Open Door (TV programme)

The Community Programme Unit was initiated by David Attenborough, the BBC Director of Programmes from 1969 to 1973,{{Cite web |last=Price |first=Jo |year=2016 |title=Sir David Attenborough – key moments in his career so far |url=https://www.discoverwildlife.com/people/sir-david-attenborough-key-moments-in-his-career-so-far |access-date=2024-06-15 |website=Discover Wildlife |publisher=BBC |language=English}} in collaboration with television producer Rowan Ayers. The two were interested in promoting public television as a space for participatory democracy.{{Cite news |last=Appleton |first=Mike |date=2008-01-23 |title=Rowan Ayers |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/jan/23/television.mainsection |access-date=2024-06-15 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}{{Cite journal |last=Dayan |first=Daniel |date=2009 |title=Sharing and Showing: Television as Monstration |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0002716209338364 |journal=The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science |language=English |volume=625 |issue=1 |pages=19–31 |doi=10.1177/0002716209338364 |issn=0002-7162 |access-date=15 June 2024 |via=Research Gate}} Ayers was appointed to run the Community Programme Unit (CPU).

The CPU had a base, deliberately distanced from the BBC Television Centre, in a terraced house owned by the BBC on Hammersmith Grove. William Fowler and Matthew Harle write that this was to ensure the Unit was visible to the community and that it was a less intimidating space for people to enter without having to go through security checks, for instance.{{Cite web |last=Fowler; Harle |first=William; Matthew |year=2023 |title=The Furthest Edge of the BBC: Watching Open Door |url=https://ravenrow.org/texts/william-fowler-and-matthew-harle-the-furthest-edge-of-the-bbc-watching-open-door |access-date=2024-06-15 |website=Raven Row |language=English}}

The CPU broadcast programmes both live with a studio audience and with pre-recorded elements. Programmes were styled on the format of popular talks shows and news reports of the day, but with a focus on social activism because community groups would be given editorial control over content.{{Cite web |last=Jones |first=Ellen E |date=25 May 2024 |title=Watching Us, Watching You |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001zlwg |archive-format= |access-date=2024-06-15 |website=BBC Archive on 4 |publisher= |language=English}} In a research article discussing the creation and legacy of the CPU, Jo Henderson argues:{{Cite journal |last=Henderson |first=Jo |date=2022 |title=Let the people speak – The Community Programmes Unit 1972–2002 |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17496020211063092 |journal=Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Television Studies |language=English |volume=17 |issue=1 |pages=46–62 |doi=10.1177/17496020211063092 |issn=1749-6020 |url-access= |access-date=15 June 2024 |via=Sage Journals}}

{{Blockquote|text=The CPU's importance is threefold. Firstly, it created the broadcaster-as-publisher model in the UK, subsequently adopted by Channel 4, and now by streaming sites such as YouTube and post-mediated social media platforms such as Twitter. Secondly, it created innovative content that extended the topics and subjects on British television. Finally, it used the new technology of video to develop and refine techniques that have now become familiar elements in the television grammar of reality television and in first-person documentary|author=Jo Henderson|title=Let the people speak – The Community Programmes Unit 1972–2002|source=Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Television Studies (2022)}}

Open Door, the first programme for the CPU, was initially brought to the attention of Robin Scott, who had been controller of the Light Programme and then BBC2, after reading about the idea from Frank Gillard, former director of BBC Radio, who had written about an American "people's radio show" in Boston.{{Cite web |last=Gillard |first=Frank |date=2022-03-28 |title=Robin Scott interviewed by Frank Gillard, 1985 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0bx9yb8 |access-date=2024-06-15 |website=BBC - History of the BBC |publisher=BBC |language=en-GB}} Attenborough appointed Scott and Ayers to create a BBC television version.{{Cite journal |last=Jolly |first=Margaretta |date=2024-01-02 |title=Listening Projects: The BBC, Oral History, and the Nation in Fractured Times |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00940798.2024.2324062 |journal=The Oral History Review |language=en |volume=51 |issue=1 |pages=108–135 |doi=10.1080/00940798.2024.2324062 |issn=0094-0798}} In a Board of Management Meeting on 7 December 1972, Attenborough presented Community Programmes,{{Cite web |last=Attenborough |first=David |date=7 December 1972 |title=Community Programme Unit |url=https://downloads.bbc.co.uk/historyofthebbc/people-nation-empire/T66-15-1%20Community%20Programmes.pdf |access-date=15 June 2024 |website=BBC}} a five-page report that proposed an experimental series, overseen by the CPU, to start in April 1973 (this would become known as Open Door). Attenborough argued that the network could benefit from community programmes by bringing "unheard voices to a mainstream audience" and by also challenging traditional ways of creating content. Thereby "new editorial attitudes that do not derive from the assumptions of the university-educated elite who are commonly believed to dominate television production." However, Attenborough also addressed the possible concerns of broadcasting such programmes, and he outlined these as including: (1) the potential to disrupt BBC impartiality, (2) the risk of programmes leaning too heavily in one political or social direction, (3) content may be boring and bring in low viewership, (4) programmes may be deliberately controversial, and (5) the potential for the BBC to be liable in libel proceedings or contempt of court. To counter this, Attenborough argued that the CPU should investigate applications "and make formal recommendations supported with a summary of their research and reasons for commendation to a Selection Committee".

Mike Phillips, interviewed by David Hendy for the University of Sussex - BBC Centenary Collection recalls that, at the time, there was a problem within and outside the Corporation for self-representation.{{Cite web |last=Hendy |first=David |date=30 May 2019 |title=Interview with Mike Phillips |url=https://connectedhistoriesofthebbc.org/play/?id=409&part=3&start=78.961614&end=109.9093.81#audio-player |access-date=2024-06-15 |website=Connected History of the BBC}} Phillips describes his colleagues as being "all nice people" but criticises the lack of black and working-class representation not just on screen but behind it as producers and broadcasters, saying "the sense of who was entitled to speak and who was not entitled to speak was stifling."

Originally titled 'Open House', Open Door was approved and commissioned in April 1973 by the Director-General of the BBC from 1969 to 1977, Charles Curran. By February 1973, more than fifty community groups had applied and as part of the application process they pitched their premises to the CPU staff team who voted on the ideas they liked the most. The CPU decided they had enough content for 6 initial programmes. Of the groups that were successful, they were assigned their own producer who assisted them with formatting, styling and editing their programme.

Open Door was to be the final transmission on Monday night on BBC Channel Two, a decision that was partly made because it was felt this late-slot would minimise the risk of offending a large audience. Each programme would aim to follow the same format where four contributors would present information about the episode's topic. Every fourth programme in the series was initially planned to be a response programme where both a studio and home audience could respond to the previous transmissions.

Viewership for the first series of Open Door was not large, however, it was recommissioned for a second series in the same late Monday night slot. One of the earliest episodes to receive larger audience figures was 'The U & I Club' with a combined audience of 396,000 (from the original transmission and repeat), and 12,000 audience members wrote to the organisation regarding the episode.{{Cite journal |last=BBC |year=1973 |title=Programme Proposal R78/2, 807/1 |journal=Access Programmes |location=BBC Written Archive Centre |ref=1517496020211063092}}

Open Door was last broadcast in September 1983, after a decade on the television. It was succeeded by Open Space, and furthermore Video Diaries and Video Nation when there was increased availability to quality domestic video equipment. Budget cuts led to the end of the CPU in 2002.

{{Cite web |year=2012 |title=Programme Index |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/ |access-date=2024-06-15 |website=BBC Programme Index |publisher=BBC Genome}}

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| Title = Saint Mungo Community Trust

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1973|4|2|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Features the Saint Mungo Community Trust, a charity trust concerned with homelessness. The episode explains how the Trust sets up houses that offer refuge to those who would have no alternative. Insight from Jim Horne, who runs the Trust, and shows how the Trust operates a nightly hot soup service at different locations in London.

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| Title = Liberation of Lifestyle and the Responsible Society

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1973|4|9|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Features 'The Responsible Society', a non-religious organisation believing that society has a right and role in defending certain principles of social responsibility. The group presents their view by discussing arguments on medical and social issues.

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| Title = Black Teachers

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1973|4|16|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Demonstrates the minority of black people represented within the education sector at the time, presented by Mike Phillips. The episode was made by a group of black teachers who discuss the poor level of achievement amongst black students.

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| EpisodeNumber = 4

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4

| Title = Teachers in Dentistry

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1973|4|30|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Teachers in dentistry show that prevention is better than the cure. Trees for People also explain why trees are precious.

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| EpisodeNumber = 5

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5

| Title = Feedback

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1973|5|7|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Episode in front a live audience, where space for feedback and discussion is provided regarding previous topics on Open Door.

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| Title = East End Channel One

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1973|5|14|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = This episode is presented by The Basement Project Film Group where they satirize news reports on social security and they examine the issues facing the East of London. Themes include the benefits system, lack of social housing in the area, immigration and changing culture of the area.

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| EpisodeNumber = 7

| EpisodeNumber2 = 7

| Title = How to Stop Ring Roads

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1973|5|21|df=y}}

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| Title = Transex Liberation Group

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1973|6|4|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Featured trans women from the Transex Liberation Group. Four group members held a discussion about their experiences as trans women in the 1960s and 1970s, commenting on daily challenges, employment and their transitions.

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| EpisodeNumber = 9

| EpisodeNumber2 = 9

| Title = Where is poetry? What is poetry?

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1973|6|11|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Birmingham Poets ask: Where is poetry? What is poetry?. The Association of British Investigators explains the true role of the much aligned 'private eye.'

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| EpisodeNumber = 10

| EpisodeNumber2 = 10

| Title = Spring is here and the time is right for planting the streets

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1973|6|18|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Street Farmers: 'Soring is here and the time is right for planting in the street.' The Council for Academic Freedom and Democracy also dsicusss the growing threat to freedom in universities, technical colleges and schools.

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| EpisodeNumber = 11

| EpisodeNumber2 = 11

| Title = RAFT: Recidivists Anonymous Fellowship Trust

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1973|6|25|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = RAFT: Recidivists Anonymous Fellowship Trust (a group of prisoners and ex-convicts) discuss how they look at the world and how the world sees them.

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| EpisodeNumber = 12

| EpisodeNumber2 = 12

| Title = Bogside Community Association

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1973|7|2|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = The Bogside Community Association presents its own view of the community of 'Bogside' to address stereotypes that it is violent.

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| EpisodeNumber = 13

| EpisodeNumber2 = 13

| Title = Cleaners Action

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1973|6|9|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Cleaners Action discuss the domestic and working problems of night cleaners and about their attempts to organise workers.

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|EpisodeNumber = 14

|EpisodeNumber2 = 1

|Title = Mars Sector 8 calling...

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1973|9|24|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Featuring the Aetherius Society, a group founded by George King who claims to have been to Mars.

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|EpisodeNumber = 15

|EpisodeNumber2 = 2

|Title = Battered Wives

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1973|10|1|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Featuring Chiswick Women's Aid. Discusses the term 'battered wives' and its use by the media. A group of women and children talk about their wown experiences at Chiswick Hostel.

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|EpisodeNumber = 16

|EpisodeNumber2 = 3

|Title = Legal Profession

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1973|10|8|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Members of the legal profession take a critical look at the kind of service they provide for the public.

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|EpisodeNumber = 17

|EpisodeNumber2 = 4

|Title = Tower Hamlets Truants/The Bootstrap Union

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1973|10|15|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Tower Hamlets Truants discuss what is wrong with school and why they don't go. The Bootstrap Union (a group of teachers) look for ways to change the role of school in deprived areas.

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|EpisodeNumber = 19

|EpisodeNumber2 = 5

|Title = The London Trade Unions and Old Age Pensioners Joint Committee

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1973|10|22|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = The Old Age Pensioners Joint Committee discuss the hardships and experiences of pensioners and how they can help to improve circumstances.

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|EpisodeNumber = 20

|EpisodeNumber2 = 7

|Title = Countryside Crisis

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1973|11|5|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Members of the village Conservation Committee in Randwick illustrate how the countryside can remain unspoilt, and introduce ideas for a Byway Code.

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|EpisodeNumber = 21

|EpisodeNumber2 = 8

|Title = U & I Club: Urinary Infection in Your Home

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1973|11|12|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = The U + I Club provide information, for those with cystitis, when doctors cannot help.

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|EpisodeNumber = 22

|EpisodeNumber2 = 9

|Title = So You Want to Go on the Stage?

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1973|11|19|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by The Arts Association. A panel of leading teachers and professionals answer questions on stage training.

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|EpisodeNumber = 23

|EpisodeNumber2 = 10

|Title = Women as Priests?

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1973|11|26|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by The Christian Parity Group and discussing women in the role of priests.

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|EpisodeNumber = 24

|EpisodeNumber2 = 11

|Title = The Gipsy Council

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1973|12|3|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = At a campsite in Wandsworth, the Gipsy Council meets with fellow gipsies, friends, and non-sympathisers for discussion, ceremonies, songs and dancing.

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|EpisodeNumber = 25

|EpisodeNumber2 = 12

|Title = Down Your Ward

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1973|12|10|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Hospital Broadcasting Association presents a hospital radio show.

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|EpisodeNumber = 26

|EpisodeNumber2 = 1

|Title = Starting to Happen

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1974|1|27|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = A film about the experience of LIBERATION FILMS working with a group of people in Belham to use portable TV cameras to make their own show.

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|EpisodeNumber = 27

|EpisodeNumber2 = 2

|Title = Parent-to-Parent Information on Adoption Services

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1974|2|3|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Parent-to-Parent information on adoption services.

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|EpisodeNumber = 28

|EpisodeNumber2 = 3

|Title = King's College Post-graduate Discussion Group

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1974|2|10|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = King's College Post-graduate Discussion Group attempt to share their understanding of the English language and literature by the examination and reading of Wordsworth's Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey.

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|EpisodeNumber = 29

|EpisodeNumber2 = 4

|Title = One in a Thousand

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1974|2|17|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = A group of parents of deaf children expose the shortcomings of the advice and help given to them by doctors, teachers and administrators.

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|EpisodeNumber = 30

|EpisodeNumber2 = 5

|Title = Muscle Mania?

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1974|2|24|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Explores the muscle scene and challenges myths and perceptions about bodybuilding.

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|EpisodeNumber = 31

|EpisodeNumber2 = 6

|Title = The British Association of Retired Persons

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1974|2|25|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = The British Association of Retired Persons present a discussion on some problems of retirement. The Society for the Rescue of Destitute Animals was started in Manchester 11 years ago and cares for animals abandoned by their owners.

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|EpisodeNumber = 32

|EpisodeNumber2 = 7

|Title = The Homeopathic Research and Educational Trust

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1974|3|4|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = A different approach to the treatment of illness which does not rely on powerful drugs. Discussion about availability under the NHS and whether the full value of homoeopathic treatment is recognised.

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|EpisodeNumber = 33

|EpisodeNumber2 = 8

|Title = Can we ever make our society less divided?

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1974|3|11|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = The 73 Club discuss society and presents a solution by breaking down social barriers between boys from totally different backgrounds.

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|EpisodeNumber = 34

|EpisodeNumber2 = 9

|Title = It's Driving Us Barmy!!!

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1974|3|18|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Avonmouth Residents Association discuss 'Zombyism' and aim to show that there is hope and inspiration out of this.

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|EpisodeNumber = 35

|EpisodeNumber2 = 10

|Title = Black Workers' Rights Group

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1974|3|25|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = The Black Workers' Rights Group discuss recent strikes by black workers against discrimination on the shop floor. They show why the Trade Union movement must address this issue.

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|EpisodeNumber = 36

|EpisodeNumber2 = 11

|Title = Jericho

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1974|4|1|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Maggie Black and Lucy Willis discuss the history of Jericho, Oxford as well as its present.

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|EpisodeNumber = 37

|EpisodeNumber2 = 12

|Title = Black Feet in the Snow

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1974|4|8|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presents the first play of the series, written by author Jamal Ali.

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|EpisodeNumber = 38

|EpisodeNumber2 = 1

|Title = Nobody's Child

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1974|5|13|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Musicians' Action Group Jazz.... Nobody's Child ask

'is jazz the forgotten branch of music ... the music that the industry and media ignore?' A group of leading jazz musicians who strongly believe this to be so present their case and illustrate it with their music - the jazz of 1974.

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|EpisodeNumber = 39

|EpisodeNumber2 = 2

|Title = The Auxuliary Fire Service (1938-1968)/The Good Death

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1974|5|20|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Discusses the history of The Auxiliary Fire Service. Dignity in Dying (originally known as The Voluntary Euthanasia Society) also discuss the human right to choose to live or die.

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|EpisodeNumber = 40

|EpisodeNumber2 = 3

|Title = Picture Power/The British Go Association

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1974|6|3|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Evening students from London's City Literary Institute (City Lit) investigate the impact of the visual image. The British Go Association discuss the board game of Go and how it has been played for thousands of years in the Far East, and in recent years many Westerners have discovered its fascination.

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|EpisodeNumber = 41

|EpisodeNumber2 = 4

|Title = Life for the World Trust

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1974|6|10|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Life for the World Trust is a Christian organisation which believes that a spiritual answer needs to be offered to drug addicts and young people with drug problems. people associated with the Trust and the problem of drug addiction show just how addicts are being helped to complete freedom through a faith in God.

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|EpisodeNumber = 42

|EpisodeNumber2 = 5

|Title = The Barnsley and District Art Society

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1974|6|17|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = The Barnsley and District Art Society demonstrate their paintings and their place in the world of art.

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|EpisodeNumber = 43

|EpisodeNumber2 = 6

|Title = The Whetley Voice

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1974|6|24|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = The Whetley Voice, a community newspaper in Bradford, is discussed. The editor and the community show how it is produced and talk about the value of grassroots journalism.

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|EpisodeNumber = 44

|EpisodeNumber2 = 1

|Title = The George Arthur Road Action Group

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1974|9|23|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = The George Arthur Road Action Group from Saltley, Birmingham, who write about their programme: Tear the houses apart and you tear the people apart. They discuss how their homes were to be demolished, but the community fought back.

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|EpisodeNumber = 45

|EpisodeNumber2 = 2

|Title = The Nite Blues Steel Band/A Town Divided

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1974|9|29|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = The Nite Blues Steel Band, from Stoke Newington, present music ranging from traditional West Indian style to rock. Two former students from Harrow Faculty of Art and Photography also present a personal view of the Ulster troubles.

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|EpisodeNumber = 46

|EpisodeNumber2 = 3

|Title = Grapevine

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1974|10|6|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by Su Carroll, Watkinson Grapevine is about people who get together to make life better for themselves and those around them. Features the Norwich Way Out Club for agoraphobics, and a black parents group from Bristol who are involved in a local festival and in a Saturday morning school for their children.

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|EpisodeNumber = 47

|EpisodeNumber2 = 4

|Title = Science for People

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1974|10|13|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science.

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|EpisodeNumber = 48

|EpisodeNumber2 = 5

|Title = Hove Ratepayers Association

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1974|10|27|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Hove Ratepayers Association want to change the stereotyped perception of Hove.

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|EpisodeNumber = 49

|EpisodeNumber2 = 6

|Title = Karate Do/Anarchists

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1974|10|27|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = The Shotokan Karate Centre shows that karate is more than a means of self-defence. Not only is it a discipline for the mind and body but also an art form in its own right. An anarchist from the Northampton steel town of Corby also explains why he believes we need revolutionary social change in order to give people control of their own lives, workplaces and communities.

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|EpisodeNumber = 50

|EpisodeNumber2 = 7

|Title = Wapping Parents' Action group

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1974|11|3|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Wapping Parents' Action group present what they want for the area including clean stairwells, playgrounds and decent bus services.

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|EpisodeNumber = 51

|EpisodeNumber2 = 8

|Title = Freedom Under Law

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1974|11|10|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Freedom Under Law, a citizens' organisation that fights disruption, present their belief that in a democracy, if people want to change society, they must change the law, not break it.

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|EpisodeNumber = 52

|EpisodeNumber2 = 9

|Title = Scouting - The Myth and the Reality

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1974|11|17|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = A light-hearted survey of some of the popular misconceptions which surround the Scout movement and. in contrast, an examination of the constructive role that scouting plays in the community.

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|EpisodeNumber = 53

|EpisodeNumber2 = 10

|Title = Mrs Eleanor Cook/Mr George Pluckwell

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1974|12|1|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Nursing Sister Eleanor Cook presents her own practical guide to nursing and caring for elderly and chronically sick relative at home. Mr George Pluckwell also makes a please for more working-class poetry.

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|EpisodeNumber = 54

|EpisodeNumber2 = 11

|Title = Design Action

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1974|12|8|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by Design and Industries Association ask for help in meeting the challenge of the energy crisis and design for survival.

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|EpisodeNumber = 55

|EpisodeNumber2 = 12

|Title = Gingerbread

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1974|12|15|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by Gingerbread, a self-help association for one-parent families.

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|EpisodeNumber = 56

|EpisodeNumber2 = 1

|Title = South Place Ethical Society

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1975|1|27|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Explores the questions 'What happens when a church leaves labels and dogmas behind; when it retains the religious essentials of wonder, enquiry, caring, and belonging; when it defends the freedom of speech as an article of faith: when it transforms itself in the process?'. 'South Place', in London, is featured as an example.

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|EpisodeNumber = 57

|EpisodeNumber2 = 2

|Title = Amazing Equal Pay Show

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1975|2|3|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by The Wages for Housework Campaign who believe that women need to be paid and recognised for the work they do in the home, until this is achieved women will not see equal pay.

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|EpisodeNumber = 58

|EpisodeNumber2 = 3

|Title = One Every 20 Seconds

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1975|2|10|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by Bristol Victims Support Scheme to support victims of crime.

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|EpisodeNumber = 59

|EpisodeNumber2 = 4

|Title = Smells Like Burnt Pork

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1975|2|17|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Douglas MacDonald discusses his plans for a research and development association to aid inventors.

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|EpisodeNumber = 60

|EpisodeNumber2 = 5

|Title = Women Ask Questions

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1975|2|24|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Five housewives from the National Housewives Association who believe that Great Britain is fast becoming Lesser Britain, and that everybody has contributed to bringing this about in their own way, question trade unionist Alan Fisher of NUPE, and company director Quinton Hazell of the CBI.

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|EpisodeNumber = 61

|EpisodeNumber2 = 6

|Title = Stirabout Theatre Company

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1975|3|3|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = The Stirabout Theatre Company show why they think prison theatre is necessary.

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|EpisodeNumber = 62

|EpisodeNumber2 = 7

|Title = Association for Neighbourhood Councils

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1975|3|17|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Bob Dixey, director of the Association for Neighbourhood Councils (National Association of Local Councils) (ANC) Campaign attempts to changes made to the re-organisation of local government.

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|EpisodeNumber = 63

|EpisodeNumber2 = 8

|Title = The Cromarty Firth

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1975|3|24|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = The story of the fight against the threat of an American-backed oil refinery in the Scottish Highlands. The battlefield - an area of great natural beauty and full employment.

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|EpisodeNumber = 64

|EpisodeNumber2 = 9

|Title = Meriden Motorcycle Co-operative

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1975|4|21|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = The Co-operative invite critics to question their motives and their chance of success in a hard, competitive world. They believe that the media have covered their story well in human terms. The struggle for their right to work and to establish the Co-operative is won. They ask 'now, how do they see the future? What are their plans?'

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|EpisodeNumber = 65

|EpisodeNumber2 = 10

|Title = Asians in Britain: Part 1

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1975|4|28|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = the Standing Conference of Asian Organisations in the UK sets out to help understanding between Asians and the host community. Presents a study of Asians with their varied cultures, religions and languages and a look at the generation gap developing as young Asians grow up in Britain.

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|EpisodeNumber = 66

|EpisodeNumber2 = 11

|Title = Asians in Britain: Part 2

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1975|5|5|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Identifies the special needs of the Asian community in the field of education, employment, youth and women and proposes measures to meet these needs.

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|EpisodeNumber = 67

|EpisodeNumber2 = 12

|Title = The International Arts Centre (IAC)

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1975|5|12|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = In this programme the Centre explains its philosophy and shows how people who normally shun the arts can interact with the IAC.

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|EpisodeNumber = 68

|EpisodeNumber2 = 13

|Title = Tolmers Village Association

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1975|5|19|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Tolmers Village, a community in central London, is struggling for survival. This programme shows how property speculators can ruin people's lives and how councils and planners seem powerless to help. The villagers, however (together with 160 squatters), are fighting back.

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|EpisodeNumber = 69

|EpisodeNumber2 = 14

|Title = The Whiterock Co-operative of West Belfast

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1975|6|2|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = The story of industrial self-help and community action - the collective response of a number of Gaelic speakers to the problem of the lack of work in areas like Ballymurphy.

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|EpisodeNumber = 70

|EpisodeNumber2 = 15

|Title = The All Children Together Movement

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1975|6|9|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by the All Children Together Movement whose aim is to have integrated schools within the educational system of Northern Ireland.

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|EpisodeNumber = 71

|EpisodeNumber2 = 16

|Title = Hill of Harmony

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1975|6|16|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = From a province over-reported in terms of violence, the story of another face of Ulster life - Protestants and Catholics working together for reconciliation since 1965 through the unique Corrymeela Community.

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|EpisodeNumber = 72

|EpisodeNumber2 = 17

|Title = Who's Killing the Mother of Arts?

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1975|6|23|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = The contemporary housing estate is the standard solution to our housing needs and imaginative designers suffer rejection by planning authorities. The episode explores why.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 73

|EpisodeNumber2 = 1

|Title = Forum - Unheard Voices: Unemployed from Ellesmere Port

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1975|9|8|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = In a week of special Open Door programmes, groups of people - whose attitudes and ideas are not commonly given direct expression in the media - are invited to put forward their views on the state of the nation... or anything else they care to talk about.

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|EpisodeNumber = 74

|EpisodeNumber2 = 2

|Title = Forum - Unheard Voices: National Council of Women

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1975|9|9|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = The individual views of women from the Nottingham branch of the National Council of Women

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|EpisodeNumber = 75

|EpisodeNumber2 = 3

|Title = Forum - Unheard Voices: The Afro-Caribbean Group of Kentish Town

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1975|9|10|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = The Afro-Caribbean Group of Kentish Town are a Youth Club and present their views on the state of the nation and other concerns.

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|EpisodeNumber = 76

|EpisodeNumber2 = 4

|Title = Forum - Unheard Voices: Naval and Military Club

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1975|9|11|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = The Naval and Military Club present their views on the state of the nation and other concerns.

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|EpisodeNumber = 77

|EpisodeNumber2 = 5

|Title = Forum - Unheard Voices: North Gawber Colliery Miners' Welfare

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1975|9|12|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Miners and their wives from North Gawber Colliery Miners' Welfare, near Barnsley, Yorkshire present their views on the state of the nation and other concerns.

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|EpisodeNumber = 78

|EpisodeNumber2 = 6

|Title = Forum - Unheard Voices: Conclusion

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1975|9|13|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Groups of people - whose attitudes and ideas are not commonly given direct expression in the media - have been invited to put forward their views on the state of the nation, or anything else they care to talk about. Two people from each group meet for the first time, elect a chairman, and search for common ground between their various viewpoints in an unedited discussion.

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|EpisodeNumber = 79

|EpisodeNumber2 = 7

|Title = Gentle Ghost - an Eye to the Future

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1975|9|20|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Gentle Ghost provides employment; services from Architecture to Astrology; evening classes, a restaurant and a counselling, advice and information service. The theme of the programme is modern man's headlong flight from nature, both his own and that surrounding him, and the need to reverse this process.

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|EpisodeNumber = 80

|EpisodeNumber2 = 8

|Title = Routes of Conflict

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1975|9|27|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = The Conflict Research Society studies conflicts to better understand human conflict.

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|EpisodeNumber = 81

|EpisodeNumber2 = 9

|Title = More than a Place to Live

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1975|10|4|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = The Society for Co-operative Dwellings assists the development of locally owned and managed housing co-operatives. It was responsible for the first such scheme in Britain. This programme explains the principles of housing co-operatives and discusses their part in solving our accommodation crisis.

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|EpisodeNumber = 82

|EpisodeNumber2 = 10

|Title = Four different groups

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1975|10|11|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Features four different groups: Chickens' Lib (from Oxfordshire) fighting for chickens' rights, Mufon (from Manchester) who scientifically investigate UFO's, Disablement Income Group (DIG) (from Newcastle) fighting for a fair income for every disabled person, and the English National Party (ENP) (from London).

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|EpisodeNumber = 83

|EpisodeNumber2 = 11

|Title = Help for the Blind by the Blind

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1975|10|18|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Projects by the Blind, Hammersmith, is an educational, counselling and social centre run by the blind for the blind and their sighted friends. The organisation already produces sound newspapers and magazines, but this is their first television programme.

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|EpisodeNumber = 84

|EpisodeNumber2 = 12

|Title = The Pre-School Playgroups Association

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1975|10|25|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = The Pre-School Playgroups Association is a nationwide movement of self-help groups for families with young children. Discuss questions such as 'What is a play-group? Who are the people behind it? What are their aims?'.

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|EpisodeNumber = 85

|EpisodeNumber2 = 13

|Title = So You Think It's a Free Country

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1975|11|1|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by the National Council for Civil Liberties (Liberty (advocacy group)) who are concerned with problems such as wrongful arrest, refusal of bail and conspiracy.

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|EpisodeNumber = 86

|EpisodeNumber2 = 14

|Title = So You Think It's a Free Country

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1975|11|8|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Repeated episode (see above episode 13).

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|EpisodeNumber = 87

|EpisodeNumber2 = 15

|Title = North Devon Farm Workers: An everyday story

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1975|11|15|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by a group of North Devon Farm Workers.

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|EpisodeNumber = 88

|EpisodeNumber2 = 16

|Title = Hunt Saboteurs Association/Great Masters

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1975|11|22|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by Hunt Saboteurs Association, a militant anti-blood sports group. Margaret Rae (musical medium) and Coral Polge (psychic artists) also experiment to receive messages.

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|EpisodeNumber = 89

|EpisodeNumber2 = 17

|Title = Take Five Girls

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1975|11|29|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by five 16-year-old girls from a mixed comprehensive school at Crowthorne, Berkshire.

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|EpisodeNumber = 90

|EpisodeNumber2 = 18

|Title = Tribunal

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1975|12|6|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Workers from Bradford re-enact a story of unemployment benefit.

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|EpisodeNumber = 91

|EpisodeNumber2 = 19

|Title = Much of the Day

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1975|12|13|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by Trinity Arts - Small Heath. One day's activities of a Community Arts Project working on a long-term basis in an inner ring area of Birmingham. The programme shows the possibilities for community involvement in the creative use of a derelict site.

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|EpisodeNumber = 92

|EpisodeNumber2 = 20

|Title = So this is Christmas

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1975|12|20|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = St Agnes's Church Hall in Moseley, Birmingham, is the unlikely setting for a live television community Christmas Party for more than 100 people from all over the British Isles. Among the entertainers : a steel band, folk singers, puppet theatre and a dancing dragon. And the Open Door community - people who've made their own programmes over the past three years - provide the interviewers and interviewees. They show what can be done by way of help and self-help for those for whom Christmas might otherwise be a lonely, bitter experience.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 93

|EpisodeNumber2 = 1

|Title = The Vegan Society: To a Brighter Future

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1976|1|31|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by The Vegan Society who believe that animal products involve cruelty and waste of the resources needed by the world's hungry.

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|EpisodeNumber = 94

|EpisodeNumber2 = 2

|Title = All Work and No Pay

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1976|2|7|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by the Wages for Housework Campaign.

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|EpisodeNumber = 95

|EpisodeNumber2 = 3

|Title = The Kite and Cambridge

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1976|2|14|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Cambridge is threatened by a huge shopping complex with parking for 2,500 cars. Kite Community Action opposes it. This programme shows the risk of destroying city centres for motorised shoppers.

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|EpisodeNumber = 96

|EpisodeNumber2 = 4

|Title = The Cautionary Tale of Emmanuel Blob

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1976|2|21|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Peter Seabrook talks to Philip Swindells about water plants and Bob Hopkins about bedding plants and explains the geometry Elizabethan knot gardens and showcases Chapman's Garden at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

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|EpisodeNumber = 97

|EpisodeNumber2 = 5

|Title =The British Campaign to Stop Immigration

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1976|2|28|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = The British Campaign to Stop Immigration present their belief that freedom of speech should be granted to all, and that there is a 'veil of censorship' on the subject.{{cite web | url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/32dfb50e12174905a6932ddc38438768 | title=BBC Programme Index | date=28 February 1976 }}

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|EpisodeNumber = 98

|EpisodeNumber2 = 6

|Title = More than Enough

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1976|3|6|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = The Society, Religion and Technology Project (in Scotland) sets out to challenge our attitudes to the problems of a hungry world.

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|EpisodeNumber = 99

|EpisodeNumber2 = 7

|Title = Anything! Anytime! Any problem is no problem

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1976|3|13|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by the Friends Anonymous Service. The episode is a dramatisation of a typical 48 hours at Friendship House, Hackney-headquarters, a round-the-clock voluntary social service agency.

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|EpisodeNumber = 100

|EpisodeNumber2 = 8

|Title = A Child with Something Extra

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1976|3|20|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by The Down's Babies Association and The Southend 0-2,2-5 Groups. Demonstrates that, with the right sort of guidance given to parents, children with down's syndrome develop to a far higher degree than was thought.

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|EpisodeNumber = 101

|EpisodeNumber2 = 9

|Title = Ponies for Sale! 50 Pence!

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1976|4|3|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presents the history of Ponies of Britain, founded in 1952 by Miss Gladys Yule and Mrs Glenda Spooner. Showcases The Ponies of Britain Stallion Show, held annually at Ascot.

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|EpisodeNumber = 102

|EpisodeNumber2 = 10

|Title = Are we Special?

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1976|4|10|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by pupils at Red Lodge School in Southampton, which educates those aged between 12 and 16, and seeks to dispel some of the public's misconceptions about schools for children with learning difficulties.

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|EpisodeNumber = 103

|EpisodeNumber2 = 11

|Title = Split-Up

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1976|4|24|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presents the effects of divorce on families.

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|EpisodeNumber = 104

|EpisodeNumber2 = 12

|Title = Speak with One Voice

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1976|5|1|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = The Birmingham Clarion Singers, a socialist musical group, present the history of May Day in contemporary music and song on the 50th Anniversary of the General Strike.

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|EpisodeNumber = 105

|EpisodeNumber2 = 13

|Title = Once Upon a Line

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1976|5|8|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by the Cambrian Coast Line Action Group and tells the story of the fight to save one of Britain's most scenic railways - from Machynlleth to Pwllheli.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 106

|EpisodeNumber2 = 14

|Title = Fluoridation and Truth Decay/The Real Forgotten

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1976|5|15|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = The National Pure Water Association presents their opposition to medicine as opposed to the benefits of tap water. The Sergeants Nicholson also present their campaign for better pensions for ex-regular servicemen.

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|EpisodeNumber = 107

|EpisodeNumber2 = 15

|Title = Who Gets the Benefit?

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1976|5|22|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = The Claimants' union present an episode about the social security system.

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|EpisodeNumber = 108

|EpisodeNumber2 = 16

|Title = Looks Back

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1976|5|29|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = To mark 100 episodes made by more than 100 groups and individuals. Some of the groups talk to Chris Dunkley, television critic of the Financial Times, about what they achieved with their programmes.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 109

|EpisodeNumber2 = 1

|Title = Liverpool - Housing

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1976|9|20|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = A special week presenting issues facing Liverpool. This episode discusses the state of housing.

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|EpisodeNumber = 110

|EpisodeNumber2 = 2

|Title = Liverpool - Racialism

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1976|9|21|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = This episodes discusses racialism and asks the question 'has the existence over 50 years of black communities in Liverpool led to a decline in racial conflict?'

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|EpisodeNumber = 111

|EpisodeNumber2 = 3

|Title = Liverpool - Education

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1976|9|22|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Discusses education and also takes a look at teaching yourself fire eating.

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|EpisodeNumber = 112

|EpisodeNumber2 = 4

|Title = Liverpool - Move

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1976|9|23|df=y}}

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|EpisodeNumber = 113

|EpisodeNumber2 = 5

|Title = Liverpool - Unemployment

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1976|9|24|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Focuses on women's fight for equality in Liverpool.

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|EpisodeNumber = 114

|EpisodeNumber2 = 6

|Title = All Against the Bomb

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1976|10|1|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by Nuclear Disarmament who do not believe in having and using nuclear weapons.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 115

|EpisodeNumber2 = 7

|Title = A Place to Live

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1976|10|8|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by The Mobile Home Residents' Association.

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|EpisodeNumber = 115

|EpisodeNumber2 = 8

|Title = Vote for Good Health

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1976|10|15|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by The Campaign for a Democratic Health Service who believe that the health service would be improved by patients and workers having a real say in how it is run.

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|EpisodeNumber = 116

|EpisodeNumber2 = 9

|Title = I'm sorry, I didn't see you/Flower Arranging

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1976|10|22|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by The British Motorcyclist' Federation promoting a safer traffic attitude between motorists and motorcyclists. Alan Power and Robbie Smith, from Merseyside, also discuss wanting to change the image of flower arrangers and class.

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|EpisodeNumber = 117

|EpisodeNumber2 = 10

|Title = Gie's a Break

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1976|10|29|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by The Six Circle Group who promote mutual community service.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 118

|EpisodeNumber2 = 11

|Title = The Forgotten Marshes

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1976|11|5|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by The Dickens Country Protection Society who came together in 1971 under the threat of the construction of a giant oil refinery on the Kent marshes.

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|EpisodeNumber = 119

|EpisodeNumber2 = 12

|Title = Schools of Our Choice?

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1976|11|13|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by Friends of the Education Voucher Experiment, a group who believe parents should be able to choose their child's education through a voucher system.

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|EpisodeNumber = 120

|EpisodeNumber2 = 13

|Title = A Time to be Living

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1976|11|20|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by Anchor Housing Association through the eyes of tenants to show how the elderly can lead active lives in their own homes.

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|EpisodeNumber = 121

|EpisodeNumber2 = 14

|Title = The Right to Return

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1976|11|26|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by Free Palestine and Palestine Action. Andrew Faulds, MP, traces the Palestinians' plight from the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, and presents the case with Peter Hain, Leila Mantoura, Avika Orr and David Watkins, MP.

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|EpisodeNumber = 122

|EpisodeNumber2 = 15

|Title = Glad to be Gay?

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1976|12|3|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by The Scottish Minorities Group, who work for the rights and welfare of gay men and women. Members of the organisation discuss the advice and facilities available to gay men and lesbians in Edinburgh and explain what it means for them to have access to like-minded people who can understand their problems.

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|EpisodeNumber = 123

|EpisodeNumber2 = 16

|Title = Science Fiction Goes to School

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1976|12|10|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by The Science Fiction Foundation who believe that science-fiction can play an important role in education.

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|EpisodeNumber = 124

|EpisodeNumber2 = 17

|Title = Save Our Theatre

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1976|12|17|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by Theatro Technis, a group started as a focal point for the local Cypriot Community in North London.

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|EpisodeNumber = 125

|EpisodeNumber2 = 18

|Title = Jim and Maggie

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1976|12|31|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by the Half Moon Theatre Company, they create New Years Eve entertainment including music.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 126

|EpisodeNumber2 = 1

|Title = Thank God we were never disbanded

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1977|1|31|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by The Josephine Butler Society, a group formed by Victorian social reformer Josephine Butler to campaign for the raising of the age of consent, against state regulated prostitution and against white slavery. The Society campaign for moral standards in sexual relationships.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 127

|EpisodeNumber2 = 2

|Title = Social Workers - who needs them?

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1977|2|7|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by The British Association of Social Workers. Des Wilson introduces the episode which includes a film made in Coventry looking at the role of the Social Worker in 1977.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 128

|EpisodeNumber2 = 3

|Title = A Black Experience

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1977|2|14|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by Harambee Housing Association and tells the story of how in 1972 three black community workers formed a self-help group in the Handsworth area of Birmingham. Demonstrates how, through self-help with community support, they are attempting to deal with the needs of their black community.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 129

|EpisodeNumber2 = 4

|Title = Feet First

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1977|2|28|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by The Pedestrian's Association for Road Safety.

| LineColor = 812f09

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 130

|EpisodeNumber2 = 5

|Title = To Live in Peace

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1977|3|7|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by The Anglo-Israeli Friendship Leagues and introduced by Patrick Cosgrave and Paul Johnson.

| LineColor = 812f09

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 131

|EpisodeNumber2 = 6

|Title = The Medicine Makers

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1977|3|14|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by pharmacist Dr Neil Stevenson who hopes to change people's minds on people's view of medicine, science and pharmaceutical drugs.

| LineColor = 812f09

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 132

|EpisodeNumber2 = 7

|Title = A Good Old Daze

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1977|3|21|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by The Save London's Theatre's Campaign. A musical melodrama, starring John Gielgud, Penelope Keith and Leonard Sachs, traces the history of the attack on the nation's theatres from property speculators and the battle to protect cultural heritage.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 133

|EpisodeNumber2 = 8

|Title = Marriage Guidance

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1977|3|28|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by The National Marriage Guidance Council, ex-clients and counsellors get together to talk about marriage guidance counselling.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 134

|EpisodeNumber2 = 9

|Title = EGA Stays OK

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1977|4|18|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by The EGA Campaign, documenting the battle by all staff and outside supporters to save the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 135

|EpisodeNumber2 = 10

|Title = The Cardboard Camera Show

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1977|4|25|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by The Shoreham Youth Workshop.

| LineColor = 812f09

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 136

|EpisodeNumber2 = 11

|Title = A Matter of National Heritage

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1977|5|2|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by The Brooklands Society, telling the story of Brooklands which was constructed in 1907 as the first motor racing circuit and the birthplace of Britain's aircraft industry.

| LineColor = 812f09

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 137

|EpisodeNumber2 = 12

|Title = Internment in the Divis

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1977|5|9|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = The first of three episodes from Northern Ireland. Presented by residents of the Divis Flats.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 138

|EpisodeNumber2 = 14

|Title = To be Seventeen in Belfast

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1977|5|23|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by Stephen, Sam, Raymie and Billy who grew up together in the same small area of East Belfast, close to the shipyard.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 139

|EpisodeNumber2 = 1

|Title = Radical Alternatives to Prison

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1977|9|19|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by Radical Alternatives to Prison, a group started in 1970 by a group of ex-prisoners and other people disenchanted with the prison reform movement. They believe that prison should be abolished, which poses fundamental questions about crime, the criminal and society.

| LineColor = 812f09

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 140

|EpisodeNumber2 = 2

|Title = Is there a future for the self-employed?

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1977|9|26|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by The Association of Self-Employed People who believe that self-employed people who provide services are threatened by the mania for regulating and licensing every aspect of business life.

| LineColor = 812f09

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 141

|EpisodeNumber2 = 3

|Title = My Name is Legion

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1977|10|3|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by Guideposts Trust with Spike Milligan, David Ennals, MP, and Patrick Jenkin, MP. Guideposts Trust provides a home, friendship and support for a tiny proportion of people in psychiatric hospitals who could be discharged if they had somewhere to go.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 142

|EpisodeNumber2 = 4

|Title = A Working Experiment

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1977|10|10|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by the staff and children of Panmure House, a democratically run unit in central Edinburgh for young people at risk.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 143

|EpisodeNumber2 = 5

|Title = Children in Harmony

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1977|10|17|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by The United Federation of Jazz Bands.

| LineColor = 812f09

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 144

|EpisodeNumber2 = 6

|Title = A Case Against School Spying

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1977|10|24|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by Isaac Evans, exposing the existence of Secret Schools Dossiers and questions the right of local education authorities to collect private information about school-children and their parents.

| LineColor = 812f09

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 145

|EpisodeNumber2 = 7

|Title = Hunting the Wild Fox

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1977|10|31|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by The British Field Sports Society and the Masters of Fox Hounds Association explaining why people in Britain enjoy fox hunting, for example.

| LineColor = 812f09

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 146

|EpisodeNumber2 = 8

|Title = I Will Make You a Name

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1977|11|12|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by The Commonwealth War Graves Commission illustrating their work and present-day significance.

| LineColor = 812f09

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 147

|EpisodeNumber2 = 9

|Title = Mr Sunshine/Look to, Treble's Going

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1977|11|14|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by Elkan Ogunde, who aims to bring African music and dance into British classrooms. St Mark's Bell-ringers also offer an insight into the practice of bell-ringing.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 148

|EpisodeNumber2 = 10

|Title = A Better Legal System

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1977|11|21|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by United Lawyers' Association, a group of lawyers put the case for a single profession which they feel would provide a more modern and effective legal service for all.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 149

|EpisodeNumber2 = 11

|Title = Black Future

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1977|11|28|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = A dramatization depicting a group of unemployed young West Indians from Bradford in Britain in 1983. There are two million unemployed and Britain is divided into Welfare Zones and when people try to escape they are hunted by the Youth Control Squad.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 150

|EpisodeNumber2 = 12

|Title = Family Crisis

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1977|12|5|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by Dianne Core, Kate Garowell and Friends of the Family Aid Centre who exist to stop violence in the family as soon as it starts.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 151

|EpisodeNumber2 = 13

|Title = The Other Cinema: Which Parade's Gone By...

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1977|5|23|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by The Other Cinema, an independent film distribution and exhibition company who ask the question as to whether cinema is a necessity in the television age.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 152

|EpisodeNumber2 = 14

|Title = Looks Back 1977

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1977|12|19|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = A look back at the episodes from this year.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 153

|EpisodeNumber2 = 1

|Title = A Square Deal for Pensioners

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1978|1|30|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by Emily Lindsay from the Islington London Branch of the National Federation of OAPs' Associations, examining the current situation for pensioners.

| LineColor = 812f09

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 154

|EpisodeNumber2 = 2

|Title = A Woman's Right to Choose

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1978|2|13|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by The Abortion Law Reform Association, the 40-year-old pressure group behind the passing of the 1967 Abortion Act. They believe that women should have right to choose to have an abortion on request and for better, more equally distributed facilities for abortion on the NHS.

| LineColor = 812f09

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 155

|EpisodeNumber2 = 3

|Title = South Africa: The Rifle, the Saracen, and the Gallows

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1978|2|20|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by The Anti-Apartheid Movement who are dedicated to fighting white supremacy in Southern Africa. The episode shows Britain's role in bolstering Apartheid and explains how people can help support the Anti-Apartheid struggle. Includes an interview with Joshua Nkomo. Presented by Neil Kinnock, MP.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 156

|EpisodeNumber2 = 4

|Title = Education Otherwise

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1978|2|27|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by Education Otherwise exploring why, as well as how, some parents set about providing their children with an efficient education in their homes.

| LineColor = 812f09

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 157

|EpisodeNumber2 = 5

|Title = Every Town has an East End

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1978|3|6|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by The People of Glasgow's East End who aim to support their community by providing shops, open spaces, doctors and amenities.

| LineColor = 812f09

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 158

|EpisodeNumber2 = 6

|Title = Democracy, Shamocracy?

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1978|3|13|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by Christopher Chataway from The Electoral Reform Campaign, taking a close and critical look at the voting system and demonstrates how it has become unfair and undemocratic.

| LineColor = 812f09

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 160

|EpisodeNumber2 = 7

|Title = The Blackfriars Dysphasic Group

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1978|3|20|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by The Blackfriars Dysphasic Group.

| LineColor = 812f09

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 161

|EpisodeNumber2 = 8

|Title = Ulysses

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1978|3|27|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by Shelburne Girls' School in North London performing an original rock opera performed by the Girls' choir backed by professional musicians telling the legendary love story of Ulysses and Penelope (see, Ulysses).

| LineColor = 812f09

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 162

|EpisodeNumber2 = 9

|Title = Ukrainians: The People who Couldn't go Home

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1978|4|10|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by The Young Ukrainian Forum introducing a community who determinedly retains its national identity, whilst their homeland experiences continuous repression and Russification.

| LineColor = 812f09

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 163

|EpisodeNumber2 = 10

|Title = Canals

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1978|4|24|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by The Inland Waterways Association exploring what is happening to canals and asks why Britain doesn't do what other nations are doing, and reduce the damage to town and country by using fewer lorries and moving goods by water.

| LineColor = 812f09

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 164

|EpisodeNumber2 = 11

|Title = No Room at the Club

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1978|5|1|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by Herbert Street Youth Club telling the story of The Ardoyne, a small Catholic area in North Belfast.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 165

|EpisodeNumber2 = 12

|Title = The Value of Life

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1978|4|8|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by The Human Rights Society who advocate for the Hospice movement and Home Care units. They believe that this type of care recognises the value of every human being of whatever age or however frail, and that they should be made available everywhere in Britain.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 166

|EpisodeNumber2 = 13

|Title = Closed Door?

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1978|4|22|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by Shac from the London Housing Aid Centre asking questions around Britain's housing crisis.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 167

|EpisodeNumber2 = 1

|Title = Swallowing is Believing

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1978|9|18|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by Life-Line Project exploring the problems of addiction to prescribed drugs and the increasing demand for them and suggests ways in which this demand could be reduced through a radical rethink of NHS policies and priorities.

| LineColor = 812f09

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 168

|EpisodeNumber2 = 2

|Title = In Praise of Femininity and the Feminine Woman

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1978|9|25|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by David Stayt. The Campaign for the Feminine Woman believe that women should return to traditional female roles within the home and family.

| LineColor = 812f09

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 169

|EpisodeNumber2 = 3

|Title = Punch-Up!/Dinosaurs in the Playground

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1978|10|2|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Punch-Up! is a short comedy film by Ken Ellis which shows the dangers behind the scenes of a Punch and Judy show. Dinosaurs in the Playground made by Clare Calder Marshall shows how a grim Victorian playground in London was transformed by the children, teachers and a group of artists and art students.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 170

|EpisodeNumber2 = 4

|Title = Streets to Seaside

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1978|10|10|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by Bradford Cinderella Club, set up in 1890 by a group of Bradford businessmen who got together to help the under-privileged children in their city.

| LineColor = 812f09

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 171

|EpisodeNumber2 = 5

|Title = The Family Home

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1978|10|16|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Made by the Valley Road Community, Coventry

| LineColor = 812f09

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 172

|EpisodeNumber2 = 6

|Title = Leisure for All, Work for All

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1978|10|23|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Kathleen Smith, The Work and Leisure Society, discusses the balance and benefits of sharing work.

| LineColor = 812f09

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 173

|EpisodeNumber2 = 7

|Title = SCRAM

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1978|11|2|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = The Scottish Campaign to Resist the Atomic Menace discuss opposition to nuclear power in Torness and Scotland.

| LineColor = 812f09

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 174

|EpisodeNumber2 = 8

|Title = A Charter of Choice

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1978|11|9|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by The Basildon Joint Tenant/Council Management Committees.

| LineColor = 812f09

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 175

|EpisodeNumber2 = 9

|Title = Just a Link with the Wild

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1978|11|19|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Ed Seager of the Wildlife Youth Project, Mossley, discusses his work and the similarities his story has with that in the book A Kestrel and a Knave and the film Kes. He talks with Author, Barry Hines.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 176

|EpisodeNumber2 = 10

|Title = The Simon Community

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1978|11|30|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by The Simon Community who care and campaign for the homeless and rootless.

| LineColor = 812f09

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 177

|EpisodeNumber2 = 11

|Title = In with a Head Start?

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1978|12|7|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by the National Association for Gifted Children, includes showcasing orienteering in Ulster.

| LineColor = 812f09

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 178

|EpisodeNumber2 = 12

|Title = STOPP

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1979|1|25|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Made by the Society of Teachers Opposed to Physical Punishment.

| LineColor = 812f09

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 179

|EpisodeNumber2 = 13

|Title = The Wind that Shakes the Barley

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1979|2|1|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann (Association of Irish Musicians).

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 180

|EpisodeNumber2 = 14

|Title = Every Child Deserves a Chance

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1979|2|8|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by Action in Distress illustrating a simple but unique way in which concerned people in Britain can do something positive to help one individual needy child.

| LineColor = 812f09

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 181

|EpisodeNumber2 = 15

|Title = EAST

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1979|2|15|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by Soapbox Theatre showcasing a community co-operative and advice centre in Newham, East London called EAST.

| LineColor = 812f09

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 182

|EpisodeNumber2 = 16

|Title = World at Their Fingertips

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1979|2|22|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by the Radio Society of Great Britain showing how much there is to Mayday signalling. Presented by Brian Rix, CBE, demonstrating how amateur radio appeals to enthusiasts of all ages, performs valuable community services including emergency communications and involvement with the handicapped and generates goodwill across international frontiers.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 183

|EpisodeNumber2 = 17

|Title = It Ain't Half Racist Mum

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1979|3|1|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by Campaign Against Racism in the Media (CARM) exploring questions around racism, immigration, perceptions of crime and whether television is neutral on the question of race.

| LineColor = 812f09

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 184

|EpisodeNumber2 = 18

|Title = It's in the Family

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1979|3|8|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by The Association to Combat Huntington's Chorea showing families fighting the effects of Huntington's Disease and how practical support in the community can help.

| LineColor = 812f09

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 185

|EpisodeNumber2 = 19

|Title = Alcoholism - An epidemic in the making

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1979|3|15|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by ACCEPT, a voluntary organisation which, in three years, has grown to be the largest drink counselling service and alcoholism treatment centre in the country.

| LineColor = 812f09

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 186

|EpisodeNumber2 = 20

|Title = Lost Property

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1979|3|22|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by Small Landlords Association.

| LineColor = 812f09

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 187

|EpisodeNumber2 = 21

|Title = The Easterhouse Festival Society

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1979|4|28|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Features The Easterhouse Festival Society set up by local people and demonstrates how their efforts are helping to change the image of the Easterhouse community.

| LineColor = 812f09

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 188

|EpisodeNumber2 = 22

|Title = Signs of Life

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1979|5|10|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by the National Union of the Deaf.

| LineColor = 812f09

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 189

|EpisodeNumber2 = 23

|Title = Work not Waste

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1979|5|24|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by the Socialist Environment and Resources Association campaigning with trade unionists to create work, and work which uses raw materials and energy efficiency.

| LineColor = 812f09

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 190

|EpisodeNumber2 = 24

|Title = The Way Back

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1979|6|7|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by Jim Four. Made in collaboration with four young people with special educational needs.

| LineColor = 812f09

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 191

|EpisodeNumber2 = 25

|Title = Nymphs and Shepherds - 50 Years On

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1979|6|21|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Tells the story of the time when, in 1929, 250 Manchester schoolchildren sang 'Nymphs and Shepherds' with the Halle Orchestra. This episode pays tribute to the late Gertrude Riall, their choir-mistress, who instilled in them a love of music and a joy in singing.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 192

|EpisodeNumber2 = 26

|Title = The Corby Candle Story

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1979|7|5|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by the Campaign for the Retention of the Steelworks at Corby (ROSAC).

| LineColor = 812f09

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 193

|EpisodeNumber2 = 1

|Title = Southall on Trial

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1979|9|22|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by The Southall Campaign Committee. This episode shows how the local community responded to the events on 23 April 1979, when the National Front held an election meeting in Southall Town Hall and 5,000 police were deployed, 342 people were charged and resulted in the death of Blair Peach. This episode aims to show that only Southall but the whole black community living in Britain is on trial for asserting and defending their right to live in Britain peaceably, free from the fear of racism.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 194

|EpisodeNumber2 = 2

|Title = Things Ain't What They Used to Be

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1979|10|13|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Features the work of the Spinal Injuries Unit at Pinderfields General Hospital, Wakefield.

| LineColor = 812f09

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 195

|EpisodeNumber2 = 3

|Title = Stand Up and Be Cured

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1979|10|27|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by the Legalise Cannabis Campaign.

| LineColor = 812f09

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 196

|EpisodeNumber2 = 4

|Title = A Better Life - A Better Wife

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1979|11|10|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by the Mother's Support Team, Cambridge.

| LineColor = 812f09

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 197

|EpisodeNumber2 = 5

|Title = Mersey Dragon

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1979|11|24|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by Merseyside Chinese Community Services.

| LineColor = 812f09

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 198

|EpisodeNumber2 = 6

|Title = Wreckers in the Town Hall

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1979|12|8|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by Campaign for Demolition Control who are finding ways of fighting for the survival of communities and their homes and for the protection of peoples democratic rights.

| LineColor = 812f09

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 199

|EpisodeNumber2 = 7

|Title = Killer Joe

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1980|1|26|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by The Explosives, a young and mainly black dance group based at the North London College of Further Education. In this episode they use their dancing to tell a story in a performance of Killer Joe.

| LineColor = 812f09

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 200

|EpisodeNumber2 = 8

|Title = Centre of Unemployment

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1980|2|2|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by Newcastle Trades Council Centre for the Unemployed. In this episode they show workers have battled to keep their jobs and how once they've become unemployed the fight continues with the formation of a union for unemployed workers.

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|EpisodeNumber2 = 9

|Title = A Card for Life

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1980|2|9|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by the Addenbrooke's Kidney Patients Association, Cambridge.

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|EpisodeNumber = 202

|EpisodeNumber2 = 10

|Title = Carry on Comprehensives

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1980|2|16|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by The Campaign for Comprehensive Education.

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|EpisodeNumber = 203

|EpisodeNumber2 = 11

|Title = Blazing Pedals

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1980|2|23|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by The London Cycling Campaign.

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|EpisodeNumber = 204

|EpisodeNumber2 = 12

|Title = Guttersnipe

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1980|3|1|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Features the Telford Punk fanzine Collective.

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|EpisodeNumber = 205

|EpisodeNumber2 = 13

|Title = Walcot Waives the Rules

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1980|3|8|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by Bath Arts Workshop.

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|EpisodeNumber = 206

|EpisodeNumber2 = 14

|Title = If the good Lord had intended...

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1980|3|15|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by The Rydevale Community Nursery who believe that there needs to be much more provision for children growing up in a multiracial society.

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|EpisodeNumber = 207

|EpisodeNumber2 = 15

|Title = The Sound of Love

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1980|3|22|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by Anthony Hodgins discussing whether adults miss childhood. Includes interviews with Douglas Adams, James Burke, Phil Collins and Elizabeth Garvie.

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|EpisodeNumber = 208

|EpisodeNumber2 = 16

|Title = Just a Chunk of Metal

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1980|5|31|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by the Swalincote Rifle and Pistol Club.

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|EpisodeNumber = 209

|EpisodeNumber2 = 17

|Title = Woodland Rescue

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1980|6|14|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by the Woodland Trust who explain their conservation role.

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|EpisodeNumber = 210

|EpisodeNumber2 = 18

|Title = Elderly

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1980|6|28|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by a group of professional people concerned with the care of the elderly in Merseyside.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 211

|EpisodeNumber2 = 19

|Title = Wherever We Go

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1980|7|5|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by the Romany Guild looking at the problems facing the Romany people.

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|EpisodeNumber = 212

|EpisodeNumber2 = 20

|Title = Born Free - Trapped Ever After

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1980|7|2|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by North West Spanner Theatre Group, reviews how over 200 episodes have been made of Open Door.

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|EpisodeNumber = 213

|EpisodeNumber2 = 1

|Title = The Gentle Giant who Cares and Shares

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1980|9|11|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by The Craigmillar Festival Society telling the story about how the Festival was created and its legacy.

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|EpisodeNumber = 214

|EpisodeNumber2 = 2

|Title = Turn the World Upside Down

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1980|9|18|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by a group of Christians working for change.

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|EpisodeNumber = 215

|EpisodeNumber2 = 3

|Title = Flowers Can Damage Your Health

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1980|9|25|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by medical students from the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London. Explores the proposals in The Flowers Report to amalgamate London's 34 teaching colleges into six.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 216

|EpisodeNumber2 = 4

|Title = Jamie - A Boy with a Future?

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1980|10|2|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by Hilary McLeod telling the story of Jamie, a ten year-old child who is epileptic.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 217

|EpisodeNumber2 = 5

|Title = I Wish I Could Have Said It Like That

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1980|10|9|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by Peter J. Bott telling the story of his experience with stuttering.

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|EpisodeNumber = 218

|EpisodeNumber2 = 6

|Title = Hollywood

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1980|10|16|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by the Forest Hill Film Unit at Forest Hill School, which started in 1969 when a third-ear class made a documentary film about the dreams of both staff and pupils. This episode, in Wales, shows some of their films from the past ten years.

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|EpisodeNumber = 219

|EpisodeNumber2 = 1

|Title = The Earth Lover's Guide to the 80s

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1981|2|25|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by Birmingham Friends of the Earth who campaign for logical and practical approaches to the Earth's problems.

| LineColor = 812f09

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|EpisodeNumber = 220

|EpisodeNumber2 = 2

|Title = Raw Talent

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1981|3|4|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by Walter Lowe paying tribute to everyday entertainers, for example, pranks in families and parents singing in the car.

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|EpisodeNumber = 221

|EpisodeNumber2 = 3

|Title = They Came for Us in the Morning...

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1981|3|11|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by The Joint Working Group for Latin American Refugees.

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|EpisodeNumber = 222

|EpisodeNumber2 = 4

|Title = Swift to Serve

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1981|3|25|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by Sarah Gascoine telling the story of the Suffolk Fire Service, a group of men in Stowmarket who leave their normal jobs to help the public attending not only fires but other emergencies.

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|EpisodeNumber = 223

|EpisodeNumber2 = 5

|Title = The Oldest Profession

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1981|4|1|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by the Environmental Health Officers' Association in Cambridge showing a typical days work by members of the 'oldest profession in local government'.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 224

|EpisodeNumber2 = 6

|Title = It's Bootle - But is it Art?

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1981|4|8|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by Art in Action, a community photography project on Merseyside, who have received negative reaction from their local council by bringing to the public eye images of a deprived dockland community.

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|EpisodeNumber = 225

|EpisodeNumber2 = 7

|Title = No Home-No Hope

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1981|4|15|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by the Edinburgh Council for Single Homeless who suggest what needs to be done to stop young people becoming long-term social problems.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 226

|EpisodeNumber2 = 8

|Title = Another Existence

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1981|4|22|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by the Disablement Income Group providing an insight into hidden costs of disablement and stresses the difficulties encountered when claims are made for the meagre allowances offered by the state.

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|EpisodeNumber = 227

|EpisodeNumber2 = 1

|Title = Protect and Survive

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1982|1|30|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Tells the story of the public information campaign Protect and Survive on civil defence.

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|EpisodeNumber = 228

|EpisodeNumber2 = 2

|Title = Oxford: The Other Image

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1982|2|6|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by the Jubilee 77 Association of Blackbird Leys, an estate in Oxford deprived of amenities. The Association was founded by Cath Walters.

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|EpisodeNumber = 229

|EpisodeNumber2 = 3

|Title = Life in Care

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1982|2|13|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by The National Association of Young People in Care showcasing the opinions of the children who live in children's home.

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|EpisodeNumber = 230

|EpisodeNumber2 = 4

|Title = Fit...as a Fiddle

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1982|2|20|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by the Trade Union International Research and Education Group and narrated by John Shirley.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 231

|EpisodeNumber2 = 5

|Title = What About Your Ma - Is Your Da Still Workin'?

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1982|2|27|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by the Fellowship Community Theatre, Belfast Turf Lodge. This episode is a comedy play reflecting the working-class lives of the people who live in Belfast Turf Lodge.

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|EpisodeNumber = 232

|EpisodeNumber2 = 6

|Title = Could it Happen to You?

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1982|3|6|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Discusses the issue of bankruptcy.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 233

|EpisodeNumber2 = 7

|Title = A Second Chance to Learn

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1982|3|13|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by members of the Second Chance to Learn course, a unique adult education experiment in Liverpool.

| LineColor = 812f09

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 234

|EpisodeNumber2 = 8

|Title = Attitudes - The Second Handicap

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1982|3|20|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by Chris Davies, a severely disabled man, who examines the various ways society complicates life and worsens the effect of physical disability.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 235

|EpisodeNumber2 = 9

|Title = There Ought to Be Clowns

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1982|3|27|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by Clown Cavalcade discussing the history of Clowns in Britain and wider culture.

| LineColor = 812f09

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 236

|EpisodeNumber2 = 10

|Title = It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1982|4|3|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by members of the Claimants and Unemployed Workers Union created by Joe Kenyon.

| LineColor = 812f09

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|EpisodeNumber = 237

|EpisodeNumber2 = 11

|Title = The House that Mum and Dad Built

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1982|3|10|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by the Lewisham Self Build Housing Association.

| LineColor = 812f09

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|EpisodeNumber = 238

|EpisodeNumber2 = 12

|Title = The Full Cost?

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1982|4|17|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by Imperial College Students' Union President Nick Morton exploring the issues around the Government's decision in 1979 to introduce the idea of 'full cost' fees for students from other countries who want to study in Britain.

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|EpisodeNumber = 239

|EpisodeNumber2 = 13

|Title = A Right to a Living

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1982|4|24|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by the Amble Fishermen's Association who aim to get the British public behind them and knowing more about their industry.

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|EpisodeNumber = 240

|EpisodeNumber2 = 14

|Title = Crazy Dream

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1982|5|1|df=y}}

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|EpisodeNumber = 241

|EpisodeNumber2 = 15

|Title = On Foot in the Countryside

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1982|5|8|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by Stoke Caribbean Enterprises who want to create an art centre which will bring work, art, hopes and harmony to their local multi-racial community.

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|EpisodeNumber = 242

|EpisodeNumber2 = 16

|Title = The Not the Finger in the Ear Show

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1982|5|15|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by Ian A. Anderson showcasing some of the music and atmosphere found in England's many folk music clubs.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 243

|EpisodeNumber2 = 17

|Title = Spitalfields in Crisis

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1982|5|22|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by The Spitalfields Housing and Planning Rights Service who ask why poor conditions been allowed to persist and shows how Government cuts and the spread of offices have savaged old-established working-class communities.

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|EpisodeNumber = 244

|EpisodeNumber2 = 18

|Title = Goodbye to All That

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1982|5|29|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by Action on Smoking and Health Smokers.

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|EpisodeNumber = 245

|EpisodeNumber2 = 1

|Title = Who's Killing Croxteth?

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1982|9|2|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by the Croxteth Community Action Committee, showing how Croxteth suffers from unemployment, poor housing conditions, juvenile crime. They are advocating to keep the comprehensive school open but Sir Keith Joseph wishes to close it and since 9 July, the group have been occupying the school.

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|EpisodeNumber = 246

|EpisodeNumber2 = 2

|Title = A Race Apart?

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1983|2|2|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by the Irish in Britain Representation Group, Manchester.

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|EpisodeNumber = 247

|EpisodeNumber2 = 3

|Title = Fighting on the Beaches

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1983|2|9|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by the Brighton and Hove Unemployed Workers' Union and Centre made by unemployed people in Brighton who are determined to fight back and to put an end to the contrast in the south east between poverty and affluence.

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|EpisodeNumber = 248

|EpisodeNumber2 = 4

|Title = Racism - The Fourth R

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1983|2|16|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by the All London Teachers Against Racism and Fascism.

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|EpisodeNumber = 249

|EpisodeNumber2 = 5

|Title = Why Their News is Bad News

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1983|2|23|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by Julie Christie and Julie Walters and the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom. This episode asks the question whether we are all equally well-served by news media and includes interviews with Anthony Barnett, Anthony Wedgwood, MP, Ken Livingstone and Steve Forey.

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|EpisodeNumber = 250

|EpisodeNumber2 = 6

|Title = Shyness, Handicap or Happiness?

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1983|3|2|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by Bernard Goodsall, a self-confessed shy person, exploring shyness.

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|EpisodeNumber = 251

|EpisodeNumber2 = 7

|Title = Jobs for the Boys?

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1983|3|9|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by the Women's Engineering Society.

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|EpisodeNumber = 252

|EpisodeNumber2 = 8

|Title = The Uphill Struggle

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1983|3|16|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by the Hillclimb and Sprint Association.

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|EpisodeNumber = 253

|EpisodeNumber2 = 9

|Title = America: We Can Do That

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1983|3|30|df=y}}

| ShortSummary = Presented by Chris Davies exploring the disabled rights movement in the USA.

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At the time of its original transmission, Open Door received poor critical reception. Fowler and Harle argues that the series, in hindsight, "remains a major social and cultural history collection that deserves consideration." Indeed, when the series ended in 1983, The Sunday Times observed:{{Cite news |last=Campbell |first=D |date=24 July 1983 |title=Open Door |url=https://ravenrow.org/texts/william-fowler-and-matthew-harle-the-furthest-edge-of-the-bbc-watching-open-door |work=Sunday Times Supplement}}

{{Blockquote|text=If you were looking for suitable material for a time capsule to represent the last ten years in Britain, you might do worse than bury a list of the 250-odd Open Door programmes that have been broad- cast by the BBC since April 1973.|author=D Campbell|source=Sunday Times Supplement (24 July 1983)}}

An early episode of Open Door, featured in the first series, was hosted by members belonging to the Transex Liberation Group. It featured four speakers discussing together their experiences of transitioning, covering issues around discrimination, using public bathrooms, employment, as well as positive aspects of their lives such as romantic relationships.{{Cite web |date=2018-06-27 |title=Open Door: Transex Liberation Group, BBC Two, Monday 4 June 1973 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06c83f4 |access-date=2024-06-18 |website=History of the BBC |publisher=BBC |language=English}}{{cite web |last=Smith |first=Lydia |date=2024-05-06 |title=Trans women discussed trans rights on TV over 50 years ago: here's what it looked like |url=https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/05/06/trans-history-week/ |access-date=2024-06-18 |website=PinkNews }} In a 1973 memo discussing the running order for the first series, Rowan Ayers cites the episode for broadcast and describes it as a "serious attempt to present the problems facing those who undergo a sex change operation" and says the group wish to make the programme "to break down the prejudices that must exist."Ayers, Rowan (27 February 1973). "[https://downloads.bbc.co.uk/historyofthebbc/people-nation-empire/R78-2807-1%20Open%20Door%20Memo%2027-02-1973.pdf R78-2807-1 Open Door Memo]". BBC - History of the BBC. BBC. Retrieved 18 June 2024.

Broadcast in February 1976 by the right-wing The British Campaign to Stop Immigration group, this episode of Open Door put forth the argument for greater freedom of speech for all. The programme was a controversial because the group were linked with the fascist group the National Front. Adding to the criticism was the BBC's decision to air a repeat of the programme despite the initial backlash. In a document containing the minutes for a Board Room meeting on 5 March 1976, BBC representatives and anti-racist campaigners discussed the decision to repeat the programme.{{Cite web |last=Hendy |first=David |year=2022 |title=One of us? Opening Doors |url=https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/100-voices/people-nation-empire/opening-doors |access-date=2024-06-15 |website=BBC |language=en-GB}} In attendance was Sidney Bidwell MP, a representative for the Indian Workers' Association, a representative for the Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen, a representative for the Standing Conference of Pakistani Organisations, John Ennals, then Director of the United Kingdom Immigrants Advisory Service, Debbie Page from the National Union of Students, Kenneth Lamb, Director of Public Affairs at the BBC, P.H. Scott, Chief Assistant to the Director General at the BBC, and D.B. Mann the Secretariat. Those against the episode's repeat contested that it constituted an incitement to racial hatred, which would be criminal.{{Cite web |title=One of us? Opening Doors |url=https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/100-voices/people-nation-empire/opening-doors |access-date=2024-07-12 |website=www.bbc.com |language=en-GB}} The BBC argued that lawyers had approved the episode's transmission and dismissed the idea that a single programme could have the effect being claimed. As a solution the BBC said they would provide a 'right of reply' to anti-racist campaigners, and as a result commissioned the episode 'It ain't half racist, Mum' in 1979.

One of the most well-known episodes of Open Door was aired in March 1979 entitled 'It ain't half racist, Mum' and presented by the Campaign Against Racism in the Media (CARM). The episode is thirty-minutes in length and comments on racism in the British media. The episode features British sociologist Stuart Hall giving a close reading of the 1970s sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum and arguing that the show perpetuates racism. Hall further presents examples of racism from current affairs and news programmes, including a clip from Tonight where Denis Tuohy interviews American white supremacist David Duke asking for his message to the audience of Britain.{{Cite web |last=Aspden |first=Peter |date=28 January 2023 |title=When the BBC put cameras into viewers' hands |url=https://www.ft.com/content/bafc452f-b843-49e0-b7a3-a01187c6290a |access-date=15 June 2024 |website=The Financial Times}} Duke replies "One of the main things is that they are not alone, that there are white people all over the globe who sympathise with them." In another clip from an interview by the BBC political correspondent Robin Day, Hall explains that Day essentially frames his questions to advocate for immigration. British actress Maggie Steed narrates the programme and she opens the episode explaining:{{Cite web |last=Birmingham City Institute of Media and English |orig-date=1 March 1979 |title=Transcript: It Ain't Half Racist, Mum |url=https://www.bcu.ac.uk/media/research/sir-lenny-henry-centre-for-media-diversity/representology-journal/articles/it-aint-half-racist-mum-transcript |access-date=2024-06-15 |website=Birmingham City University |language=en-GB}}

{{Blockquote|text=We hope to show you that many of the programmes that are under the editorial control of the BBC and ITV are themselves biased and unbalanced, especially in the coverage they give to Britain's black community. Not only is a lot of this coverage not neutral but it actually reinforces racism.|author=Maggie Steed|title='It ain't half racist, Mum'|source=Open Door (1979)}}

Interviewed, by BBC Radio 4, about the episode Maggie Steed explained she didn't feel the BBC took on board the criticism levied at it and other institutions in the programme, saying "it [the episode] was greeted with a sort of disdain." Indeed, during production, the BBC and ITV both refused access to some of their footage being used. Then head of BBC News, Alan Protheroe complained, in a committee meeting of news and current affairs editors, "[...] why should an organisation that campaigns against racism in the media, which might well accuse myself and my staff of racism, be given privilege treatment?" Schaffer, G. (2014) What's Behind the Open Door? Talking Back on Race in Public-Access Broadcasting. In: The Vision of a Nation. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137314888_5

Three months after the broadcast of it 'It ain't half racist, Mum', the BBC issued a statement distancing themselves from the programme. The BBC explained:

{{Blockquote|text=The BBC regrets that the ‘Open Door’ programme broadcast on the 1st and 4th March this year by the ‘Campaign against Racism in the Media’ could be taken as implying that Mr Robin-Day had conducted a programme about immigration with a racist bias. The BBC considers that any such indication would be wholly unjustified.|author=BBC (1979)}}

Open Door was the subject of an exhibition entitled 'People Make Television' at Raven Row, a non-profit contemporary art exhibition centre in London.{{Cite web |title=People Make Television |url=https://ravenrow.org/exhibitions/people-make-television |access-date=2024-06-18 |website=Raven Row |language=English}} The exhibition ran from 28 January to 26 March 2023 and was curated by Lori E Allen, William Fowler, Matthew Harle and Alex Sainsbury. Visitors were able to browse production material from Open Door designed by Jonas Neville, and watch archival footage in a mediatheque. In a review reflecting on the importance of both 'People Make Television' and 'Open Door' itself, J.J Charlesworth wrote for ArtReview it "draws our attention to the emerging character of the new cultural and political forms that, seeded during the 1970s, have come to define and dominate politics and culture now."{{Cite web |last=Charlesworth |first=J.J. |date=1 March 2023 |title='Open Door': The Quiet Revolution Inside the BBC |url=https://artreview.com/people-make-television-raven-row-london-review-bbc/ |access-date=2024-06-18 |website=ArtReview |language=en}} Curators of the exhibition, Fowler and Harle believe that Open Door is culturally and historically significant writing that it should be remembered "as an affective political history of a period that bridges the unravelling of the post-war settlement to Thatcherism." Indeed, Harle and Fowler believe that the catalogue of Open Door episodes should made more widely known because it could play a vital role demonstrating how citizens can have an active role in television and media.

Access to Open Door and some of its archival footage, including episodes, were rediscovered and released as part of 'The Connected Histories of the BBC' project. The project was led by the University of Sussex in collaboration with the BBC, Mass Observation, the Science Museum Group and the British Entertainment History Project, and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).{{Cite web |title=The Connected Histories of the BBC |url=https://connectedhistoriesofthebbc.org/about.php |access-date=2024-06-18 |website=Connected Histories of the BBC |publisher=University of Sussex}} Open Door was featured in the 'BBC - Oral History Collection' also known as "100 Voices that made the BBC: People Nation and Empire' curated by Emeritus Professor David Hendy and Dr Alban Webb, among others.{{Cite web |title=People, Nation, Empire |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/historyofthebbc/100-voices/people-nation-empire/ |access-date=2024-06-18 |website=www.bbc.co.uk |language=en}} Hendy explained the legacy of Open Door as "the BBC effectively abandoning its traditional concern with ‘balance’ and handing over total editorial control to groups who rarely get a voice – certainly not on a national institution such as the BBC. Nothing like it had been seen on TV before.”

{{Reflist}}

• [http://www.pstalker.com/echo/m_v_opendoor_intro.html Open Door programme] made in 1974 about the community of Jericho, Oxford
• [https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/100-voices/people-nation-empire/opening-doors One of us? Opening Doors] In 1973, the BBC launched Open Door, a bold experiment in 'access' TV
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gc9msgOxoE "Jericho" episode of Open Door, aired in 1974, and uploaded to YouTube in 2013]
• [https://bbcrewind.co.uk/search?q=title%3A%22Open%20Door%22 BBC Rewind, Open Door]
• BBC Genome Project

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