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Long-running documentary series covering a wide range of current affairs topics.

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Tuesday's Documentary — Episode Guide

Season 1968

• E1: The Heart Of Apartheid (1968-09-10) — A film by HUGH BURNETT What is the truth about South Africa? Apartheid, South Africa's policy of separate development, is based on the view of the country's white minority that the
• E2: The Great Fish Muddle (1968-09-24) — A film about an industry that didn't want to change Many trawlers are old-fashioned Trawlermen work in conditions illegal on land The industry spends over £100,000,000 a year on fo
• E3: Towards Tomorrow – A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Garbage Dump (1968-10-01) — Your future is being created now -for better or for worse? A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE GARBAGE DUMP Waste of every kind is on the increase, polluting the earth. The vo
• E4: The Trouble With Being One Self (1968-10-08) — "The Trouble with Being One Self" is an individual 1968 television documentary episode, part of the Tuesday Documentary series hosted by Dr. Stephen Black. It explores human immuno
• E5: The Plutocrats (1968-10-15) — A film by PETER BATTY How rich is rich in Texas? Why, Texan-rich of course-and to be thought rich in Texas you need to be worth at least £20-million. Tonight's film is about four s
• E6: The Aristocrats – People Without Neighbours (1968-10-22) — "The Aristocrats: People Without Neighbours" is a 1968 BBC television documentary created by producer and director Peter Batty. It explores the lives, massive landholdings, and fin
• E7: Towards Tomorrow – Super-city (1968-10-29) — Towards Tomorrow – Super-city is a 1968 BBC documentary from the Tuesday's Documentary series exploring futuristic 21st-century urban designs, featuring visionary concepts from arc
• E8: The Fall Of The House Of Habsburg (1848-1918) (1968-11-12) — A View of an Age by EDWARD CRANKSHAW In the course of 600 years one family, the Habsburgs, came to dominate the huge area of central and south-eastern Europe which included what we
• E9: The Channel – Them, And Us (1968-11-19) — For many of us on this side, the English Channel is not just a strip of water but a state of mind. ' It's a different sort of people here.' Opinion polls investigate how many of us
• E10: Towards Tomorrow – Time To Kill (1968-11-26) — Your future is being decided now – for better or for worse? The 'Gospel of Work' is hard to shake off. When we get the chance of more free time, many of us shy away. Perhaps we enj
• E11: The Asian Teenagers (1968-12-03) — Their parents – Sikh, Moslem, Hindu-came from Pakistan, India, and the Indian communities of Africa to find a better life in Britain. They were the immigrants. Today their children
• E12: Death Or Glory (1968-12-10) — Britain is still paying to maintain an Army in Germany – the British Army of the Rhine. This film is about life in that Army as seen through the eyes of one of its regiments, the 1
• E13: Revolution (1968-12-17) — The New Radicals Is revolution possible in Britain today?

Season 1969

• E1: Twice As Fast: The Concorde (1969-01-14) — If Concorde succeeds, her passengers will be hurled across the oceans at twice the height and twice the speed of today's jet travellers. In a few weeks her make-or-break test fligh
• E2: Suicide Of A Nation: Germany Before Hitler (1969-01-21) — An impression of the years which began with the fall of the Kaiser and ended with Hitler's appointment as Chancellor. They are remembered now as the Golden Twenties, a time of chan
• E3: Towards Tomorrow – There it is… where it is (1969-01-28) — Your future is being created now -for better or for worse? THERE IT IS … WHERE IT IS 100,000-1: according to some metal men those are the odds against finding a new metal mine. B
• E4: Winter In Moscow (1) (1969-02-04) — The story of a lost dream A further chapter in Malcolm Muggeridge 's television autobiography In 1932 Malcolm Muggeridge went to Moscow as correspondent for the Manchester Guardian
• E5: Our Own Correspondent (2) (1969-02-11) — A further chapter in Malcolm Muggeridge 's television autobiography Twenty years ago during the administration of Harry Truman , Malcolm Muggeridge worked in the United States as t
• E6: The Game That Got Away (1969-02-18) — A film about a sport that shows up a divided country A portrait of Rugby League, how it fell foul of the Rugby Union and broke away … How northern working men got their hands on
• E7: The Epic That Never Was (1969-02-25) — In 1937 Sir Alexander Korda embarked on a film epic that was to overshadow all others and enshrine him as saviour of the British film industry. Robert Graves's classics, "I, Claudi
• E8: Matters Of Life And Death (1969-03-04) — Christopher Brasher investigates some of the terrifying problems-moral, legal, economic, which have been brought about by new advances in medicine. We hear much about the ethical p
• E9: The Thin Red Line (1969-03-11) — The story of THE ARGYLL AND SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS They caught the public imagination under ' Mad Mitch' when they recaptured the Crater district of Aden. But they have been famous
• E10: The Killing Game (1969-03-18) — Big game hunting in Kenya is sport in luxurious style. A hunting safari is an impressive venture -highly organised, with big trucks to carry the stores and every possible comfort.
• E11: Towards Tomorrow – 2001: An Earth Prophecy (1969-03-25) — "Towards Tomorrow: 2001: An Earth Prophecy" is a 1969 television documentary episode from the series Tuesday's Documentary that explores futuristic ideas, ecological predictions, a
• E12: Where Do We Go From Here? (1969-04-01) — A film about the travelling people of Britain gypsies-tinkers-nomads-potters The wanderers of our roads and lanes talk about their lives, their homes, their work, and their problem
• E13: The Trail Blazers (1969-04-08) — This film tells the story of the struggle to conquer the Atlantic Ocean, always the most challenging, and today the greatest, of all the world's air routes.
• E14: The Diamond World (1969-04-15) — For two-and-a-half-thousand years diamonds have been man's most coveted possession. Once they blazed in triumph from the crowns of Kings and Emperors. Today they are any girl's ' b
• E15: So You Think You Know About Children? (1969-04-22) — How good a parent are you? Do you know the laws-old and new -governing you and your child? How far are you answerable, and how far is the State, for his health, safety, education,
• E16: Towards Tomorrow – A Good and Useful Life (1969-04-29) — The future is being created now -for better or for worse A GOOD AND USEFUL LIFE? A guy who can't fit into society and steals – you lock up in prison. Kind of forget him until he st
• E17: Race You To The Top (1969-05-13) — Tonight the winners of the DAILY MAIL TRANSATLANTIC AIR RACE will collect over £ 60,000 in prize-money. Are there any other rewards? Will the race make people more air-minded? Will
• E18: Battle For Cassino (1969-05-20) — The Battle for Cassino is a 1969 BBC historical documentary directed by Peter Batty that details the intense World War II military campaign to break through the German Gustav Line
• E19: Towards Tomorrow – Learning to Live (1969-05-27) — The future is being created now -for better or for worse LEARNING TO LIVE The people of the twenty-first century are being fashioned now in our primary schools. Our boys and girls
• E20: The Revolution Will Not Now Take Place (1969-06-03) — Robert Conquest tells the story of fifty violent years of Communism in Europe and its failure to achieve its world-wide aims Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolut
• E21: The Northern Lights – For the Safety Of All (1969-06-10) — There are seventy-two manned lighthouses around the Scottish coast and it takes a vast and complex organisation to administer them. The isolated rock stations are serviced by four
• E22: Our Man Anywhere (1969-06-17) — A profile of MALCOLM MacDONALD He has described himself, jokingly, as 'an Afro-Asian with a lot of Scottish blood.' A friend of Nehru, Chou En- Lai, and Kenyatta, and adopted son o
• E23: Hypnosis And Mind (1969-06-24) — Is There a Ghost in the Machine? A doctor, in a now classic case, cures an apparently incurable disease simply by talking to his patient-working on his mind under hypnosis. A State
• E24: In Case of Fire (1969-07-08) — In Case of Fire is a 1969 BBC television documentary focusing on British firefighters, featuring training drills at facilities like the Southwark Training Centre
• E25: Out Of This World (1969-07-15) — The extraordinary story behind the American bid to land man on the moon. Dr. Wernher Von Braun designed the infamous German V-2: today, a dynamic fifty-seven-year-old American citi
• E26: The Flight Deck Story (1969-07-22) — The Flight Deck Story is a 1969 short documentary film that explores the rich history and operations of aircraft carriers
• E27: A Bit Of An Experience (1969-07-29) — A film by MICHAEL LATHAM and GORDON THOMAS It is two years since this award-winning documentary was first shown. Now the end of the story can be told. On the operating table lies a
• E28: Jumbo (1969-08-12) — In just four months, the world's first jumbo jet goes into regular service over the Atlantic. Already 200 have been ordered by the world's airlines. Each is designed to carry nearl
• E29: In The Name Of France (1969-08-19) — From Defeat to Resistance 1940-44 In 1940 France, humiliatingly defeated, signed a separate peace treaty with the Germans. The French prime minister Marshal Petain , the hero of Ve
• E30: Munich 1938 (1969-08-26) — Second World War could well have started a year earlier than it did-not on September 3, 1939, but in the last week of September 1938. Then the British Prime Minister of the day, Ne
• E31: The Story Of Fighting Poland (1969-09-02) — ' FOR OUR FREEDOM AND YOURS ' A film about the romantic and tragic history of the country whose invasion thirty years ago this week marked the beginning of the Second World War. Th
• E32: The Child Experts (1969-09-16) — Can a mother's mental state influence her unborn baby? Should a son be circumcised? Is it possible to assess the intelligence of a 6-month-old baby? In this programme which deals w
• E33: Seaways (1969-09-23) — A film about three ships – Naval frigate, container ship, sailing barge – and the men who live and work in them by PHILIP DONNELLAN Working on the sea is a dangerous trade, a job w
• E34: Gandhi's India (1969-09-30) — Tonight's film tells the story of Gandhi's life, in this centenary year of his birth, his long struggle against British rule in India and the tragedies that surrounded the final gr
• E35: The Colour Line (1969-10-14) — A film about the dilemma of South Africans neither white nor black. South Africa's face to the world is white, backed by a sea of blacks. But the real situation is much more compli
• E36: Remember, Remember…. the fifth of November (1969-10-21) — Gunpowder, Treason, and Plot asks why should we remember? And, more important still, how many needless accidents does it cause each year? No one knows the real facts about what hap
• E37: Love Of A Kind (1969-10-28) — A film by Lord Snowdon and Derek Hart Why do you keep a pet? What do you demand from your dog, your cat, your budgie in return for feeding it and teaching it to be clean about the
• E38: Engines Must Not Enter The Potato Siding (1969-11-04) — A film about railways and railwaymen. 'I was one of those youngsters who felt I'd like to play with toy trains and I've continued playing with them ever since. You know the old say
• E39: Tokyo – The 51st Volcano (1969-11-18) — There are 50 active volcanoes in Japan, and this bubbling, sprawling molten place sometimes feels like the 51st.' Twice in 30 years Tokyo has been destroyed. Today it is the world'
• E40: The Land Of Ireland (1969-11-25) — A film about what is happening in the rural western half of the Republic of Ireland today, nearly half a century after the landlords left. With independence came the kind of peasan
• E41: Stampede (1969-12-02) — For one week every year the Canadian Mid-West town of Calgary erupts with the noise and excitement of the world's biggest rodeo. A million visitors pack the town to see leading cow
• E42: Strangers In A Town (1969-12-09) — A personal impression of industrial Wolverhampton by Philip Donnellan On the top of a hill in the middle of England a town of 265,000 people. The western houses drain into the Seve
• E43: The English Village Is Alive And Well … (1969-12-16) — For years now, people have been reporting the death-throes of the English village – dying crafts, shrinking population, loss of amenities. But the personalities that make the Engli
• E44: The Day They Sold Alaska (1969-12-23) — A film about the greatest sale on earth Produced and narrated by Roger Mills On sale was the oilman's moon-half a million acres of Arctic wilderness, and below it a great ocean of
• E45: 1913 (1969-12-30) — At the end of another decade this documentary looks back not on the 60s or the 50s, but on a year that really meant the end of one era, the start of another- 1913. The last year wh

Season 1970

• E1: The Duke And Duchess Of Windsor (1970-01-13) — In this Tuesday Documentary the Duke and Duchess speak of their life together – glimpse into the private world of the man who was King Edward VIII for a few short months. The Duke
• E2: War Under The Sea (1970-01-20) — The story of the submarine, with contributions from some of the world's submariners. The experiments of early inventors and the hardship of life in their boats – when the white mic
• E3: A Woman's Place (1970-01-27) — What's a lifetime worth if marriage is the only experience you've had within it? There is that biological difference but whether you make that the lynch pin of your argument – that
• E4: The Vatican (1970-02-10) — Spiritual headquarters for 700-million Roman Catholics. Home of the Pope and his civil service. Storehouse of some of the greatest treasures in the world. The Vatican has never bee
• E5: Nurse, Nurse (1970-02-17) — You have almost certainly been in hospital at least once, if only to be born. The chances are that one of the nurses at your bedside was a young trainee. For every three qualified
• E6: The Quiet Invasion (1970-02-24) — There are some 15 million Chinese in South-East Asia. They can play an extremely useful role as catalysts in the process of modernising our economies. Lee Kuan Yew, Prime Minister
• E7: The Philpott File (1970-03-03) — The File on A Pension of Sunshine A film from the series with Trevor Philpott The number of British people going abroad to retire is doubling every year. The Englishman's dream of
• E8: The Court Of Last Resort (1970-03-10) — Widoiv loses pension rights – a healthy man dies in his prison cell – war heroes fight for German compensation – Government buys farmer's land for £40 per acre, sells for over £400
• E9: A Year Ago Tonight… (1970-03-17) — On 17 March last year, the Longhope lifeboat was called out. Next day, the lifeboat was found capsized. Her eight crewmen were dead. All these men came from a tiny hamlet called Br
• E10: The Man Between Germany And The World (1970-03-31) — The extraordinary life and times of Paul Schmidt , Hitler's interpreter for ten dramatic years. A remarkable linguist, Dr Paul Schmidt was present at all the Fuhrer's meetings with
• E11: Afrikaner (1970-04-14) — A film by HUGH BURNETT who looks at the strange white tribe that rules South Africa. The British invented apartheid. The Afrikaner legalised it. The British were the first to set u
• E12: Australia The Last Of Lands (1970-04-28) — Two hundred years ago Captain Cook sailed his ship Endeavour into Botany Bay, and claimed the great continent of Australia for the white man. In this special bicentenary programme
• E13: The Jesuits – The Hated Society (1970-05-05) — Give us a child when he's 7 and he will be ours for the rest of his mortal life. True or false? But it is certain that the Jesuits are the most misunderstood, the most militant ord
• E14: Shetland: Britain's Farthest North (1970-05-19) — In the vast expanse of sea between Scotland and Norway lie ' the islands of Shetland, a 70-mile-long tangle of rock and cliff which provides home and livelihood for 17,000 British
• E15: Son Of Iron Horse (1970-05-26) — The Great Train Revival For years the world's railways steadily declined. Now trains are facing their biggest revolution since the discovery of steam and the age of the Iron Horse.
• E16: Gale Is Dead (1970-06-09) — Gale was beautiful, intelligent and – according to everyone who knew her-had much to offer; everything to live for. Recently, aged 19 and a drug addict, she was found dead in the b
• E17: Europe – A Continent Fit To Live In (1970-06-16) — Even today Europe has some weird and wonderful wildlife, some remote and unknown wildernesses. In this varied continent, stretching from Iceland to Turkey, from Portugal to Russia,
• E18: India The Bewildered Giant (1970-06-23) — The political climate of India today takes one 200 years back to the country that existed before the British came. It is as though, in the 23 years since Independence, the decades
• E19: Lord Goodman (1970-06-30) — A profile of the Adviser Extraordinary He's a huge man – 6ft 2ins and 20 stone – hugely talented and with an enormous sphere of influence. The newspapers once dubbed him ' Mr X,' p
• E20: The Sugar Disease (1970-07-14) — In Britain one person in every hundred is a diabetic and knows it. A further one in a hundred is a diabetic and doesn'know it – yet. Diabetes appears to run in families yet two thi
• E21: The Retail Game (1970-07-21) — A film by don HAWORTH The multiples and chain stores have been growing since the beginning of the century. In the past 15 years they have grown very fast. Today more than a third o
• E22: Be Fruitful And Multiply (1970-07-28) — "Be Fruitful and Multiply" was a BBC Tuesday Documentary broadcast on Tuesday, July 28, 1970 at 9:10 PM. The program explored the global population explosion and growing environmen
• E23: Soldiers Of Pity (1970-08-04) — A film from the Philpott File series with TREVOR PHILPOTT The Salvation Army was born to save the souls of the inhabitants of the Victorian East End – and it was literally more lik
• E24: The Devil Takes The Youngest (1970-08-11) — A film from the Philpott File series with TREVOR PHILPOTT The second of two Files on the Salvation Army. Their bonnets and their brass bands may have a Victorian quality – but most
• E25: Beloved Wilderness (1970-08-25) — The Scottish Highlands are Britain's great land of contrasts: huge sporting estates and small unworkable crofts; islands littered with deserted ruined cottages and others thriving
• E26: Test Pilot (1970-09-01) — The test pilot is one of the 20th-century's hero-figures. The mere name conjures up images of nerveless courage, death-defying heroism, ' the dashing gallant lad,' as one of them p
• E27: The Ealing Comedies (1970-09-08) — The story of a handful of young men who wrote a chapter of cinema history. In just 10 years, from post-war austerity, they produced a series of film comedies which were so original
• E28: The Jolly Copper (1970-09-15) — For many, the British policeman is still the ' friendly bobby.' His image is envied by his counterparts abroad. But the policeman has little to be jolly about today. Police are har
• E29: Beyond The Wall: The Other Germans (1970-09-22) — Ignorant of democracy but hungry for the West they cannot visit, the 17 million East Germans are a force that could decide the fate of Russia's European Empire. For most of the pas
• E30: Pollution Is A Matter Of Choice (1970-09-29) — Pollution is increasing all over the North American continent. Nature is being killed off … rivers and lakes despoiled … coastal water contaminated with oil and waste. Industry
• E31: Everest 1924: The Mystery Of Mallory And Irvine (1970-10-06) — A new BBC film, including material which has never been televised before, about the ill-fated expedition to Everest in 1924. On 8 June of that year, two climbers, George Mallory an
• E32: A Walk In The Sun – The Flying Wallendas (1970-11-17) — Karl Wallenda is probably the world's most famous high-wire walker. It was his daring in developing the seven-man-high pyramid that put the name Wallenda on the pinnacle of circus
• E33: Lloyd's Of London (1970-11-24) — A film by Anthony de Lotbiniere For the first time television viewers can see behind the scenes of one of the most extraordinary market places in the world – The Risk Market at Llo
• E34: A Man Called Willy Brandt (1970-12-01) — Willy Brandt , Chancellor of West Germany talks to Lord Chalfont about his life and times. He was born Herbert Frahm in Liibeck in 1913. He worked in the anti-Nazi underground unde
• E35: The Strange Case Of Rudolf Hess (1970-12-08) — Rudolf Hess landed by parachute in wartime Scotland on Saturday night, 10 May 1941. He was then Deputy Fuehrer of Nazi Germany at the height of its power; today he is the last-Nazi
• E36: Japanese George (1970-12-15) — A Cockney in Japan GEORGE WHYMAN, ex-East End, ex-British soldier, ex-apprentice piano maker, went to Japan as a judo pilgrim 15 years ago. Then he was a third Dan. He wrestled wit
• E37: The Truth About Houdini (1970-12-29) — HARRY HOUDINI , the greatest escapologist of all time: the man nothing could hold. He escaped from handcuffs, straitjackets, sealed packing – cases, riveted steel boilers, thief-pr

Season 1971

• E1: A Child Is Born (1971-01-12) — How safe is it to have a baby today? For the mother it is very safe. There is less than one death for every 5,000 confinements. But for the baby the position is not good enough. In
• E2: Ports In Peril – London And Rotterdam (1971-01-19) — For centuries London was the greatest port in the world: today Rotterdam leads while London lags – sadly behind. Yet both are now in peril-a peril which may be inevitable for those
• E3: The Red Cross (1971-01-26) — An international organisation, born out of war, yet still in constant demand. The Red Cross was responsible for negotiating the release of hijacked passengers, co-ordinating relief
• E4: Test For Life (1971-02-02) — Do our children get a fair deal from their examiners? Part of school and university life is a hurdle race, run, so the theory goes, to sort the excellent from the middling from the
• E5: Battleship Bismarck (1971-05-25) — The Story of an Epic Chase Introduced by Ludovic Kennedy Thirty years ago this week – 27 May, 1941 – the ship Hitler called ' the pride of the German Navy' was sent to the bottom b
• E6: That Well-Known Store In Knightsbridge (1971-06-01) — An objective look inside a unique phenomenon in the world of shops with comments from Sir John Betjeman Marjorie Proops Graham Turner Department stores are very much part of Britis
• E7: The Great 20th-Century Love Affair: The People v The Car (1971-06-08) — It's already lasted for more than 80 years – but this particular love affair still seems pretty passionate. Mind you, the loved one has been behaving rather badly-killing 100,000 p
• E8: The Unborn Child – A New Dilemma (1971-06-15) — Recent advances enable doctors to diagnose certain diseases in the unborn child and under the new Abortion Act to terminate the pregnancy. The birth of mongols, and children with s
• E9: The Lion Of Judah (1971-06-22) — A film by Anthony de Lotbiniere The story of a living legend – His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia Tracing his descent from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba
• E10: Salvage At Sea (1971-07-06) — A film about the breakdown men of the Seven Seas Narrated by FRANK WINDSOR A third of all vessels are involved in accidents every year. The thin red line that prevents the crippled
• E11: Paid Off (1971-07-13) — The story of people without jobs told by James Burke. Just what happens to a boss in 1971 when he finds there is no work for him – anywhere. How does an unemployed executive adjust
• E12: Strike Command (1971-07-20) — Every day Russian military aircraft and ships operate in considerable numbers around our shores. It is the responsibility of RAF Strike Command to counter these probings. Tonight's
• E13: Just Let Them Notes Come Out Right… (1971-08-03) — I didn't get no diplomas for nothing I'm doin'. No. Just let them notes come out right … When trumpeter Louis Armstrong died on 6 July, jazz lost the most important creative forc
• E14: Flying Doctor (1971-08-10) — In 10 years Michael Wood with his aeroplane has brought advanced surgery to primitive hospitals across the bush of East Africa. It has been an exciting and dangerous job covering a
• E15: Ping-Pong In Peking (1971-08-17) — In the light of President Nixon's historic visit, what is modern China actually like? In April ithis year, MAX HASTINGS and a camera crew from 24 Hours walked across the Shumchun b
• E16: The Irresistible Rise Of Axel Springer (1971-08-24) — A personal success story that exactly parallels that of West Germany itself. Twenty-five years ago Axel Springer was unknown. Today his name is a household word in West Germany. At
• E17: The Noise Invasion (1971-08-31) — An enquiry into noise and its effects on you. Do you work in a noisy environment? Do you have to shout at close quarters to make yourself heard? If you do, you are almost certainly
• E18: Take Me Somewhere East Of Suez (1971-09-07) — East of Suez for JACK BRIGGS means the oil-rich Sheikdoms of the Persian Gulf. Twenty years a policeman, along the shores of the Gulf he has found the most exotic beat in the world
• E19: When Fire Fell From The Skies (1971-09-14) — The Defeat of the German Air Force 1939-1945 One of the decisive factors in the defeat of Hitler's Germany was the Luftwaffe's failure to win the battle for the skies. Even during
• E20: The Fight For Clydeside (1971-09-21) — On 14 June 1971 the Government announced that there would be no more money for Upper Clyde Shipbuilders. The next day a liquidator was appointed. Six thousand men and their familie
• E21: Christians At War (1971-10-05) — Jim Douglas Henry and one film crew lived with a Catholic family. Harold Williamson and another crew lived with a Protestant family. With these two families, with their friends and
• E22: The Car Makers (1971-10-12) — The Story of the Men Who Built Britain's Motor Industry On the eve of the Motor Show this film tells the inside story of the way a major British industry was created, from its begi
• E23: Expulsion (1971-10-19) — Every boy and girl will come into contact with drugs, in some form or other, before they leave school. This film meticulously reconstructs five crucial days in the life of a sixth-
• E24: Indira Gandhi Of India (1971-10-26) — Mrs Indira Gandhi Prime Minister of India talks to Lord Chalfont about her life and times. She was born Indira Priyadarshini Nehru in Allahabad in 1917. Her father, Jawaharlal Nehr
• E25: Making Of A Republic – Fifty Years of Irish Independence (1971-11-02) — Fifty years ago the British presence was withdrawn from all but six counties of Ireland after seven centuries of disputed rule. A treaty signed by Britain with Irish rebels in Dece
• E26: Something For The Children (1971-11-09) — Children now spend more than £125 million a year in pocket money and adults spend many times as much again on them. The enormous growth of the children's leisure market has had unf
• E27: In Search Of The Real Che Guevara (1971-11-16) — At 15, a man already knows what he wants to die for, and he's not afraid of giving his life-if he has found an ideal, which makes this sacrifice justified.' Che Guevara died for hi
• E28: Our Children And The Germans (1971-11-23) — Is the German arrogant, a beer swiller, aggressive, fat, jack-booted and blond, pompous or just not to be trusted? Ask a British citizen and impressions like these may be high on t
• E29: A Question Of Survival – 1: Public Poison (1971-12-07) — Should a scientist who believes that he has evidence in his hands of dangerous pollution speak out before the proof is conclusive and risk alarming the public? Or should he remain
• E30: A Question Of Survival – 2: Go Play in the Nuclear Power Park (1971-12-14) — By the end of the century, over half our electricity will probably be generated by nuclear reactors. As our dependence on atomic energy grows, scientists are becoming increasingly
• E31: Jerusalem International (1971-12-21) — The tourists and pilgrims scatter across the countryside around Jerusalem in search of the shrines of three of the world's great religions-Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Tonight'

Season 1972

• E1: Lee Kuan Yew Of Singapore (1972-01-04) — The Prime Minister of Singapore talks to Lord Chalfont about his life and times. He was born in colonial Singapore in 1923, to a family that came from northern China over a century
• E2: A Place Of Your Own (1972-04-11) — The increase in house prices during the past year has been the greatest on record, and in the South East of England the scramble for property has, in the words of one building soci
• E3: Whatever Happened To Rolls-Royce? (1972-04-18) — John Pearson investigates the story of a lame duck that flies. Just over a year ago Britain and the rest of the world woke up to find Rolls-Royce had gone bust. Newspapers said it
• E4: Undersea Strike! (1972-04-25) — In Holland the discovery of an immense reservoir of natural gas has started what could be an economic and industrial revolution. Farther north, the Norwegians have found themselves
• E5: A Month Of Sundays – Portrait of a Durham Mining Village (1972-05-02) — Shotton Colliery is one of the few remaining pit villages in South West Durham. After 150 years of production the seams are running out. A Month of Sundays was filmed in Shotton du
• E6: Sob Sisters (1972-05-09) — Four advice columnists talk to Dr Stephen Black 'Advice columns are all written by cynical middle-aged male journalists who make up the letters between trips to the pub …', or so
• E7: Lawrence In China (1972-05-16) — For 16 years-years when China was largely forbidden territory to Westerners – Anthony Lawrence was forced to watch the People's Republic solely from the outside. Now Lawrence, the
• E8: Pointing The Way (1959-1961) (1972-06-06) — In this programme HAROLD MACMILLAN recalls some of the outstanding events of the period: the Summit breakdown after the disastrous U-2 incident; Prime Minister Khrushchev's famous
• E9: The War We're In Danger Of Winning (1972-06-13) — For a week now politicians from more than a hundred nations will gather in Stockholm for the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment. The Conference's intention is to ge
• E10: Treasures Of Tutankhamun (1972-06-20) — Tutankhamun has become one of the talking points of 1972-almost as though the young Pharaoh himself had been in residence at the British Museum. The treasures buried with him at th
• E11: The Question Of Ulster: The People Talking (1972-06-27) — On St Patrick's Day this year The Question of Ulster – The People Talking was broadcast on BBC1. In a London studio a large group of ordinary men and women from that murderously di
• E12: Farouk – Last Of The Pharaohs (1972-07-25) — A film by PETER BATTY to mark the 20th anniversary of the Egyptian Revolution. The signs were auspicious when the handsome 16-year-old Prince ascended the throne of Egypt in 1936,
• E13: The Clans (1972-08-01) — The Truth Behind the Tartan Whether you live in Surbiton or Scrabster, there is a sporting chance that you have a Granny called MacLeod or Macpherson or Mac-' Something '. Do you c
• E14: The Best Kept Secret (1972-08-08) — Next year sees the start of a complete reorganisation at local government. Some counties will disappear and boundaries will change. But who cares? Apart from the dustman and rate d
• E15: A Question Of Inflation: The People Talking (1972-08-15) — Inflation is a word we read every day. Politicians and commentators talk endlessly about it, but what do ordinary people think? As prices go up and wages go up, the pound seems to
• E16: Dieppe 1942 (1972-08-22) — The Combined Operations raid on Dieppe 30 years ago was a tactical defeat that sowed the seeds of victory. Tonight's programme tells the story of one of the most controversial oper
• E17: The Block (1972-09-19) — A moving film about people who live below the poverty line and their struggle to keep afloat. In the London Borough of Southwark the tenants of Chaucer House, a decrepit half-way h
• E18: A Right To A Child (1972-09-26) — Has every couple an unconditional right to have a child? Advances in human genetics make it possible to predict the odds of certain couples producing genetically handicapped childr
• E19: To The Promised Land (1972-10-03) — From Russia to Israel At five o'clock every morning, the Chopin Express crosses the border into Austria – the last two coaches filled with Jews from Russia who have been allowed to
• E20: Cancer: Meeting The Challenge (1972-10-10) — Professor Sir David Smithers introduces on the curability of cancer. The most dramatic example of the increasing success of the new treatments is in children. In leukaemia, the mos
• E21: Skipper Pitts Goes To War (1972-10-17) — The story of what actually happened during the opening days of the Cod War, filmed at sea aboard trawlers and warships. On 1 September Iceland laid claim to the seas within 50 mile
• E22: Our Own Correspondent (1972-10-24) — BBC Foreign Correspondents report to us continuously from all corners of the world. What is it like to be a BBC man living abroad – a British observer among foreigners? How does he
• E23: Looking In (1972-11-07) — A personal look by Robert Vas at 30 years' output of BBC Television, compiled from material in the BBC archives and with the opinions of British TV viewers. More than 100,000 hours
• E24: The Price Of Violence (1972-11-14) — Every wound and every death that has resulted from the fighting has caused a suffering that is universal. In Northern Ireland today, violence affects everybody. '… It's a tremend
• E25: How To Win The Nobel Prize (1972-12-19) — The Nobel Prize has been won by some of the century's most distinguished but controversial figures: Sir Alexander Fleming didn't really discover that penicillin could cure; Alexand

Season 1973

• E1: 1963 (1973-01-02) — A year to remember; but was it a turning point? William Hardcastle looks back on one of the most dramatic years of the century. The year of … the coldest winter for nearly 200 ye
• E2: It's The Only Way To Go (1973-01-16) — This is the time of year when the travel agents want you to think ahead to jetting away from it all next summer. Some of us do think about it, but with dread. What makes so many pe
• E3: Our Sporting Life (1973-01-30) — A Personal View by Dr Anthony Storr From the playing fields of Eton in Georgian England to White Hart Lane any winter Saturday afternoon young men have experienced and enjoyed viol
• E4: The Longest Drink (1973-02-06) — The Story of a City's Water Each of us now uses 35 gallons of water a day and it costs next to nothing – about ½p apiece. So it's a shock in this free-swigging and sodden island to
• E5: The Group (1973-02-13) — Alcoholism could affect anyone. It's the fastest growing illness in the country; an illness of stigma, mystery, disastrous consequences. Most people have at some time over-indulged
• E6: The Big Screen (1973-02-20) — With two of Britain's leading film directors, you can share the anxiety, the hopes and the risks experienced by those who are involved with films in the making. Peter Sellers, Davi
• E7: The Saboteurs Of Telemark (1973-02-27) — The Secret Battle for Heavy Water. In April of 1940 the Germans invaded Norway and took over the hydro factory in Telemark. Here, heavy water was made for the German's atomic exper
• E8: The Times of Printing House Square (1973-03-06) — The story of a newspaper. It started life in the 1780s as a four-page advertising sheet. It wasn't even called "The Times" to begin with. Its first proprietor went to gaol for libe
• E9: When Johnny Comes Marching Home (1973-03-20) — Eight weeks ago President Nixon announced the end to the war in Vietnam – it was, he said, peace with honour. As the PoWs were returning home to a heroes' welcome, JULIAN PETTIFER
• E10: Hussein Of Jordan (1973-04-03) — The King of Jordan talks to Lord Chalfont about his life and times Tonight's documentary was filmed in the royal palace at Amman, at the Jordanian army base at Zerka and in the Jor
• E11: The Right Of Silence (1973-04-17) — Are too many guilty people going free? Some experts believe so, because – they claim -we have to use out of date rules of evidence in our criminal courts. Sir Robert Mark , Commiss
• E12: Someone From The Welfare…. (1973-04-24) — A report from the front line of the Welfare State by Esther Rantzen Television programmes often show people with problems – poverty, homelessness, children in trouble. Now, for the
• E13: The Year Money Went Mad (1973-05-01) — The story of the great currency convulsion that paralysed a nation. Inflation is a familiar word these days but to those who lived through the fantastic German inflation of the 20s
• E14: The U-Boat War: Win the Atlantic – Win the War (1973-05-08) — Tonight LUDOVIC KENNEDY tells the story of the changing fortunes of the U-boat war, with rarely seen film from Germany of U-boats in action and British war film of the Royal Navy's
• E15: People Of The Exodus (1973-05-15) — The story of a historic voyage In the summer of 1947 an old river boat packed tight with 4,500 Jewish refugees on board sailed from the South of France in an attempt to run the Bri
• E16: South Africa – A Touch Of The British (1973-05-29) — A return visit by Hugh Burnett People of British descent in South Africa form one of the biggest English-speaking minorities in the world. As the tide of Britain's imperial power r
• E17: Belfast Fireman (1973-06-05) — It has become part of his everyday experience to contend with incnediary bombs and booby traps, to attend the detonation of gelignite bombs and to be caught in the crossfire betwee
• E18: The Energy Crunch – The Bottom of the Oil Barrel (1973-06-12) — The first of three programmes on one of the most urgent problems of this half century. Do you run a car? Do you heat your home with oil or gas? Do you travel by air on business or
• E19: The Energy Crunch – The Nuclear Dilemma (1973-06-19) — America's need for electrical power will double in ten years, Britain's within about 20. Nuclear energy has seemed to hold the answer: with the promise of clean, safe, economical e
• E20: The Energy Crunch – The Sunbeam Solution (1973-06-26) — The last of three programmes on one of the most urgent problems of this half-century. If oil is running out and the safety of nuclear power is in doubt, what else is there? What en
• E21: Great Expectations (1973-07-03) — What do you expect from three years' higher education? July is the month of the year when expectation runs high in schools, universities and poly-technics. Have you passed your A-l
• E22: Graham Hill's Shadow (1973-07-10) — 'You win races by taking as few chances as possible – it's a calculated risk and you have to calculate on your car's performance and your own performance' – GRAHAM HILL should know
• E23: The World Of The Eleventh Duke (1973-07-17) — Twenty-three years ago Andrew Robert Buxton Cavendish inherited the title Duke of Devonshire and set himself the formidable task of preserving the seat at Chatsworth in a style evo
• E24: The Big Eat – Food, Glorious Food (1973-07-24) — Food is a necessity of life that has become a major pleasure industry. We eat 70,000 tons of it each day… Home cooking is going the way of sewing and knitting-a dying craft. We m
• E25: What's In A Face? (1973-07-31) — The unspoken and sometimes hidden language of the human face. There's more in your face than just the eyes, nose and mouth with which you were born. Scientists are beginning to und
• E26: The Race Of The Power Bikes – The Compulsion to Win (1973-08-07) — A story of personal tension centred around the Formula 750 cc motor-cycle race held on the Isle of Man during TT week. Tonight's documentary watches the progress and tries to under
• E27: The Ballad Of Henry Ford (1973-10-09) — Everyone associates Henry Ford with his famous' Model T, the Tin Lizzie, and with the birth of mass production. But he was a man of startling contrasts: a billionaire who hated ban
• E28: The Valley Of The Po (1973-10-16) — A journey along Italy's most important river. Narrated by RENE CUTFORTH Two thousand years ago the River Po was where southern civilisation stopped and northern barbarism began. It
• E29: Quite A Family (1973-10-30) — In 1969 John Letts and Rosemary Letts were a young childless couple living in a two-room rented flat with practically no possessions of their own. Then, following a visit to a Fert
• E30: Target Tirpitz (1973-11-20) — The story of the German battleship – the biggest ever built in Europe – and the many and ingenious attempts to sink her.
• E31: Cudlipp And Be Damned (1973-11-27) — Hugh Cudlipp has, for more than 30 years, been one of the most outstanding journalists of his generation. He steered the Daily Mirror group from an early reputation for brashness a
• E32: Last Night, Another Soldier … (1973-12-04) — Two hundred and thirty-six soldiers have been killed in Ulster since the emergency began in 1969. But very little has been heard publicly about the thoughts and feelings of the ord
• E33: The Last Lighthouse (1973-12-18) — An inside view of life on the Bishop Rock Lighthouse. Perched on a tiny outcrop of rock at the edge of the Atlantic, ' the Bishop ' has something special about it for the Trinity H

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