The Market

30th March 1976 Season 3 Episode 4

Film cameras follow City of London traders in foreign exchange, metals, stocks and shares; money lenders who deal in millions of pounds at a time; and Lloyds underwriters who bet than an accident will never happen and risk losing their shirt if it does. This is a world of frantic face to face dealing soon to be transformed by cheaper, computer-led dealing systems, satellite communications and fibre optic cables to create a fast-moving global market, worlds away from the street markets that they had once resembled.

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The Sentence

At the very grass-roots of our legal system are the Magistrates' Courts, before which 90 per cent of all cases in this country are settled. The cases themselves are for the most part of little importance: but behind the bare statistics there are human dramas. Inside Story follows one such case right from the outset. It was heard by the magistrates of King's Lynn, where the accused pleaded guilty to a number of petty thefts. It was not therefore the crime that was in question, but, as so often, the punishment...

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