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- Long-running factual programme reporting on all aspects of life in Britain.
- Patrick Murphy commences the inaugural edition of the show with a report into the alleged 'brainwashing' of a British businessman by the Hungarians. The quality of domestic coal and the state of the fishing industry are also discussed.
- Malcolm Muggeridge talks to Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dali about his work, his interest in 'Nuclear Mysticism' and how he maintains his marvelous mustache.
- In a segment entitled "Your Vote" Max Robertson interviews the returning officer for Fulham about voting. Grace Wyndham Goldie reports on the BBC coverage of the upcoming election and displays some of the methods used to announce results.
- Malcolm Muggeridge talks to the American broadcaster Ed Murrow about interview techniques, commercial television, sponsorship and his memories of wartime Britain.
- Including an item in which reporter Max Robertson dresses as Santa Claus in Selfridges.
- Woodrow Wyatt is joined in the studio by an expert who assesses the likelihood of surviving a massive nuclear attack on Britain. Wyatt visits a family who have prepared their house for a nuclear attack and then visits the Civil Defence HQ.
- Includes an item on Sadler's Wells Theatre.
- Including a live appearance by jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong.
- This episode perpetrated the great Spaghetti Harvest Hoax on April Fool's Day 1957. The filmed report appeared to show a Swiss family harvesting their annual crop of spaghetti which was growing on trees on their farm, talked about the efforts to eradicate the Spaghetti Weevil and discussed the selective breeding that had been required to produce spaghetti of a uniform length. Many viewers believed what they saw and contacted the BBC to enquire how to grow their own spaghetti tree: the advice that they were given was "place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best".
- Woodrow Wyatt investigates the impact of South Africa's new apartheid laws. Wyatt interviews politicians from all parties including Prime Minister JG Strijdom and Chief Albert Mvumbi Luthuli of the ANC.
- Woodrow Wyatt investigates allegations of ballot rigging in Electrical Trades Union.