Forty Minutes

An inside view of Holloway Prison, reflecting the immense problems and tensions of Britain's largest and toughest women's jail.

The glittery world of ballroom dancing - behind the scenes at the World Ballroom Dancing Championships, held this year in Blackpool.

The lives of the men who make up the Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team - a voluntary body of men who help those in difficulty on Ben Nevis and the surrounding mountains.

In 1978 David Lomax secretly interviewed a Russian couple in Moscow after they had been refused exit visas. They were filmed a year later as they arrived in the West. Now they live in Los Angeles. What price have they paid for their freedom?

Angela Huth asks why is it that as a nation, we have such a rotten reputation as dressers? What are we trying to say about ourselves through our appearance? 'Oh not black again, dear,' says Denis - but Margaret Thatcher knows a secret or two about old faithfuls and reliable standbys. Tonight the Prime Minister reveals, for the first time, the inside story of her wardrobe. Selina Scott always wanting 'to look a bit different from everyone else'; the probation officer who last wore a dress when she danced with the Prince of Wales; the bubbly society hostess who seems to wear only party dresses; the housewife with an eye for the 20p bargain with a designer label - these are just some of the extraordinary and ordinary women who unlock their wardrobes and tell all, proving that the only thing in vogue is individuality.

Plans for dumping nuclear waste in rural Lincolnshire - and how traditionally conservative villagers were aroused to protest against them.

England cricket hero Ian Botham at home and at work during his Test Match ban.

The Civil Service Selection Board has never been filmed before. The first of two programmes concentrates on two candidates, one an ex-employee of the Greater London Council, the other a "near miss" of last year.

The second film tells of two hopefuls at the last round, one hoping to enter the Foreign Office, the other aiming for the Home Office. Filmed from the points of view of both the candidates and the selectors. The final result is a shock.

Eight sisters talk frankly and movingly about the complex relationship of sisterhood.

Ten-year-old William, suffering from leukaemia, undergoes a successful bone marrow transplant at the Royal Free Hospital in London

The small world of dwarves and midgets.

Documentary about Colonel Hilary Hook, formerly of the Indian cavalry and leader of extravagant safaris in Kenya. Hook returned home to England after being evicted from his home in the Kenya Hills, and is finding it hard to readjust to the English way of life.

Young blacks in deprived Brent struggle for a community centre in a bus garage.

Tea, Britain's national beverage - and the ladies who stir it.

Uneasy relationships between step-parents and step-children.

Lucinda Lambton reveals strange and amusing tales from the dusty corners of museums.

The annual re-union of thousands of bikers in South Dakota.

Kingston-upon-Hull (Yorks.) fire station in action.

The son of a wartime aviator traces his father's remarkable survival and escape in France.

Spiritualists in London's Belgravia communing with "the other side".

Moral problems facing a mother who has taken a pregnancy drug and whose child has suffered.

The training of British Airways hostesses and cabin crew.

World championship competitive leek-growing in the North-East of England - with dirty deeds in the greenhouses.

Caroline Moorehead inquires if pacifists have ever achieved anything over the years.

Child and juvenile prostitutes in Balsall Heath, Birmingham.

Upstairs and downstairs at the famous Taj Mahal Hotel - a luxurious establishment surrounded by poverty.