First Aired: November 11st, 1953
Status: Continuing
Genre: News, Documentary
Network: BBC One
Summary: Current affairs programme, featuring interviews and investigative reports on a wide variety of subjects.
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Season 1980
Episode 11: Walking on Coals - The White Tribe of Africa
Air Date: July 14th, 1980
Summary: David Dimbleby follows the stories of some of the people he interviewed for his earlier programme on the Afrikaners, The White Tribe of Africa. Despite great wealth for some, and a booming economy, he finds severe hardship in the homelands of South Africa.
Episode 12: The Chinese News Machine
Air Date: September 15th, 1980
Summary: Michael Cockerell reports on the changes in China, and examines the elaborate apparatus used to control the thoughts and actions of 1,000 million people. The first-ever film inside the Chinese news machine reveals how the People’s Daily, the Communist Party paper, is produced. Its words are spread to the biggest readership in the world, and one vast factory monitors every single news story in China. But there is a dissident movement, and the programme includes an exclusive interview with one of those inside China who questions the Communist system.
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