Modern Times
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Modern Times

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Documentaries showing faces and places that make up the way we live today.

Feb 22, 199512 seasons107 episodesEndedEN
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Ep 1

Mad About the Boy

Feb 22, 1995
60m

Documentary following the story of 52 year old Carol Spencer who went on holiday to the Gambia met Lamain Marong, who was 27 and decided to marry him within two weeks of their first meeting. The programme follows their turbulent relationship through their marriage in England and Carol's trip back to the Gambia to see if they can settle there.

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Ep 2

Cheating Hearts

Mar 1, 1995

Mike Emilianow , New York private eye, has a mixed bag of clients, but they all share one overwhelming doubt: they are in love with someone they do not completely trust. For a few hundred dollars, Emilianow offers at least certainty.

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Ep 3

Harley Street

Mar 8, 1995

London's Harley Street is a medical marketplace offering everything from plastic surgery to life-saving cures. More than 1,000 doctors are packed into the cramped elegance of private medicine's most exclusive address. But what is really on offer for those who have the means to pay?

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Ep 4

Death on Request

Mar 15, 1995

The first television portrayal of a mercy killing. Made in Holland, where euthanasia is permitted, it tells the story of a 62-year-old patient with an incurable illness, his wife, and the doctor who agrees to administer the fatal injection.

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Ep 5

Weekenders

Mar 22, 1995

What is the weekend country cottage - a status symbol, a bolt-hole, a nightmare? Seven contrasting families tell of their on-off love affair with their rural retreat, a place to which they escape every Friday night in the hope that they will have two days of a calmer, gentler life.

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Ep 6

Goodbye, Dear Friend

Mar 29, 1995

Are we odd, foolish or maladjusted when we grieve inconsolably at the death of a much-loved pet? This documentary talks to Janet Thomas , a vet who specialises in understanding pet bereavement, visits a pet cemetery, and hears some of the stories of the bereft.

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