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40 Minutes: Season 6
October 9, 1986
27 Episodes
~40 min per episode
Overview
No overview available for this season.
Episodes
27
1
Ten Days in Holloway
Oct 9, 1986
40 min
An inside view of Holloway Prison, reflecting the immense problems and tensions of Britain's largest and toughest women's jail.
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2
Dancing in the Rain
Oct 16, 1986
40 min
The glittery world of ballroom dancing - behind the scenes at the World Ballroom Dancing Championships, held this year in Blackpool.
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3
Rescue
Oct 23, 1986
40 min
The lives of the men who make up the Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team - a voluntary body of men who help those in difficulty on Ben Nevis and the surrounding mountains.
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4
Olga Goes to Hollywood
Oct 30, 1986
40 min
In 1978 David Lomax secretly interviewed a Russian couple in Moscow after they had been refused exit visas. They were filmed a year later as they arrived in the West. Now they live in Los Angeles. What price have they paid for their freedom?
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5
The Englishwoman's Wardrobe
Nov 20, 1986
40 min
Angela Huth asks why is it that as a nation, we have such a rotten reputation as dressers? What are we trying to say about ourselves through our appearance? 'Oh not black again, dear,' says Denis - but Margaret Thatcher knows a secret or two about old faithfuls and reliable standbys. Tonight the Prime Minister reveals, for the first time, the inside story of her wardrobe. Selina Scott always wanting 'to look a bit different from everyone else'; the probation officer who last wore a dress when she danced with the Prince of Wales; the bubbly society hostess who seems to wear only party dresses; the housewife with an eye for the 20p bargain with a designer label - these are just some of the extraordinary and ordinary women who unlock their wardrobes and tell all, proving that the only thing in vogue is individuality.
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6
Special: The Dump
Nov 25, 1986
40 min
Plans for dumping nuclear waste in rural Lincolnshire - and how traditionally conservative villagers were aroused to protest against them.
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7
Botham's Out
Nov 27, 1986
40 min
England cricket hero Ian Botham at home and at work during his Test Match ban.
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8
The Chosen Few
Dec 4, 1986
40 min
The Civil Service Selection Board has never been filmed before. The first of two programmes concentrates on two candidates, one an ex-employee of the Greater London Council, the other a "near miss" of last year.
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9
The Final Board
Dec 11, 1986
40 min
The second film tells of two hopefuls at the last round, one hoping to enter the Foreign Office, the other aiming for the Home Office. Filmed from the points of view of both the candidates and the selectors. The final result is a shock.
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10
Dear Sister
Dec 18, 1986
40 min
Eight sisters talk frankly and movingly about the complex relationship of sisterhood.
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11
Just for William
Jan 8, 1987
40 min
Ten-year-old William, suffering from leukaemia, undergoes a successful bone marrow transplant at the Royal Free Hospital in London
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12
Short Stories
Jan 15, 1987
40 min
The small world of dwarves and midgets.
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13
Home from the Hill
Jan 22, 1987
40 min
Documentary about Colonel Hilary Hook, formerly of the Indian cavalry and leader of extravagant safaris in Kenya. Hook returned home to England after being evicted from his home in the Kenya Hills, and is finding it hard to readjust to the English way of life.
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14
Struggle for Stonebridge
Jan 29, 1987
40 min
Young blacks in deprived Brent struggle for a community centre in a bus garage.
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15
Stirring Stuff
Feb 5, 1987
40 min
Tea, Britain's national beverage - and the ladies who stir it.
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16
Do You Still Love Me?
Feb 12, 1987
40 min
Uneasy relationships between step-parents and step-children.
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17
A Cabinet of Curiosities
Feb 19, 1987
40 min
Lucinda Lambton reveals strange and amusing tales from the dusty corners of museums.
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18
Bad Blood
Feb 26, 1987
40 min
The annual re-union of thousands of bikers in South Dakota.
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19
Fire!
Mar 5, 1987
40 min
Kingston-upon-Hull (Yorks.) fire station in action.
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20
The Quest for Sergeant Miller
Mar 12, 1987
40 min
The son of a wartime aviator traces his father's remarkable survival and escape in France.
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21
House of Spirits
Mar 19, 1987
40 min
Spiritualists in London's Belgravia communing with "the other side".
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22
A New Girl
Mar 26, 1987
40 min
Moral problems facing a mother who has taken a pregnancy drug and whose child has suffered.
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23
Fly Me
Apr 2, 1987
40 min
The training of British Airways hostesses and cabin crew.
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24
The Mighty Leek
Apr 9, 1987
40 min
World championship competitive leek-growing in the North-East of England - with dirty deeds in the greenhouses.
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25
Troublesome People
Apr 16, 1987
40 min
Caroline Moorehead inquires if pacifists have ever achieved anything over the years.
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26
Street Girls
Apr 23, 1987
40 min
Child and juvenile prostitutes in Balsall Heath, Birmingham.
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27
Bombay Hotel
Apr 30, 1987
40 min
Upstairs and downstairs at the famous Taj Mahal Hotel - a luxurious establishment surrounded by poverty.
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