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Season 7
S7E25 8 mars 1971

The Truants

World in Action - Season 7

World In Action talks to three teenage truants about what they get up to when they "wag off" school.

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Season 7

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E1 21 septembre 1970

Everybody's Children

School children at school are doing a play on freedom and the Vietnam war also playing a general

E2 28 septembre 1970 28 min

The Quiet Mutiny

Embedded documentary, shot on site during the Vietnam War, showing how young draftees are critical about that war.

E3 5 octobre 1970

The Man Who Made Biafra

E4 12 octobre 1970

Pigs?

Members of the Cincinnati Police Force discuss the increasing animosity being dealt out by the public towards policemen.

E5 19 octobre 1970

They're Only Human Beings Like Everybody Else

There are about 1,500,000 severely physically handicapped people in the United Kingdom. There are, therefore, 1,500,000 handicapped families. This means there are 6,750,000 people directly involved with the problems of the disabled.

E6 26 octobre 1970

A Business Arrangement

E7 2 novembre 1970

S.A.L.T.

E8 9 novembre 1970

Goodbye Mr. Smith?

E9 16 novembre 1970

The Mountain People

America's poor whites of the Appalachia region, who fear there maybe violence against them in the future.

E10 23 novembre 1970

The Final Harvest

E11 24 novembre 1970

The Man Who Wouldn't Keep Quiet

E12 30 novembre 1970

The Schemes of Jerome D. Hoffman

Follows the trail of New York financier Hoffman, who's empire had just crashed leaving investors in the UK out of pocket.

E13 7 décembre 1970

The Law Shop

E14 14 décembre 1970

Oh! Birmingham

E15 21 décembre 1970

The Dumping Grounds

The problems of malnutrition leading to mental and physical problems among the children of resettled black South African families.

E16 4 janvier 1971

American Radio

A personal view by Denis Mitchell.

E17 11 janvier 1971

Round One

E18 18 janvier 1971

The Dutschke Affair

E19 25 janvier 1971

The Village That Quit

A village is asked to give up smoking for a week and the results monitored.

E20 1 février 1971

The Monday Club

E21 8 février 1971

The Breaking Point

E22 15 février 1971

Square One

With renewed fighting through Ulster, has the conflict gone back to square one?

E23 22 février 1971

Lucky

Follows the life of an 18 year old from Devon who arrives in London penniless and has to sleep rough, but eventually with help manages to find a job and somewhere to live.

E24 1 mars 1971

Ford: The Inside Story

E25 8 mars 1971

The Truants

World In Action talks to three teenage truants about what they get up to when they "wag off" school.

E26 15 mars 1971

The Man Who Stole Uganda

A military coup has taken place in Uganda, but what is the real story behind the rumours?

E27 22 mars 1971

As It Was in the Beginning...

Uses footage from previous editions of World in Action to present a history of the troubles so far.

E28 29 mars 1971

The Year Britain Stopped Growing

Investigates the claim that lack of investment in the UK will seriously affect its competitiveness with mainland Europe.

E29 5 avril 1971

South of the Border

Attitudes in Eire to the IRA and the situation in Ulster.

E30 19 avril 1971

The Salvation Army

E31 26 avril 1971

The Sailors' Jail

E32 3 mai 1971

Going Private

Investigates the controversy surrounding private patients and their consultants and whether they are exploiting the NHS.

E33 10 mai 1971

The Tanzam Railway

E34 17 mai 1971

A 2.9% Swing to Democracy in Bradford

E35 24 mai 1971

Death Is Afraid of Us

Some people in the country of Georgia claim to be over a 100 years old and still working like people half their age.

E36 7 juin 1971

Conversations with a Working Man

Following one working class man through the struggles of his average day, to show how the forgotten majority are living in Britain.

E37 14 juin 1971

Anthony Mascarenhas

E38 21 juin 1971

A Woman's Place

E39 28 juin 1971

The Dust at Acre Mill

E40 5 juillet 1971

Episode 40

E41 12 juillet 1971

Major Khaled's War

E42 19 juillet 1971

End of a Journey

E43 3 août 1971

The Man from No. 10

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