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World Service,Β·105 episodes
Should transracial adoption be forbidden?
The tourist boom in the industrial West North of England
Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka and the changing British policy on visas for them
The expansion of Stansted into a major International Airport
How miners' wives in Britain were changed by the bitter miners' strike of 1984-1985
Controversy over plans to develop Braithwaite Fold in Bowness, Lake District, UK
Trouble within the ranks of the British Communist Party
The UK penal policy of imprisonment and the resulting problem of overcrowding in prisons
British Rail's plan to close the beloved Settle and Carlisle Railway line
A preview of The Trades Union Congress in Blackpool, UK and the mood of 'new realism'
In the 10 years since sex discrimination became illegal, how have things changed?
'The keeping of the peace in Britain may be entering a new era'
Liverpools' crisis - a fight between a conservative government and a Labour city council
The decline of the tin mining industry in Cornwall
Plans to transform the Isle of Dogs into a 'high technology world centre of finance'
Plans are announced to link the UK and France by an undersea tunnel
'The birthplace of Britain's Industrial Revolution'
'Death, sex and beauty rolled into one - the Gothic look'
'Can Britain's 6th largest city reverse the downward spiral?'
The reaction of the British Islamic community in Bradford to 'The Satanic Verses'
Canadian toxic waste being shipped to Britain
The consequences of an oil spill in the Mersey
Does the Trade Union Movement in Britain have a future?
The British school geared to the needs of industry
Life in Telford, successful New Town which is also 'the most debt-prone area of the UK'
The isolation of West Cumbria and its industrial future
The development of open cast mining in County Durham
Agents of change in Sheffield after the decline of the steel industry
What is the appeal of paintballing war games?
Why have high rise flights in Britain become so unpopular?