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- First piece featured the murder of 23 black children in Atlanta; next up was a report on WCVB-TV Boston's director Jim Thistle, stanza closed with a judicious endorsement of the messy instant journalism.
- 1974–7.5 (74)TV Episode25 Million Pounds details the collapse of Barings Bank in the mid 1990s primarily by a broker called Nick Leeson, who lost £827 million ($1.3 billion) by speculating on futures contracts. The film contextualises the downfall as the history of Barings Bank was one of the oldest and most prestigious merchant banks in Britain, run by the same family for decades with extensive ties to Britain's elites. But in the late 19th century Barings almost went bankrupt after investing heavily in South American bonds, including backing the construction of a sewer system in Buenos Aires. The bank was saved by The Bank of England, but Edward Baring, the head of the bank, was financially ruined and never recovered. This film explores the culture of Barings and of the financial markets during the 1990s, and how Nick Leeson was able to cause another huge loss of money to the bank, this time bankrupting the company. He did this by claiming fictitious profits on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange and using money requested from London as margin payments on fictitious trades to finance his loss-making positions. It's also the profile of a stereotypical corporate psychopath, as Leeson himself explains how he was able to manipulate those around him to achieve his ends and rationalise his actions.
- 1974–TV Episode
- 1974–TV Episode
- Michael 'Mini' Cooper is a child who cannot stop setting fire to things. The young arsonist has been deemed not safe to be out in society, and the hunt is on for a suitable institution.
- A look at the state of the railways in Britain in the early 1990s.
- Real police officers doing a real job. Catching villains and protecting the public
- "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."
- The story of George Roberts (aka Julia Grant), the first high-profile man in Britain to have a sex change.
- 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. As seen in this programme, the heavy police presence at the 1979 London Pride March was mainly to maintain order. In more recent times, police forces have allowed officers to take part in the event. The Gay Police Association was founded in 1990 by a small group of officers and there are now representatives of the association in forces throughout the UK. Since 2003, off-duty officers have been allowed to join Gay Pride marches in uniform, as it was felt that the celebrations were a good way to promote the diversity of modern policing.
- How can a revolution have come to this? In The Road to Terror, Iranian 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.
- 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.
- A detailed look at a dirty war in West Africa, regarding diamond and titanium mines.
- 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.
- BBC TV documentary filming 'mules' i.e. ladies coerced into carrying concealed drugs through Customs at Heathrow airport.
- Documentary on Karlovac, a UN transit camp in Croatia that offers sanctuary to 3,000 broken people. It records the shattered lives of those for whom it has now become "home".
- BBC TV undercover documentary about pimps and under-age prostitutes in London filmed with the co-operation of the Met police.
- 1974–TV Episode
- Documentary about the twins June and Jennifer Gibbons.
- In 1934, in Canada, Elzire Dionne gave birth to five identical girls. To ensure the babies' survival, the sisters were removed from their parents and looked after in a specially built hospital, only to become a major tourist attraction.
- The inside story of the life of Robert Maxwell. Tom Bower reveals in forensic detail the financial web which underpinned the Maxwell empire and the people who supported him. This film details exactly what happened in the House of Maxwell in the years, months and days leading to his death on a yacht in the Canaries. Expertly woven together with incredible, previously unseen, private archive of Maxwell from his humble beginnings to his flamboyant, international, jet set lifestyle.
- A government hotline set up last year, invited the public to help catch benefit fraudsters who each year cost the DSS three billion pounds. Inside Story looks at how fraud investigators raid suspect businesses, descend upon the homes of alleged cheats and check the thousands of anonymous tip-offs which flood the hotline each week. This documentary ponders the incidence of people in the UK claiming single parent benefits from the state whilst continuing to see their partners. Concentrates on the efforts of two regional fraud offices, in Hull and East London, to recoup some of the millions lost by the DSS in benefit fraud every year.
- An investigation into the San Diego cult behind the deaths of 39 adults. They committed suicide with cocktails of drugs and alcohol. Members of Heaven's Gate believed that the planet was about to be recycled (cleaned, renewed, remodeled and rejuvenated), and that the only chance to survive was to leave it immediately.
- The story of Mary Kay Letourneau who married her sixth-grade student after serving prison time for raping him. Their student-teacher relationship made headlines in 1995 when he was 12 and she was 34.