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Episodes

Season 1, 39 episodes

Episode 1: Power in Your Hands
- Now playing
- Jul 5, 1983
In Liverpool today you can hardly turn a corner without ending up in yet another film report on the city's decline. Why, then, are so many Liverpudlians still frustrated by television's inability to recognise their real needs? Julie Walters , no stranger to life on Merseyside, returns to show what happened when those same people - from Croxteth, from. Bootle, from Liverpool 8 - were given the power to make programmes that said exactly what they wanted them to say...
Episode 2: Time and Other Thieves
- Jul 12, 1983
The A5 special unit inside Holloway is the only therapeutic wing for women in the whole British prison system. Evidence is coming to light that some authorities would like to see it closed down. Bernadette Shannon was there for more than a year and on her release wanted to make a film about it. Community Programmes got in touch with the Home Office, the Home Office got in touch with the Governor. The Governor said no....
Episode 3: Christine's Children
- Jul 19, 1983
Three years ago Christine Ridg well and her two young daughters were paid a rare visit by her ex-husband. Although Christine had been granted custody of the girls, he snatched them and took them to his new home in Italy. She tells of her long and harrowing fight for her children. Her case is not unique: right now at least 500 children, snatched from Britain, are still outside the country, outside our laws.
Episode 4: Chingari - The Spark
- Jul 26, 1983
The recently ended 15-week strike by Asian textile workers at Aire Valley Yarns in West Yorkshire was hardly reported outside Bradford. Yet today, against a background of increasing racial hostility, this Asian community often faces the grim choice of working in sweat shop conditions, or not working at all. This programme made by the Strikers Support Committee demonstrates the growing spirit of resistance within the Asian community.
Episode 5: National Health Service: 1: the Consultant's Tale
- Aug 2, 1983
Old people now occupy half the country's hospital beds. They are mostly dependent on the comprehensive,care of the NHS. Dr Peter Fisher is the kind of hospital doctor who looks after them. He works at Banbury's Horton Hospital - the sort of local general hospital we all rely Oh. But Dr Fisher and some of his consultant colleagues feel that the NHS is now in real danger from Government cuts and privatisation. A week in his working life explains why we should np longer take him for granted... Made in co-operation with the NHS Consultants Association
Episode 6: National Health Service: 2: Mission of Mersey
- Aug 9, 1983
Music and movement in a doctor s waiting room? Local girls accosting you on the street to ask your views on health? Your doctor sending a social worker round to help sort out your bad housing? That's what happens in Liverpool at Princes Park Health Centre where doctors and nurses are tackling the root causes of bad health head-on. Made in co-operation with the PRINCES PARK HEALTH CENTRE
Episode 7: National Health Service: 3: On Whose Authority?
- Aug 16, 1983
Peter Pan fights for life! -as the people of North Kensington oppose plans to close the much-loved children's ward at their local hospital. Unhappily cast as Captain Hook and his cut-throat crew are the doctors and nurses and administrators of the Paddington and North Kensington Health Authority. They want to improve children's services in the district by centralising them at a brand-new unit being built in Paddington. The professional and lay members of the health authority have to find a solution which marries medical excellence and the community's wishes-and all within a reduced budget.
Episode 8: A Day Off the Buses
- Aug 23, 1983
Holiday time in Open Space this week. The drivers and clippies of Putney Bus Garage step off their buses on to the somewhat faster route of the world's largest corkscrew rollercoaster. That's just one of the terrors and delights they try with their families during a day out at Britain's largest pleasure park, Alton Towers In Staffordshire. But no day out is complete without an argument or three on the long journey home. The kids slept right through it.
Episode 9: Ducking the Rocks - A Social Worker's Life
- Sep 1, 1983
Lots of people think they could do social work, even more think that they know what social workers do -well you've seen Juliet Bravo handed confidential files from her social worker husband and even Coronation Street's Ken Barlow was offered the job of a Senior Officer. Open Space followed a group of social workers in South Wales during three days in June.
Episode 10: Downtown Video
- Sep 8, 1983
Cameraman, director, interviewer Jon Alpert is the only 'Independent' whose work appears regularly - and unedited - on American network television, on NBC's prestigious Today programme. The unique quality of his reporting, whether it's on squatters in Philadelphia, or guerrillas in El Salvador, comes from a technique he learnt on the streets of his local community in New York where he and his wife Keiko Tsuno have run Downtown Community Television since 1972. They hold free classes for anyone interested in using video as a community resource, and lend equipment to their ' graduates ' who include tenants' associations, trade unions pressure groups of all kinds and high school students, and whose tapes are shown on the streets, in meeting-halls, in private homes, in schools and on local cable television.
Episode 11: Health Care: Your Money or Your Life
- Sep 8, 1983
A documentary by Jon Alpert and Kelko Tsuno for New York's Downtown Community Television Centre. A heart-attack victim is rushed into the emergency room with no pulse. Miraculously, the doctors bring him back to life, but two days later he is dead. Budgets, cut-backs, broken equipment and lack of supplies delayed the surgery that could have saved his life. The programme follows patients in two New York hospitals - one public, one private - to illustrate the vast differences in health care the two systems offer. At a time when our own National Health Service is under increasing threat this chilling picture of what happens in America raises disturbing questions about what could happen here.
Episode 12: A Healthy Future?
- Sep 15, 1983
Following public reaction to three Open Space films about the NHS, tonight's programme presents a major debate about the future of the Health Service. The participants all have a vital stake in the issues-whether as doctors or nurses, porters or patients. Chaired by MARGO MACDONALD
Episode 13: A Midsummer Night’s Belfast
- Sep 22, 1983
A local community arts group echo the events staged by the Victorians in Belfast’s Botanical Gardens, resulting in Midsummer magic. Live music, balloon ascents and elaborate theatrics all feature.
Episode 14: Who's Looking After the Kids?
- Sep 29, 1983
A 3- and a 4-year-old introduce a child's-eye view of life. A few of us are lucky -we go to good nurseries But it's not such a happy story for the rest. Every day millions of parents and children are suffering because of the shortage of nursery centres. They don't share our happiness and peace of mind. There are three million of us under 5. Why does the government ignore our needs?
Episode 15: For Sale - 9,000 People
- Oct 6, 1983
Episode 16: The Badgers of Gwent
- Oct 13, 1983
Episode 17: Earls Court '...a time, a place, a state of mind?'
- Oct 20, 1983
Episode 18: Peter Tatchell and the Battle for Bermondsey
- Oct 27, 1983
Episode 19: The Need to Know
- Nov 3, 1983
Episode 20: Officers No More
- Nov 10, 1983
Episode 21: Falkland Sound to Plymouth Sound
- Nov 17, 1983
Episode 22: Singing Songs of Whales and Things
- Nov 24, 1983
Episode 23: The People's Palace
- Dec 1, 1983
Episode 24: Episode 24
- Dec 8, 1983
New mining technology.
Episode 25: Freedom Fighter Lives Forever
- Jan 5, 1984
Episode 26: The State We're In
- Jan 12, 1984
Episode 27: Invisible Women
- Jan 18, 1984
Episode 28: One of Us
- Feb 8, 1984
Episode 29: The Women of Durham Jail
- Feb 15, 1984
Episode 30: Here to Stay
- Feb 22, 1984
Episode 31: On the Road
- Feb 29, 1984
Episode 32: Rockin' the Botha
- Mar 7, 1984
Episode 33: Come On You Spurs
- Mar 14, 1984
Follows the supporters of Tottenham Hotspur Association Football Club, hearing about their passions, and also both sides of the story around hooliganism.
Episode 34: Fair Shares?
- Mar 21, 1984
Episode 35: Only Fools and Sportsmen...
- Mar 28, 1984
Episode 36: It's my Life, Anyway...
- Apr 3, 1984
Episode 37: A Picture of Health
- Apr 11, 1984
Episode 38: Closing Doors
- Oct 23, 1986
Episode 39: Lucifer Over Lancashire
- Mar 30, 1987

Open Space

1983 to present
1 season

Overview

Open Space was a programme produced by the BBC's Community Programme Unit. It was an evolution of the earlier Open Door series of programmes allowing minority points of view to make a television programme about issues of concern to them. The programmes were transmitted on BBC 2 in a mid-evening slot and would attract audiences between 500,000 and 1,500,000. In a typical year there would be two or three groups of up to eight Open Space programmes each usually half an hour long. A producer, an assistant and a budget of up to £25,000 would be allocated to each programme.

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Episodes
1 season and 39 episodes so far
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Details

Status: Returning Series
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 39
First aired: July 5, 1983
Last aired: March 30, 1987
Original language: English

Cast

Episodes

Season 1, 39 episodes

Episode 1: Power in Your Hands
- Now playing
- Jul 5, 1983
In Liverpool today you can hardly turn a corner without ending up in yet another film report on the city's decline. Why, then, are so many Liverpudlians still frustrated by television's inability to recognise their real needs? Julie Walters , no stranger to life on Merseyside, returns to show what happened when those same people - from Croxteth, from. Bootle, from Liverpool 8 - were given the power to make programmes that said exactly what they wanted them to say...
Episode 2: Time and Other Thieves
- Jul 12, 1983
The A5 special unit inside Holloway is the only therapeutic wing for women in the whole British prison system. Evidence is coming to light that some authorities would like to see it closed down. Bernadette Shannon was there for more than a year and on her release wanted to make a film about it. Community Programmes got in touch with the Home Office, the Home Office got in touch with the Governor. The Governor said no....
Episode 3: Christine's Children
- Jul 19, 1983
Three years ago Christine Ridg well and her two young daughters were paid a rare visit by her ex-husband. Although Christine had been granted custody of the girls, he snatched them and took them to his new home in Italy. She tells of her long and harrowing fight for her children. Her case is not unique: right now at least 500 children, snatched from Britain, are still outside the country, outside our laws.
Episode 4: Chingari - The Spark
- Jul 26, 1983
The recently ended 15-week strike by Asian textile workers at Aire Valley Yarns in West Yorkshire was hardly reported outside Bradford. Yet today, against a background of increasing racial hostility, this Asian community often faces the grim choice of working in sweat shop conditions, or not working at all. This programme made by the Strikers Support Committee demonstrates the growing spirit of resistance within the Asian community.
Episode 5: National Health Service: 1: the Consultant's Tale
- Aug 2, 1983
Old people now occupy half the country's hospital beds. They are mostly dependent on the comprehensive,care of the NHS. Dr Peter Fisher is the kind of hospital doctor who looks after them. He works at Banbury's Horton Hospital - the sort of local general hospital we all rely Oh. But Dr Fisher and some of his consultant colleagues feel that the NHS is now in real danger from Government cuts and privatisation. A week in his working life explains why we should np longer take him for granted... Made in co-operation with the NHS Consultants Association
Episode 6: National Health Service: 2: Mission of Mersey
- Aug 9, 1983
Music and movement in a doctor s waiting room? Local girls accosting you on the street to ask your views on health? Your doctor sending a social worker round to help sort out your bad housing? That's what happens in Liverpool at Princes Park Health Centre where doctors and nurses are tackling the root causes of bad health head-on. Made in co-operation with the PRINCES PARK HEALTH CENTRE
Episode 7: National Health Service: 3: On Whose Authority?
- Aug 16, 1983
Peter Pan fights for life! -as the people of North Kensington oppose plans to close the much-loved children's ward at their local hospital. Unhappily cast as Captain Hook and his cut-throat crew are the doctors and nurses and administrators of the Paddington and North Kensington Health Authority. They want to improve children's services in the district by centralising them at a brand-new unit being built in Paddington. The professional and lay members of the health authority have to find a solution which marries medical excellence and the community's wishes-and all within a reduced budget.
Episode 8: A Day Off the Buses
- Aug 23, 1983
Holiday time in Open Space this week. The drivers and clippies of Putney Bus Garage step off their buses on to the somewhat faster route of the world's largest corkscrew rollercoaster. That's just one of the terrors and delights they try with their families during a day out at Britain's largest pleasure park, Alton Towers In Staffordshire. But no day out is complete without an argument or three on the long journey home. The kids slept right through it.
Episode 9: Ducking the Rocks - A Social Worker's Life
- Sep 1, 1983
Lots of people think they could do social work, even more think that they know what social workers do -well you've seen Juliet Bravo handed confidential files from her social worker husband and even Coronation Street's Ken Barlow was offered the job of a Senior Officer. Open Space followed a group of social workers in South Wales during three days in June.
Episode 10: Downtown Video
- Sep 8, 1983
Cameraman, director, interviewer Jon Alpert is the only 'Independent' whose work appears regularly - and unedited - on American network television, on NBC's prestigious Today programme. The unique quality of his reporting, whether it's on squatters in Philadelphia, or guerrillas in El Salvador, comes from a technique he learnt on the streets of his local community in New York where he and his wife Keiko Tsuno have run Downtown Community Television since 1972. They hold free classes for anyone interested in using video as a community resource, and lend equipment to their ' graduates ' who include tenants' associations, trade unions pressure groups of all kinds and high school students, and whose tapes are shown on the streets, in meeting-halls, in private homes, in schools and on local cable television.
Episode 11: Health Care: Your Money or Your Life
- Sep 8, 1983
A documentary by Jon Alpert and Kelko Tsuno for New York's Downtown Community Television Centre. A heart-attack victim is rushed into the emergency room with no pulse. Miraculously, the doctors bring him back to life, but two days later he is dead. Budgets, cut-backs, broken equipment and lack of supplies delayed the surgery that could have saved his life. The programme follows patients in two New York hospitals - one public, one private - to illustrate the vast differences in health care the two systems offer. At a time when our own National Health Service is under increasing threat this chilling picture of what happens in America raises disturbing questions about what could happen here.
Episode 12: A Healthy Future?
- Sep 15, 1983
Following public reaction to three Open Space films about the NHS, tonight's programme presents a major debate about the future of the Health Service. The participants all have a vital stake in the issues-whether as doctors or nurses, porters or patients. Chaired by MARGO MACDONALD
Episode 13: A Midsummer Night’s Belfast
- Sep 22, 1983
A local community arts group echo the events staged by the Victorians in Belfast’s Botanical Gardens, resulting in Midsummer magic. Live music, balloon ascents and elaborate theatrics all feature.
Episode 14: Who's Looking After the Kids?
- Sep 29, 1983
A 3- and a 4-year-old introduce a child's-eye view of life. A few of us are lucky -we go to good nurseries But it's not such a happy story for the rest. Every day millions of parents and children are suffering because of the shortage of nursery centres. They don't share our happiness and peace of mind. There are three million of us under 5. Why does the government ignore our needs?
Episode 15: For Sale - 9,000 People
- Oct 6, 1983
Episode 16: The Badgers of Gwent
- Oct 13, 1983
Episode 17: Earls Court '...a time, a place, a state of mind?'
- Oct 20, 1983
Episode 18: Peter Tatchell and the Battle for Bermondsey
- Oct 27, 1983
Episode 19: The Need to Know
- Nov 3, 1983
Episode 20: Officers No More
- Nov 10, 1983
Episode 21: Falkland Sound to Plymouth Sound
- Nov 17, 1983
Episode 22: Singing Songs of Whales and Things
- Nov 24, 1983
Episode 23: The People's Palace
- Dec 1, 1983
Episode 24: Episode 24
- Dec 8, 1983
New mining technology.
Episode 25: Freedom Fighter Lives Forever
- Jan 5, 1984
Episode 26: The State We're In
- Jan 12, 1984
Episode 27: Invisible Women
- Jan 18, 1984
Episode 28: One of Us
- Feb 8, 1984
Episode 29: The Women of Durham Jail
- Feb 15, 1984
Episode 30: Here to Stay
- Feb 22, 1984
Episode 31: On the Road
- Feb 29, 1984
Episode 32: Rockin' the Botha
- Mar 7, 1984
Episode 33: Come On You Spurs
- Mar 14, 1984
Follows the supporters of Tottenham Hotspur Association Football Club, hearing about their passions, and also both sides of the story around hooliganism.
Episode 34: Fair Shares?
- Mar 21, 1984
Episode 35: Only Fools and Sportsmen...
- Mar 28, 1984
Episode 36: It's my Life, Anyway...
- Apr 3, 1984
Episode 37: A Picture of Health
- Apr 11, 1984
Episode 38: Closing Doors
- Oct 23, 1986
Episode 39: Lucifer Over Lancashire
- Mar 30, 1987

Episodes

E1 Episode 1: Power in Your Hands

E2 Episode 2: Time and Other Thieves

E3 Episode 3: Christine's Children

E4 Episode 4: Chingari - The Spark

E5 Episode 5: National Health Service: 1: the Consultant's Tale

E6 Episode 6: National Health Service: 2: Mission of Mersey

E7 Episode 7: National Health Service: 3: On Whose Authority?

E8 Episode 8: A Day Off the Buses

E9 Episode 9: Ducking the Rocks - A Social Worker's Life

E10 Episode 10: Downtown Video

E11 Episode 11: Health Care: Your Money or Your Life

E12 Episode 12: A Healthy Future?

E13 Episode 13: A Midsummer Night’s Belfast

E14 Episode 14: Who's Looking After the Kids?

E15 Episode 15: For Sale - 9,000 People

E16 Episode 16: The Badgers of Gwent

E17 Episode 17: Earls Court '...a time, a place, a state of mind?'

E18 Episode 18: Peter Tatchell and the Battle for Bermondsey

E19 Episode 19: The Need to Know

E20 Episode 20: Officers No More

E21 Episode 21: Falkland Sound to Plymouth Sound

E22 Episode 22: Singing Songs of Whales and Things

E23 Episode 23: The People's Palace

E24 Episode 24: Episode 24

E25 Episode 25: Freedom Fighter Lives Forever

E26 Episode 26: The State We're In

E27 Episode 27: Invisible Women

E28 Episode 28: One of Us

E29 Episode 29: The Women of Durham Jail

E30 Episode 30: Here to Stay

E31 Episode 31: On the Road

E32 Episode 32: Rockin' the Botha

E33 Episode 33: Come On You Spurs

E34 Episode 34: Fair Shares?

E35 Episode 35: Only Fools and Sportsmen...

E36 Episode 36: It's my Life, Anyway...

E37 Episode 37: A Picture of Health

E38 Episode 38: Closing Doors

E39 Episode 39: Lucifer Over Lancashire

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Episodes

E1 Episode 1: Power in Your Hands

E2 Episode 2: Time and Other Thieves

E3 Episode 3: Christine's Children

E4 Episode 4: Chingari - The Spark

E5 Episode 5: National Health Service: 1: the Consultant's Tale

E6 Episode 6: National Health Service: 2: Mission of Mersey

E7 Episode 7: National Health Service: 3: On Whose Authority?

E8 Episode 8: A Day Off the Buses

E9 Episode 9: Ducking the Rocks - A Social Worker's Life

E10 Episode 10: Downtown Video

E11 Episode 11: Health Care: Your Money or Your Life

E12 Episode 12: A Healthy Future?

E13 Episode 13: A Midsummer Night’s Belfast

E14 Episode 14: Who's Looking After the Kids?

E15 Episode 15: For Sale - 9,000 People

E16 Episode 16: The Badgers of Gwent

E17 Episode 17: Earls Court '...a time, a place, a state of mind?'

E18 Episode 18: Peter Tatchell and the Battle for Bermondsey

E19 Episode 19: The Need to Know

E20 Episode 20: Officers No More

E21 Episode 21: Falkland Sound to Plymouth Sound

E22 Episode 22: Singing Songs of Whales and Things

E23 Episode 23: The People's Palace

E24 Episode 24: Episode 24

E25 Episode 25: Freedom Fighter Lives Forever

E26 Episode 26: The State We're In

E27 Episode 27: Invisible Women

E28 Episode 28: One of Us

E29 Episode 29: The Women of Durham Jail

E30 Episode 30: Here to Stay

E31 Episode 31: On the Road

E32 Episode 32: Rockin' the Botha

E33 Episode 33: Come On You Spurs

E34 Episode 34: Fair Shares?

Episode 1: Power in Your Hands

Episode 2: Time and Other Thieves

Episode 3: Christine's Children

Episode 4: Chingari - The Spark

Episode 5: National Health Service: 1: the Consultant's Tale

Episode 6: National Health Service: 2: Mission of Mersey

Episode 7: National Health Service: 3: On Whose Authority?

Episode 8: A Day Off the Buses

Episode 9: Ducking the Rocks - A Social Worker's Life

Episode 10: Downtown Video

Episode 11: Health Care: Your Money or Your Life

Episode 12: A Healthy Future?

Episode 13: A Midsummer Night’s Belfast

Episode 14: Who's Looking After the Kids?

Episode 15: For Sale - 9,000 People

Episode 16: The Badgers of Gwent

Episode 17: Earls Court '...a time, a place, a state of mind?'

Episode 18: Peter Tatchell and the Battle for Bermondsey

Episode 19: The Need to Know

Episode 20: Officers No More

Episode 21: Falkland Sound to Plymouth Sound

Episode 22: Singing Songs of Whales and Things

Episode 23: The People's Palace

Episode 24: Episode 24

Episode 25: Freedom Fighter Lives Forever

Episode 26: The State We're In

Episode 27: Invisible Women

Episode 28: One of Us

Episode 29: The Women of Durham Jail

Episode 30: Here to Stay

Episode 31: On the Road

Episode 32: Rockin' the Botha

Episode 33: Come On You Spurs

Episode 34: Fair Shares?

Episode 35: Only Fools and Sportsmen...

Episode 36: It's my Life, Anyway...

Episode 37: A Picture of Health

Episode 38: Closing Doors

Episode 39: Lucifer Over Lancashire

Episode 1: Power in Your Hands

Episode 2: Time and Other Thieves

Episode 3: Christine's Children

Episode 4: Chingari - The Spark

Episode 5: National Health Service: 1: the Consultant's Tale

Episode 6: National Health Service: 2: Mission of Mersey

Episode 7: National Health Service: 3: On Whose Authority?

Episode 8: A Day Off the Buses

Episode 9: Ducking the Rocks - A Social Worker's Life

Episode 10: Downtown Video

Episode 11: Health Care: Your Money or Your Life

Episode 12: A Healthy Future?

Episode 13: A Midsummer Night’s Belfast

Episode 14: Who's Looking After the Kids?

Episode 15: For Sale - 9,000 People

Episode 16: The Badgers of Gwent

Episode 17: Earls Court '...a time, a place, a state of mind?'

Episode 18: Peter Tatchell and the Battle for Bermondsey

Episode 19: The Need to Know

Episode 20: Officers No More

Episode 21: Falkland Sound to Plymouth Sound

Episode 22: Singing Songs of Whales and Things

Episode 23: The People's Palace

Episode 24: Episode 24

Episode 25: Freedom Fighter Lives Forever

Episode 26: The State We're In

Episode 27: Invisible Women

Episode 28: One of Us

Episode 29: The Women of Durham Jail

Episode 30: Here to Stay

Episode 31: On the Road

Episode 32: Rockin' the Botha

Episode 33: Come On You Spurs

Episode 34: Fair Shares?

Episode 35: Only Fools and Sportsmen...

Episode 36: It's my Life, Anyway...

Episode 37: A Picture of Health

Episode 38: Closing Doors

Episode 39: Lucifer Over Lancashire