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Panorama : Season 37
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Air date: 09 Oct '89 - 35 episodesLong-running factual programme reporting on all aspects of life in Britain.
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List of Episodes (35)
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Panorama (1953)
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1. How Free Is Britain?
09 Jan '89Peter Taylor asks whether a decade of Conservative government has eroded or enhanced democratic liberties in the UK.
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2. President Bush - Challenging the Future
16 Jan '89In four days, George Bush becomes the 41st President of the United States, taking office at a time of momentous change in the structure of world power.
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3. Children in Need
23 Jan '89This year looks set to be a record year for charity appeals, not only for the Third World but for poor children in Britain.
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4. The Killer Inside
30 Jan '89There's growing concern that Britain's prisons are a breeding ground for AIDS. Senior prison workers warn that smuggled drugs are widespread and many prisoners continue to share syringes and needles.
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5. Factory Fresh: The Food Revolution
06 Feb '89It began as an 'epidemic' of salmonella in eggs. It frightened consumers, cost egg producers dear, and lost Mrs. Edwina Currie her job. Now it has put the record and future of British farming on trial.
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6. Inside the Ayatollah's Iran
13 Feb '89Ruled by an Islamic government, where the aged Ayatollah Khomenei still holds the key to power and the future, Iran still shows the scars of failure in war and is beset by rumours of executions and internal strife.
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7. Will You Still Feed Me?
20 Feb '89Polly Toynbee reports on the divide between rich and poor old people in the UK. Some feel life has never been better, while many on the state pension are finding it hard to make ends meet, especially if they are coping with elderly or disabled spouses.
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8. The Tender Trap
27 Feb '89By August, every council in England and Wales will have to start putting six essential services out to tender. Will the home owner get better value for money or will the quality of services decline?
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9. Death in the Rainforest
06 Mar '89The murder of Chico Mendes , the Brazilian rubber-tappers' leader and defender of the Amazon rainforest has focused world attention on the violent conflict over the future of the Amazon.
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Panorama (1953)
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10. NHS Plc? - What's in It for Patients?
13 Mar '89The Government has embarked on most radical reforms to National Health Service in its history.
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Panorama (1953)
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11. Sent from Heaven - Sold on Earth
20 Mar '89Mrs. Thatcher says that water privatisation has not been handled well. As the Government redoubles its campaign to sell the idea to the public, Panorama asks what's in it for the consumer?
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Panorama (1953)
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12. Disarming the Alliance: The Soviet Peace Offensive
03 Apr '89Tomorrow NATO celebrates its 40th anniversary. But the Western Alliance, forged in the Cold War, now faces the challenge of the new Soviet peace offensive.
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Panorama (1953)
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13. The Condor Conspiracy
10 Apr '89Panorama Episode featuring Jane Corbin on threat posed by Argentinian Condor Missile Programme.
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Panorama (1953)
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14. Whose Law Is It Anyway?
17 Apr '89The High Court is closed today. For the first time in history, judges have downed wigs to debate what they suspect may be a threat to justice itself. On trial are the Government's plans to reform the legal profession.
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Panorama (1953)
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15. No Spring in Prague
24 Apr '89From Czechoslovakia where Soviet tanks crushed the experiment of 'Communism with a human face' in 1968. Today the Government in Prague, paralysed by the fear of change, has embarked on a new repression.
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Panorama (1953)
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16. Ten Years' Hard Labour
08 May '89Ten years ago the last Labour government was defeated by the Tories under Margaret Thatcher. What has been the impact of Thatcherism on the Labour party? Thatcher once declared that her aim was to 'eliminate socialism'. Has she succeeded?
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Panorama (1953)
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17. Football - Safe in Their Hands?
15 May '89Whatever the outcome of the inquiry into the Hillsborough tragedy, Britain's worst sporting disaster has already provoked a crisis of confidence in our national game.
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Panorama (1953)
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18. Punching Judy
22 May '89Latest Police figures show an increase in crimes of domestic violence, unmatched since records began. One in four assaults is by a man on a wife or girlfriend. In London alone, a thousand battered women ask the police for help each week.
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Panorama (1953)
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19. University Challenge
05 Jun '89Alan Young comes from Bedlington near Newcastle. His father was a miner, his mother works at the local hospital. Alan is one of Oxford's brightest mathematicians. But will there be any more like him?
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20. Alaska: Oil on the Rocks
19 Jun '89When the Exxon Valdez ran aground off the coast of Alaska last March, it was the worst oil spill in American history. Now the implications may affect the future of America's entire oil industry.
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Panorama (1953)
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21. Built in Britain, Made Abroad
26 Jun '89
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22. Lady Porter - The Pursuit of Power
19 Jul '89The leader of Westminster's Conservative council, Lady Porter, one of a new breed of town-hall Tories. Lady Porter's reputation has been in the doldrums since her policy of selling Westminster's cemeteries to developers for a pittance.
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Panorama (1953)
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23. Getting the Message Across
04 Sep '89In the 10 yrs since Thatcher came to power the bill for Gov't advertising has doubled to E150 million. The water privatisation advertising campaign has cost more than that of Nescafe Gold Blend, Persil, Guinness and Coca Cola put together.
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Panorama (1953)
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24. Solidarity - Taking the Reins of Power
11 Sep '89This September, Poland is living through some of the most momentous days in its history. For the first time in Eastern Europe for 40 years, a non-Communist Prime Minister leads the Government.
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Panorama (1953)
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25. Happy Families
18 Sep '89One in three marriages ends in divorce. A quarter of all babies are now born to mothers who have never married at all. Without a father as a breadwinner, most single mothers and children end up on social security.
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