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Panorama Season 29

46 Episodes First aired Jan 5, 1981

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

Episodes

E31
31. The Class of 81
Sep 7, 1981

For-the past 12 months Panorama has been following the fortunes of the 250 school leavers at Craig-bank Secondary School in Glasgow. John Stapleton follows what happened to them In their preparation and search for a job…

E32
32. Episode 32
Sep 14, 1981
E33
33. The Provo's Last Card
Sep 21, 1981

Panorama's Peter Taylor reports from the Maze prison during the hunger strike campaign and addresses the political and military consequences.

E34
34. Labour: Which Direction Will the Party Go?
Sep 28, 1981

Labour's choice of a deputy leader is the culmination of a momentous struggle for the party's future.

E35
35. Episode 35
Oct 5, 1981
E36
36. Episode 36
Oct 12, 1981
E37
37. KGB -Russia's Secret Service in the West
Oct 19, 1981

Soviet Intelligence has a huge presence in every Western country; some four out of every ten Russian diplomats are KGB officers. They wage war by clandestine means. Their methods - disinformation, sexual entrapment…

E38
38. Episode 38
Oct 26, 1981
E39
39. How Many More Skeletons?
Nov 2, 1981 · 50m

In this report from a longer programme, Tom Mangold speaks to Leo Long, one of the men whom Anthony Blunt recruited into his Cambridge spy ring.

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40. Episode 40
Nov 9, 1981
E41
41. Episode 41
Nov 16, 1981
E42
42. Libya: Trading in Terror
Nov 23, 1981

In Britain, Libyan hit squads murder Colonel Gaddafi's exiled opponents. All over the world the Libyans back terrorist groups - including the IRA. Now Panorama reveals the key men behind Libya's world-wide terror…

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43. Trade Unions and the Law
Nov 30, 1981

Panorama tonight examines the Government's controversial proposals to limit the power of trade unions. The Rt Hon Norman Tebbit , mp, Secretary of State for Employment, explains why he believes new laws are necessary…

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44. Episode 44
Dec 7, 1981
E45
45. Experimenting with Life
Dec 14, 1981

Next year there'll be a boom in test tube babies. Laboratory fertilisation is becoming commonplace, and human embryos are now being frozen for future use. Margaret Jay examines the implications of this brand new world…

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46. Episode 46
Dec 21, 1981