Daniel Farson pays a visit to the Club Panama Theatre, Soho, to experience a new phenomenon: afternoon 'nude shows' that "reflect every British sex taboo". He chats to the club owner, has a frank discussion with the joint's striptease artistes about G-strings, sequinned stars, and their personal lives, and witnesses "the uncovering of a multitude of skins".
Death in the West is a 1976 documentary film directed by Martin Smith, which is believed to contain the first recorded admission from a tobacco company representative that smoking causes health problems. It was filmed by reporter Peter Taylor alongside a team from the UK current affairs program This Week. The film aired only once in the UK, from London in September 1976 on Thames Television, to an audience of approximately 12 million viewers, before a court order was obtained preventing it from being re-aired.
Hot Seat is a grimly serious game they organised in Yorkshire. ‘They are the Home Office Defense College at Easingwold., The players are chief Officers from local authorities around the country. Each month a 50-strong group of officers play out the nightmare of a nuclear attack on Britain. They compete against everything that such an attack would mean, against disease, starvation and anarchy.
Peter Gill Gaza in 1988: Report follows how Israeli occupation forces beat to death two Palestinian teenagers, including a Christian, following Israel's dove Rabin's orders to smash the bones of native Palestinians. Bernard Mills, Director of UN Operations in Gaza in 1988: They come to people's homes ... and [Israeli soldiers] beat the people inside... The vast bulk of the cases there has been no arrest. They have gone in. They have beaten up the young people, often the entire family.
SAS execute 3 unarmed IRA Volunteers in Gibraltar. Witnesses discuss the British Military cover up. "Death on the Rock" is a controversial television documentary, an episode of Thames Television's current affairs series This Week, broadcast in the United Kingdom on ITV on 28 April 1988. The programme examined the deaths of three Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) members in Gibraltar on 6 March 1988 at the hands of the British Special Air Service (codenamed "Operation Flavius"). "Death on the Rock" presented evidence that the IRA members were shot without warning or while attempting to surrender. It was condemned by the British government, while tabloid newspapers denounced it as sensationalist. "Death on the Rock" subsequently became the first individual documentary to be the subject of an independent inquiry, in which it was largely vindicated.
An episode of the Thames-produced current affairs programme, on deregulation of British television and the increasing popularity of cable/satellite services like Rupert Murdoch's Sky network. Includes footage from the filming of a British Airways ad and an episode of Sky's Fun Factory, as well as interviews with Murdoch himself.
With the last of the sealed bids for the new ITV franchises received by the ITC this week, This Week takes a look at the implications for the ITV network and for the future of television