Season 21 Episodes
1. Clap Trap
Although claptrap can mean talking nonsense, it can also mean talking in such a way as to inspire applause. Ann Brennan is interested in entering politics, but with no experience in public speaking, would love to fall into that claptrap.
2. An Appointment with Mr. Mitchell
3. Football's Mr. Fix-It
4. The Coal War
With the recent coal troubles still fresh in people's minds, a comparison of strike action in British and American collieries.
5. Apartheid's Back Yard
6. Plans for Coal
Documentary report on the practicalities of returning coal mining to private enterprise in the light of the long-drawn out industrial dispute in the coalfields in 1984/5.
7. Ronald Reagan - The Second Coming
8. The Politics of Starvation
10. Kidnapped
11. Belgrano - A View from the Conqueror
12. Softly, Softly, Strike Force
The very different tactics of police in the West Yorkshire and South Yorkshire regions in dealing with the ongoing miners' strike.
13. Tried, Untested
14. Special: World in Action - The First 21 Years
15. Taken on Trust
16. The Miners and the Microchip
17. Civil Unrest
18. Father and Son
19. Going Dutch
20. The Knock on the Door
21. Taking the Medicine
22. A Conflict in Customs
23. Death of an English Rose
Investigates the strange murder of famous rose grower Hilda Murrell who was also a fervent anti-nuclear protester.
24. Our Health Service - Doing Better, Feeling Worse
25. Our Health Service - The Pensioners' Ration
26. Our Health Service - A Prescription for the Poor
27. The Swan and the Plough
28. Not for Love or Money
29. The Baby Makers
30. Children of the Loom
31. Ken Livingstone - Destination Unknown
32. First Strike
33. The Betrayal of Bhopal
34. Raising the Belgrano
35. Britain's Cocaine Colony
36. The Dream of John Delorean
37. Hit and Run
38. A Song for Africa
Behind the scenes with Bob Geldof in the weeks leaving up to the Live Aid concerts.
