microwave sales plummeted immediately after the documentary aired. Potential purchasers were particularly anxious that radiation would somehow escape through the oven walls or door. External links
British Film Institute database of World In Action programmes
TV Ark archive of World In Action title sequences
Encyclopedia of Television
ITV North West England – World in Action titles for 1963 and 1995
Network DVD – World in Action Vol. 1
Nostalgia Central – The World in Action 1963 to 1998
Paul Almond – 7 Up
World Socialist Website – 14 March 1998
‘Televrit’ hits Britain: Documentary, Drama and the growth of 16mm Filmmaking in British Television
‘Scandal at the regulator’ (World in Action and the Poulson affair)
ITV’s official WIA page, containing links to four classic episodes
World in Action at the Internet Movie Database Books and articles
Jonathan Aitken (2003), Pride and