Inside Story - Season 5 / Year 1978

Inside Story - Season 5 / Year 1978

Season 5 / Year 1978

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DatesFeb. 15, 1978 - Juni 16, 1978
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Episodes

Behind The Front
Year 1978Episode 150 min

Behind The Front

On one day in October last year 7,000 policemen were on the streets of Greater Manchester at a cost of over a quarter of a million pounds to defend the Englishman's right to free speech.
But these Englishmen were members of the National Front, and their speeches - avowedly racist - would be in direct contradiction to the very idea of freedom. In 'the story of that day, and in interviews with the leaders and rank-and-file members of the National Front, a portrait emerges of England's fourth largest political party.

Feb. 15, 1978
Closed Shop
Year 1978Episode 250 min

Closed Shop

When the union attempts to make the Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph a closed shop, one man stands in its way-the paper's editor. While the pickets man the gates, Ron Hunt gathers the news, writes the news, subs the news and assembles the news. In a working day this one man has covered the work of 60 striking journalists. But to the pickets who are striving to achieve 100 per cent union membership, Hunt is no more than a blackleg and a scab. As the strike continues and tensions mount, a civilised difference of opinion hardens into anger, bitterness, and rancour, and finally boils over into hatred and violence.

Apr. 28, 1978
From Blighty To Belize
Year 1978Episode 350 min

From Blighty To Belize

An impression of Christmas with a ' Forgotten Army '.
For almost a year now the army and air force have been sweating it out in the swamps and jungles of perhaps the least desirable chunk of the old British Empire - Belize (ex-British Honduras), our last toehold in the Americas.
The army is there to repel the Guatemalans, who claim Belize is theirs according to a certain interpretation of the small print of a treaty signed in 1859. There are no heroics in Belize, no medals, no campaigns to discuss over pepperpots - just boredom and a philosophical acceptance of service life for some 2,000 men condemned by an Imperial Echo to endure the tropical rain and frightful humidity of a country few had even heard of.

Mai 12, 1978
The End Of The Line
Year 1978Episode 450 min

The End Of The Line

In the telephone directory the entry reads Samaritans, The (Befriend the suicidal), followed by a number. And a million people call the Samaritans every year. Befriending the lonely, desperate, and suicidal requires more than simple sympathy. There are techniques to learn, refined and perfected since The Rev Chad Varan founded the organisation in his study at St Stephen's, Walbrook, 25 years ago.
This documentary follows a group of volunteers who wish to become Samaritans. Over five weeks, in lectures and role-playing, they learn how to deal with the practical joker, and the obscene caller, but most of all the hundreds of thousands at the end of their tether - on the end of the line.

Mai 19, 1978
Alcamo - The Anatomy Of A Mafia Town
Year 1978Episode 550 min

Alcamo - The Anatomy Of A Mafia Town

The Mafia itself is unfilmable - but the results of its malign activities are. Alcamo is a town of 45,000 people in Western Sicily. Since the war there have been 900 murders in Alcamo and its port Castellamare. But if the methods of the Sicilian Mafia are less gory today, they are no less pervasive. The tendrils of corruption encircle all pillars of society, the church, the law, politics and the land.

Gaia Servadio , journalist and author, analyses the concept of protection, extortion, paternalism and silence that is called ' the Mafia ' - in the island that gave it its name and in the town that gave it its notoriety.

Mai 26, 1978
Back To The Beginning
Year 1978Episode 650 min

Back To The Beginning

Thirty-two years ago,

Diane was abandoned in the waiting room of Lymington station. She was six months old. Brian remembers nothing before the age of six, when he was adopted from a children's home. Both now share the common urge to find their natural parents.

Before 1975 this would have been almost impossible. But in that year the Children's Act was passed. It gave adopted adults a chance of finding their natural parents by allowing them access to their original birth certificates.

This is the story of Diane and Brian's search. Diane has been looking for a year and feels she could be near a breakthrough. Brian is just beginning. Neither knows how long it will take, or quite what they will find. But both will need patience, some skill as detectives, and a little bit of luck. before the trail arrives back at the beginning.

Juni 16, 1978

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