Dispatches: Paradise Lost

Record ID: 216561

Title: Dispatches: Paradise Lost
Date: 19th February 1988
Summary: A WEEKLY SERIES OF TOPICAL DOCUMENTARIES. DOMESTIC AND INTERANTIONAL, OFTEN INVESTIGATIVE, SOMETIMES OPINIATED, ALWAYS ORIGINAL ; DISPATCHES PROMISES TO DELIVER THE BEST OF BRITISH TELEVISION JOURNALISM, SIMPLY BECAUSE WEEK BY WEEK EACH DISPATCH IS SELECTED FROMT HE WIDEST RANGE OF JOURNALISTS - AND EACH HAS AN IMPORTANT AND REVEALING STORY TO TELL. THE SMALL SOUTH SEA ISLANDS OF PALAU ARE RESISTING UNITED STATES PRESSURE TO SITE NUCLEAR BASES ON THEIR SHORES. SYLVIA COLLIER TELLS AN EXTRAORDINARY TALE OF DIRTY TRICKS, MURDER AND, ULTIMATELY, THE LOST INNOCENCE OF THESE UNIQUE CORAL ISLANDS.
Collection: Channel 4
Transmission Date:19/02/1988
Decade: 1980s