World in Action was Granada Television’s flagship ITV current affairs series, running from 7 Jan 1963 to 7 Dec 1998, and built a reputation for film-led investigative reporting and a forceful editorial stance. Its journalism produced major public and political repercussions—including investigations associated with miscarriages of justice such as the Birmingham Six—and it also served as a platform for landmark documentary projects, including the first broadcast of “Seven Up!” as part of the strand in 1964.
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The world in action years
Beat the clock on defence spending
The quiet mutiny
An accident at sea
Birth of a nation
The trials in zanzibar
The rise and fall of the c.i.a.: part 1
The rise and fall of the c.i.a.: part 2
The rise and fall of the c.i.a.: part 3
The lawbreakers
Episode 17
U2: anthem for the eighties
The great food challenge
Bad air days
The tracks of my tears
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