Episodes
Mr. Benn's Secret Service
January 7, 1980
Mr Benn questions the role of the Civil Service and whether it is becoming too powerful and unanswerable for the country's good?
Cambodia Year One - The Aid Crisis
January 14, 1980
Cambodia Year One - Life After Death
January 21, 1980
The Man Who Bought United
January 28, 1980
The Steel Papers
February 4, 1980
Behind the Paper Curtain
February 11, 1980
The Pulse of America
February 18, 1980
The Final Harvest
February 25, 1980
Claimant, Scrounger, Snooper, Spy
March 3, 1980
Case studies of people on both sides of the current crackdown on social security fraud.
Follow the Yellow Cake Road
March 10, 1980
Decline and Fall
March 17, 1980
Alive and Well in the U.S.A.
March 24, 1980
Not in the Public Interest
April 14, 1980
Spying for Survival
April 21, 1980
The Pound in Their Pocket
April 28, 1980
The Trial of Stanley Adams
May 12, 1980
Britain Over a Barrel
May 19, 1980
A Bad Day for Southall
June 2, 1980
Mr. Kane's Campaign
June 9, 1980
Special: What Do You Think of It So Far?
June 10, 1980
A review of Britain's membership of the Common Market.
Market Day
June 16, 1980
Fly the Flag, Pay the Price
June 23, 1980
Russian Games
June 30, 1980
Mr. Stock and the Thursday Gang
July 7, 1980
Last Stand at Lisburn
July 14, 1980
With communities across Northern Ireland, from the end of the 1960s Lisburn suffered through three decades of political violence, "The Troubles". For Lisburn the first killings came in 1976: in the course of the year, five Catholic residents died as a result of gun and bomb attacks by the Ulster Defence Association and the new Ulster Volunteer Force, loyalist paramilitary groups that subsequently entered their own feud.
Vietnam - Prisoner of War
July 14, 1980
A Dignified Exit
July 28, 1980
"EXIT" - the society for the right to die with dignity, are publishing a controversial suicide guide for terminally ill people who require a dignified death.
The Tirion Programme
August 4, 1980
Suffer the Children
August 11, 1980
The Chart Busters
August 18, 1980
Investigating allegations that the pop music charts are controlled not by consumers, but by manipulative tactics of the big record companies, thus not being a true reflection of popularity at all.