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World in Action

Season 17 · Episode 7

The H-Block Fuse

0.0November 24, 1980

Report at the beginning of the fifth week of the hunger strike in the H Block of Maze Prison by IRA prisoners seeking a recognition of their status as political prisoners including an interview with one of the prisoners, R.V. McCartney.

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Episode 1The State of Britain - The Road to Brighton Pier
Episode 2South Africa's Bombshell
Episode 3Creating Criminals
Episode 4Choosing Labour's Leader
Episode 5The Party's Over
Episode 6Death on the Dole
Episode 7The H-Block Fuse
Episode 8The Rossminster Affair
Episode 9The Hunt for the Ripper
Episode 10No Room at the Inn
Episode 11The Blood Business
Episode 12The State of Britain - The Secret in South Wales
Episode 13Michael Foot
Episode 14The White House General
Episode 15The Social Democrats
Episode 16The F.B.I.'s Secret Tapes
Episode 17Killing for a Cure
Episode 18The State of Britain - In for a Penny
Episode 19Off the Rails
Episode 20The State of the Nation
Episode 21These Children Are Mine
Episode 22The Fight for the Centre
Episode 23The Men from Argentina
Episode 24The Curse of the Klan
Episode 25Comrades at Arms
Episode 26More Than Just a Few Perks
Episode 27The Shape of Wars to Come
Episode 28Home and Away
Episode 29Do Mind If I Smoke?
Episode 30To Russia with Love
Episode 31Tories for Turning
Episode 32Kevin at the Crossroads
Episode 33The Silent Epidemic
Episode 34Guns to the Right
Episode 35A Dangerous Age
Episode 36A Conflict of Evidence
Episode 37Toxteth Revisited
Episode 38The Agony of Angola
Episode 39When Night Comes to Kandahar
Episode 40Waiting for Justice
Episode 41A Picture of Health