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Season 5
S5E12 25 novembre 1968

A Buyer's Market

World in Action - Season 5

The recent Act of Parliament has increased dramatically the number of abortions but also a two tier system for rich and poor.

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Season 5

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E1 10 septembre 1968

Give Us the Works

An idea to give workers more say in the running of their company is put to the board of British Steel.

E2 16 septembre 1968

Spies for Hire

E3 23 septembre 1968

February's Children

An investigation into 7 children (expelled from Kenya) who have to live on their own in the UK as their parents cannot join them due to new laws.

E4 30 septembre 1968

Episode 4

E5 7 octobre 1968

New Drugs, Same Needle

The banning of Methedrine and its implications for the drug taking community.

E6 14 octobre 1968

A Score to Settle

Manchester United's allegations of foul play by Argentinian side Estudiantes.

E7 21 octobre 1968

Backs to the Wall

A look behind the reasons for the Londonderry Civil Rights demonstrations in the previous weeks.

E8 27 octobre 1968

Special: Vietnam

E9 4 novembre 1968

A City Stumbles

A look at the crisis facing New York City with the decay of the administrative structure.

E10 11 novembre 1968

Nasser's Fortified Ditch

E11 18 novembre 1968

An Outbreak of Peace?

With peace in sight Vietnamese and Americans predict the future for Vietnam.

E12 25 novembre 1968

A Buyer's Market

The recent Act of Parliament has increased dramatically the number of abortions but also a two tier system for rich and poor.

E13 9 décembre 1968

The Trail of the Vanishing Voters

World in Action tries to trace the overseas voters in Britain who have supposedly voted for The People's National Congress Party in Guyana's election.

E14 16 décembre 1968

The Twenty Four Carat Kingdom

A profile of Laos, considered the most unproductive country in the world but rich and financially stable through its passing of opium products and dodgy gold.

E15 23 décembre 1968

First Class Delivery

The medical practice of epidural injections to relieve the pain of childbirth and the religious groups who oppose them.

E16 30 décembre 1968

Sorry, Nothing Doing

Update on the subjects of three notable previous films in the series, the gypsies of An Outlaw's Life (1968), the large family of The Born Losers (1967), and the elderly ladies of Ward F.13 (1968).

E17 6 janvier 1969

The Making of a Prime Minister

E18 13 janvier 1969

Next Year in Peking

E19 20 janvier 1969

All Change at Newry!

E20 27 janvier 1969

A New School of Thought

E21 3 février 1969

Death of a Student

The events in Prague following the suicide and funeral of Jan Palach.

E22 10 février 1969

Like Other Men

Looking at the priests rebelling in the Dutch Catholic Church over celibacy vows.

E23 17 février 1969

Living in the Red

E24 24 février 1969

A War on Ice

E25 3 mars 1969

Home for a Revolution

E26 10 mars 1969

Where People Don't Matter

The fallout from the earthquake in Sicily and the implications that corruption is preventing the decent rehousing of victims.

E27 17 mars 1969

A Case to Answer

Locals complain of police corruption and extortion in Hong Kong.

E28 24 mars 1969

The Men Left Behind

E29 31 mars 1969

The Six Day War - Day 666

E30 14 avril 1969

The Owners and the Owned

Investigates slum properties in Notting Hill turning over vast profits for a company based in the Bahamas.

E31 21 avril 1969

Inside Out

A revolutionary new look at how mental patients should be treated, allowing them out into the wider world, and distancing as much as possible from Victorian lunatic asylums.

E32 5 mai 1969

A modest proposal

E33 12 mai 1969

Two Men in Two Tin Huts

Shows attempts being made to break up gangs on Glasgow's Easterhouse Estate.

E34 19 mai 1969

The Leftovers

Looks at the treatment of Negroes in Sudan.

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