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First Tuesday or This World is a monthly television documentary strand, shown in the United Kingdom on the ITV network and was produced by Yorkshire Television. The subject matter was mainly social issues and current affairs stories from around the world. It ran from 5 April 1983 to 2 November 1993, with programme being shown on the first Tuesday of the month, hence the title. In 1993, Network First was a part replacement for First Tuesday.
1984
A Place for Stephen - Documentary about seventeen year old Stephen Brown, born with sight loss and profoundly deaf after his mother contracted German measles during her pregnancy. Gives an account of Stephen's three-month trial at Manor House, an assessment and further education centre specialising in young adults handicapped by rubella. A Safe House - Documentary which looks at the moral dilemma of families who offer sanctuary to refugees from Central America who are illegal immigrants to the USA.
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1986
Children Who Wait - Documentary which looks at the story of two children who have liver transplants in a Cambridge hospital - Jonathan O'Rourke and Reut Haddad, both nearly two years old. Set against the background of a shortage of live donors and the balance the NHS strikes between transplants and less glamorous activities. The Seveso Inheritance - Documentary which looks at the destruction of lives in the Italian town of Seveso after the accident in the area with dioxin gas ten years ago.
1988
Twilight in Belize - Documentary in which the lives of two sisters in the 70s are traced. Joan Shaw stayed in England and lives in Scunthorpe surrounded by her family. Her sister Dorothea left England and now lives alone in a jungle clearing in Belize. Good Vibrations - Documentary about the career of concert musician Evelyn Glennie, who has been profoundly deaf since the age of 12 years.
Family on the Run - Documentary about the case of David and Linda Arthur, who have left Britain to protect their child from being taken into care, after their daughter was not returned to them after they had been cleared of child abuse. Surf's up at Port Talbot - Documentary about a surfing club created by unemployed men in Port Talbot, South Wales.
Two working class families swap places in a social experiment to see whether, under Thatcher's Britain, the North-South divide is actually more stark than the class divide.
Children of the Third Reich - More than 40 years after the end of World War II, the children of Nazi soldiers are still coming to terms with the awful truth. Last Exit Berlin - Documentary about Palestinian refugees, who had fled the war in Lebanon, seeking asylum in West Germany.
Documentary about the Afghantsi who are the military veterans of "Russia's Vietnam", the Afghan war. The film follows the Red Army from the start of the withdrawal in May 1988. It goes in the barracks of the crack paratroop regiment; the wards of Kabul's military hospital; on a helicopter gunship to a mountain outpost where Soviet conscripts serve unrelieved for 18 months.
Documentary about the people who have died of asbestos cancer because they worked in or just lived near asbestos factories or buildings containing asbestos.
Documentary which follows a murder investigation in Moscow from the discovery of the body to the arrest and interrogation of the final suspect.
1985
Two stories of racial tension. The first, a highly personal one for Martin Short as he reports on the dangers faced by his wife's family in war-torn Lebanon. The second closer to home in London, where the National Front target Bengalis.
Goals Not Dole - Documentary which explores the experience of unemployment through the views of members of a South Yorkshire village football team and their families. The End of the Line - Documentary on the near-doomed Settle to Carlisle railway line.
Two documentaries about women's pilgrimages: the German wartime ones who came to Southport to avoid Nazis, and the present day ones who prepare and undertake prison visits to their husbands from Glasgow to Peterhead Prison.
"Trevor, It's the Bailiffs" - Documentary which looks at the work of Jim Ellis and Terry Allen who are bailiffs in Nottingham repossessing furniture. Akong and the Big Shrine Room - Documentary about Akong Rimpoche who fled his native Tibet after the Chinese invasion and is now abbot of the Samye Ling Tibetan Centre in Eskdalemuir, Dumfrieshire.
Len Harding: Born a Number - Documentary which follows up on the story of Rampton patient Len Harding, and looks at his life since his release from the secure hospital at Rampton. Kent Coal: Staying on Top - Documentary in which Kent miners and their families discuss their industry in the aftermath of the year-long coal strike of 1984-1985.
1983
Families Who Wait - Documentary which looks at the legal battles of two families to be reunited after the children have been taken into care. Aunt Annie's Bomb Factory - Documentary which examines the real facts behind the 1974 IRA bomb campaign in Britain and asks if the real perpetrators esca
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1991
Documentary looking at the Spanish cooking oil disaster of 1981 in which 25,000 people became ill with contaminated oil.
Documentary about the health divide between rich and poor in UK, focusing on the people of South Teeside, Cleveland.
1992
Examines the nature of the Indonesian occupation of the former Portuguese colony of East Timor. Reviews the personal and collective calvaries experienced by the people of East Timor, and considers Australia's inaction before the litany of human rights abuses committed by the Indonesian regime, in particular, the Dili Massacre of 1991 (Shot both in East Timor and Australia).
Documentary about the interrogation of criminal suspects by detectives in a Birmingham police station.
Documentary about prison officers and prisoners in Holloway Prison.
1993
The story of David Ford, who was sentenced to life imprisonment at the age of 16 for killing a friend in a fight. Now 43 and fed up with waiting for freedom, he has gone on the run, living for secret meetings with his family and campaigning for a fairer parole system.
Documentary on some long-time inmates of Britain's mental hospitals who, it is revealed as such hospitals are gradually being emptied, were sent away simply for being deaf, pregnant or unwanted.
1987
Documentary in which people involved in the Falklands War, which began five years ago, discuss their views of it, from both the Argentinian and British sides.
Documentary which looks at the care of behaviourally abnormal children, and at the lack of facilities for special care of children in need.
Documentary report on private care homes for the elderly, followed by a studio discussion with politicians and experts.
A Home for Laura - Documentary report on the 'Parents for Children' organisation which was set up to find homes for handicapped children, who would otherwise have spent their lives in institutions.
1990
Documentary about the involvement of international companies in the high death levels of babies in Pakistan.
Driven to the Limit - Documentary looking at joyriders in Belfast who account for half of all car thefts and do so despite the fact that 7 joyriders have been shot by security forces since 1980 and 2000 'punished' by the IRA. Liquid Cosh - Documentary looking at the use of tranquillisers in the treatment of the mentally ill, and at the claims that they can cause very serious side- effects.
Documentary looking at the events surrounding the murder of 14 year-old Tahir Akram in Glodwick, Oldham, UK.
1989
A glimpse into the life of MI5 'cut-out' David Coghlan, a free-lance agent whose work for that organization was in the secret, shadowy world of covert surveillance and telephone tapping. The program was presented by Olivia O'Leary, narrated by Roger Finnigan and produced by Yorkshire Television.
"Four Hours in My Lai" is a documentary film made by Yorkshire Television in England concerning an infamous massacres of Vietnamese civilians in Tu Cung sub-hamlet, better known to the US Army as My Lai (4) and commonly referred to as "Pinksville", on 16th March 1968. This massacre was carried out by "Charlie Company" - members of C Company, 1st battalion, 20th Infantry, 11th Light Infantry Brigade of the US Army. The film-makers interview participants in and survivors of the tragedy, trying to understand how such an atrocity could have happened.
A Well-Founded Fear - Documentary about Tamil refugees seeking asylum in Britain. Hearts of Oak - Documentary about the friendship between Herbert Herrmann and Taff Davies, who were on opposing sides in World War II at the time of the sinking of the Royal Oak in Scapa Flow by a German U-Boat in October 1939.