40 Minutes

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  • BBC Two
  • Documentary

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1983
1983x1
Mister Perks
Episode overview
Documentary which looks at the life of Bernard Perks, about to be released from Cardiff Prison where he has spent 15 of his 20 adult years, and his problems in surmounting a chronic alcoholism problem.
1983x2
Package Tour
Episode overview
Documentary which looks at the holiday makers on a flight from Manchester to Alicante in Spain, and at their impressions of their subsequent holidays in Benidorm and their return to Manchester.
1983x3
Something to Do with Video
Episode overview
Documentary on the varied uses, domestic and commercial, of from an Indian family keeping contact with their distant culture to the makers of PRIVATE SPY, to surveillance to piracy.
1983x4
The Rovers
Episode overview
Documentary which looks at a period of the last few months of 1982 in the fortunes of Tranmere Rovers FC, a football club fighting for survival in the fourth division of the Football League in their centenary season.
1983x5
Honour Thy Father and Thy Mother
Episode overview
Documentary which looks at the problems of children who have to look after their elderly parents and the violence and resentment this sometimes causes.
1983x6
Freshers
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Documentary which looks at the experiences of the new arrivals at Liverpool University in autumn 1982 as they start their first experience of life away from home, with a special focus on the problems of blind student Gillian Wake.
1983x7
English Lesson
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Documentary which looks at the lives of nine Polish seamen who left their ship in Port Stanley, Falklands to seek political asylum, only to be involved in the Falklands War and later .. show full overview
1983x8
Female Circumcision
Episode overview
Documentary which looks at the reasons and the effects of female circumcision as practised in the Sudan, with a look at evidence that the ritual is perpetuated all over the western world.
1983x9
A Minor Incident at the Berlaymont
Episode overview
Documentary which looks at the lobby of the EEC by fishermen of the North-East, who attempted to influence EEC bureaucrat John Pearson's thinking on the issue of EEC fishing rights and the Common Fisheries Policy.
1983x10
A Gentle Way with Cancer?
Episode overview
Series of documentaries filmed at the Bristol Cancer Help Centre, which uses a unique form of psychological and philosophical treatment for cancer.
1983x11
Mistress
Episode overview
Documentary in which three "mistresses" of married men are interviewed about the function and practicalities of their relationships with other people's husbands.
1983x12
Bodyline
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Documentary about the controversial M.C.C. cricket tour of Australia in 1933, where the tactics of M.C.C. captain Douglas Jardine caused a huge controversy.
1983x13
Something for the Ladies
Episode overview
Documentary which looks at various competitions for men, ranging from "bachelor of the year" to "Mr Universe".
1983x14
House of Love
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Documentary which looks at the religious cult of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and the lives of his followers in the Suffolkheadquarters of the cult.
1983x15
Innocent Until Proved Guilty
Episode overview
Documentary which looks at the inadequacy of the remand system in the UK and the effects which this date has on the lives of the untried prisoners who live in our overcrowded prisons.
1983x16
Jail Within a Jail
Episode overview
Documentary about the lives of the inmates of the maximum security unit at Maids tone Prison, with interviews with many of the prisoners who are there, who are, for various reasons, at risk in the main prison.
1983x17
Who's a Pretty Girl, Then?
Episode overview
Documentary which follows the progress to find "Miss Pears 1983."
1983x18
Pranks
Episode overview
Documentary which looks at the blossoming trade in professional pranksters and singing telegrams in London