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Season 1991

  • S1991E01 The Church 's One Salvation

    • May 21, 1991

    The Rt Hon Norman Tebbit , MP, argues that it's time to disestablish the Church of England. MPs should no longer have the final say in Church matters, and the Prime Minister should no longer appoint bishops. But in saying this he finds himself at odds with Conservative colleagues, and in sympathy with Tony Benn and the Bishop of Durham. Director Virginia Carington Producer John Bridcut

  • S1991E02 A Kiss is Just a Kiss

    • May 28, 1991

    Actor Michael Cashman challenges society's hostile attitude towards homosexuals.

  • S1991E03 Don't Go Near the Water

    • June 4, 1991

    Singer/songwriter Kirsty MacColl tackles water pollution, following the path of her own water supply to and from the River Thames. Travelling around the coast of Britain, she writes and performs new songs, about water, making some disturbing discoveries and finding some surprising solutions along the way. Director Chris Hunt

  • S1991E04 A Futile War

    • June 11, 1991

    James Pickles believes that all drugs should be legalised. Just a month before he retires from a controversial career as a circuit judge in Yorkshire - in which he has sent many to prison for drugs offences - Judge Pickles says: 'This war on drugs is unwinnable.' Producer Michael Davies

  • S1991E05 Tresoddit for Easter

    • June 18, 1991

    The final film in the series explores the dilemmas faced by visitors to Cornwall as a result of their corrosive love affair with the place. Posy Simmonds 's cartoon strip for The Guardian comes alive for this journey to Tresoddit, a little village in the south-west corner of her imagination. Producer Jonathan Stedall