Gus Macdonald

World in Action was Granada Television’s flagship ITV current affairs series, running from 7 Jan 1963 to 7 Dec 1998, and built a reputation for film-led investigative reporting and a forceful editorial stance. Its journalism produced major public and political repercussions—including investigations associated with miscarriages of justice such as the Birmingham Six—and it also served as a platform for landmark documentary projects, including the first broadcast of “Seven Up!” as part of the strand in 1964.

A man, always very devoted to his mother, decides to look for his father whom he never met. He meets a seducing older woman prone to drinking and her aged boyfriend whom she grew tired of.

A teenage girl is sent to a women's prison, but should she really be there?

The life and work of the documentary pioneer.

Portrait of the Catholic working class and the riots in Ulster, when the barricades were going up in the streets of Derry.

Suspected UVF leader Gusty Spemce was abducted while on leave from prison to attend his daughter's wedding. A TV crew tracks him down.

Portrait of the Protestant working class and the vigilantes in Northern Ireland at the height of the Ulster riots in 1969.