan 1988
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S36E03

Rajiv Gandhi - India's Pilot Prime Minister

As an airline pilot, Rajiv Gandhi would press a button, pull a lever and get results.

18 Jan 1988
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S36E04

The Margaret Thatcher Interview

The Prime Minister, Right Hon Margaret Thatcher, MP, in a live interview with David Dimbleby.

25 Jan 1988
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S36E05

NHS - A Terminal Case?

Forty years after its birth, National Health Service is in grip of continued crisis.

01 Feb 1988
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S36E06

The Two Billion Pound Rip-Off

The Two Billion Pound Rip-Off With few effective controls and checks EEC's Common Agricultural Policy has been described as 'greatest incentive to crime in Western Europe'.

08 Feb 1988
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S36E07

Violence on Television

Violence on Television since Hungerford massacre violence on television has become a hot political issue.

15 Feb 1988
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S36E08

Is There No Alternative?

22 Feb 1988
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S36E09

The IRA: The Long War

A history of the Provisional IRA political and military campaign.

29 Feb 198858m
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S36E10

A Hard Act to Follow

Vice President George Bush and Senator Bob Dole are battling for Republican Presidential nomination.

07 Mar 1988
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S36E11

The Underclass of 88

The Underclass of 88 In tomorrow's Budget Chancellor is widely expected to announce further tax cuts for better off.

14 Mar 1988
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S36E12

Electricity - A Shock in Store

Disturbing new evidence of a connection between electricity and small but significant increases in childhood and adult cancers are mystifying scientists.

21 Mar 1988
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S36E13

Church of England - One Foundation?

In Church of England recent passionate arguments about ordination to priesthood of women or of practising homosexuals are symptoms of a much wider debate.

28 Mar 1988
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S36E14

Charles, Prince of Conscience

Charles, Prince of Conscience Is Prince of Wales sharpening an impression that he is increasingly out of tune with Thatcherit.

11 Apr 1988
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S36E15

Child Abuse: Battering the System

Clare is 4, and her mother fears she has been sexually abused by her father. She's just 30,000 children on local authority 'at risk' register.

18 Apr 1988
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S36E16

Israel at 40

Next week, as Israel celebrates 40 years of statehood, Panorama reports on growing-problems of troubled nation.

25 Apr 1988
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S36E17

In the Shadow of the Killing Fields

Ten years after Pol Pot 's reign of terror, Cambodians fear horror of killing fields may return.

09 May 1988
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S36E18

Replacing the Hidden Bomb

Few people know Britain has a class of nuclear bombs other than those carried in Polaris submarines.

16 May 1988
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S36E19

A Revolution Without Shots

Mikhail Gorbachev has called his attempt to reform Soviet Union 'a revolution without shots'.

23 May 1988
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S36E20

Selling the Nuclear Dream

When Government privatises electricity industry, everyone in Britain will have chance to buy a stake in nuclear power.

06 Jun 1988
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S36E21

Northern Ireland: The Long Peace

After 20 years of unrest, there are first signs of a wind of political change in Northern Ireland.

13 Jun 1988
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S36E22

In Wealth We Trust

In his last Budget, Chancellor Lawson gave to those who already had. He cut tax for well-off.

20 Jun 1988
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S36E23

The Price of Success?

Britain's South East is beginning to boom. In a crescent around London, new business parks and housing estates are fast expanding.

27 Jun 1988
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S36E24

Can We Afford the Doctor?

The death of hole-in-the-heart baby, Matthew Collier has provoked most fundamental review of National Health Service for 40 years.

04 Jul 1988
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S36E25

Who Is This Man Dukakis?

As son of Greek immigrants is about to be sent forth as Democratic Party's challenger to recapture American Presidency, Panorama examines credentials of Michael Dukakis.

11 Jul 1988
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S36E26

Hot Property

It involves estate agents, valuers and solicitors as well as purchasers, and it's happening both because mortgages are so easily available and because bodies set up to monitor house sales seem unable to cope with buying market.

18 Jul 1988
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S36E27

Labour's Agonising Reappraisal

At a time when Opposition should have been making capital of Government's difficulties.

05 Sept 1988
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S36E28

Jam Today, Jam Tomorrow?

By year 2000, there will be up to 30 per cent more cars on road. Peter Taylor examines ways of getting out of jam and interviews Secretary of State The Rt Hon Paul Channon.

12 Sept 1988
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S36E29

Piper Alpha: The Human Price of Oil

In July, 167 men were killed in world's worst ever oil disaster. Jane Corbin talks to crucial eyewitnesses aboard Piper Alpha that nigbt.

19 Sept 1988
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S36E30

A Class Apart

One-hundred-and-eighty children have just begun term at most controversial school in Britain, brand new City Technology College in Solihull.

26 Sept 1988
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S36E31

Inundation of a Nation

03 Oct 1988
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S36E32

Violent Britain - The Hurd Instinct

On eve of Conservative Party Conference, Home Secretary Rt Hon Douglas Hurd MP is preparing for his toughest challenges of year.

10 Oct 1988
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S36E33

The SAS

Few people know Britain has a class of nuclear bombs other than those carried in Polaris submarines.

17 Oct 1988
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S36E34

Choosing the Future - The Genetic Revolution

Using latest DNA technology, scientists are identifying genes which help to determine kind of people we are.

24 Oct 1988
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S36E35

Pakistan: Paying for a Holy War

Pakistan has been chief backer of Afghan guerrillas in their Holy War against Soviet army.

31 Oct 1988
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S36E36

The Tories: Friends of the Earth?

Mrs Thatcher claims Conservatives are green at heart. The local authorities monitoring Britain's booming waste industry have yet to be convinced.

07 Nov 1988
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S36E37

Adios General Pinochet?

After 15 years, people of Chile have voted to get rid of General Pinochet. But his dictatorship continues for next year-and-a-half as a nation, divided by hatred, tries to move towards democracy.

21 Nov 1988
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S36E38

Europe: My Way or Theirs?

On eve of Summit of Common Market Leaders, Fred Emery reports on battle for future of Europe after 1992.

28 Nov 1988
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S36E39

Council Housing: The Last Frontier

Council estates are Conservatives' next political battlefield. Once, council housing, subsidised and secure, symbolised Welfare State.

05 Dec 1988
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S36E40

The Shadow of the Swastika

Half a century after war, hunting down of old Nazis has never been more intense. In America, Canada and Israel, Nazis and their collaborators are facing trial.

12 Dec 1988