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World in Action

Season 14 · Episode 7

The Accident

0.0November 7, 1977

Investigates a claim by Russian Scientist Dr Zhores Medvedev, that the biggest nuclear accident of all, occurred 20 years previous in the Southern Ural Mountains, where many people died.

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Episode 1The Man Who Talks to Terrorists
Episode 2The Life and Death of Steve Biko
Episode 3No Compromise
Episode 4The Miami Experiment
Episode 5The Surgery Is Now Closed
Episode 6Eastern Promise
Episode 7The Accident
Episode 8The Disputed Land
Episode 9Got It Taped
Episode 10In the Name of the Law
Episode 11Thatcher Interview
Episode 12Cold Facts
Episode 13The Concrete Rings
Episode 14Working for a Pittance
Episode 15Death by Request
Episode 16There's No Place Like Hulme
Episode 17The Right's Centre
Episode 18Black to Front
Episode 19In the Public Interest
Episode 20General Grigorenko's New Campaign
Episode 21Take Care, This Place is Unsafe
Episode 22Smoking - A Double Standard
Episode 23Dishonourable Discharge
Episode 24Wait and See
Episode 25Nuts & Bolts of the Economy: Made in Korea
Episode 26The Happiness Pill?
Episode 27The Nazi Party
Episode 28Prisoner of Terrorism
Episode 29Russian Justice
Episode 30Buying Time
Episode 31Liable to Prosecution
Episode 32No Useful Purpose Would Be Served
Episode 33Power for Sale
Episode 34The Invisible Risk