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Season 2

10 Episodes

The Trial of Klaus Barbie
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1. The Trial of Klaus Barbie

Jul 15, 1987
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Decades after the end of World War II, escaped war criminal Klaus Barbie is brought to justice

Land
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2. Land

Jul 22, 1987
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The Amazonian jungle, Brazil, 1987. Ruthless landowners are hiring gunslingers to evict peasants from their land. The peasants look to their priest for help. should they resist the Violence passively - or defy the church's teaching and take up arms? When a stranger on the run arrives in town, the answer becomes clear.

Lily My Love
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3. Lily My Love

Jul 29, 1987
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Lily is 13, Colin is 39 and a vagrant. They run away together. 'One and a half to the English Lakes, single, because we're never coming back, we're going on.'

Carianai and the Courtesans
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4. Carianai and the Courtesans

Aug 5, 1987
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A painter falls in love with a woman whom he suspects may be a thief and a prostitute.

Our Lady Blue
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5. Our Lady Blue

Aug 12, 1987
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In a Liverpool convent a touching and unusual friendship is forged between Rachel, a young volunteer, Paul, doing 100 hours of community service, and Sheila, a dying prostitute. It results in a strange and forbidden journey to Lourdes.

White Lady
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6. White Lady

Aug 26, 1987
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In a derelict farmhouse, deep in the English countryside, Gil struggles alone to bring up his little daughters 'to need very little. - strong against all harm'. But unknown to any of them, in the surrounding fields of wheat and barley, and in the nodding branches of the fruit trees, there lurks a deathly power.

The Shutter Falls
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7. The Shutter Falls

Sep 16, 1987
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A 19th Century photographer travels to the North of Scotland to document the fishing industry, where he falls in love with one of the Gaelic-speaking fish gutting girls

Christine
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8. Christine

Sep 23, 1987
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Depiction of the everyday life of a teenage heroin addict.

The Interrogation of John
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9. The Interrogation of John

Sep 30, 1987
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A man is brought into a small London police station and charged with gross indecency. A terrible murder has also been committed in the area. Is there a connection? Might the assembled officers have an early result? Not if he refuses to say anything or even give his name.

Road
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10. Road

Oct 7, 1987
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Your tour guide for the night is one drunken man called Scullery. Prepare yourself for the experience of your lifetime as he shows you an average night along a derelict Lancashire road in the 1980s.