World in Action
World in Action was Granada Television’s flagship ITV current affairs series, running from 7 Jan 1963 to 7 Dec 1998, and built a reputation for film-led investigative reporting and a forceful editorial stance. Its journalism produced major public and political repercussions—including investigations associated with miscarriages of justice such as the Birmingham Six—and it also served as a platform for landmark documentary projects, including the first broadcast of “Seven Up!” as part of the strand in 1964.
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Season 5
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Give Us the Works
An idea to give workers more say in the running of their company is put to the board of British Steel.
Sep 10, 1968 -
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Spies for Hire
Sep 16, 1968 -
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February's Children
An investigation into 7 children (expelled from Kenya) who have to live on their own in the UK as their parents cannot join them due to new laws.
Sep 23, 1968 -
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Episode 4
Sep 30, 1968 -
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E5
New Drugs, Same Needle
The banning of Methedrine and its implications for the drug taking community.
Oct 7, 1968 -
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E6
A Score to Settle
Manchester United's allegations of foul play by Argentinian side Estudiantes.
Oct 14, 1968 -
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E7
Backs to the Wall
A look behind the reasons for the Londonderry Civil Rights demonstrations in the previous weeks.
Oct 21, 1968 -
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E8
Special: Vietnam
Oct 27, 1968 -
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E9
A City Stumbles
A look at the crisis facing New York City with the decay of the administrative structure.
Nov 4, 1968 -
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E10
Nasser's Fortified Ditch
Nov 11, 1968 -
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E11
An Outbreak of Peace?
With peace in sight Vietnamese and Americans predict the future for Vietnam.
Nov 18, 1968 -
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A Buyer's Market
The recent Act of Parliament has increased dramatically the number of abortions but also a two tier system for rich and poor.
Nov 25, 1968 -
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The Trail of the Vanishing Voters
World in Action tries to trace the overseas voters in Britain who have supposedly voted for The People's National Congress Party in Guyana's election.
Dec 9, 1968 -
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The Twenty Four Carat Kingdom
A profile of Laos, considered the most unproductive country in the world but rich and financially stable through its passing of opium products and dodgy gold.
Dec 16, 1968 -
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First Class Delivery
The medical practice of epidural injections to relieve the pain of childbirth and the religious groups who oppose them.
Dec 23, 1968 -
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Sorry, Nothing Doing
Update on the subjects of three notable previous films in the series, the gypsies of An Outlaw's Life (1968), the large family of The Born Losers (1967), and the elderly ladies of Ward F.13 (1968).
Dec 30, 1968 -
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E17
The Making of a Prime Minister
Jan 6, 1969 -
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E18
Next Year in Peking
Jan 13, 1969 -
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E19
All Change at Newry!
Jan 20, 1969 -
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E20
A New School of Thought
Jan 27, 1969 -
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E21
Death of a Student
The events in Prague following the suicide and funeral of Jan Palach.
Feb 3, 1969 -
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E22
Like Other Men
Looking at the priests rebelling in the Dutch Catholic Church over celibacy vows.
Feb 10, 1969 -
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Living in the Red
Feb 17, 1969 -
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E24
A War on Ice
Feb 24, 1969 -
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E25
Home for a Revolution
Mar 3, 1969 -
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E26
Where People Don't Matter
The fallout from the earthquake in Sicily and the implications that corruption is preventing the decent rehousing of victims.
Mar 10, 1969 -
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A Case to Answer
Locals complain of police corruption and extortion in Hong Kong.
Mar 17, 1969 -
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E28
The Men Left Behind
Mar 24, 1969 -
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The Six Day War - Day 666
Mar 31, 1969 -
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E30
The Owners and the Owned
Investigates slum properties in Notting Hill turning over vast profits for a company based in the Bahamas.
Apr 14, 1969 -
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Inside Out
A revolutionary new look at how mental patients should be treated, allowing them out into the wider world, and distancing as much as possible from Victorian lunatic asylums.
Apr 21, 1969 -
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E32
A modest proposal
May 5, 1969 -
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E33
Two Men in Two Tin Huts
Shows attempts being made to break up gangs on Glasgow's Easterhouse Estate.
May 12, 1969 -
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The Leftovers
Looks at the treatment of Negroes in Sudan.
May 19, 1969