World in Action

Season 16

30 episodes · Jan 7, 1980

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  • S16E1

    Mr. Benn's Secret Service

    Jan 7, 1980

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

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  • S16E2

    Cambodia Year One - The Aid Crisis

    Jan 14, 1980
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  • S16E3

    Cambodia Year One - Life After Death

    Jan 21, 1980
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  • S16E4

    The Man Who Bought United

    Jan 28, 1980
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  • S16E5

    The Steel Papers

    Feb 4, 1980
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  • S16E6

    Behind the Paper Curtain

    Feb 11, 1980
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  • S16E7

    The Pulse of America

    Feb 18, 1980
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  • S16E8

    The Final Harvest

    Feb 25, 1980
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  • S16E9

    Claimant, Scrounger, Snooper, Spy

    Mar 3, 1980

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

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  • S16E10

    Follow the Yellow Cake Road

    Mar 10, 1980
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  • S16E11

    Decline and Fall

    Mar 17, 1980
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  • S16E12

    Alive and Well in the U.S.A.

    Mar 24, 1980
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  • S16E13

    Not in the Public Interest

    Apr 14, 1980
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  • S16E14

    Spying for Survival

    Apr 21, 1980
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  • S16E15

    The Pound in Their Pocket

    Apr 28, 1980
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  • S16E16

    The Trial of Stanley Adams

    May 12, 1980
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  • S16E17

    Britain Over a Barrel

    May 19, 1980
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  • S16E18

    A Bad Day for Southall

    Jun 2, 1980
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  • S16E19

    Mr. Kane's Campaign

    Jun 9, 1980
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  • S16E20

    Special: What Do You Think of It So Far?

    Jun 10, 1980

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

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  • S16E21

    Market Day

    Jun 16, 1980
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  • S16E22

    Fly the Flag, Pay the Price

    Jun 23, 1980
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  • S16E23

    Russian Games

    Jun 30, 1980
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  • S16E24

    Mr. Stock and the Thursday Gang

    Jul 7, 1980
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  • S16E25

    Last Stand at Lisburn

    Jul 14, 1980

    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.

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  • S16E26

    Vietnam - Prisoner of War

    Jul 14, 1980
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  • S16E27

    A Dignified Exit

    Jul 28, 1980

    "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.

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  • S16E28

    The Tirion Programme

    Aug 4, 1980
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  • S16E29

    Suffer the Children

    Aug 11, 1980
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  • S16E30

    The Chart Busters

    Aug 18, 1980

    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.

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