World in Action

Season 7

43 episodes · Sep 21, 1970

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  • S7E1

    Everybody's Children

    Sep 21, 1970

    School children at school are doing a play on freedom and the Vietnam war also playing a general

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  • S7E2

    The Quiet Mutiny

    Sep 28, 197028m

    Embedded documentary, shot on site during the Vietnam War, showing how young draftees are critical about that war.

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  • S7E3

    The Man Who Made Biafra

    Oct 5, 1970
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  • S7E4

    Pigs?

    Oct 12, 1970

    Members of the Cincinnati Police Force discuss the increasing animosity being dealt out by the public towards policemen.

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  • S7E5

    They're Only Human Beings Like Everybody Else

    Oct 19, 1970

    There are about 1,500,000 severely physically handicapped people in the United Kingdom. There are, therefore, 1,500,000 handicapped families. This means there are 6,750,000 people directly involved with the problems of the disabled.

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  • S7E6

    A Business Arrangement

    Oct 26, 1970
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  • S7E7

    S.A.L.T.

    Nov 2, 1970
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  • S7E8

    Goodbye Mr. Smith?

    Nov 9, 1970
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  • S7E9

    The Mountain People

    Nov 16, 1970

    America's poor whites of the Appalachia region, who fear there maybe violence against them in the future.

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  • S7E10

    The Final Harvest

    Nov 23, 1970
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  • S7E11

    The Man Who Wouldn't Keep Quiet

    Nov 24, 1970
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  • S7E12

    The Schemes of Jerome D. Hoffman

    Nov 30, 1970

    Follows the trail of New York financier Hoffman, who's empire had just crashed leaving investors in the UK out of pocket.

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  • S7E13

    The Law Shop

    Dec 7, 1970
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  • S7E14

    Oh! Birmingham

    Dec 14, 1970
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  • S7E15

    The Dumping Grounds

    Dec 21, 1970

    The problems of malnutrition leading to mental and physical problems among the children of resettled black South African families.

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  • S7E16

    American Radio

    Jan 4, 1971

    A personal view by Denis Mitchell.

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  • S7E17

    Round One

    Jan 11, 1971
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  • S7E18

    The Dutschke Affair

    Jan 18, 1971
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  • S7E19

    The Village That Quit

    Jan 25, 1971

    A village is asked to give up smoking for a week and the results monitored.

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  • S7E20

    The Monday Club

    Feb 1, 1971
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  • S7E21

    The Breaking Point

    Feb 8, 1971
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  • S7E22

    Square One

    Feb 15, 1971

    With renewed fighting through Ulster, has the conflict gone back to square one?

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  • S7E23

    Lucky

    Feb 22, 1971

    Follows the life of an 18 year old from Devon who arrives in London penniless and has to sleep rough, but eventually with help manages to find a job and somewhere to live.

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  • S7E24

    Ford: The Inside Story

    Mar 1, 1971
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  • S7E25

    The Truants

    Mar 8, 1971

    World In Action talks to three teenage truants about what they get up to when they "wag off" school.

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  • S7E26

    The Man Who Stole Uganda

    Mar 15, 1971

    A military coup has taken place in Uganda, but what is the real story behind the rumours?

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  • S7E27

    As It Was in the Beginning...

    Mar 22, 1971

    Uses footage from previous editions of World in Action to present a history of the troubles so far.

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  • S7E28

    The Year Britain Stopped Growing

    Mar 29, 1971

    Investigates the claim that lack of investment in the UK will seriously affect its competitiveness with mainland Europe.

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  • S7E29

    South of the Border

    Apr 5, 1971

    Attitudes in Eire to the IRA and the situation in Ulster.

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  • S7E30

    The Salvation Army

    Apr 19, 1971
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  • S7E31

    The Sailors' Jail

    Apr 26, 1971
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  • S7E32

    Going Private

    May 3, 1971

    Investigates the controversy surrounding private patients and their consultants and whether they are exploiting the NHS.

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  • S7E33

    The Tanzam Railway

    May 10, 1971
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  • S7E34

    A 2.9% Swing to Democracy in Bradford

    May 17, 1971
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  • S7E35

    Death Is Afraid of Us

    May 24, 1971

    Some people in the country of Georgia claim to be over a 100 years old and still working like people half their age.

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  • S7E36

    Conversations with a Working Man

    Jun 7, 1971

    Following one working class man through the struggles of his average day, to show how the forgotten majority are living in Britain.

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  • S7E37

    Anthony Mascarenhas

    Jun 14, 1971
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  • S7E38

    A Woman's Place

    Jun 21, 1971
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  • S7E39

    The Dust at Acre Mill

    Jun 28, 1971
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  • S7E40

    Episode 40

    Jul 5, 1971
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  • S7E41

    Major Khaled's War

    Jul 12, 1971
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  • S7E42

    End of a Journey

    Jul 19, 1971
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  • S7E43

    The Man from No. 10

    Aug 3, 1971
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