Synopsis
First Tuesday or This World is a monthly television documentary strand, shown in the United Kingdom on the ITV network and was produced by Yorkshire Television. The subject matter was mainly social issues and current affairs stories from around the world. It ran from 5 April 1983 to 2 November 1993, with programme being shown on the first Tuesday of the month, hence the title. In 1993, Network First was a part replacement for First Tuesday.
Episodes
1E1The Chinese Geordie/A Message from the Falklands/Hostages of War2E2Desperate Choice/Rupert Goes to Town/Voices from Moscow3E3Episode 34E4Third Avenue/The View From the Roof of Lancashire/From Peking to Poplar5E5A Lottery for Life/Third Avenue6E6The Shadow Boxer/The Real Maria7E7Life in San Quentin/The Hunters of Cadgwith Cove8E8Windscale: The Nuclear Laundry9E9Women Miners/Sunday Mornings and Saturday Nights10E10The Summer Holiday/Goodbye Joey11E11The Town that Builds the Bomb/Survivors of the Kwai/Heavy Metal12E12Families Who Wait/Aunt Annie's Bomb FactoryFamilies Who Wait - Documentary which looks at the legal battles of two families to be reunited after the children have been taken into care. Aunt Annie's Bomb Factory - Documentary which examines the real facts behind the 1974 IRA bomb campaign in Britain and asks if the real perpetrators esca
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