About this season
Current affairs programme, featuring interviews and investigative reports on a wide variety of subjects.
Episodes (10)
1. Episode 1
Aired 14 September 1970
2. Episode 2
Aired 5 October 1970
3. Ulster
Aired 9 November 1970
Alan Hart reports from Ulster and investigates how much support there is for the extremists active in the Roman Catholic community.
4. In China
Aired 7 December 1970
5. Episode 5
Aired 21 December 1970
6. Episode 6
Aired 25 January 1971
7. Brian Faulkner
Aired 21 June 1971
A film profile of Brian Faulkner, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland.
8. Free School Milk
Aired 26 April 1971
A report from Panorama exploring the Conservative plan to withdraw free milk for children over seven years old and increase the price of school dinners. Mothers and teachers voice their concerns, but Margaret Thatcher defends her cuts and promises to plough the money that is saved back into school buildings. Public Record documents released in 2001 show Margaret Thatcher to have been very worried about the public reaction to the end of free milk, though she also proposed cuts in other areas. Arguing that charging for library books would be too controversial, she suggested instead that entry fees to national museums could be introduced.
9. Episode 9
Aired 28 June 1971
10. Playground of the Western World
Aired 23 August 1971
"The grand object of travel," said Dr Johnson 200 years ago, "is to see the shores of the Mediterranean." It's even truer today. Every year five million Britons leave their inhibitions and our damp climate behind, and head for those fabled shores. Most go for the sun - for a golden tan that will draw so many admiring glances back at the office. But there are other attractions.