World in Action was a British investigative current affairs programme made by Granada Television from 1963 to 1998. The efforts of its production team not infrequently had a major impact on events of the day. It often took audacious risks and gained a reputation for its frequently unorthodox, some said left-wing, approach and for its campaigning journalism.
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- World in Action was a British investigative current affairs programme made by Granada Television from 1963 to 1998. The efforts of its production team not infrequently had a major impact on events of the day. It often took audacious risks and gained a reputation for its frequently unorthodox, some said left-wing, approach and for its campaigning journalism. Cabinet ministers fell victim to its probings, and numerous innocent victims of the British criminal justice system, including the Birmingham Six, were released from jail. Honouring the programme in its fiftieth anniversary awards, the Political Studies Association, said, "World in Action thrived on unveiling corruption and highlighting underhand dealings. World in Action came to be seen as hard-hitting investigative journalism at its best. " The first of the ground-breaking Seven Up! films was made for World in Action in 1964. A melodramatic post-trial encounter in 1967 between Mick Jagger and senior British establishment figures, in which rock star and retinue were wafted by helicopter onto the lawn of a stately home, was engineered by then World In Action researcher but future BBC Director-General John Birt. He decades later described it as "one of the iconic moments of the Sixties. " World In Action was sold around the world, and won numerous awards. In its heyday, it drew audiences of up to 23 million in Britain alone, equivalent to almost half the population. Margaret Thatcher was said to have told the then BBC Director General, Sir Iain Trethowan, that she considered World in Action to consist of "just a lot of Trotskyists. " The programme's demise in favour of the more pedestrian Tonight, described by one commercial television regulator as "fluffy," was seen by some as part of a general dumbing-down of British television and, in particular, of ITV. Others saw World in Action's death after 35 years as the inevitable consequence of rising commercial pressures.
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- A version of the programme's opening title from the 1970s
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- World in Action was a British investigative current affairs programme made by Granada Television from 1963 to 1998. The efforts of its production team not infrequently had a major impact on events of the day. It often took audacious risks and gained a reputation for its frequently unorthodox, some said left-wing, approach and for its campaigning journalism.
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