• Air date: 10 Nov '71 49 episodes
      Long-running factual programme reporting on all aspects of life in Britain.
  • List of Episodes (49)
    • 1. Episode 1

      06 Sep '71
      On the eve of the Conservative Party Conference, Robin Day goes to Downing Street to talk to the prime minister, the Rt Hon Edward Heath MP, about his record in office and the major problems he now faces.
    • 2. The Cinderella Service

      13 Sep '71
      The most important cause of death among the under-45s is accidental death. Need it be? Robert MacNeil examines the under-staffed and over-stretched accident and emergency facilities of the Health Service and asks: How safe is it to have an accident in Britain today?
    • 3. The Fight for the Wild Places

      20 Sep '71
      Tonight Nicholas Harman reports from the edge of the Dartmoor Park on the opening shots being fired in a public enquiry which starts next week in Exeter about plans to expand mining operations which could affect this part of the Devon countryside for the next 50 years; shots whose echoes can be heard in other National Parks, as mining companies are being given permission to prospect for valuable minerals.
    • 4. Episode 4

      27 Sep '71
    • 5. Episode 5

      04 Oct '71
    • 6. 11/10/1971

      11 Oct '71
      On the eve of the Conservative Party Conference, Robin Day goes to Downing Street to talk to the prime minister, the Rt Hon Edward Heath MP, about his record in office and the major problems he now faces.
    • 7. China - Two into One Won’t Go

      18 Oct '71
      In 1949, Gen Chiang Kai-shek fled mainland China for Taiwan. He still hasn't found the right time to return; and as President Nixon prepares to meet Chairman Mao, and world opinion in the UN moves against the Chinese Nationalists, Julian Pettifer reports from Taiwan.
    • 8. Episode 8

      25 Oct '71
    • 9. Episode 9

      01 Nov '71
    • 10. Episode 10

      08 Nov '71
    • 11. Episode 11

      15 Nov '71
    • 12. Episode 12

      22 Nov '71
    • 13. Episode 13

      29 Nov '71
    • 14. Episode 14

      06 Dec '71
    • 15. Episode 15

      13 Dec '71
    • 16. Episode 16

      20 Dec '71
    • 17. Review of the Year: The Sights and Sounds of ‘71

      27 Dec '71
      If you worked in at UCS, or went on strike at the Post Office; if you waited for the sack at Rolls-Royce; if you can't understand decimals; if you used to read the Daily Sketch, or insured your car with the V & G; if you tried to follow the great debate, or missed out on your school milk - then this programme is about you. The rest of us lived through it all - Ibrox, Ulster, Europe, Etna, Rhodesia, Pakistan. Harold Wilson wrote a book - Ted Heath spoke French. Rudi Dutschke went home - Chay
    • 18. Please Sit, Can I Leave School?

      03 Jan '72
      A report on the revolution that must hit our secondary schools if the 16-year-old school-leaving age is to mean more than an extra year's boredom and frustration for final year pupils.
    • 19. Episode 19

      10 Jan '72
    • 20. Episode 20

      17 Jan '72
    • 21. Episode 21

      24 Jan '72
      Two days ago, Britain was set on a new course when we signed the Treaty of Accession to the EEC. In Brussels this weekend, Panorama talked exclusively to the Prime Minister at this moment of personal triumph and asked him how he wants to shape and influence the Europe we are in the process of joining.
    • 22. Episode 22

      31 Jan '72
      On the eve of the Winter Olympics in Japan, the President of the Games Avery Brundage speaks out on the great 'shamateurism' conflict and Panorama investigates the role of amateurs in sport.
    • 23. Episode 23

      07 Feb '72
    • 24. Episode 24

      14 Feb '72
    • 25. Episode 25

      21 Feb '72
      “What do the Chinese communists want? They want the world.” (Richard Nixon, 1960) But now it’s President Nixon who wants the Chinese, and today he's gone calling. Why? To win the peace in Asia or an election in America? What does his visit really mean?