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Panorama Season 35

37 Episodes First aired Jan 12, 1987

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

Episodes

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31. A Class Revolution
Nov 2, 1987

Education is the next priority in Margaret Thatcher 's cultural revolution. State education is poised for its most radical change since the war. There will be more emphasis on 'the three R's.

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32. Adrift in Space
Nov 9, 1987

What future has Britain in space? Is the Government about to surrender Britain's toehold in the space technology of the next century or is it rightly suspicious that it might not be getting value for money from space…

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33. Harming or Helping? - The New Abortion Bill
Nov 16, 1987

David Alton's bill to reform the abortion law is now before Parliament. The real battle is about to begin. Over the next two months, MPs must decide for themselves on this highly charged moral and medical debate.

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34. The Storm Beyond the Crash
Nov 23, 1987

What will be the fallout from the Great Crash in the stock markets this autumn? Does it signal a historic decline in America's status as economic superpower? How vulnerable is Britain to the consequences?

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35. The Uncertain Summit
Nov 30, 1987

American president Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev are both in political trouble at home and need to do a deal. Next Monday in Washington, they hold a third historic meeting and it should be their most…

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36. Debt: How Deep Are You in?
Dec 7, 1987

As the Christmas spending spree reaches its frenzied peak, Richard Lindley reports on a borrowing boom that's left the average British household burdened with a mountain of debt as high as 80 per cent of its income.

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37. The Troubled Madonna of the Philippines
Dec 14, 1987

21 months ago, Cory Aquino was swept to victory on a wave of 'People Power', a modern day Madonna who had delivered the Philippines from the excesses of the Marcos dictatorship. Today, President Aquino is struggling for…