1973, three months after it was first scheduled.
In 1980 the programme examined the business practices of the then chairman of Manchester United F.C., Louis Edwards. Edwards ran a wholesale butchery business that supplied schools in Manchester; WIA exposed practices of bribery of council officials and the supply of meat that was unfit for human consumption to such institutions; Edwards’ businesses were subsequently prosecuted and lost their contracts.
World in Action tackled the British intelligence services; as well as the Navy over its recruitment practices: senior Navy personnel famously ‘door-stepped’ the director of the World In Action’s film in question. The programme broadcast revelations by whistleblowers from both GCHQ, the government’s electronic eavesdropping and surveillance headquarters, and from the Joint Intelligence Committee.
Its most audacious investigation