Season 6 (1986)

Ten Days in Holloway
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October 9, 1986 • 40m

An inside view of Holloway Prison, reflecting the immense problems and tensions of Britain's largest and toughest women's jail.

Dancing in the Rain
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October 16, 1986 • 40m

The glittery world of ballroom dancing - behind the scenes at the World Ballroom Dancing Championships, held this year in Blackpool.

Rescue
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October 23, 1986 • 40m

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 N...Read more

Olga Goes to Hollywood
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October 30, 1986 • 40m

In 1978 David Lomax secretly interviewed a Russian couple in Moscow after they had been refused exit visas. They were filmed a yea...Read more

The Englishwoman's Wardrobe
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November 20, 1986 • 40m

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 ourselv...Read more

Special: The Dump
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November 25, 1986 • 40m

Plans for dumping nuclear waste in rural Lincolnshire - and how traditionally conservative villagers were aroused to protest against them.

Botham's Out
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November 27, 1986 • 40m

England cricket hero Ian Botham at home and at work during his Test Match ban.

The Chosen Few
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December 4, 1986 • 40m

The Civil Service Selection Board has never been filmed before. The first of two programmes concentrates on two candidates, one an...Read more

The Final Board
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December 11, 1986 • 40m

The second film tells of two hopefuls at the last round, one hoping to enter the Foreign Office, the other aiming for the Home Off...Read more

Dear Sister
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December 18, 1986 • 40m

Eight sisters talk frankly and movingly about the complex relationship of sisterhood.

Just for William
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January 8, 1987 • 40m

Ten-year-old William, suffering from leukaemia, undergoes a successful bone marrow transplant at the Royal Free Hospital in London

Short Stories
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January 15, 1987 • 40m

The small world of dwarves and midgets.

Home from the Hill
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January 22, 1987 • 40m

Documentary about Colonel Hilary Hook, formerly of the Indian cavalry and leader of extravagant safaris in Kenya. Hook returned ho...Read more

Struggle for Stonebridge
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January 29, 1987 • 40m

Young blacks in deprived Brent struggle for a community centre in a bus garage.

Stirring Stuff
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February 5, 1987 • 40m

Tea, Britain's national beverage - and the ladies who stir it.

Do You Still Love Me?
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February 12, 1987 • 40m

Uneasy relationships between step-parents and step-children.

A Cabinet of Curiosities
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February 19, 1987 • 40m

Lucinda Lambton reveals strange and amusing tales from the dusty corners of museums.

Bad Blood
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February 26, 1987 • 40m

The annual re-union of thousands of bikers in South Dakota.

Fire!
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March 5, 1987 • 40m

Kingston-upon-Hull (Yorks.) fire station in action.

The Quest for Sergeant Miller
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March 12, 1987 • 40m

The son of a wartime aviator traces his father's remarkable survival and escape in France.

House of Spirits
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March 19, 1987 • 40m

Spiritualists in London's Belgravia communing with "the other side".

A New Girl
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March 26, 1987 • 40m

Moral problems facing a mother who has taken a pregnancy drug and whose child has suffered.

Fly Me
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April 2, 1987 • 40m

The training of British Airways hostesses and cabin crew.

The Mighty Leek
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April 9, 1987 • 40m

World championship competitive leek-growing in the North-East of England - with dirty deeds in the greenhouses.

Troublesome People
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April 16, 1987 • 40m

Caroline Moorehead inquires if pacifists have ever achieved anything over the years.

Street Girls
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April 23, 1987 • 40m

Child and juvenile prostitutes in Balsall Heath, Birmingham.

Bombay Hotel
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April 30, 1987 • 40m

Upstairs and downstairs at the famous Taj Mahal Hotel - a luxurious establishment surrounded by poverty.