• List of Episodes (40)
    • 1. Thatcher's 3,000 Days

      04 Jan '88
      Mrs. Thatcher has now been in office for 3,167 days - overtaking Asquith as longest serving Prime Minister this century.
    • 2. Arthur Scargill Evermore?

      11 Jan '88
      Later this month Britain's 100,000 miners will vote on future direction of their leadership and in particular on Arthur Scargill.
    • 3. Rajiv Gandhi - India's Pilot Prime Minister

      18 Jan '88
      As an airline pilot, Rajiv Gandhi would press a button, pull a lever and get results.
    • 4. The Margaret Thatcher Interview

      25 Jan '88
      The Prime Minister, Right Hon Margaret Thatcher, MP, in a live interview with David Dimbleby.
    • 5. NHS - A Terminal Case?

      01 Feb '88
      Forty years after its birth, National Health Service is in grip of continued crisis.
    • 6. The Two Billion Pound Rip-Off

      08 Feb '88
      The Two Billion Pound Rip-Off With few effective controls and checks EEC's Common Agricultural Policy has been described as 'greatest incentive to crime in Western Europe'.
    • 7. Violence on Television

      15 Feb '88
      Violence on Television since Hungerford massacre violence on television has become a hot political issue.
    • 8. Is There No Alternative?

      22 Feb '88
    • 9. The IRA: The Long War

      29 Feb '88
      A history of the Provisional IRA political and military campaign.
    • 10. A Hard Act to Follow

      07 Mar '88
      Vice President George Bush and Senator Bob Dole are battling for Republican Presidential nomination.
    • 11. The Underclass of 88

      14 Mar '88
      The Underclass of 88 In tomorrow's Budget Chancellor is widely expected to announce further tax cuts for better off.
    • 12. Electricity - A Shock in Store

      21 Mar '88
      Disturbing new evidence of a connection between electricity and small but significant increases in childhood and adult cancers are mystifying scientists.
    • 13. Church of England - One Foundation?

      28 Mar '88
      In Church of England recent passionate arguments about ordination to priesthood of women or of practising homosexuals are symptoms of a much wider debate.
    • 14. Charles, Prince of Conscience

      11 Apr '88
      Charles, Prince of Conscience Is Prince of Wales sharpening an impression that he is increasingly out of tune with Thatcherit.
    • 15. Child Abuse: Battering the System

      18 Apr '88
      Clare is 4, and her mother fears she has been sexually abused by her father. She's just 30,000 children on local authority 'at risk' register.
    • 16. Israel at 40

      25 Apr '88
      Next week, as Israel celebrates 40 years of statehood, Panorama reports on growing-problems of troubled nation.
    • 17. In the Shadow of the Killing Fields

      09 May '88
      Ten years after Pol Pot 's reign of terror, Cambodians fear horror of killing fields may return.
    • 18. Replacing the Hidden Bomb

      16 May '88
      Few people know Britain has a class of nuclear bombs other than those carried in Polaris submarines.
    • 19. A Revolution Without Shots

      23 May '88
      Mikhail Gorbachev has called his attempt to reform Soviet Union 'a revolution without shots'.
    • 20. Selling the Nuclear Dream

      06 Jun '88
      When Government privatises electricity industry, everyone in Britain will have chance to buy a stake in nuclear power.
    • 21. Northern Ireland: The Long Peace

      13 Jun '88
      After 20 years of unrest, there are first signs of a wind of political change in Northern Ireland.
    • 22. In Wealth We Trust

      20 Jun '88
      In his last Budget, Chancellor Lawson gave to those who already had. He cut tax for well-off.
    • 23. The Price of Success?

      27 Jun '88
      Britain's South East is beginning to boom. In a crescent around London, new business parks and housing estates are fast expanding.
    • 24. Can We Afford the Doctor?

      04 Jul '88
      The death of hole-in-the-heart baby, Matthew Collier has provoked most fundamental review of National Health Service for 40 years.
    • 25. Who Is This Man Dukakis?

      11 Jul '88
      As son of Greek immigrants is about to be sent forth as Democratic Party's challenger to recapture American Presidency, Panorama examines credentials of Michael Dukakis.