Panorama Season 37

From the Aral Sea, evidence of a catastrophe that rivals Chernobyl. The planning decisions of the Brezhnev years have left a great many facing disease, deformity and death. As the sea dries up, the ecology of the region…

In Tblisi, the capital of Soviet Georgia, troops encircled a crowd of peaceful demonstrators and attacked them with truncheons, entrenching tools and gas. 20 people were killed - more than 3/4 were women - and over 500…

How is it that every year 1,500 teenage boys - all 16 years old or younger - can be locked up in British prisons, two to a cell, 20 hours a day, on remand sometimes for offences as trivial as absconding and car theft?

With the shock waves of the recent political crisis still reverberating through the Government, is Mrs. Thatcher's famous conviction and single-mindedness now more of a liability than an asset to the Tories?

Investigates the S.A.-Ulster Alliance in arms.