Panorama (1953)

Back on Speaking Terms After deep freeze United States and Soviet Union are talking again in Geneva to try to halt nuclear arms race.

Starvation and drought have seized the conscience of the West: millions of pounds have been raised by ordinary people for the relief of the…

Nearly half-a-million people already born will be denied the university place they could have had before the Government cuts. The financial…

Talks between the National Union of Mineworkers and the National Coal Board have reached stalemate. As official figures report more and mor…

As unemployment keeps on rising the demands are growing again for the Government to spend more money creating jobs. Some Tory mps have join…

With Tom Mangold Britain's plan to deploy 11 flying radar stations to protect us against surprise attack has gone terribly wrong. The proje…

Next month Zimbabwe goes to the polls for the first time since Independence in 1980. Prime Minister Robert Mugabe -known as Comrade Bob - n…

What is the future of Britain's mining industry in light of the end of the miners' strike? Donald MacCormick chairs a discussion between th…

In night shelters and seedy guesthouses, some of the hundreds of mental patients discharged each year from hospital struggle against despai…

Inna Begun has not seen her husband Yosif, a prisoner in a Soviet labour camp for two years. She's just started a hunger strike in protest.…

One of the most powerful Mafia Godfathers has broken the organisation's code of silence: omerta. The confession of Tommasso Buscetta gives…

Enoch Powell 's Bill to ban research on human embryos is racing through Parliament. It's supported by a big majority in the House of Common…

As the 40th anniversary of the end of World War D. approaches, Panorama reports on the conflicting emotions of Germans in both parts of the…

As Israeli Army starts last stage of its pull-out from Lebanon, settlers on Israel's northern border are again building shelters.

When a tube traveller turned on four men he thought were robbing him, and shot them, he also fired one of the most intense debates on crime…

Six months ago, at least 2,500 Indians were killed and thousands more injured in the world's worst industrial disaster. After the gas leak…

President Reagan sees in Nicaragua a Communist tyranny which threatens the stability of Central America. The US Government back the guerril…

When football hooligans and other young offenders are sentenced by the courts, what sort of punishment do they get? Panorama has spent thre…

The number of home owners who can't pay the mortgage is rising sharply. Last year 11,000 families lost their homes when the building societ…

President Reagan believes his 'Star Wars' defence initiative may end the threat from nuclear weapons. His critics say that the massive rese…

In America the biggest spy scandal for decades continues to unravel: already it threatens the security of Britain and the rest of NATO. Thr…

Asked who she thought would be the next Prime Minister, Mrs Thatcher replied 'David Owen '. But how much do we really know about one of the…

British prisons are bursting at the bars, and now hold 8,000 more inmates than they were built for. But in the United States, where overcro…

In the general election two years ago Labour suffered one of the most crushing defeats in its history. Since then its new leader, Neil Kinn…

What should the Tories do to get out of the slump they are in with the voters? Is it merely a matter, as Mrs Thatcher maintains, of getting…

Jasmine Beckford's stepfather was jailed for beating her to death. It was first of a series of terrible cases of child abuse.

A look at effects of Apartheid laws on lives of black South Africans.

In 1985 more people have already died in air crashes than in any previous year. At Manchester airport in August, 77 people escaped from a b…

'London is now the fraud capital of the world and the profits are astronomical,' claims fraud investigator RICHARD JURGENSON. Police, lawye…

In London a senior Russian KGB officer defects: his tip-off traps a top KGB agent in Oslo. In Bonn the West German Head of Counterintellige…

On the eve of the historic Reagan-Gorbachev summit meeting in Geneva, Panorama brings young Russians and Americans together for a special d…

In the wake of the violent riots this autumn, much has been said about policing and punishment in Britain's inner cities. But little has be…

AIDS is the biggest public health threat for a generation. To date there have been a few hundred victims in Britain, but experts predict th…

Four years ago this week martial law was imposed in Poland and the short-lived free trade union movement Solidarity was suppressed. Panoram…

Yassar Arafat and the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) are fighting for survival after the blunders and killings of the last few mon…