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The Nativity

Victor Cheiney is a farmworker, married with two children. He is under notice to quit his tied cottage. The bailiff is due in days, and Cheiney has nowhere to go. This true story of what happened is painful and shocking. The series of events that followed the eviction reached a point of tragedy that threatened to engulf the Cheineys, divide the family, and shatter the marriage.

To Be a Farmer's Boy

The little bull calf Celia bore In winter 1974 was slaughtered so that human beings could drink her milk. But to keep that milk flowing it was crucial that she should calve again quickly. There was need for expert stockman-ship, the skill of the artificial inseminator and the services of Cliftonmill Olympus II.

To Celia a Son

The story of one man's attempt to reunite under one roof the woman he claims is his wife, and the child he claims is his daughter. The action of this documentary moves from Lyallpur in North Pakistan, to Islamabad, to Bradford and Leeds as Mohammed Akram tries to prove to British Immigration Officers that Rafiqa is his wife and entitled to live in Britain. Finally it is up to the adjudicator of an immigration appeals hearing in Leeds to exercise the wisdom of Solomon. Is Mohammed Akram a liar, and Rafiqa an impostor? Or are they, in fact, man and wife?

The Appeal

Who is the most beautiful man in the whole of Britain? This year's Mr United Kingdom Championship in Liverpool resolved the question. This Inside Story is about the three most likely muscle men and their trainers, the men who mastermind the sculpting of bodies into living works of art.

Muscle Men

Real police officers doing a real job. Catching villains and protecting the public

Z Charlie Four

Marek

This is the story of a remarkable young English nurse who made her home in a Saigon slum. Before the city fell to the communists she was told officially to leave South Vietnam. But she stayed. Her reason for not going was that her home was also home for street girls, drug addicts and waifs and strays picked off the streets who, without her, would have no one to turn to. This is not a story about the Vietnam war but the story of a young woman drawn to a suffering country by the plight of its suffering people

Liz Thomas

The Company

The story of Michael - known as 'Mini' - who at 11 years old has twice attempted to burn down his house, and was designated too dangerous to be allowed his freedom.

Mini

Ambassador

Underneath the Archers

At 8.0 am on New Year's Eve 1973, two ambulancemen called Jim Grummett and Colin Birch crossed the picket lines outside Sunderland Ambulance Depot and reported for work. From that day to January of this year the men were sent to Coventry' by their work-mates. Was it simply a case of obstinacy? Or bloody-mindedness? This Inside Story of a conflict of ideologies analyses the roots of the feud, and it portrays what happens in the hearts of ordinary men, when the unyielding force confronts the immovable spirit.

The Depot

The Cupboard of Crug-y-bar

Film cameras follow City of London traders in foreign exchange, metals, stocks and shares; money lenders who deal in millions of pounds at a time; and Lloyds underwriters who bet than an accident will never happen and risk losing their shirt if it does. This is a world of frantic face to face dealing soon to be transformed by cheaper, computer-led dealing systems, satellite communications and fibre optic cables to create a fast-moving global market, worlds away from the street markets that they had once resembled.

The Market

The Sentence

The Release

Miscarriage of Justice

A Queen's Pardon

Crew Of '76

Eileen is at the beginning. Her husband, John, is on remand inside Pentonville awaiting trial at the Old Bailey for robbery, possession of a firearm, and resisting arrest. If he pleads guilty, he could get seven years. If he fights the case and is convicted, he could go down for 15. In the days up to and during the trial, when she herself is called to give evidence, Eileen talks of her hopes and fears for herself, for her survival, and her children's survival. There is little doubt that John will pay his debt to society. But as an addendum to his sentence, will go the unspoken sentence on his innocent wife and three children - years of severance from a breadwinner, a father and a husband.

Prisoners' Wives - Eileen

Lorraine 's waiting has begun. Her husband, Steve, is serving two-and-a-half years in Leeds Prison for rape. Four months after he left the dock, Lorraine's baby arrived. All her courage is now summoned to face the physical and emotional demands on a body and mind already drained by the ordeal of childbirth. From the maternity hospital where she bore the son his father could not see, the bungalow for which she has worked and must work to retain, and through the bleak misery of prison visits with her baby son and two teenage daughters, Lorraine pieces together her thoughts and priorities, her feelings of self-reproach and determination to stand by a husband who is already corroded by jealousy, self-pity and remorse.

Prisoners' Wives - Lorraine

Kathy is at the end. In 24 hours her husband Steve will be released. He has served 18 months in Wandsworth Prison for robbery. She has served 18 months on the 12th floor of a high-rise council block coping with all the problems of a one-parent family for being the wife of a convict. Kathy has had to bear the stigma of 'guilt by association' that attaches to all prisoners' wives, and she has watched with mounting horror the erosion of her four children's emotional stability. The joy of her husband's release is underscored with the anxiety of living with a man again, and the knowledge that their future will depend on Steve getting a job and curbing his drinking. Unless that occurs, she will slide into the nightmare world of the battered wife.

Prisoners' Wives - Kathy

A Run For Your Money

The Mystery Of The Stolen Milk Bottle

The Informer

The Orlov Defence

Behind The Front

Closed Shop

This programme focuses on the day to day lives of the British troops guarding the Belize/Guatemala border and their celebrations on Christmas Day, 1977. It’s a very different life here than the squaddies are used to, but it’s not quite a ‘Caribbean holiday’. They struggle to come to terms with the daily routine, the boredom, missing their loved ones and meeting the basic needs of life such as ensuring there is enough fresh food to eat.

From Blighty To Belize

The End Of The Line

Alcamo - The Anatomy Of A Mafia Town

Back To The Beginning

Parole

24-year-old George Roberts feels that he is a woman, and he wants to have sex reassignment surgery. Before the National Health Service will approve the surgical procedures, they refer him to a psychiatrist in the Gender Identity Clinic at Charing Cross Hospital. The psychiatrist tells George that he must first live as a woman for one year. George throws away his men's clothing, informs his employer, and (per the hospital's requirements) finds a new flat nearer to the clinic.

George

Blizzard

The Catch

Timmy & The Experts

After the failure of the plot to blow Adolf Hitler to pieces as he studied his campaigns in the Wolf's Lair on 20th July 1944, the conspirators were rounded up, put on trial and hanged. To savour his revenge at leisure, Hitler ordered the trials and death throes of his enemies to be filmed. Four hours of Hitler's film have been tracked down, and from it emerges a unique and bizarre parody of justice, as the traitors to the Third Reich are hounded to their death. Hitler's avenging prosecutor is Roland Freisler, a perverted star in a sadistic screen role that he knew would please the Führer as he watched these pictures in his cinema in the Wolf's Lair.

Traitors To Hitler

Diver

The Voyage Of 'Rainbow Warrior'

Hostage Cops

In June 1979, London played host to Gay Pride Week, which culminated in the Pride March through the capital. It was, at the time, the largest assembly of homosexuals Europe had ever seen. Frank language is used throughout as six gay people talk about their experiences of 'coming out' to family and friends. Some have faced pressure from their loved-ones not to appear in the programme, while others have a confrontational approach to their critics.

Coming Out

A Home For Stephen

Timmy And The Experts

On The Game

Missing

Animals In War

Subway

Psychic Tearoom

Partners In Crime

On Trial

In the last year there has been another wave of executions of political prisoners in Iran's prisons. How can a revolution have come to this? In The Road to Terror, revolutionaries tell how their dream descended into a nightmare of terror and execution. They speak as exiles in Paris, a city preparing to celebrate the glories of the first mass revolution of 1789. Behind its strange images, the struggle for power in the Iranian revolution has followed a pattern uncannily similar to many of the great revolutions of the past. Just like 200 years ago in France, the Iranian revolution has gone down the old road from liberation to repression, the road to terror.

The Road To Terror

Documentary that reviews the case of Jeffrey MacDonald, the U.S. Marine physician who was convicted of the 1970 murder of his wife and two young daughters in Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

False Witness

The Red Web

The Bounty Hunters

Children's Dreams

Miss USSR

Who Killed Martin Luther King?

The Forgotten Holocaust

The Officers' Mess

Ticking With The Crow

Return To Hiroshima

Investigates the fire inside Reactor One at Windscale in October 1957, and the previous emissions and leaks of radiation that occured there, contaminating the area, in spite of denials from the authorities. Workers from the site at the time corroborate this and the programme considers the secrecy surrounding the events.

Our Reactor is on Fire

Prostitutki

The Race Game

South Africa's Killing Ground

Beyond Reasonable Doubt

Ratcatchers

Men Of Steel

Incidental Death

Doctors And Torture

The Confession

The Dream Dealer

November Days: Voices and Choices

A documentary containing rare footage inside Long Kesh in 1990. It includes interviews with many republican and loyalist prisoners at the time. Well worth having a look at this.

The Maze: Enemies Within

Ape Trade

Children of God

AIDS in the Family

Railway

Fatal Encounter

A Very Serious Offence

The Missing

M25 The Magic Roundabout

The Search

Yellow Line

A detailed look at a dirty war in West Africa, regarding diamond and titanium mines.

Trade Slaves

Presumed Guilty

The Nightrider

Suicide Killers

Why Women Kill

The lives and times of British mercenaries fighting in the Yugoslavia Civil War, earning as little as £100 a month in the Yugoslavia army's only English speaking company.

The Best Seasons of Inside Story

The Best Seasons of Inside Story

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