Season 16

World in ActionSeason 16

1980
30 Episodes

Episodes

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S16E01

Mr. Benn's Secret Service

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

07 Jan 1980
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S16E02

Cambodia Year One - The Aid Crisis

14 Jan 1980
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S16E03

Cambodia Year One - Life After Death

21 Jan 1980
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S16E04

The Man Who Bought United

28 Jan 1980
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S16E05

The Steel Papers

04 Feb 1980
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S16E06

Behind the Paper Curtain

11 Feb 1980
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S16E07

The Pulse of America

18 Feb 1980
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S16E08

The Final Harvest

25 Feb 1980
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S16E09

Claimant, Scrounger, Snooper, Spy

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

03 Mar 1980
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S16E10

Follow the Yellow Cake Road

10 Mar 1980
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S16E11

Decline and Fall

17 Mar 1980
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S16E12

Alive and Well in the U.S.A.

24 Mar 1980
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S16E13

Not in the Public Interest

14 Apr 1980
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S16E14

Spying for Survival

21 Apr 1980
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S16E15

The Pound in Their Pocket

28 Apr 1980
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S16E16

The Trial of Stanley Adams

12 May 1980
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S16E17

Britain Over a Barrel

19 May 1980
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S16E18

A Bad Day for Southall

02 Jun 1980
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S16E19

Mr. Kane's Campaign

09 Jun 1980
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S16E20

Special: What Do You Think of It So Far?

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

10 Jun 1980
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S16E21

Market Day

16 Jun 1980
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S16E22

Fly the Flag, Pay the Price

23 Jun 1980
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S16E23

Russian Games

30 Jun 1980
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S16E24

Mr. Stock and the Thursday Gang

07 Jul 1980
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S16E25

Last Stand at Lisburn

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.

14 Jul 1980
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S16E26

Vietnam - Prisoner of War

14 Jul 1980
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S16E27

A Dignified Exit

"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.

28 Jul 1980
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S16E28

The Tirion Programme

04 Aug 1980
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S16E29

Suffer the Children

11 Aug 1980
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S16E30

The Chart Busters

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.

18 Aug 1980