1971/1972

E1. B Specials

Sep 6, 1971 · 20m

Alan Hart reports from Ulster on efforts of disbanded B-Specials to campaign for a new force.

E2. The Cinderella Service

Sep 13, 1971

The most important cause of death among the under-45s is accidental death. Need it be? Robert MacNeil examines the under-staffed and over-stretched accident and emergency facilities of the Health Service and asks: How safe is it to have an accident in Britain today?

E3. The Fight for the Wild Places

Sep 20, 1971 · 29m

Tonight Nicholas Harman reports from the edge of the Dartmoor Park on the opening shots being fired in a public enquiry which starts next week in Exeter about plans to expand mining operations which could affect this part of the Devon countryside for the next 50 years; shots whose echoes can be heard in other National Parks, as mining companies are being given permission to prospect for valuable minerals.

E4. Episode 4

Sep 27, 1971

E5. 4 Oct. 1971

Oct 4, 1971 · 30m

E6. The Edward Heath Interview

Oct 11, 1971 · 30m

On the eve of the Conservative Party Conference, Robin Day goes to Downing Street to talk to the prime minister, the Rt Hon Edward Heath MP, about his record in office and the major problems he now faces.

E7. China - Two into One Won’t Go

Oct 18, 1971

In 1949, Gen Chiang Kai-shek fled mainland China for Taiwan. He still hasn't found the right time to return; and as President Nixon prepares to meet Chairman Mao, and world opinion in the UN moves against the Chinese Nationalists, Julian Pettifer reports from Taiwan.

E8. Episode 8

Oct 25, 1971

E9. Episode 9

Nov 1, 1971

E10. 8 Nov. 1971

Nov 8, 1971 · 30m

E11. Episode 11

Nov 15, 1971

E12. Episode 12

Nov 22, 1971

E13. Episode 13

Nov 29, 1971

E14. Episode 14

Dec 6, 1971

E15. Episode 15

Dec 13, 1971

E16. Episode 16

Dec 20, 1971

E17. Review of the Year: The Sights and Sounds of ‘71

Dec 27, 1971 · 30m

If you worked in at UCS, or went on strike at the Post Office; if you waited for the sack at Rolls-Royce; if you can't understand decimals; if you used to read the Daily Sketch, or insured your car with the V & G; if you tried to follow the great debate, or missed out on your school milk - then this programme is about you. The rest of us lived through it all - Ibrox, Ulster, Europe, Etna, Rhodesia, Pakistan. Harold Wilson wrote a book - Ted Heath spoke French. Rudi Dutschke went home - Chay Blyth came home. Mao came in - Chiang went out. Arsenal the double - Trevino the treble. And Harvey Smith gave us the sign of the times.

E18. Please Sit, Can I Leave School?

Jan 3, 1972

A report on the revolution that must hit our secondary schools if the 16-year-old school-leaving age is to mean more than an extra year's boredom and frustration for final year pupils.

E19. Episode 19

Jan 10, 1972

E20. Episode 20

Jan 17, 1972

E21. 24/01/1972

Jan 24, 1972 · 30m

Two days ago, Britain was set on a new course when we signed the Treaty of Accession to the EEC. In Brussels this weekend, Panorama talked exclusively to the Prime Minister at this moment of personal triumph and asked him how he wants to shape and influence the Europe we are in the process of joining.

E22. Episode 22

Jan 31, 1972

On the eve of the Winter Olympics in Japan, the President of the Games Avery Brundage speaks out on the great 'shamateurism' conflict and Panorama investigates the role of amateurs in sport.

E23. Episode 23

Feb 7, 1972

E24. Episode 24

Feb 14, 1972

E25. Episode 25

Feb 21, 1972

“What do the Chinese communists want? They want the world.” (Richard Nixon, 1960) But now it’s President Nixon who wants the Chinese, and today he's gone calling. Why? To win the peace in Asia or an election in America? What does his visit really mean?

E26. Episode 26

Feb 28, 1972

E27. Episode 27

Mar 6, 1972

E28. Ulster Initiative

Mar 13, 1972

Item on the Governments new initiative for a peaceful settlement in Northern Ireland; Alan Hart interviews SDLP leader Gerry Fitt in his Belfast constituency and Michael Charlton chairs discussion between Angus Maude & Norman St John-Stevas.

E29. Episode 29

Mar 20, 1972

E30. Ulster: A Chance for Peace

Mar 27, 1972 · 30m

Michael Charlton and Richard Kershaw present programme, with report from Alan Hart on the Heath initiative on N Ireland, bringing direct rule over Ulster, and reactions to it.