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World in Action

World in Action - Season 8 (1971)

Audience Score
70

Season 8 Episodes

1. The Village That Quit, Well Not Exactly

September 6th, 1971

2. The Sounds of the Clyde

September 13th, 1971

3. Episode 3

September 20th, 1971

4. Death of a revolutionary

September 27th, 1971

The aftermath of the shooting dead of Black Panther George Jackson while allegedly trying to escape from prison. His friends, colleagues and family mourn and seek justice for what they say was a murder.

5. Episode 5

October 4th, 1971

6. Episode 6

October 11th, 1971

7. Episode 7

October 18th, 1971

8. Does an M.P. Have the Right?

October 25th, 1971

9. The Most Widely Used Drug in the World.

November 15th, 1971

Aspirins are used for a multitude of different complaints, or even just taken as a daily habit. But, do they have harmful side effects of which people are unaware?

10. Episode 10

November 22nd, 1971

11. The Backseat Generals

November 29th, 1971

12. Year of the Killing

November 21st, 1971

Researching on Bangladesh liberation war movement in uk 1971.

13. Episode 13

November 29th, 1971

14. Working the Land

January 10th, 1972

15. The Thirty Million Power Game

January 17th, 1972

16. Episode 16

January 24th, 1972

17. War in the Air

March 13th, 1972

18. Waiting for the Package

March 20th, 1972

Attitudes in Ulster to the British government's proposals for direct rule.

19. The Lump

March 27th, 1972

A look at the reasons behind the continuing bad relations between building workers and management, which lead to a strike at a Birmingham construction site.

20. Het Dorp

April 10th, 1972

21. Out of the Melting Pot

April 17th, 1972

22. The Rule of Law

April 24th, 1972

23. Containers

May 1st, 1972

Follows the industrial dispute between Liverpool Dockers and the Heaton's Container yard.

24. Liberty Belles

May 8th, 1972

25. Conversations with a Single Parent

May 15th, 1972

26. The Runcorn Experiment

May 22nd, 1972

27. The Siege of Kontum

June 5th, 1972

World in Action reports from the battle of Kontum, Vietnam - highlighting the plight of the Montagnard mountain people who are caught in the middle.

28. The Protestant Succession

June 12th, 1972

29. The Docks Dispute

June 19th, 1972

30. How to Make Enemies & Influence People

June 26th, 1972

31. Dust-Up at Northfleet

July 3rd, 1972

32. In Search of Gusty Spence

July 10th, 1972

An interview with the Irish Protestant who denies the murder for which he was convicted, and is being held by the Ulster Volunteer Force who kidnapped him while he was on parole.

33. How to Steal a Party

July 17th, 1972

34. Episode 34

July 24th, 1972

35. Episode 35

July 31st, 1972

36. Caught in the Act

August 7th, 1972

37. Eh! What?

August 14th, 1972

Investigation into the problem of noise pollution at work, about which there has been silence for far too long.

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