Season 16

episodes

E1
1.Mr. Benn's Secret Service
Jan 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?

E2
2.Cambodia Year One - The Aid Crisis
Jan 14, 1980
E3
3.Cambodia Year One - Life After Death
Jan 21, 1980
E4
4.The Man Who Bought United
Jan 28, 1980
E5
5.The Steel Papers
Feb 4, 1980
E6
6.Behind the Paper Curtain
Feb 11, 1980
E7
7.The Pulse of America
Feb 18, 1980
E8
8.The Final Harvest
Feb 25, 1980
E9
9.Claimant, Scrounger, Snooper, Spy
Mar 3, 1980

Case studies of people on both sides of the current crackdown on social security fraud.

E10
10.Follow the Yellow Cake Road
Mar 10, 1980
E11
11.Decline and Fall
Mar 17, 1980
E12
12.Alive and Well in the U.S.A.
Mar 24, 1980
E13
13.Not in the Public Interest
Apr 14, 1980
E14
14.Spying for Survival
Apr 21, 1980
E15
15.The Pound in Their Pocket
Apr 28, 1980
E16
16.The Trial of Stanley Adams
May 12, 1980
E17
17.Britain Over a Barrel
May 19, 1980
E18
18.A Bad Day for Southall
Jun 2, 1980
E19
19.Mr. Kane's Campaign
Jun 9, 1980
E20
20.Special: What Do You Think of It So Far?
Jun 10, 1980

A review of Britain's membership of the Common Market.

E21
21.Market Day
Jun 16, 1980
E22
22.Fly the Flag, Pay the Price
Jun 23, 1980
E23
23.Russian Games
Jun 30, 1980
E24
24.Mr. Stock and the Thursday Gang
Jul 7, 1980
E25
25.Last Stand at Lisburn
Jul 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.

E26
26.Vietnam - Prisoner of War
Jul 14, 1980
E27
27.A Dignified Exit
Jul 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.

E28
28.The Tirion Programme
Aug 4, 1980
E29
29.Suffer the Children
Aug 11, 1980
E30
30.The Chart Busters
Aug 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.