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Watching: Weekend World

0.0•1972-10-01•17 Seasons
Season 13
Episode 21

Seasons

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Episodes

EP 1
Privatising State Industries - Against the Public Interest?
EP 2
The Prime Minister - The Second Term
EP 3
Labour Under Kinnock - Charting the Way Back
EP 4
The Trade Unions - Facing the Future
EP 5
Standards in Schools - Joseph's Plan for Action
EP 6
Andropov's Heirs - Facing the Future
EP 7
The Future of the Falklands - A Settlement in Sight?
EP 8
Acid Rain - The Quiet Killer
EP 9
After GCHQ - The Tories Count the Cost
EP 10
The Miners - Solidarity or Surrender?
EP 11
Britain and Europe - Showdown or Settlement?
EP 12
El Salvador's Election - Washington's Crisis
EP 13
The Miners' Strike - Confrontation or Collapse?
EP 14
The NATO Alliance - Still Europe's Best Hope?
EP 15
The End of the Battle... the Start of the War?
EP 16
The Miners' Strike - A Threat to Labour
EP 17
The Irish Forum - A Step Towards Peace?
EP 18
Handing Over Hong Kong - The Dangers for Britain
EP 19
The Gulf War - Reaching a Flashpoint?
EP 20
South Africa - In from the Cold?
EP 21
Third World Debt - Trigger for a Crash?
EP 22
Social Security - Meeting the Need?
EP 23
Special: Can Thatcher Beat the Strikers?
EP 24
The Miners' Strike - A Battle for Britain
EP 25
The Belgrano Affair - Salvaging the Truth
EP 26
Labour Defence Policy - Too Brittle a Shield?
EP 27
Unemployment in Britain - What Can Be Done?
EP 28
Unemployment in Britain - What Will Be Done?
EP 29
The Miners' Strike - Settlement in Sight?
EP 30
India After Indira - Facing the Future
EP 31
Reagan and the Russians - The Next Four Years
EP 32
The Miners' Strike - A Fight to the Finish
EP 33
The Abolition Bill - Streamlining the Cities
EP 34
Tories in Revolt - The Challenge to Thatcher
EP 35
The Trade Unions - Clashing with the Courts
EP 36
Gorbachev's Visit - Breaking the Ice?

Overview

Weekend World was a British television political series, made by London Weekend Television and broadcast from 1972 to 1988. Created by John Birt not long after he moved to LWT, the series was broadcast on the ITV network at lunchtimes on Sundays. Produced by Nick Elliott and David Elstein, it began by mirroring CBS's "60 Minutes" featuring several stories each week but gradually devolved into a show that featured a forensic interview with a major political figure each week. It was presented by Peter Jay initially when first broadcast in 1972, but was best-remembered for being anchored by former Labour MP Brian Walden between 1977 and 1986. Conservative MP Matthew Parris took over in 1986, resigning his seat, and presented the programme until the series ended in 1988.