Season 3

Episodes

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   1. Insult to Injury/Lebanon: A Family at War

   2 Apr 1985

   Two stories of racial tension. The first, a highly personal one for Martin Short as he reports on the dangers faced by his wife's family in war-torn Lebanon. The second closer to home in London, where the National Front target Bengalis.

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   2. Yanks Meet Reds

   7 May 1985

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   3. Goals Not Dole/The End of the Line?

   4 Jun 1985

   Goals Not Dole - Documentary which explores the experience of unemployment through the views of members of a South Yorkshire village football team and their families. The End of the Line - Documentary on the near-doomed Settle to Carlisle railway line.

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   4. Our First Year/Visiting Day

   2 Jul 1985

   Two documentaries about women's pilgrimages: the German wartime ones who came to Southport to avoid Nazis, and the present day ones who prepare and undertake prison visits to their husbands from Glasgow to Peterhead Prison.

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   5. Made in Huddersfield/A Death in the Family

   6 Aug 1985

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   6. Invitation to Disaster/Comrades at Arms

   3 Sept 1985

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   7. An Officer and a Lady

   1 Oct 1985

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   8. 'Trevor, It's the Bailiffs'/Akong and the Big Shrine Room

   5 Nov 1985

   "Trevor, It's the Bailiffs" - Documentary which looks at the work of Jim Ellis and Terry Allen who are bailiffs in Nottingham repossessing furniture. Akong and the Big Shrine Room - Documentary about Akong Rimpoche who fled his native Tibet after the Chinese invasion and is now abbot of the Samye Ling Tibetan Centre in Eskdalemuir, Dumfrieshire.

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   9. Inside Britain's Bomb

   3 Dec 1985

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    10. In the Line of Duty/The Valley

    7 Jan 1986

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    11. Sugar Ditch Alley

    4 Feb 1986

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    12. Len Harding: Born a Number/Kent Coal: Staying on Top

    4 Mar 1986

    Len Harding: Born a Number - Documentary which follows up on the story of Rampton patient Len Harding, and looks at his life since his release from the secure hospital at Rampton. Kent Coal: Staying on Top - Documentary in which Kent miners and their families discuss their industry in the aftermath of the year-long coal strike of 1984-1985.