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Peter Taylor recalls Bloody Sunday twenty years after the events on 30 January 1972 through interviews with soldiers who were involved and testimony from eyewitnesses.
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An investigation of the accident on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, in July 1969, when Senator Edward Kennedy's car plunged off a bridge and Kennedy's companion, Mary Jo Kopechne, drowned.
The eldest surviving children of Fred and Rosemary West talk about growing up in the house where the bodies of nine women were discovered.
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A behind-the-scenes account of how futures trader Nick Leeson lost an estimated £830million, causing the collapse of Britain's oldest bank. Leeson speaks from his prison cell in Germany, where he offers his own version of events.
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A profle of media tycoon Robert Maxwell, who died five years ago. Maxwell had friendships with many powerful people and perpetrated his frauds with their connivance.
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What are the true facts of the first Christmas? With expert help from two biblical scholars, Dr Geza Vermes and Professor Christopher Evans , critical analysis is brought to bear on the well-loved ingredients of the familiar story: the…
Victor Cheiney is a farmworker, married with two children. He is under notice to quit his tied cottage. The bailiff is due in days, and Cheiney has nowhere to go. This true story of what happened is painful and shocking. The series of…
The little bull calf Celia bore In winter 1974 was slaughtered so that human beings could drink her milk. But to keep that milk flowing it was crucial that she should calve again quickly. There was need for expert stockman-ship, the skill…
The story of one man's attempt to reunite under one roof the woman he claims is his wife, and the child he claims is his daughter. The action of this documentary moves from Lyallpur in North Pakistan, to Islamabad, to Bradford and Leeds…
Who is the most beautiful man in the whole of Britain? This year's Mr United Kingdom Championship in Liverpool resolved the question. This Inside Story is about the three most likely muscle men and their trainers, the men who mastermind…
Real police officers doing a real job. Catching villains and protecting the public
Marek Marek was one of many children who undergo a hole-in-the-heart operation. By now this operation is routine, and the vast majority of children make a full recovery. But Marek had a complication, called pulmonary atresia. Tragically…
This is the story of a remarkable young English nurse who made her home in a Saigon slum. Before the city fell to the communists she was told officially to leave South Vietnam. But she stayed. Her reason for not going was that her home…
An actuality account filmed behind closed doors of a company as it faces the ultimate business threat - liquidation. The second largest contract packers in the British Isles is struggling to keep afloat against a tide of creditors and…
The story of Michael - known as 'Mini' - who at 11 years old has twice attempted to burn down his house, and was designated too dangerous to be allowed his freedom.
An exclusive behind-the-scenes film about Elliot Richardson, US Ambassador to Great Britain - an American who is suddenly the focus of intense speculation. In the last three weeks White House-watchers have been asking the question 'Is…
Today The Archers is 25 years old - the world's longest-running radio serial. Ambridge people have spoken 57 million words, drunk 12,500 pints at The Bull, 20,833 cups of tea at Brookfield Farm.
At 8.0 am on New Year's Eve 1973, two ambulancemen called Jim Grummett and Colin Birch crossed the picket lines outside Sunderland Ambulance Depot and reported for work. From that day to January of this year the men were sent to Coventry'…
The true story of a valuable period piece, sold for a song by its owner, and for a lot of money by the time it reached its final resting place. The cupboard was spotted in the outhouse of a Welsh farm by an itinerant buyer, who…
Film cameras follow City of London traders in foreign exchange, metals, stocks and shares; money lenders who deal in millions of pounds at a time; and Lloyds underwriters who bet than an accident will never happen and risk losing their…
At the very grass-roots of our legal system are the Magistrates' Courts, before which 90 per cent of all cases in this country are settled. The cases themselves are for the most part of little importance: but behind the bare statistics…
Over 60,000 men are released from prison each year. At eight o'clock each day the prison gates open to let loose a stream of men on the world with only a few pounds in their pockets, and little prospect of a job. Inside Story follows…
In a summer when the immigration row has simmered in Parliament, and erupted in Southall, Inside Story concentrates on one very typical, human tale of an immigrant named MOHAMMED AKRAM. Mohammed Akram , a British citizen born in Pakistan,…
In May 1973 two young men were convicted of arson. Each received a term of imprisonment. Two years later, on appeal, they were proclaimed innocent. This film shows how the whole system of justice miscarried by reconstructing the story as…
Two young men have received a Queen's Pardon, after spending years in prison for a crime they did not commit. Roger Cook discusses with a solicitor, a barrister and the accused the issues raised in last week's Inside Story. What are a…
A year ago the Oxford Eight won the University Boat Race in the fastest time ever recorded. Highlights from the months of selection and preparation for the lung-bursting 17 minutes are assembled in this story, set in and around the River…
Eileen is at the beginning. Her husband, John, is on remand inside Pentonville awaiting trial at the Old Bailey for robbery, possession of a firearm, and resisting arrest. If he pleads guilty, he could get seven years. If he fights the…
Lorraine 's waiting has begun. Her husband, Steve, is serving two-and-a-half years in Leeds Prison for rape. Four months after he left the dock, Lorraine's baby arrived. All her courage is now summoned to face the physical and emotional…
Kathy is at the end. In 24 hours her husband Steve will be released. He has served 18 months in Wandsworth Prison for robbery. She has served 18 months on the 12th floor of a high-rise council block coping with all the problems of a…
Bob McAngus regularly drives his own juggernaut lorry from Britain to Italy. This is a filmed record of one mission - a journey from Felixstowe to Trieste. His manifest shows that he is carrying 20 tons of British furniture, bound…
David Kendall is a dairy farmer. He has 42 cows producing 80 gallons of milk a day. Yet he finds himself in trouble with the police on a most extraordinary charge: stealing a pint of milk valued at 8p. Kendall says he is not guilty and…
Following the transmission last August of Inside Story - Miscarriage of Justice, the BBC received a large number of letters from men and women alleging that they had been wrongfully convicted. In that film BERNARD RAYNER , a private…
In April this year a long-distance call from Moscow was put through to a London barrister. In the 15 seconds before she was cut off by the KGB, a Russian woman begged the lawyer to undertake the defence of her husband. His name was…
On one day in October last year 7,000 policemen were on the streets of Greater Manchester at a cost of over a quarter of a million pounds to defend the Englishman's right to free speech. But these Englishmen were members of the National…
When the union attempts to make the Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph a closed shop, one man stands in its way-the paper's editor. While the pickets man the gates, Ron Hunt gathers the news, writes the news, subs the news and assembles…
This programme focuses on the day to day lives of the British troops guarding the Belize/Guatemala border and their celebrations on Christmas Day, 1977. It’s a very different life here than the squaddies are used to, but it’s not quite a…
In the telephone directory the entry reads Samaritans, The (Befriend the suicidal), followed by a number. And a million people call the Samaritans every year. Befriending the lonely, desperate, and suicidal requires more than simple…
The Mafia itself is unfilmable - but the results of its malign activities are. Alcamo is a town of 45,000 people in Western Sicily. Since the war there have been 900 murders in Alcamo and its port Castellamare. But if the methods of the…
Thirty-two years ago, Diane was abandoned in the waiting room of Lymington station. She was six months old. Brian remembers nothing before the age of six, when he was adopted from a children's home. Both now share the common urge to find…
Every year, over 10,000 prisoners in jails all over the country anxiously await the result of their parole petitions. But no science governs the decision which can reduce the period of the sentence. For the first time four prisoners in…
24-year-old George Roberts feels that he is a woman, and he wants to have sex reassignment surgery. Before the National Health Service will approve the surgical procedures, they refer him to a psychiatrist in the Gender Identity Clinic at…
The blizzard that engulfed the South West of England in February 1978 was the worst in living memory on parts of Exmoor. Marooned and alone hill-farmers searched frantically for their flocks buried under tons of snow. This film begins as…
HMS Guernsey is a policewoman of the sea. The laws she enforces define the dos and don'ts of fishing. Her beat is three-quarter-million square miles of coastal water. The trawler skippers she orders to accompany her to the nearest port…
Timothy Jones is a child. When the strain of looking after him began to affect his parents' marriage, Mr and Mrs Jones agreed that it would be best if he were sent away from Solihull into a private residential home in the country. The…
After the failure of the plot to blow Adolf Hitler to pieces as he studied his campaigns in the Wolf's Lair on 20th July 1944, the conspirators were rounded up, put on trial and hanged. To savour his revenge at leisure, Hitler ordered the…
The oil bonanza, which breathed life into the nation's economy, also spelled death to many young men who worked under the icy waters of the North Sea. constructing and maintaining the oil-rigs. This toll of diving tragedies prompted the…
When the converted Greenpeace trawler sailed out into the North Sea in June this year bound for Iceland, the eyes of all who cared for the preservation of the whale Were on her. For the purpose of this voyage was to touch the conscience…
The Spaghetti House, Balcombe Street, the Iranian Embassy... three London incidents in recent Years in which police hostage negotiating teams have been in action. But the principles and Practices in use in London were pioneered by the New…
In June 1979, London played host to Gay Pride Week, which culminated in the Pride March through the capital. It was, at the time, the largest assembly of homosexuals Europe had ever seen. Frank language is used throughout as six gay…
Stephen is one of 12,000 waiting to be adopted, but he is of a group of children deemed virtually un-adoptable. For when he was only nine days old, Stephen was struck down by meningitis. Nearly five years later he lives in an institution,…
Almost exactly a year ago, Inside Story examined the case of Timothy, a hyperactive child, whom Solihull Social Services Department were determined to uproot from his residential home in the country to an urban day-care centre in…
Could brothels ever become legal in Britain? As a Home Office Committee study the possibility of changes in the law on prostitution, the City Fathers of Southampton, faced with a nest of legally untouchable prostitutes in the notorious…
Forty years ago to the day, 7 September 1940, Hurricanes of 257 Squadron took off from Martlesham Heath, Suffolk, to intercept a wave of Luftwaffe bombers over the Thames Estuary. Among those lost in the engagement that followed was ' A '…
Do we have the right to involve animals in our own military destruction? Animal war heroes, such as Rob the parachuting dog, have achieved amazing feats. Animals still play an extraordinary role - the US Navy sent six dolphins to the Gulf…
A 17-year-old tourist stabbed to death. A young woman taken hostage and raped. Just two of the 16,000 crimes that occurred last year on London's Underground. For the first time, a BBC film crew goes undercover with the 'Moles', a…
'To know is to avert, if you know the future you can change it,' says Hollywood psychic Kebrina Kincade. All over America, from the psychic tearooms of Sunset Strip to the salons of Beverly Hills, more and more people are leaving their…
A woman is battered in her own home. Trying to escape, she's dragged back by her feet and attacked with an axe. Only a 999 call saves her life. Horrific, but for Police Sergeant Colette Paul and Police Constable Annette O'Reilly , it is…
The Americans have just finished an experiment which allowed television networks to plug into criminal courts. The test case was the trial of Joel B. Steinberg , a wealthy Manhattan lawyer accused of murder. The only witness was his…
In the last year there has been another wave of executions of political prisoners in Iran's prisons. How can a revolution have come to this? In The Road to Terror, revolutionaries tell how their dream descended into a nightmare of terror…
Documentary that reviews the case of Jeffrey MacDonald, the U.S. Marine physician who was convicted of the 1970 murder of his wife and two young daughters in Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
Over ten years, the secret intelligence service MI6 infiltrated about 30 British agents into the Soviet Union to operate with anti-Communist partisans. By 1954, Harry Carr, MI6 chief, believed that his spy network stretched from the…
'I'm probably one of the last bounty hunters left in America,' says Leonard Padilla , a gun-toting Mexican with a black sombrero. Padilla and his two sidekicks go after fugitives who've jumped bail - and they boast a 100 per cent success…
Why do radishes weep and cabbages demonstrate with Placards? What's it like to fly through the air on a large pink pig or watch your father dancing on a wardrobe in a frilly ballerina's tutu? What do you feel like when you fall off a…
In a country where cosmetics, condoms, tights, tissues and tampons are largely unavailable, and where alcoholism and abortion are commonplace, some Soviet women doubt whether a beauty competition would improve their way of life. This…
At 6.01pm on 4 April 1968, Dr Martin Luther King was shot dead by a sniper in Memphis, Tennessee. Who fired that shot and why? For more than 20 years, the man convicted of King's murder, James Earl Ray, has protested his innocence. He…
During the years 1939 to 1945, more than a quarter of a million European gypsies were rounded up and deported to ghettos and concentration camps, where they were gassed or starved to death. Through the moving testimony of gypsy survivors…
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The last time they gazed on Japan they were watching the most horrific single event in the history of war - the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima. Forty-five years later the American airmen who dropped the bomb return to see the city they…
Investigates the fire inside Reactor One at Windscale in October 1957, and the previous emissions and leaks of radiation that occured there, contaminating the area, in spite of denials from the authorities. Workers from the site at the…
As Gorbachev draws back the iron curtain, western ideas and lifestyles are changing the Soviet Union. Not all of them are positive: there is a growing vice industry in the country's major cities. Soviet police claim there are 10,000…
Black sportsmen and women, wearing British colours, are winning more gold medals, setting new records and scoring more points, goals and runs than ever before. Some claim this is evidence of a natural black aptitude for sport. Others…
Three thousand people have been killed in the Natal province of South Africa during the last three years in a bitter struggle for black political power. The fighting between the African National Congress and Inkatha, Chief Buthelezi's…
The Broadwater Farm riots and the murder of PC Keith Blakelock in October 1985 led to a ten-week trial and life sentence for three young men - Engin Raghip , Mark Braithwaite and Winston Silcott. All three convictions were based on…
Most of us shudder when we see a rat. Nearly all of us call for help. Ratcatchers are the men who come to answer our calls and soothe us. Those calls increased by 20 per cent last year. City rats live in our sewers. Here they multiply in…
Ten years ago the workers at the Gdansk shipyard went on strike, an action that was to lead eventually to the fall of the Polish government. It was a long and bitter struggle, fraught with danger and personal sacrifice. From Gdansk,…
Our Kev' says the fresh wreath laid year after year on her son's grave by a still bitter Phyllis Freeman. Kev was one of the 95 people who die every week on our roads. The driver was fined £400 for driving carelessly. Inside Story asks…
Doctors around the world are monitoring and participating in torture. Inside Story talks to them, to the tortured prisoners and to the campaigners risking their lives to clean up the medical profession.
For 18 years George Blake served as a senior MI6 officer. In 1952 he became a double agent, betraying MI6 operations and personnel to the KGB. Over nine years, during the critical period of the Cold War, he destroyed most of M16's…
Howard Marks was an underworld myth: drugs trafficker, fugitive and Oxford graduate famous for his impersonations of Elvis Presley. For years, he eluded the law. His wealth and charm were legendary. He was untouchable: a middle-class…
Directed by the celebrated French film-maker, Marcel Ophuls , whose Oscar-winning film about notorious war criminal Klaus Barbie Hotel, Terminus was shown on BBC television last year. The programme started out as a documentary celebrating…
A documentary containing rare footage inside Long Kesh in 1990. It includes interviews with many republican and loyalist prisoners at the time. Well worth having a look at this.
Deep in the forests of south east Asia, the shy and endangered orang-utan is the victim of a cruel and criminal trade. Mothers are slaughtered and their babies sold at great profit in an extensive international black market. Inside Story…
For the first time, a documentary crew is allowed inside the South African police force. This film is the story of the Cape Town riot unit, the largest in the country. The local black township is in a state of unrest, and the riot unit is…
Aids is a disease which threatens every one of us. Heterosexuals are now becoming infected at a faster rate than gay men and many families will be devastated by its impact.
British Rail's crack Yorkshire Pullman carries business people to London from Leeds in two hours precisely. A first-class service is demanded by first-class passengers from a staff many of whom date back to the great steam age, with all…
During the 60s Colonel Oleg Penkovsky , a senior Russian intelligence officer, had proved himself to be 'our spy of the century'. For 16 months he passed the Kremlin's vital secrets to MI6 and the CIA. Suddenly the KGB arrested Penkovsky…
"I realised that I was going to be raped and that being raped was better than being dead, so therefore I was going to submit." (Rape Victim). For most women, rape is a life-threatening situation. In nearly 70 per cent of cases the woman…
The war is over, but thousands of families in Kuwait have loved ones missing. During the occupation large numbers of Kuwaitis were taken as prisoners to Iraq. Many were tortured, some will never return. Today, their families wait…
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The last American GIs left Vietnam in 1975. They left behind them the Amerasians - the children of American soldiers and Vietnamese women. Following the recent US Amerasian Homecoming Act, thousands of these youngsters are expected to…
London is choked by illegally parked cars. Emergency services are obstructed and public transport hindered. Enter the dreaded 'clampers' and their partners in misery, the 'towers'. Between them they immobilise or remove more than a…
With vast reserves of diamonds and valuable minerals, seas heavy with fish, the West African country of Sierra Leone should be rich. But this year, the United Nations declared it the least developed country in the world. Inside Story…
In the wake of the Birmingham Six appeal, Michael Mansfield , QC, a leading defence barrister, reveals exclusively to Inside Story his radical proposals for transforming the criminal justice system. Mansfield maintains that the scale and…
The Nightrider uncovers the disturbing truth about the murder, 28 years ago, of black civil-rights leader Medgar Evers by the Ku Klux Klan. His widow tells of her obsessive hunt for the man whom she believes to be the killer of her…
The Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka are one of the most ruthless groups of independence fighters in the modern world. The Indian authorities believe that Rajiv Gandhi , killed in May this year, fell victim to a Tamil Tiger suicide bomber. Many…
Last year, in America, 682 men were killed by their wives or girlfriends. That is the tip of an iceberg in which an estimated three or four million women are physically and psychologically battered and abused by their partners each year.…
The lives and times of British mercenaries fighting in the Yugoslavia Civil War, earning as little as £100 a month in the Yugoslavia army's only English speaking company.
Just when majority rule is in sight, South Africa's black townships are in despair. Murders, rapes, broken families and abandoned babies are at record levels, and nowhere is the crisis greater than in Soweto, where the rebellion against…
The investigative documentary series goes on the buses to take the pulse of a city that is grinding to a halt. Driving one of London's famous red buses has become a nightmare. One veteran double-decker driver, John Elwood , fears for his…
The investigative documentary series reveals the story of Russia's master spies - known as the "illegals" or "sleepers". "We take a standard Russian," explains one retired illegal, "and turn him into a standard Canadian. Then we…
Police on Humberside have set up four specialist units to deal solely with the growing number of reported child abuse cases. At Tower Grange police station in Hull, eight specially trained detectives are investigating over 35 cases a…
When British soldiers shot dead 24 Chinese "terrorists" in Malaya in December 1948 it was said to be one of the most successful operations in the war against the communists. However, the truth of what happened in this tiny Malayan village…
Hidden cameras expose a cruel "flesh trade" in which thousands of women from poor countries are lured to Europe for jobs that turn out to be in the sex industry. In strange cities, and without money or passports, they are tricked and…
Maggie carries all she owns in a bag. At 42 she has lived much of the last 20 years on the streets of London, where robbery and attacks are common. What led Maggie, once a social worker, to abandon her promising career for this precarious…
For the first time, the man the FBI described as "the perfect assassin, the very essence of evil: a man so blindly, terrifyingly obedient he would kill anyone, anywhere, without hesitation" tells his story. The son of wealthy,…
As many as one in five women in prison in Britain today is a Nigerian woman convicted of smuggling drugs into the UK. Driven by desperation and poverty, the women swallow the drugs in packages or stuff them into body orifices. Inside…
This film goes behind the scenes with a south London undertaking firm as they visit grieving families, collect bodies from hospital mortuaries, embalm them and prepare them for view. From the makers of the recent Town Hall series, it…
Every day half a million commuters pour into London on British Rail trains and every day something goes wrong - trains run late and passengers crush into ancient carriages. "Operating difficulties", staff shortages, leaves on the line,…
The first major investigation into Roland "Tiny" Rowland whose company, Lonrho, was 20 years ago unforgettably castigated by Edward Heath as "this unacceptable face of capitalism". At that time, surrounded by scandal and allegations of…
Documentary on Karlovac, a UN transit camp in Croatia that offers sanctuary to 3,000 broken people. It records the shattered lives of those for whom it has now become "home".
The recent murder of Liverpool toddler Jamie Bulger , allegedly by two 10-year-olds, shocked the world. As concern grows about juvenile crime, this film goes behind the locked doors of the Aycliffe Centre for Children to discover what…
Far from the image of LA Law, the New York City criminal courts sit 24 hours a day handling one million court appearances and 250,000 new defendants a year. But a defendant's fate hangs not upon the decision of a jury but on the outcome…
"There is very much a 'not in my backyard' attitude to mental health problems," says Paul Savage , a community psychiatric nurse in north Tyneside. Paul has 30 clients on his caseload, all of them long-term mentally ill patients, many…
The violent, degrading and complex relationship between pimps and prostitutes in London is explored in this film by Olivia Lichtenstein. Shot in the hotels and streets of Paddington, it reveals the brutal methods used to keep girls on the…
Battersea Technology College in London is one of the roughest comprehensive schools in the country. The local council, Conservative flagship Wandsworth, is the first council aiming to abolish the comprehensive system by introducing…
In January 1987 Terry Waite was taken hostage in Beirut. During the 1,763 days of his captivity, rumour and speculation mounted over the events leading up to his kidnapping, in particular the extent of his association with Oliver North ,…
It's no longer just question of someone down on their luck fiddling a few pounds they're not strictly entitled to. Not even of determined but small-scale fraud. Now the crime gangs are moving in, determined to exploit the benefit system,…
On a Saturday morning in August, traffic on a long section of the M1 has come to a standstill. A minor collision in roadworks near Luton has had a huge knock-on effect. Within an hour there are five more pile-ups and a 13-mile tailback.…
During the presidential primaries in 1992, would-be Democratic candidate Bill Clinton faced an agonising decision as Governor of Arkansas. A convicted killer named Rickey Ray Rector was languishingon death row in Clinton's own state…
"You can close your eyes but you can't shut your ears off, "says John Wilkinson of Westminster Council's noise team. The first film in this new series follows the team as they try to make central London a quieter place. Barking dogs,…
When the owner of Birmingham City Football Club, publisher David Sullivan, appointed 23-year-old Karren Brady as the club's managing director, she became the most powerful woman in football, in charge of a club with a macho reputation for…
Sean is 15 and well known to the Gateshead police as a juvenile car thief and burglar. He reckons he can break into a house with "good gear", grab the TV and video and get away in less than five minutes. Gladys Smith is 80 and suffering…
This film sounds a warning that paedophiles are often the least likely people. It investigates a man who was a top-ranking consultant on child care and yet for 30 years has secretly abused that position of trust with his paedophile…
If you think that Michael Elphick 's Harry was tough, stand by for the real thing. News Team in Birmingham is one of the country's leading news agencies, working at a frenetic pace to place their locally generated stories on to the…
Can a person so totally suppress recollections of sexual abuse during childhood that the memory of it can only be recovered through therapy? Or are "retrieved memories" the result of overzealous therapists planting the idea in what is an…
An investigation of the accident on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, in July 1969, when Senator Edward Kennedy's car plunged off a bridge and Kennedy's companion, Mary Jo Kopechne, drowned. The film was made in 1994, for the 25th…
Are you driving a stolen car? Thousands of motorists are but do not realise it. They are victims of "car ringers" who steal cars, falsify their identities, and sell them on the second-hand market. Inside Story joins a unique operation by…
The astonishing story of June and Jennifer Gibbons, identical twin sisters locked in an all-exclusive love-hate relationship which eventually drove them to arson and an indefinite sentence in Broadmoor Hospital. In tonight's Inside Story,…
The beach and beer are the main preoccupations in Malia, a lively resort on the island of Crete. And Louise, a 21-year-old from Blackburn, is the holiday rep whose job it is to deal with the consequences. Tonight's Inside Story follows…
In the last four years the Lloyd's of London insurance market has lost £6.6 billion - more than in the whole of its 300-year history. This loss has had to be borne by Names - private individuals who agreed to be liable for everything,…
What drives someone to it? Is it only for the rich and famous? Why are more and more men doing it and what difference does it make to people's lives? This week's programme lifts the lid off cosmetic surgery, going behind the scenes at one…
The world of the junior doctor has been dramatised in series like Casualty and Cardiac Arrest, but what is the reality? Life on Call provides a compelling and revealing insight into the challenges two young doctors face as they start work.
Documentary follows the BT Nuisance calls bureau in combatting nuisance callers and working with police to support the victims
The harrowing story of Caroline Beale, a woman from east London, charged with murdering her baby daughter in a New York hotel bathroom. The complex issues involved in her case will come before an American jury in June.
Tonight's programme looks at three victims of post traumatic stress disorder and the new treatment they are undertaking.
Mountain climbing is currently Britain's fastest growing sport. However, with the increase in popularity comes an increase in the number of people who need to be rescued. This past winter 64 people were caught in Scottish avalanches and…
London has become the international clearing house for thousands of stolen paintings and antiques. Detective Inspector Jill McTigue and her "Art Squad" at Scotland Yard find themselves investigating thefts that can take them from the…
According to the AA, nine out of ten drivers have experienced road rage. Inside Story tries to discover what makes ordinary people become raging beasts when they sit behind the wheel of their car.
An investigation of a court system set up to deal with domestic violence. Each year in the USA, over six million women are beaten by their abusive partners and around 4,000 thousand are killed. To deal with this hidden crime, a unique and…
In the wake of Rosemary West's trial we hear exclusive testimony from the only people qualified to describe life as it really was inside 25 Cromwell Street: this is the story of Stephen and Mae West - the oldest surviving children of Fred…
Left brain damaged after an operation, two-year-old Ian Stewart is in pain day and night and not expected to reach his teens. His parents, who have sacrificed their careers to care for Ian, feel his quality of life is negligible. This…
This programme goes behind the scenes to show how pop industry bosses manufacture the latest teenage "boy band" sensation, Upside Down, from auditions for the band members through to their first performance.
Update on the story of a London Civil Servant who was arrested in New York in 1994 carrying her dead baby. After eight months on remand, Caroline awaits her trial date.
Julie Hill was paralysed following a car crash, but she is about to become a bionic woman. Julie has been chosen to have the world's first electronic implant which would allow her to stand up at the press of a button, but using her own…
In August 1995, climber Alison Hargreaves , the first woman to reach the summit of Everest alone and without oxygen, was blown to her death on her descent of the world's second highest peak K2. In this Inside Story special her husband Jim…
25 Million Pounds details the collapse of Barings Bank in the mid 1990s primarily by a broker called Nick Leeson, who lost £827 million ($1.3 billion) by speculating on futures contracts. The film contextualises the downfall as the…
Los Angeles is the only city in the world which has its own police team dedicated to fighting the crime of stalking. Tonight's first in a new six-part series of documentaries, follows the LAPD's Threat Management Unit - known as the…
In 1934, in Canada, Elzire Dionne gave birth to five identical girls. To ensure the babies' survival, the sisters were removed from their parents and looked after in a specially built hospital, only to become a major tourist attraction.
A documentary about four intrepid lady shots who have taken on the men at their own game, in the exclusive world of the shooting party.
The story of Christopher, a young boy who suffers from severe epilepsy. The film follows his development over five years, from child to teenager.
Tonight's programme goes behind the scenes of the huge security operation, set up by eight of the country's regional police forces, during this year's Euro 96 football championship - Britain's biggest sporting event for 30 years.
From a bride betrayed on her wedding night to a lottery winner who walked out on his partner, this documentary goes behind closed doors to hear the personal stories of people involved in just a few of the nation's marital break-ups.
Karzan Krekar's family are trapped in a safe haven in northern Iraq. Karzan lives with his wife and child in Britain, watching helplessly as the situation in Iraq becomes evermore unstable and his family are exposed to increasing danger.…
The inside story of the life of Robert Maxwell. Tom Bower reveals in forensic detail the financial web which underpinned the Maxwell empire and the people who supported him. This film details exactly what happened in the House of Maxwell…
A new six-part series of the investigative programme begins with a look at the KGB and its recruitment of women to seduce information from foreign diplomats, businessmen and military personnel. The programme highlights one recruit,…
The investigative series looks at the Royal Navy's arduous two-week survival course. The film follows a mixed group of marines, air crew, divers and a female flight observer, as they struggle to survive in the wild with few supplies, also…
Following the rape and murder of seven-year-old Megan Kanka in a small New Jersey town three years ago, by a convicted paedophile, her mother Maureen successfully campaigned for a new law in the United States to make known convicted sex…
For more than 20 years heroin has been the most important thing in the life of addict James, but now his health is deteriorating and he knows he must kick the habit. His wife Natalie has also had enough of the lifestyle. Inside Story…
A government hotline set up last year, invited the public to help catch benefit fraudsters who each year cost the DSS three billion pounds. Inside Story looks at how fraud investigators raid suspect businesses, descend upon the homes of…
The story of Jan Ruston, who, when her 20-year marriage ended three years ago, did a "Shirley Valentine". She travelled to Cyprus to get away from it all, and found new love. But the man she fell in love with and trusted, knowingly…
How have Swiss banks profited from Nazi Germany? In their search for the missing millions, two men, Edgar Bronfman and Israel Singer, uncover what they believe to be evidence of Swiss collusion with the Nazis. The programme includes…
In this first of five new documentaries, the spotlight is on Britain's gangster underworld and the women who share their lives with some of its key players. The film includes interviews with seven gangsters' molls, who talk about the pros…
On 26 March this year, the bodies of 39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult were found in a house in San Diego. They all recorded their farewells on videotape and committed suicide by taking a fatal cocktail of drugs and alcohol. Who were…
A look at the growing number of agencies and individuals who are willing, for a price, to seek revenge on behalf of others. Inside Story explores the psychology of revenge, from the bizarre but legal antics of the Get Back Agency to the…
From London to a Triad-controlled black market in the Far East, Inside Story this week probes one of the world's most organised smuggling rings to expose a lucrative and violent illegal tobacco trade.
Every year the island of Majorca draws two million British tourists, but the combination of cheap alcohol, high spirits and scorching weather can spell trouble for some. Her Majesty's representative in Palma de Majorca, John Blakemore,…
People love to hate estate agents but they also need to use them. Inside Story examines the strange love-hate relationship between the agents, their clients and the buyers.
In 1974 Amy Billig was abducted by a biker gang passing through her small Florida community. Today Amy would be 40. Her mother is convinced she is still alive and has spent the intervening years searching for her. Inside Story joins the…
Britain has the highest number of underage mothers in Europe. Tonight Inside Story takes a look at the different experiences of three young women who all became pregnant before they were 16.
Documentary telling the stories of three Asian women in mixed-race relationships who faced violence, intimidation and isolation after rejecting a traditional arranged marriage.
A behind-the-scenes look at the world of supermodels, following a group of teenage hopefuls during New York Fashion Week.
The series concludes with a film exploring the troubled world of the young homeless through the eyes of Tommy and Crystal, a couple living on the streets of London. As Tommy tries to help Crystal kick her drug habit, they start to dream…
The programme follows Centaur, a group of Welsh strippers, as they leave their wives and families to perform for audiences of screaming women in Britain's clubs. The resulting film says as much about the sexuality of nineties women as it…
In March 1997 The Times newspaper columnist and broadcaster John Diamond was diagnosed with throat cancer. Inside Story follows Diamond through the year that has changed both him and his life forever.
Tonight a look at the sales methods used in car showrooms.
The story of Mary Kay Letourneau who married her sixth-grade student after serving prison time for raping him. Their student-teacher relationship made headlines in 1995 when he was 12 and she was 34.
The sleeping pill Rohypnol has become known as the date-rape drug in Britain and the USA. Tonight reveals the effect the drug has on people's behaviour and interviews women who are trying to seek justice after being drugged and then raped.
Since the Second World War, two million babies have been born worldwide as a result of donor insemination. This programme meets some of the children who are now struggling to come to terms with their identities, and donors who explain…
Britain's first million pound black footballer, Justin Fashanu, seemingly had everything - looks, talent and money. But last May his body was found in a lock-up garage in London's East End. He had, apparently, hanged himself. By talking…
First transmitted in 1999, a self-made multi-millionaire, a would-be rock star and a veteran fish trader are among the many dedicated traders wheeling and dealing at Billingsgate, the early morning seafood bazaar which is Britain's…
The documentary series continues with this film about Corinne Landriscina and Mark Stebbings, who live together and also work together as bailiffs recovering unpaid council tax in Leeds.
On 7 December three members of the Essex drugs underworld were found executed in a Range Rover. Their killers were convicted solely on the basis of testimony by supergrass Darren Nicholls, who is interviewed in this film exposing the…
The documentary series takes a revealing look at modern relationships through the eyes of various couples in emotional turmoil.
The documentary series concludes with an examination of how gun ownership in America has affected young people. In Texas, the film looks at Houston's most violent areas and meets children who have suffered the trauma of being shot.
Tonight's programme explores the world of heart transplantation at Papworth hospital. It is 20 years since the first successful heart transplants were carried out in the UK at Papworth and the demand for transplantation now far outstrips…
Tonight's film tells the story of a "supergrass" whose information led to two men being jailed for life for murder. After three members of the Essex drugs underworld were killed in 1995, the police had no leads - until getaway driver…
Tonight's film travels to Rostov in Russia, a city that has earned the reputation of serial-killer capital of the world. Inside Story meets top psychiatrist Dr Alexander Bukhanovsky and investigates his continuing efforts to unlock the…
Despite contravening the law and being banned by the Mormon church, polygamy is still thriving in Utah. Tonight's film presents an insight into the secretive and often bizarre world that polygamists enter into. They believe that the…
On Boxing Day 1994, young doctor Joan Francisco was found strangled at her London flat. The victim's family were convinced they knew the killer, an obsessed ex-boyfriend, but police claimed there was insufficient evidence to arrest him.…
Author Binjamin Wilkomirski's book Fragments, an account of his childhood in the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Majdanek, was acclaimed as a classic of Holocaust literature. However last year a newspaper declared Wilkomirski a…
A report on the struggle of an attractive young woman, Gail, whose little-understood condition of body dysmorphic disorder led her to believe herself to be ugly and to repeatedly mutilate herself.
In 1995 Len Carter shot his estranged wife Loraine Whiting and then killed himself. Although Loraine called the police, by the time they entered her house she was already dead. The police maintain they did everything possible, but…
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An Inside Story documentary looking at the poetry written by Tito, an 11-year-old Indian boy with autism whose work gives a rare insight into this condition.
Tonight's Inside Story documentary focuses on the vociferous opposition by residents of Sherwood in Nottingham to the news that two sex offenders, who had completed their sentences, were to be moved into special accommodation in the local…