

Modern Times
Documentaries showing faces and places that make up the way we live today.
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- Ep 1
1.Mad About the Boy
22-02-199560mDocumentary following the story of 52 year old Carol Spencer who went on holiday to the Gambia met Lamain Marong, who was 27 and decided to marry him within two weeks of their firs...
- Ep 2
2.Cheating Hearts
01-03-1995Mike Emilianow , New York private eye, has a mixed bag of clients, but they all share one overwhelming doubt: they are in love with someone they do not completely trust. For a few...
- Ep 3
3.Harley Street
08-03-1995London's Harley Street is a medical marketplace offering everything from plastic surgery to life-saving cures. More than 1,000 doctors are packed into the cramped elegance of priva...
- Ep 4
4.Death on Request
15-03-1995The first television portrayal of a mercy killing. Made in Holland, where euthanasia is permitted, it tells the story of a 62-year-old patient with an incurable illness, his wife,...
- Ep 5
5.Weekenders
22-03-1995What is the weekend country cottage - a status symbol, a bolt-hole, a nightmare? Seven contrasting families tell of their on-off love affair with their rural retreat, a place to wh...
- Ep 6
6.Goodbye, Dear Friend
29-03-1995Are we odd, foolish or maladjusted when we grieve inconsolably at the death of a much-loved pet? This documentary talks to Janet Thomas , a vet who specialises in understanding pet...
- Ep 7
7.Open Prison
05-04-1995This documentary goes inside the so-called "holiday camp" of Britain's penal system - Ford Prison, the low-security jail at Arundel, West Sussex - and discovers a two-tier system.
- Ep 8
8.The Fame Game
12-04-1995Fly on the wall showing life behind the scenes with Liz Brewer and her high profile clients. Quote Liz "Nothing happens by accident, there's always someone behind the scenes pullin...
- Ep 9
9.Billy - A Violent Mind
19-04-1995A series about the way we live now. Billy, a former soldier in Northern Ireland and one-time Liverpool gangster, is obsessed by a fear of harming people. Can 12 2 weeks at the Maud...
- Ep 10
10.Channel Wars
26-04-1995The Channel tunnel has been plagued by problems. Now, as the battle hots up between Eurotunnel and P&0 Ferries for cross-Channel business, Modern Times takes a look behind the scen...
- Ep 11
11.The Tribe
03-05-1995This film records the anti-Establishment lifestyle of the Rainbow Tribe and their confrontations with the police.
- Ep 12
12.Club Expat
10-05-1995A look at the luxurious lifestyles and aspirations of the 20,000 members of the British community in Dubai, the most liberal of the oil-rich Gulf states.
- Ep 13
13.Playing God
17-05-1995In the last programme of the series, a documentary team is allowed inside the secret world of adoption as two social workers make their decisions.
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