Modern Times — Season 1

Aired 22 February 1995 • 60 min

Documentary following the story of 52 year old Carol Spencer who went on holiday to the Gambia met Lamain Marong, who was 27 and decided to marry him within two weeks of their first meeting. The programme follows their turbulent relationship through their marriage in England and Carol's trip back to the Gambia to see if they can settle there.

Aired 1 March 1995

Mike Emilianow , New York private eye, has a mixed bag of clients, but they all share one overwhelming doubt: they are in love with someone they do not completely trust. For a few hundred dollars, Emilianow offers at least certainty.

Aired 8 March 1995

London's Harley Street is a medical marketplace offering everything from plastic surgery to life-saving cures. More than 1,000 doctors are packed into the cramped elegance of private medicine's most exclusive address. But what is really on offer for those who have the means to pay?

Aired 15 March 1995

The first television portrayal of a mercy killing. Made in Holland, where euthanasia is permitted, it tells the story of a 62-year-old patient with an incurable illness, his wife, and the doctor who agrees to administer the fatal injection.

Aired 22 March 1995

What is the weekend country cottage - a status symbol, a bolt-hole, a nightmare? Seven contrasting families tell of their on-off love affair with their rural retreat, a place to which they escape every Friday night in the hope that they will have two days of a calmer, gentler life.

Aired 29 March 1995

Are we odd, foolish or maladjusted when we grieve inconsolably at the death of a much-loved pet? This documentary talks to Janet Thomas , a vet who specialises in understanding pet bereavement, visits a pet cemetery, and hears some of the stories of the bereft.

Aired 5 April 1995

This documentary goes inside the so-called "holiday camp" of Britain's penal system - Ford Prison, the low-security jail at Arundel, West Sussex - and discovers a two-tier system.

Aired 12 April 1995

Fly on the wall showing life behind the scenes with Liz Brewer and her high profile clients. Quote Liz "Nothing happens by accident, there's always someone behind the scenes pulling the strings turning the switches, making things happen"

Aired 19 April 1995

A series about the way we live now. Billy, a former soldier in Northern Ireland and one-time Liverpool gangster, is obsessed by a fear of harming people. Can 12 2 weeks at the Maudsley Psychiatric Hospital in South London cure Billy of his obsession?

Aired 26 April 1995

The Channel tunnel has been plagued by problems. Now, as the battle hots up between Eurotunnel and P&0 Ferries for cross-Channel business, Modern Times takes a look behind the scenes.

Aired 3 May 1995

This film records the anti-Establishment lifestyle of the Rainbow Tribe and their confrontations with the police.

Aired 10 May 1995

A look at the luxurious lifestyles and aspirations of the 20,000 members of the British community in Dubai, the most liberal of the oil-rich Gulf states.

Aired 17 May 1995

In the last programme of the series, a documentary team is allowed inside the secret world of adoption as two social workers make their decisions.