Commercial Breaks

The extraordinary events inside the Daily Mirror. Idealist Clive Thornton wanted to sell shares in the Daily Mirror to the public and make it the people's newspaper. But then along came multi-millionaire Robert Maxwell. On Friday 13 July he bought the entire Mirror Group for himself. Thornton was out - and the ebullient Maxwell set about putting his personal stamp on the paper. Next week Commercial Breaks follows Maxwell's frantic circulation war.

The inside story of the circulation war between Fleet Street's tabloids. This programme goes behind the scenes at the Daily Mirror newspaper as Robert Maxwell controls every detail of his campaign to topple the Sun as Britain's top-selling tabloid, from directing his own commercials to cross-examining his circulation managers.

Three Californian entrepreneurs have a bold, but bizarre new business idea to persuade investors to put hundreds of thousands of dollars into their company and set about making it work. But there are special problems. The business is cremation, which is virtually unknown in California.

Cocoa is one of the world's hottest commodities. This programme follows the fortunes of a New York speculator, a London cocoa merchant and the chocolate company, Rowntree Mackintosh.

Peter Haas and Steve Goldstein are two rising young Levi's executives who are taking the company upmarket by launching 'Tailored Classics', a new line of expensive men's clothes.

This programme follows Tim Bedford's fortunes for nine months as he struggles to keep his project of modifying diesel engines to utilise natural gas afloat.

Stephen Merrett and Richard Maylam specialise in the high-risk business of satellite insurance. This programme features the inside story of nine months of delicate negotiation to rescue insured satellites and bring them back to earth.

Bill Goldberg is a New York diamond merchant, buying and selling expensive stones and gambling on finding the right millionaire to buy the jewellery. In a rare glimpse of an intensely secretive world, Goldberg and other dealers wheel and deal over million-dollar bargains on 47th Street - Manhattan's equivalent of Hatton Garden and known as the richest street in America.

Elscint is an Israeli company that make machines that can see inside humans better than X-rays ever will. But the company's latest see-through device isn't ready for an important Chicago exhibition and their factory in Oxford is having problems with a rival just down the road.

Moya Lear has been the driving force behind the Learfan - a revolutionary aircraft into which the British government has sunk no less than £50,000,000 in the hope that it will create 1,200 jobs in Northern Ireland.

This programme follows oil company owner Bill Brodnax and his 'wildcatters' drill two and a half miles down below some Louisiana rice fields in search of, what they believe may be $100 million-worth of gas.

This programme follows two computer software companies as they seek a Christmas top ten hit.

In early 1984, small holiday firm chief executive Graham Phillips decides to expand his business into the risky long-haul market - exotic holidays in far-off places.