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Andy Craig interviews Heather and Tony King who featured on last week's programme. Heather is pregnant and the couple are both disabled and have been told by social services that they will have to give up their baby when it is born. In the latest development they tell Craig that at a meeting with social services that decision has been reversed. Harry Tunnicliffe, child care specialist, is also interviewed.
Sue Jay chairs a debate between Arthur Scargill, president of the National Union of Mineworkers, and Edwina Currie who is the MP for South Derbyshire and the current Conservative Under Secretary for Health. The main subject is their image of each other (as polar opposites) and the role of the press in shaping the public's view of political figures.
Reg Harcourt introduces an item about NHS funding. In a film report voiced by Allister Craddock, we visit the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham where waiting times are increasing. We see inside the cancer and renal units and there are interviews with Sister Carus-Wilson, Dr Jonathan Michael who is a renal consultant and cancer patient Angela Tonge.
Back in the studio Harcourt chairs a debate between Edwina Currie and the studio audience about funding for the health service. Contributions come from: Dr Jonathan Michael and Angela Tonge; Sir James Ackers, Chairman of the Regional Health Authority; Norrie Roy, the parent of a kidney patient; Dr Tony Banks, cancer consultant; Stephen Kirwan, cancer patient; Peter Rookes, Chief Nursing Officer; and Ann Stevens, the mother of a cancer patient.
Andy Craig introduces a film montage of trade union leaders cut to music which ends with Arthur Scargill and Bill Jordan of the Amalgamated Engineering Union in dispute at a recent TUC conference. This leads into a studio debate chaired by Craig in which Scargill and Jordan discuss splits in the trade union movement and their relationship with the Labour Party. The debate is opened up to members of the studio audience including several trade union members.
Research: Paul Calverley; Peter Chapman; Ian Cook; Allister Craddock; Debi Davies; Kevin Dowling; Mark Linsey; Peter Perks; Graham Tearse
Script Associate: Paul Clark
Film Editor: Paul Brown
Film Research: Di Hartland
Graphics: Steve Csanyi
Vision Mixer: Yvonne Ackrill
Floor Manager: Paul Leather
Production Assistants: Marilyn Ward, Tina Murray
Senior Cameraman: Paul Hacking
Sound Director: John Picken
Lighting Director: Peter Dyson
Film Directors: Sid Kilbey, Keith Haley
Production: Gareth Jones, Shirley Wallis
Producer: Doug Carnegie
Director: Timothy Moores
Editor: Mike Townson
Production number 1762/87.