Season 8 (1988)

Dolebusters
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October 20, 1988

The East Kent Dole Fraud team cracking down on "fiddlers and scroungers".

I Want to Live
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October 27, 1988 • 40m

Kate Matthews extraordinary fight against cancer to survive, after learning that she has just 12 weeks to live.

The Gypsies Are Coming
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November 3, 1988 • 40m

The impact of 2,500 gypsies and travellers on the sleepy market town of Appleby in Cumbria, which each June the travellers invade ...Read more

Desirable Dwellings
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November 10, 1988 • 40m

Lucinda Lambton has photographed houses for 27 years. She conducts a personal and enthusiastic tour around her favourites - some o...Read more

A Policewoman's Lot
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November 17, 1988 • 40m

Out on patrol with the policewomen of the West Midlands Force, revealing the change in their role since the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act.

Making the Grade
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November 24, 1988 • 40m

The inside story of the examinations of the Royal School of Music, following four musicians and their examiner through their rehea...Read more

Greenfinches
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December 1, 1988 • 40m

Three soldiers - all members of the Ulster Defence Regiment, all in the-front line of Northern Ireland's tense security troubles -...Read more

Jam Today
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December 8, 1988 • 40m

Highlighting the desperation that debt can bring to people's lives.

To Have and to Hold
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January 5, 1989 • 40m

Three women who have had to face the break-up of long and seemingly happy marriages, and to being single once again.

The Day I Met the Queen
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January 12, 1989 • 40m

Memorable meetings between subjects and their monarch - revealing the special place the Queen holds in the hearts of her subjects.

The Kingdom of Fun
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January 19, 1989 • 40m

The largest leisure and shopping complex in Europe, the Metro Centre in Tynemouth, and its creator John Hall.

Our Darren
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January 26, 1989 • 40m

Darren Lillywhite was 17, mischievous and high-spirited. He and his mates were a lively lot, always getting into scrapes around th...Read more

Jealousy
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February 2, 1989 • 40m

The effects of jealousy on three victims.

Cairo Vets
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February 9, 1989 • 40m

The Brooke Hospital for Animals in Cairo aims to provide the best veterinary care for the poorest section of the community.

I Like the Girls Who Do
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February 16, 1989 • 40m

Celebrates the cartoonist Gerald Scarfe's hero, music-hall comedian Max Millar.

Knickerbockers in Knightsbridge
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February 23, 1989 • 40m

The story of Hill House School and its unique headmaster, Colonel Stuart Townend.

Ghost Train
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March 2, 1989 • 40m

A journey by Intercity into the world of the supernatural. Do you believe in ghosts? Helen McCormick does. She found an ancient cr...Read more

Raging Belles
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March 9, 1989 • 40m

The two top women's wrestlers in Britain fight for the most coveted prize, The British Ladies' Championship Belt

By Steam to Sennar Junction
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March 16, 1989 • 40m

A dedicated engineer and tough businessman goes from South Wales to the Sudan to rehabilitate Sudan's decaying railways.

Wedding at Easington
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March 23, 1989 • 40m

One in six in the old coal-mining district of Easington is out of work. Tom and Dawn are both unemployed and it is their wedding d...Read more

Violent
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March 30, 1989 • 40m

Apparently unprovoked and irrational acts of violence. Why do they happen? What are the effects on the victims?

Catwalk
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April 6, 1989 • 40m

It's said that 2,000 dogs and 4,000 cats are destroyed in Britain every day. Celia Hammond was a top fashion model. Now she's so f...Read more

Two Sides of a Street
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April 20, 1989 • 40m

A real life soap opera is unfolding in Cardross Street, West London. A Royal Ballet star, a man who owns a share in a race horse, ...Read more

Inside Broadmoor
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April 27, 1989 • 40m

The famous high-security hospital and a new therapeutic regime.

Laid Off
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May 4, 1989 • 40m

Following two people, one in the North and one in the South of England, from the time they are made redundant through three months of job-hunting.

London Lighthouse
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May 11, 1989 • 40m

An insight into the first few months of Britain's first purpose-built AIDS hospice. London Lighthouse is an experiment. The buildi...Read more

Who'll Win Jeanette?
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May 18, 1989 • 40m

A young American travels from Tampa to Vermont, inspecting the parents who want to adopt her unborn child - and finally makes her choice.