A sound portrait of life in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
World Service,·105 episodes
Should transracial adoption be forbidden?
29 May 1985,·11 mins
The tourist boom in the industrial West North of England
10 Jun 1985,·12 mins
Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka and the changing British policy on visas for them
12 Jun 1985,·12 mins
The expansion of Stansted into a major International Airport
14 Jun 1985,·11 mins
How miners' wives in Britain were changed by the bitter miners' strike of 1984-1985
11 Jul 1985,·11 mins
Controversy over plans to develop Braithwaite Fold in Bowness, Lake District, UK
23 Jul 1985,·11 mins
Trouble within the ranks of the British Communist Party
24 Jul 1985,·11 mins
The UK penal policy of imprisonment and the resulting problem of overcrowding in prisons
21 Aug 1985,·11 mins
British Rail's plan to close the beloved Settle and Carlisle Railway line
23 Aug 1985,·12 mins
A preview of The Trades Union Congress in Blackpool, UK and the mood of 'new realism'
30 Aug 1985,·12 mins
In the 10 years since sex discrimination became illegal, how have things changed?
02 Sep 1985,·12 mins
'The keeping of the peace in Britain may be entering a new era'
16 Oct 1985,·11 mins
Liverpools' crisis - a fight between a conservative government and a Labour city council
13 Nov 1985,·12 mins
The decline of the tin mining industry in Cornwall
29 Nov 1985,·11 mins
Plans to transform the Isle of Dogs into a 'high technology world centre of finance'
30 Dec 1985,·11 mins
Plans are announced to link the UK and France by an undersea tunnel
31 Jan 1986,·12 mins
'The birthplace of Britain's Industrial Revolution'
11 Mar 1987,·12 mins
'Death, sex and beauty rolled into one - the Gothic look'
15 May 1987,·12 mins
'Can Britain's 6th largest city reverse the downward spiral?'
30 Jul 1987,·12 mins
The reaction of the British Islamic community in Bradford to 'The Satanic Verses'
11 Aug 1989,·13 mins
Canadian toxic waste being shipped to Britain
23 Aug 1989,·13 mins
The consequences of an oil spill in the Mersey
01 Sep 1989,·13 mins
Does the Trade Union Movement in Britain have a future?
15 Sep 1989,·13 mins
The British school geared to the needs of industry
27 Sep 1989,·13 mins
Life in Telford, successful New Town which is also 'the most debt-prone area of the UK'
06 Oct 1989,·13 mins
The isolation of West Cumbria and its industrial future
01 Nov 1989,·13 mins
The development of open cast mining in County Durham
29 Nov 1989,·13 mins
Agents of change in Sheffield after the decline of the steel industry
15 Dec 1989,·13 mins
What is the appeal of paintballing war games?
19 Dec 1989,·13 mins
Why have high rise flights in Britain become so unpopular?
10 Jan 1990,·13 mins
