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| Academy, The | ...GERRY NORTHAM follows the progress of would-be chief constables through a six-month course for high-flyers at Bramshill Police College.... |
| Archive Hour, The | ...In Potteries Fascists, GERRY NORTHAM marks the anniversary of the Act with a unique set of recordings, never before heard on network radio, chronicling the rise and fall of the fascist movement in one of its strongest provincial bases, Stoke-on-Trent.... |
| Arthur O'connor's Last Flight | ...GERRY NORTHAM tells the story of a woman's fight to discover the truth about her father, who died in a mysterious air crash on the Cote d'Azur in 1968.... |
| Britain's X Files | ...GERRY NORTHAM reveals details of secret government investigations into a series of reported UFO sightings during the post-war years when Cold War paranoia was at its peak.... |
| Broken Arrow | ...In the early hours of 5th February 1958, a mid-air collision forced a badly damaged USAF B47 bomber to drop a 7,600lb nuclear bomb in the shallow waters off the coast of Georgia. GERRY NORTHAM travels to Mississippi to hear the pilot's story and find out why the bomb has never been found.... |
| Buzz Of Politics, The | ...GERRY NORTHAM examines the use of the beehive through the ages as a metaphor for how the state should be governed.... |
| Climate Wars | ...GERRY NORTHAM looks at the heated politics of climate change. After Britain's hottest year since records began, arguments rage between different schools of scientific thought.... |
| Countdown To The Olympics [world Service] | ...GERRY NORTHAM investigates claims that abuses of human rights and civil liberties in China have increased prior to the Olympics.... |
| Crossing Continents | ...Azagar was born in Niger in West Africa. In 'Crossing Continents' this week GERRY NORTHAM travels to Niger where it is estimated that as many as 870,000 people, nearly eight per cent of the population, are slaves. Their masters control them completely, according to human rights organisations.... |
| Divided Britain | ...GERRY NORTHAM reports from Marsden Heights Community College in Pendle, Lancashire, opened in 2006 as part of a radical reorganisation of local schools designed to improve performance and help to integrate the white and Asian population of the area. Two years on, is the college achieving its goals?... |
| Falklands 25 - Dangerous Interface | ...Twenty-five years after the Falklands War, GERRY NORTHAM tells the story of the British political and intelligence failures in advance of the Argentine invasion and asks if any lessons could have been learned before the invasion of Iraq.... |
| File On 4 | ...GERRY NORTHAM (Producer)... |
| Forgotten Conscripts, The | ...GERRY NORTHAM unearths the neglected story of the Bevin Boys, the 50,000 young men who during the Second World War had no option but to go down the mines, to provide the coal on which British industry and shipping relied. Without their contribution, the country's war effort could have been seriously impaired, so why have these reluctant miners been overlooked for so long?... |
| Frontiers | ...The Border Agency is part way through its Human Provenance Pilot Project, trialling suggestions that DNA and isotope data can test asylum seekers' credentials. But scientific experts in these techniques say the science cannot deliver. GERRY NORTHAM investigates.... |
| Glow In The Dark, A | ...Many incidents of attempted smuggling of nuclear materials have been reported. Could a terrorist organisation have acquired nuclear contraband? GERRY NORTHAM investigates. / Many incidents of attempted smuggling of nuclear materials have been reported. Could a terrorist organisation have acquired nuclear contraband? GERRY NORTHAM investigates. [Rpt of Tues, 8.00pm]... |
| Greening Of Chemistry, The | ...GERRY NORTHAM goes in search of the scientists, politicians and manufacturers who are turning the chemical industry around to face the 21st century as a green network.... |
| Gridlocked | ...GERRY NORTHAM asks whether canals built in the 18th century can provide sustainable transport for the 21st. The government wants to get freight off roads and onto waterways wherever possible. But commercial barge owners say vital wharves are being sold off to property developers, and feel that British Waterways is not interested in freight. British Waterways vigorously defends its record.... |
| Hive, The | ...In the first of two programmes GERRY NORTHAM reveals his private passion for bees through a year in the life of his hives.... |
| Inside The Virtual Anthill - Open Source Means Business | ...GERRY NORTHAM goes behind the scenes to investigate 'open source' computer software. Much has been said about the likes of free web browser Firefox and the operating system Linux, but little about how thousands of programmers scattered around the world collaborate in a 'virtual anthill' to create products that rival more commercial offerings. Gerry finds out how it is done and shows how its ethos is being applied to other kinds of business, with some startling results.... |
| Laboratory Of War | ...GERRY NORTHAM reports on warfare and the consequences for global peace.... |
| Long Hot Summer, A | ...GERRY NORTHAM asks what led to the Brixton riots 20 years ago, and how much has been learned from that weekend of furious street violence.... |
| Miners' Strike - The Legacy, The | ...GERRY NORTHAM examines the economic and political impact of the 1984 miners' strike, Britain's bitterest and most politicised post-war industrial dispute, with those involved telling the story.... |
| Monday Documentary, The [world Service] | ...GERRY NORTHAM reports on the discovery of documents from Guatemala's security forces during the 30-year civil war.... |
| Nature | ...The Sonoran Desert in Arizona is home to a greater diversity of bees than anywhere else in the world. GERRY NORTHAM traces the history and conservation of the forgotten pollinators.... |
| New World Of War, The | ...In two programmes, GERRY NORTHAM reports on modern warfare. 2: `The Plague Makers'. Northam investigates the threat of a new generation of biological weapons.... |
| New X Files, The | ...GERRY NORTHAM follows his report last year on unexplained sightings in the skies during the postwar years, updating the story with more stories from secret government files.... |
| Nuclear Detectives [world Service] | ...GERRY NORTHAM discovers why an army of scientists has been employed to help stop the increasing trade in radioactive and nuclear contraband.... |
| On Watch | ...The costs of widespread burglary in Britain are enormous - in terms of both insurance claims and emotional distress. Over the next four weeks, GERRY NORTHAM talks to some of the people fighting back by joining Neighbourhood Watch. 1: The residents of one rural street gather for their inaugural meeting; and the woman who had her garden stolen and is now the organisation's national leader.... |
| Pick Of The Week | ...GERRY NORTHAM... |
| Reel Histories | ...GERRY NORTHAM compares the history we see in films with the real thing.... |
| Right Stuff, The | ...GERRY NORTHAM presents two programmes which follow the progress of would-be chief constables through a six-month course for high-flyers at Bramshill Police College.... |
| Science Friction | ...GERRY NORTHAM investigates the case of Friedhelm Herrman and Marion Brach, leading lights of German cancer research - a hundred of whose papers were found to have been largely fabricated.... |
| Shipman Effect, The | ...GERRY NORTHAM examines to what extent this is due to the Harold Shipman Effect. Has the fact that the serial killer murdered his patients with drugs normally used legitimately to alleviate pain at the end of life left many doctors over-reluctant to prescribe and administer them?... |
| Someone Must Be Lying | ...SBH:A dramatised feature on the case of Roc Sandford arrested for possession of cannabis which he claimed had been planted by the police. Narrator: John Alderson. Producers: Tony Cliff & GERRY NORTHAM.... |
| That's History | ...GERRY NORTHAM returns with the topical history magazine. In this edition, an exploration of the British preoccupation with secrecy, and queuing up for the historian's equivalent of the Harrods sale - the unveiling of government documents covered by the 30-year rule.... |
| This Green Unpleasant Land | ...Mud throwing youngsters, overgrown bushes and joy riders burning out cars may not sound like the most serious problems of our time. But for people in the countryside, who feel ever more at risk from crime and nuisance as the police struggle to provide a meaningful presence in rural areas, they can make their lives a misery. So, in a unique two-year pilot scheme, the Avon and Somerset Constabulary have appointed eight civilians to patrol parishes, and act as the eyes and ears of the community. GERRY NORTHAM follows the rural wardens through their training and onto their beats to discover what difference they can make to the lives of country folk, to hear how they carried out a citizen's arrest, and what happened when they were called in to deal with the great Western Zoyland onion heist.... |
| Turning Right | ...In the aftermath of the local elections, GERRY NORTHAM looks at the rise of the far right and investigates its claims to Christian roots and respectability. He also asks why a recent nationwide poll revealed that a high percentage said they would consider voting BNP in the next General Election.... |
| War Against Prejudice, A | ...GERRY NORTHAM, with unique access to the CST, explores the myths and realities of anti-semitism through its activities.... |