Inside Story - Season 16 / Year 1997

Inside Story - Season 16 / Year 1997

Season 16 / Year 1997

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DatesJan 21, 1997 - Aug 27, 1997
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The Honey Trap
Year 1997Episode 150 min

The Honey Trap

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, Violetta Seina, who targeted an American marine, while former KGB officers and "swallows" speak for the first time about their "bed espionage" duties.

Jan 21, 1997
Behind Enemy Lines
Year 1997Episode 250 min

Behind Enemy Lines

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 avoiding mock enemy forces in the face of exhaustion, cold and hunger.

Jan 28, 1997
Megan's Law
Year 1997Episode 350 min

Megan's Law

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 offenders.Tonight's programme highlights her campaign and asks if this is the answer to preventing future crimes of this nature.

Feb 4, 1997
Love On the Needle
Year 1997Episode 455 min

Love On the Needle

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 follows his struggle to beat the addiction and graphically reveals what happens after he checks into a detox clinic.

Feb 18, 1997
To Catch a Cheat?
Year 1997Episode 550 min

To Catch a Cheat?

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 alleged cheats and check the thousands of anonymous tip-offs which flood the hotline each week.

Feb 25, 1997
A Deadly Secret
Year 1997Episode 655 min

A Deadly Secret

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 infected her with HIV.

Mar 4, 1997
Molls
Year 1997Episode 750 min

Molls

In this documentary, 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 and cons of life with some of the country's most dangerous criminals and what attracts them to this risk-ridden world.

Jul 30, 1997
The Cult
Year 1997Episode 850 min

The Cult

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 they and why did they end their lives?

Aug 6, 1997
Dial V for Vengeance
Year 1997Episode 945 min

Dial V for Vengeance

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 terrifying retribution of the hitman.

Aug 13, 1997
Smoke Rings
Year 1997Episode 1055 min

Smoke Rings

From London to a Triad-controlled black market in the Far East, Inside Story this week probes one ofthe world's most organised smuggling rings to expose a lucrative and violent illegal tobacco trade.

Aug 20, 1997
Our Man in Majorca
Year 1997Episode 1150 min

Our Man in Majorca

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 , has to pick up the pieces, working in one of the world's busiest British consulates. Inside Story joins him and his wife Joan as they deal with this year's summer season.

Aug 27, 1997

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