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A provincial childhood -- Gowns-woman -- House bound -- The outer circle -- A world of shadows -- Teacher's pest -- No end of a lesson -- Seizing the moment -- A bumpy ride -- Détente or defeat? -- Apprenticeship for power -- Just one chance... -- Over the shop -- Changing signals -- Into the whirlwind -- Not at all right, Jack -- Not for turning -- The West and the rest -- The Falklands War: follow the fleet -- The Falklands: victory -- General, commissars and Mandarins -- Disarming the left -- Home and dry -- Back to normalcy -- Mr. Scargill's insurrection -- Shadows of Gunman -- Keeps raining all the time -- Men to do business with -- Putting the world to rights -- Jeux sans frontiéres -- Hat trick -- An improving disposition -- Not so much a programme, more a way of life -- A little local difficulty - To cut an to please -- Floaters and fixers -- The Babel express -- The world turned right side up -- No time to go wobbly -- Men in lifeboats