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Power in Your Hands E1

1. Power in Your Hands

In Liverpool today you can hardly turn a corner without ending up in yet another film report on the city's decline. Why, then, are so many Liverpudlians still frustrated by television's inability to recognise their real needs? Julie Walters , no stranger to life on Merseyside, returns to show what happened when those same people - from Croxteth, from. Bootle, from Liverpool 8 - were given the power to make programmes that said exactly what they wanted them to say...

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Time and Other Thieves E2

2. Time and Other Thieves

The A5 special unit inside Holloway is the only therapeutic wing for women in the whole British prison system. Evidence is coming to light that some authorities would like to see it closed down. Bernadette Shannon was there for more than a year and on her release wanted to make a film about it. Community Programmes got in touch with the Home Office, the Home Office got in touch with the Governor. The Governor said no....

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Christine's Children E3

3. Christine's Children

Three years ago Christine Ridg well and her two young daughters were paid a rare visit by her ex-husband. Although Christine had been granted custody of the girls, he snatched them and took them to his new home in Italy. She tells of her long and harrowing fight for her children. Her case is not unique: right now at least 500 children, snatched from Britain, are still outside the country, outside our laws.

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Chingari - The Spark E4

4. Chingari - The Spark

The recently ended 15-week strike by Asian textile workers at Aire Valley Yarns in West Yorkshire was hardly reported outside Bradford. Yet today, against a background of increasing racial hostility, this Asian community often faces the grim choice of working in sweat shop conditions, or not working at all. This programme made by the Strikers Support Committee demonstrates the growing spirit of resistance within the Asian community.

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National Health Service: 1: the Consultant's Tale E5

5. National Health Service: 1: the Consultant's Tale

Old people now occupy half the country's hospital beds. They are mostly dependent on the comprehensive,care of the NHS. Dr Peter Fisher is the kind of hospital doctor who looks after them. He works at Banbury's Horton Hospital - the sort of local general hospital we all rely Oh. But Dr Fisher and some of his consultant colleagues feel that the NHS is now in real danger from Government cuts and privatisation. A week in his working life explains why we should np longer take him for granted... Made in co-operation with the NHS Consultants Association

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National Health Service: 2: Mission of Mersey E6

6. National Health Service: 2: Mission of Mersey

Music and movement in a doctor s waiting room? Local girls accosting you on the street to ask your views on health? Your doctor sending a social worker round to help sort out your bad housing? That's what happens in Liverpool at Princes Park Health Centre where doctors and nurses are tackling the root causes of bad health head-on. Made in co-operation with the PRINCES PARK HEALTH CENTRE

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National Health Service: 3: On Whose Authority? E7

7. National Health Service: 3: On Whose Authority?

Peter Pan fights for life! -as the people of North Kensington oppose plans to close the much-loved children's ward at their local hospital. Unhappily cast as Captain Hook and his cut-throat crew are the doctors and nurses and administrators of the Paddington and North Kensington Health Authority. They want to improve children's services in the district by centralising them at a brand-new unit being built in Paddington. The professional and lay members of the health authority have to find a solution which marries medical excellence and the community's wishes-and all within a reduced budget.

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A Day Off the Buses E8

8. A Day Off the Buses

Holiday time in Open Space this week. The drivers and clippies of Putney Bus Garage step off their buses on to the somewhat faster route of the world's largest corkscrew rollercoaster. That's just one of the terrors and delights they try with their families during a day out at Britain's largest pleasure park, Alton Towers In Staffordshire. But no day out is complete without an argument or three on the long journey home. The kids slept right through it.

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Ducking the Rocks - A Social Worker's Life E9

9. Ducking the Rocks - A Social Worker's Life

Lots of people think they could do social work, even more think that they know what social workers do -well you've seen Juliet Bravo handed confidential files from her social worker husband and even Coronation Street's Ken Barlow was offered the job of a Senior Officer. Open Space followed a group of social workers in South Wales during three days in June.

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Downtown Video E10

10. Downtown Video

Cameraman, director, interviewer Jon Alpert is the only 'Independent' whose work appears regularly - and unedited - on American network television, on NBC's prestigious Today programme. The unique quality of his reporting, whether it's on squatters in Philadelphia, or guerrillas in El Salvador, comes from a technique he learnt on the streets of his local community in New York where he and his wife Keiko Tsuno have run Downtown Community Television since 1972. They hold free classes for anyone interested in using video as a community resource, and lend equipment to their ' graduates ' who include tenants' associations, trade unions pressure groups of all kinds and high school students, and whose tapes are shown on the streets, in meeting-halls, in private homes, in schools and on local cable television.

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Health Care: Your Money or Your Life E11

11. Health Care: Your Money or Your Life

A documentary by Jon Alpert and Kelko Tsuno for New York's Downtown Community Television Centre. A heart-attack victim is rushed into the emergency room with no pulse. Miraculously, the doctors bring him back to life, but two days later he is dead. Budgets, cut-backs, broken equipment and lack of supplies delayed the surgery that could have saved his life. The programme follows patients in two New York hospitals - one public, one private - to illustrate the vast differences in health care the two systems offer. At a time when our own National Health Service is under increasing threat this chilling picture of what happens in America raises disturbing questions about what could happen here.

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A Healthy Future? E12

12. A Healthy Future?

Following public reaction to three Open Space films about the NHS, tonight's programme presents a major debate about the future of the Health Service. The participants all have a vital stake in the issues-whether as doctors or nurses, porters or patients. Chaired by MARGO MACDONALD

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A Midsummer Night’s Belfast E13

13. A Midsummer Night’s Belfast

A local community arts group echo the events staged by the Victorians in Belfast’s Botanical Gardens, resulting in Midsummer magic. Live music, balloon ascents and elaborate theatrics all feature.

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Who's Looking After the Kids? E14

14. Who's Looking After the Kids?

A 3- and a 4-year-old introduce a child's-eye view of life. A few of us are lucky -we go to good nurseries But it's not such a happy story for the rest. Every day millions of parents and children are suffering because of the shortage of nursery centres. They don't share our happiness and peace of mind. There are three million of us under 5. Why does the government ignore our needs?

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For Sale - 9,000 People E15

15. For Sale - 9,000 People

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The Badgers of Gwent E16

16. The Badgers of Gwent

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Earls Court '...a time, a place, a state of mind?' E17

17. Earls Court '...a time, a place, a state of mind?'

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Peter Tatchell and the Battle for Bermondsey E18

18. Peter Tatchell and the Battle for Bermondsey

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The Need to Know E19

19. The Need to Know

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Officers No More E20

20. Officers No More

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Falkland Sound to Plymouth Sound E21

21. Falkland Sound to Plymouth Sound

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Singing Songs of Whales and Things E22

22. Singing Songs of Whales and Things

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The People's Palace E23

23. The People's Palace

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Episode 24 E24

24. Episode 24

New mining technology.

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Freedom Fighter Lives Forever E25

25. Freedom Fighter Lives Forever

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The State We're In E26

26. The State We're In

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Invisible Women E27

27. Invisible Women

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One of Us E28

28. One of Us

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The Women of Durham Jail E29

29. The Women of Durham Jail

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Here to Stay E30

30. Here to Stay

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On the Road E31

31. On the Road

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Rockin' the Botha E32

32. Rockin' the Botha

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Come On You Spurs E33

33. Come On You Spurs

Follows the supporters of Tottenham Hotspur Association Football Club, hearing about their passions, and also both sides of the story around hooliganism.

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Fair Shares? E34

34. Fair Shares?

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Only Fools and Sportsmen... E35

35. Only Fools and Sportsmen...

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It's my Life, Anyway... E36

36. It's my Life, Anyway...

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A Picture of Health E37

37. A Picture of Health

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Closing Doors E38

38. Closing Doors

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Lucifer Over Lancashire E39

39. Lucifer Over Lancashire

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Open Space (1983)

0.0 (0) 1 Season 1983-07-05

Open Space was a programme produced by the BBC's Community Programme Unit. It was an evolution of the earlier Open Door series of programmes allowing minority points of view to make a television programme about issues of concern to them. The programmes were transmitted on BBC 2 in a mid-evening slot and would attract audiences between 500,000 and 1,500,000. In a typical year there would be two or three groups of up to eight Open Space programmes each usually half an hour long. A producer, an assistant and a budget of up to £25,000 would be allocated to each programme.

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