Clare is 4, and her mother fears she has been sexually abused by her father. She's just 30,000 children on local authority 'at risk' register.

Child Abuse: Battering the System

Israel at 40

Charles, Prince of Conscience

Mrs. Thatcher has now been in office for 3,167 days - overtaking Asquith as longest serving Prime Minister this century.

Thatcher's 3,000 Days

Later this month Britain's 100,000 miners will vote on future direction of their leadership and in particular on Arthur Scargill.

Arthur Scargill Evermore?

As an airline pilot, Rajiv Gandhi would press a button, pull a lever and get results.

Rajiv Gandhi - India's Pilot Prime Minister

The Prime Minister, Right Hon Margaret Thatcher, MP, in a live interview with David Dimbleby.

The Margaret Thatcher Interview

Forty years after its birth, National Health Service is in grip of continued crisis.

NHS - A Terminal Case?

The Two Billion Pound Rip-Off With few effective controls and checks EEC's Common Agricultural Policy has been described as 'greatest incentive to crime in Western Europe'.

The Two Billion Pound Rip-Off

Violence on Television since Hungerford massacre violence on television has become a hot political issue.

Violence on Television

Is There No Alternative?

A history of the Provisional IRA political and military campaign.

The IRA: The Long War

Vice President George Bush and Senator Bob Dole are battling for Republican Presidential nomination.

A Hard Act to Follow

The Underclass of 88 In tomorrow's Budget Chancellor is widely expected to announce further tax cuts for better off.

The Underclass of 88

Disturbing new evidence of a connection between electricity and small but significant increases in childhood and adult cancers are mystifying scientists.

Electricity - A Shock in Store

In Church of England recent passionate arguments about ordination to priesthood of women or of practising homosexuals are symptoms of a much wider debate.

Church of England - One Foundation?

Charles, Prince of Conscience Is Prince of Wales sharpening an impression that he is increasingly out of tune with Thatcherit.

Next week, as Israel celebrates 40 years of statehood, Panorama reports on growing-problems of troubled nation.

Ten years after Pol Pot 's reign of terror, Cambodians fear horror of killing fields may return.

In the Shadow of the Killing Fields

Few people know Britain has a class of nuclear bombs other than those carried in Polaris submarines.

Replacing the Hidden Bomb

Mikhail Gorbachev has called his attempt to reform Soviet Union 'a revolution without shots'.

A Revolution Without Shots

When Government privatises electricity industry, everyone in Britain will have chance to buy a stake in nuclear power.

Selling the Nuclear Dream

After 20 years of unrest, there are first signs of a wind of political change in Northern Ireland.

Northern Ireland: The Long Peace

In his last Budget, Chancellor Lawson gave to those who already had. He cut tax for well-off.

In Wealth We Trust

Britain's South East is beginning to boom. In a crescent around London, new business parks and housing estates are fast expanding.

The Price of Success?

The death of hole-in-the-heart baby, Matthew Collier has provoked most fundamental review of National Health Service for 40 years.

Can We Afford the Doctor?

As son of Greek immigrants is about to be sent forth as Democratic Party's challenger to recapture American Presidency, Panorama examines credentials of Michael Dukakis.

Who Is This Man Dukakis?

It involves estate agents, valuers and solicitors as well as purchasers, and it's happening both because mortgages are so easily available and because bodies set up to monitor house sales seem unable to cope with buying market.

Hot Property

At a time when Opposition should have been making capital of Government's difficulties.

Labour's Agonising Reappraisal

By year 2000, there will be up to 30 per cent more cars on road. Peter Taylor examines ways of getting out of jam and interviews Secretary of State The Rt Hon Paul Channon.

Jam Today, Jam Tomorrow?

In July, 167 men were killed in world's worst ever oil disaster. Jane Corbin talks to crucial eyewitnesses aboard Piper Alpha that nigbt.

Piper Alpha: The Human Price of Oil

One-hundred-and-eighty children have just begun term at most controversial school in Britain, brand new City Technology College in Solihull.

A Class Apart

Inundation of a Nation

On eve of Conservative Party Conference, Home Secretary Rt Hon Douglas Hurd MP is preparing for his toughest challenges of year.

Violent Britain - The Hurd Instinct

An investigation into the role of the SAS in Northern Ireland.

The SAS

Using latest DNA technology, scientists are identifying genes which help to determine kind of people we are.

Choosing the Future - The Genetic Revolution

Pakistan has been chief backer of Afghan guerrillas in their Holy War against Soviet army.

Pakistan: Paying for a Holy War

Mrs Thatcher claims Conservatives are green at heart. The local authorities monitoring Britain's booming waste industry have yet to be convinced.

The Tories: Friends of the Earth?

After 15 years, people of Chile have voted to get rid of General Pinochet. But his dictatorship continues for next year-and-a-half as a nation, divided by hatred, tries to move towards democracy.

Adios General Pinochet?

On eve of Summit of Common Market Leaders, Fred Emery reports on battle for future of Europe after 1992.

Europe: My Way or Theirs?

Council estates are Conservatives' next political battlefield. Once, council housing, subsidised and secure, symbolised Welfare State.

Council Housing: The Last Frontier

Half a century after war, hunting down of old Nazis has never been more intense. In America, Canada and Israel, Nazis and their collaborators are facing trial.

The Shadow of the Swastika

Current affairs programme, featuring interviews and investigative reports on a wide variety of subjects.

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