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Panorama Season 39

43 Episodes First aired Jan 7, 1991

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

Episodes

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31. Episode 31
Sep 9, 1991
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32. Goodbye USSR
Sep 16, 1991

As the Soviet Union breaks up, reporter Gavin Hewitt explores the death of a superpower. Will its end be bloody or peaceful? And will the desire for revenge against communists, and renewed ethnic feuding cause further…

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33. The Max Factor
Sep 23, 1991
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34. The Testing Question
Sep 30, 1991
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35. Episode 35
Oct 7, 1991

On eve of Conservative Party Conference, BBC's political editor John Cole assesses current state of John Major's party.

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36. The Halcion Nightmare
Oct 14, 1991

Tom Mangold reveals astonishing facts behind decision to remove a drug associated with serious psychiatric disturbances including violent and suicidal behavior.

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37. No Surrender, No Progress
Oct 21, 1991

This summer, hopes for a political settlement in Northern Ireland flickered then died. But Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Peter Brooke refuses to give up the search for peace.

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38. Episode 38
Oct 28, 1991
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39. Deprived or Depraved?
Nov 4, 1991

Last month, several British cities were blighted by rioting, and politicians and church leaders cast around for explanations for civil unrest. And whether the riots represent a failure of the Government's policies in…

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40. The Bank That Didn't Add Up
Nov 11, 1991

When last July Bank of England co-ordinated action to close down BCCI, world's largest international banks.

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41. Class Wars
Nov 18, 1991

The Government has renewed its onslaught on "trendy educationalists", claiming they have spread a mania for equality through Britain's schools. Panorama reports on the war for the hearts and minds of Britain's…

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42. Episode 42
Dec 2, 1991

Has Thatcherite housing agenda led to a housing crisis, with family homes being repossessed because of over-extended mortgages and too little money going into public housing?

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43. Episode 43
Dec 9, 1991

In week that European Community leaders meet in Maastricht to discuss political and monetary union