SUnknownEpisode dated 31 March 1987

This documentary focuses on the lives and triumphs of the visually impaired.

In the wake of the Egyptian revolution, four women speak of their fight for the future and what it means to be a woman in Egypt.

A poet of forty wanders about the beach, changes his clothes when he feels like it, reads his poetry, reminisces engagingly, and reflects on life. Looking rather like Max Bygraves gone to seed, he keeps up a patter full of original jokes, interspersed with powerful verse about life and death.

A young woman visits her mother and her birth country of Iran for the first time in 23 years.

Riveting look at the politics, big business and the medical industry that has made America the most prescription-addicted society in the world. America is less than 5% of the World's population but consumes 80% of the World's prescription narcotics. We have gone from being the land of the free to the land of the addicted.