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Programme presented by Tony Francis. The first item looks at controversial Government plans to use lie detectors on staff at GCHQ. We see an exterior of the secret communications centre at Cheltenham and a freeze frame of spy Geoffrey Prime, whom it is alleged would have been caught earlier if polygraphs had been in use. Jon Lander visits Polygraph Security Services Ltd where he undergoes a polygraph test from former detective sergeant John Dicker, and interviews the firm's chairman Sir George Terry and managing director Jeremy Barrett. The firm dispute that the machine is a lie detector and prefer to offer it as a stress detector. At the headquarters of the Society of Civil and Public Servants Lander talks to the deputy general secretary Campbell Christie who is against the use of polygraphs.
Back in the studio Reg Harcourt reports on the new Labour shadow cabinet. On film in Westminster he talks to Roy Hattersley, the new Chancellor of the Exchequer and in the studio he interviews Denis Howell about his new role in shadow home affairs. We also see library pictures from ATV Today from April 1976 of Howell running in Nottingham city centre when employed as sports minister.
The final report is a Jon Lander film profile of the new Conservative MP for South Derbyshire, Edwina Currie. In Etwall we see Currie at a Conservative women's fundraiser and we also see her judging a pre-school fancy dress competition at Newton Solney in Derbyshire. Currie is interviewed about her 'fierce' reputation. She also talks about her belief in 'Victorian values'. We also see her with her two children leaving her Birmingham home (with For Sale board visible), driving in her car and relaxing by target shooting.
Production Team: Bruce Grocott; Rob Whitehouse; Mark Astaire
Film Editors: Ian Hutchison; Ken Jones
Graphics: Jim Chalmers
Political Editor: Reg Harcourt
Executive Producer: Terry Johnston
Editor: Mike Warman
Director: Rob Harding
Central Television production number 3356/83.