World in Action

Season 13

39 episodes · Sep 27, 1976

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  • S13E1

    Unemployment - Who Cares?

    Sep 27, 1976

    Unemployment has now risen to the notable 1 million mark and this investigation shows the detrimental effect it can have on those people who loose their job.

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  • S13E2

    Nuts & Bolts of the Economy: Delta's Dilemma

    Oct 4, 1976
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  • S13E3

    A School of Thought

    Oct 11, 1976

    Examination of revolutionary and experimental new teaching methods.

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  • S13E4

    Mr Cork Examines the Books

    Oct 18, 1976

    An ordinary accountant is given the theoretical task of being Chancellor of the Exchequer and giving his take on the situation.

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  • S13E5

    Campaigning by Numbers

    Oct 25, 1976
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  • S13E6

    Yesterday's Truants

    Nov 1, 1976

    Follow up programme to one five years previous to find out what happened to some persistent school truants.

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  • S13E7

    Living Dangerously

    Nov 8, 1976

    The effects of the chemical Dioxin after a factory explosion in Italy.

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  • S13E8

    The Killing of Uganda

    Nov 15, 1976
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  • S13E9

    The National Party

    Nov 22, 1976

    Following the racial violence in Blackburn, looks at the rise of the extreme right wing.

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  • S13E10

    The Long Arm of the Dina

    Nov 29, 1976
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  • S13E11

    The Lawbreakers

    Dec 6, 1976
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  • S13E12

    Made in Hong Kong - Child Labour

    Dec 13, 1976
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  • S13E13

    Mr Opie Brings Bad News

    Jan 10, 1977
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  • S13E14

    Doctor's Orders

    Jan 17, 1977

    Doctors complain that they are being put under pressure by both patients and pharmaceutical companies to prescribe certain drugs.

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  • S13E15

    Episode 15

    Jan 24, 1977
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  • S13E16

    The Militants

    Jan 31, 1977

    Investigates why the Labour Party is allowing a group within to produce a newspaper like 'The Militant'.

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  • S13E17

    Waiting for Merlyn

    Feb 7, 197730m

    An investigation into the Home Secretary's decision to declare two men as a threat to British Security and his moves to have them deported

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  • S13E18

    The Road to Amsterdam

    Feb 14, 1977
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  • S13E19

    The Police Tapes

    Feb 21, 1977
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  • S13E21

    Equal Pay Today-Or Tomorrow

    Feb 28, 1977
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  • S13E22

    Do You Take This Man?

    Mar 7, 1977

    A report on the growing number of Asian girls in the UK who are rejecting the traditional arranged marriage to someone they do not know.

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  • S13E23

    From Death Row-To Downing St

    Mar 14, 1977
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  • S13E24

    Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - Them and Us

    Mar 21, 1977
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  • S13E25

    Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - The Vital Statistics: Part 1

    Mar 28, 1977
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  • S13E26

    Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - The Vital Statistics: Part 2

    Apr 4, 1977
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  • S13E27

    The Plane Makers

    Apr 18, 1977
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  • S13E28

    The Prison Children

    Apr 25, 1977

    It is against the law in the UK to put children into prison, so how did 4000 under 17-year-olds come to spend time behind bars?

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  • S13E29

    All Work and Low Pay

    May 2, 1977
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  • S13E30

    What Mr. Paisley Didn't Know

    May 16, 1977
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  • S13E31

    The Man Who Went Too Far

    May 23, 1977

    Follow up to 'A Calculated Risk' on the plight of dissident Anatoly Sharansky.

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  • S13E32

    Casualties of the Cuts

    May 30, 1977

    Looking at two hospitals that may have to close down, and another who's budget is not coping with the demand of an increasing population.

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  • S13E33

    Without Limit of Time

    Jun 13, 1977
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  • S13E34

    My Years with Amin

    Jun 20, 1977
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  • S13E35

    Starting on the Dole

    Jun 27, 1977

    With the continuing rise in youth unemployment, follows two Liverpool teenagers as they look for work and examines the validity of government job creation schemes.

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  • S13E36

    The Very Public Death of Enrico Sidoli

    Jul 4, 1977

    In July of the previous year Enrico was beaten up in a London swimming pool by three youths and held under water, he died days later of injuries. Apart from one girl, nobody there appears to have noticed anything.

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  • S13E37

    Jack's Last Stand

    Jul 11, 1977
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  • S13E38

    Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - The Uncommon Market: Part 1

    Jul 18, 1977
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  • S13E39

    Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - The Uncommon Market: Part 2

    Jul 25, 1977
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  • S13E40

    Nuts and Bolts of the Economy - The Uncommon Market: Part 3

    Aug 1, 1977
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