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This is a documentary on the reign of the last Shahanshah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi who was overthrown by Khomeini’s Islamic ‘revolution' in 1979.

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Aubrey Beardsley was a phenomenon, as his contemporaries recognised. Between 1893 and 1898 (when he died from tuberculosis aged just 25) he developed into one of the world's most exciting graphic artists, and turned out hundreds of black and white drawings, which retain their power to fascinate, to amuse and to shock. In this film Brian Reade, Brigid Brophy, Ralph Steadman and a psychiatrist, d... Read more

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Broadcast the week he died, this short documentary about Alex Harvey covers his background and his life as a musician and includes footage from performances and interviews with Alex.

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A decrepit bus with nine entertainers on board leaves Inverness in a desperate bid to persuade the corpse of the variety road show to sit up. Through the Highlands to the island of Skye, the cast hump their ' props' from village to village playing up to three shows a night. Conditions are hard, complaints are many; jokes are cracked about the ' escape committee' until, finally, they form one ... ... Read more

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The effects of a one megaton nuclear bomb being exploded over London

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In this film B. A. Robertson examines the Scottish contribution to rock and pop. The programme contains some rare and atmospheric film of Scottish stars in performance and in the recording studio. B.A. meets them and discusses their involvement with the pop scene.

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Barry Norman looks at the attitudes towards success and failure among the famous and not quite so famous figures of Hollywood.

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On March 1932, the baby son of American aviator Charles Lindbergh was kidnapped from his home near Hopewell, New Jersey. Four years later a German immigrant carpenter, Bruno Richard Hauptmann, was convicted of the murder of the baby and died in the electric chair. The Lindbergh Kidnapping was at the time the ‘Trial of the Century’, a worldwide sensation that inspired many films and books over t... Read more

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Barry Norman tells the story of a famous training establishment for would-be stars in the 1940s and 50s. The Rank Organisation called it 'The Company of Youth' but the press quickly dubbed it 'The Charm School', where youngsters from varied backgrounds and with little or no acting experience, were put under contract at £10 a week and trained at a church hall next door to Rank's Highbury Studios... Read more

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Millions of Americans are determined to live through what they foresee as an inevitable nuclear war. Others are heading for camps in the remote back-country to escape the chaos of an impending political or economic cataclysm. They sing hymns, chant psalms of war, preach the survival of the fittest and arm themselves to the teeth. They are the Survivalists.... This film talks to women trainin... Read more

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James Hunter traces the history of the crofter's struggle to gain security of tenure on the land they occupied from the beginning of the 1880s.

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A documentary on the remaking, over ten years, of the A9 between Perth and Inverness - the highest trunk road in Britain. Work involved the diversion of a river and the building of many bridges.

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Presented by Cliff Michelmore and Dr Miriam Stoppard With the competing couples: Terry Wogan and Helen Wogan Peter Davison and Sandra Dickinson Sharron Davies and Neil Adams During the festivities most of us have eaten and drunk too much and feel rather disgusted with ourselves-but just how much harm did it do and what resolutions should we make to improve our health for the New Year? Use the ... Read more

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It is now two decades since the start of That Was the Week That Was-the programme that changed the Saturday-night viewing habits of a nation with its unique blend of satire and showbiz. Tonight Ned Sherrin , That Was the Week That Was creator and producer, offers the audience of 1982 a chance to share the team's original view of 1962