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Panorama

Panorama Season 19

1971·49 episodes

Current affairs programme, featuring interviews and investigative reports on a wide variety of subjects.

Episodes

  1. Episode 1 · 6 Sept 1971B SpecialsAlan Hart reports from Ulster on efforts of disbanded B-Specials to campaign for a new force.
  2. Episode 2 · 13 Sept 1971The Cinderella ServiceThe most important cause of death among the under-45s is accidental death. Need it be? Robert MacNeil examines the under-staffed and over-stretched accident and emergency facilities of the Health Service and asks: How safe is it to have an accident in Britain today?
  3. Episode 3 · 20 Sept 1971The Fight for the Wild PlacesTonight Nicholas Harman reports from the edge of the Dartmoor Park on the opening shots being fired in a public enquiry which starts next week in Exeter about plans to expand mining operations which could affect this part of the Devon countryside for the next 50 years; shots whose echoes can be heard in other National Parks, as mining companies are being given permission to prospect for valuable minerals.
  4. Episode 4 · 27 Sept 1971Episode 4No synopsis yet.
  5. Episode 5 · 4 Oct 1971Episode 5No synopsis yet.
  6. Episode 6 · 11 Oct 1971The Edward Heath InterviewOn the eve of the Conservative Party Conference, Robin Day goes to Downing Street to talk to the prime minister, the Rt Hon Edward Heath MP, about his record in office and the major problems he now faces.
  7. Episode 7 · 18 Oct 1971China - Two into One Won’t GoIn 1949, Gen Chiang Kai-shek fled mainland China for Taiwan. He still hasn't found the right time to return; and as President Nixon prepares to meet Chairman Mao, and world opinion in the UN moves against the Chinese Nationalists, Julian Pettifer reports from Taiwan.
  8. Episode 8 · 25 Oct 1971Episode 8No synopsis yet.
  9. Episode 9 · 1 Nov 1971Episode 9No synopsis yet.
  10. Episode 10 · 8 Nov 1971Episode 10No synopsis yet.
  11. Episode 11 · 15 Nov 1971Episode 11No synopsis yet.
  12. Episode 12 · 22 Nov 1971Episode 12No synopsis yet.
  13. Episode 13 · 29 Nov 1971Episode 13No synopsis yet.
  14. Episode 14 · 6 Dec 1971Episode 14No synopsis yet.
  15. Episode 15 · 13 Dec 1971Episode 15No synopsis yet.
  16. Episode 16 · 20 Dec 1971Episode 16No synopsis yet.
  17. Episode 17 · 27 Dec 1971Review of the Year: The Sights and Sounds of ‘71If you worked in at UCS, or went on strike at the Post Office; if you waited for the sack at Rolls-Royce; if you can't understand decimals; if you used to read the Daily Sketch, or insured your car with the V & G; if you tried to follow the great debate, or missed out on your school milk - then this programme is about you. The rest of us lived through it all - Ibrox, Ulster, Europe, Etna, Rhodesia, Pakistan. Harold Wilson wrote a book - Ted Heath spoke French. Rudi Dutschke went home - Chay Blyth came home. Mao came in - Chiang went out. Arsenal the double - Trevino the treble. And Harvey Smith gave us the sign of the times.
  18. Episode 18 · 3 Jan 1972Please Sit, Can I Leave School?A report on the revolution that must hit our secondary schools if the 16-year-old school-leaving age is to mean more than an extra year's boredom and frustration for final year pupils.
  19. Episode 19 · 10 Jan 1972Episode 19No synopsis yet.
  20. Episode 20 · 17 Jan 1972Episode 20No synopsis yet.
  21. Episode 21 · 24 Jan 1972Episode 21Two days ago, Britain was set on a new course when we signed the Treaty of Accession to the EEC. In Brussels this weekend, Panorama talked exclusively to the Prime Minister at this moment of personal triumph and asked him how he wants to shape and influence the Europe we are in the process of joining.
  22. Episode 22 · 31 Jan 1972Episode 22On the eve of the Winter Olympics in Japan, the President of the Games Avery Brundage speaks out on the great 'shamateurism' conflict and Panorama investigates the role of amateurs in sport.
  23. Episode 23 · 7 Feb 1972Episode 23No synopsis yet.
  24. Episode 24 · 14 Feb 1972Episode 24No synopsis yet.
  25. Episode 25 · 21 Feb 1972Episode 25“What do the Chinese communists want? They want the world.” (Richard Nixon, 1960) But now it’s President Nixon who wants the Chinese, and today he's gone calling. Why? To win the peace in Asia or an election in America? What does his visit really mean?
  26. Episode 26 · 28 Feb 1972Episode 26No synopsis yet.
  27. Episode 27 · 6 Mar 1972Episode 27No synopsis yet.
  28. Episode 28 · 13 Mar 1972Episode 28No synopsis yet.
  29. Episode 29 · 20 Mar 1972Episode 29No synopsis yet.
  30. Episode 30 · 27 Mar 1972Episode 30No synopsis yet.
  31. Episode 31 · 10 Apr 1972Episode 31No synopsis yet.
  32. Episode 32 · 17 Apr 1972Episode 32No synopsis yet.
  33. Episode 33 · 24 Apr 1972Episode 33No synopsis yet.
  34. Episode 34 · 1 May 1972Episode 34No synopsis yet.
  35. Episode 35 · 8 May 1972Episode 35No synopsis yet.
  36. Episode 36 · 15 May 1972Episode 36No synopsis yet.
  37. Episode 37 · 22 May 1972Episode 37No synopsis yet.
  38. Episode 38 · 5 Jun 1972Episode 38No synopsis yet.
  39. Episode 39 · 12 Jun 1972Episode 39No synopsis yet.
  40. Episode 40 · 19 Jun 1972Episode 40No synopsis yet.
  41. Episode 41 · 26 Jun 1972Episode 41No synopsis yet.
  42. Episode 42 · 3 Jul 1972Episode 42No synopsis yet.
  43. Episode 43 · 10 Jul 1972Episode 43No synopsis yet.
  44. Episode 44 · 17 Jul 1972Episode 44Tonight, as the school year ends, Panorama reports on the problem of why some children leave school unable to read or write.
  45. Episode 45 · 24 Jul 1972Panorama Special: The Docks Dispute - Part 1Michael Charlton reports on the Docks Dispute and how far it is likely to spread, while Alan Watson chairs a debate about the new Industrial Relations Act. Alan Hart reports from Belfast on events in Northern Ireland since Bloody Friday.
  46. Episode 46 · 31 Jul 1972The Price of Your CarThis year nearly 100,000 people will be casualties on our roads. There are ways to reduce accidents - but they all cost money. Would you be prepared to pay £250 extra to have a safer car? Or be willing to be stopped at random by a policeman for a breath test? Or be legally compelled to wear a seat belt? Tonight Panorama looks at the rising cost and suffering of road accidents, and asks what price are we prepared to pay to make our cars and roads safer?
  47. Episode 47 · 7 Aug 1972Episode 47No synopsis yet.
  48. Episode 48 · 14 Aug 1972Episode 48No synopsis yet.
  49. Episode 49 · 21 Aug 1972Episode 49No synopsis yet.