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After Dark - picture shows the episode "Animal Rights" broadcast on 2 July 1988 - with that week's host Beverly Anderson (centre) were guests Katie Boyle, Rex Hudson, Ralph Cook, Miriam Rothschild, Mark Gold, Judy MacArthur and Frank Evans. Katie Boyle brought her dogs. After Dark, 2 July 1988, "Animal Rights".jpeg
After Dark – picture shows the episode "Animal Rights" broadcast on 2 July 1988 - with that week's host Beverly Anderson (centre) were guests Katie Boyle, Rex Hudson, Ralph Cook, Miriam Rothschild, Mark Gold, Judy MacArthur and Frank Evans. Katie Boyle brought her dogs.

After Dark is a British late night television discussion programme, produced by Open Media. It was broadcast weekly on Channel 4 between 1 May 1987 and 6 April 1991, and returned with various specials between 1993 and 1997. The programme ran again weekly for a single season in 2003 on the BBC. [1] Here follows a complete list of all editions, with dates of live transmission and the names of all guests and hosts. More detail of individual episodes is contained in this article on the production company's website.

Contents

Series 1

Date of broadcastTitle of programmeHostGuests
1 May 1987 Secrets Tony Wilson
8 May 1987 Private Lives Helena Kennedy
15 May 1987Football CrazyProfessor Anthony Clare
22 May 1987Do The British Love Their Children?Chantal Cuer
29 May 1987 The Mafia John Underwood
5 June 1987Honest, Decent and True?Professor Anthony Clare
12 June 1987 Is Britain Working? Tony Wilson
26 June 1987 Killing With Care? Professor Ian Kennedy
3 July 1987 Peace in Our Time John Underwood
10 July 1987 Klaus Barbie Professor Ian Kennedy

Series 2

Date of broadcastTitle of programmeHostGuests
19 February 1988 Beyond the Law John Underwood
26 February 1988 Marriage: What Do Women Want? Stuart Hood
4 March 1988 No Place Like Home Helena Kennedy
11 March 1988You Are What You Wear Gaia Servadio
18 March 1988 Licensed to Kill? Paul Sieghart
25 March 1988Iran/Iraq: A Holy War? John Underwood
9 April 1988 Horse Racing: Sport Of Kings? Tony Wilson
16 April 1988What Is Prison For?Professor Ian Kennedy
23 April 1988Race and the Classroom: Education for All? Helena Kennedy
30 April 1988 Bewitched, Bothered or Bewildered? Tony Wilson
7 May 1988 Derry '68 Look Back in Anger? Professor Ian Kennedy
14 May 1988 Israel: Forty Years On John Underwood
21 May 1988 What is Sex For? Professor Anthony Clare
28 May 1988 Winston Churchill Trevor Hyett
4 June 1988 Open to Exposure Professor Ian Kennedy
11 June 1988 South Africa Trevor Hyett
18 June 1988 How Do You Survive a Murder? Professor Anthony Clare
25 June 1988 Pornography Helena Kennedy
2 July 1988Animal RightsBeverly Anderson
9 July 1988After ClevelandTrevor Hyett
16 July 1988 British Intelligence John Underwood
23 July 1988It's a Mad, Mad World?Beverly Anderson
  • Errol Francis
  • Anne Newnham
  • Glynn Harrison
  • Sashi Sashidharan
  • Derek Francis
  • Pamela Taylor
  • Thomas Szasz
30 July 1988 Save the Whale, Save the World? Roisin McAuley
6 August 1988 Nicaragua John Underwood
13 August 1988Money Henry Kelly
20 August 1988Born to Serve?Trevor Hyett
27 August 1988SentencingProfessor Ian Kennedy
3 September 1988 Alternative Medicine Tony Wilson
10 September 1988Blacklist?Professor Ian Kennedy

Series 3

Date of broadcastTitle of programmeHostGuests
13 May 1989 Out of Bounds John Underwood
20 May 1989 Football – The Final Whistle? Jancis Robinson
27 May 1989 Drugs – Is Britain Cracking Up? Professor Ian Kennedy
3 June 1989 Back in the USSR? Professor Anthony Clare
10 June 1989 Britain – Out on a Limb? Beverly Anderson
17 June 1989Rock Bottom? Matthew Parris
24 June 1989 Pride and Prejudice Beverly Anderson
  • Ole Espersen
  • Russell Watkyn
  • Jo Purvis
  • Ismond Rosen
  • Jennie Wilson
  • Martin Sherman
  • Ken Skeates
1 July 1989What's Up Doc? Tony Wilson
8 July 1989Who Dares Wins?Professor Anthony Clare
15 July 1989School's Out Matthew Parris
  • Robert Munks
  • Adae Whitcombe
  • Sonia Leiper
  • Darren Brind
  • Nadeem Inayat
  • Paula McNamara
  • Kieran Clifton
22 July 1989The Cost of DivorceProfessor Ian Kennedy
29 July 1989What Is There To Believe In? Tony Wilson
2 September 1989 Germany – 50 Years On Professor Anthony Clare
9 September 1989Superpowers – All In The Mind Tony Wilson
16 September 1989What Do We Do With Sex Offenders? Helena Kennedy
23 September 1989Freud – 50 Years OnProfessor Ian Kennedy
30 September 1989 Body Beautiful – What Do We Want? Sheena McDonald
7 October 1989 Death Penalty? Professor Anthony Clare
14 October 1989Ethiopia John Underwood
21 October 1989The Royal Family – Dallas or Palace? Tony Wilson
28 October 1989 Men and Women: What's the Difference? Matthew Parris
4 November 1989 What Makes MPs Run? Trevor Hyett
11 November 1989War and PeaceProfessor Anthony Clare
18 November 1989Space: How Far Should We Go?Professor Ian Kennedy
25 November 1989Shall We Live In South Africa?Professor Anthony Clare
1 December 1989TerrorismProfessor Ian Kennedy

Series 4

Date of broadcastTitle of programmeHostGuests
12 January 1991 Arms and the Gulf Professor Ian Kennedy
19 January 1991 Survival – At What Cost? Professor Anthony Clare
26 January 1991 Do Men Have To Be Violent? Helena Kennedy
2 February 1991 Counting The Cost of a Free Press Helena Kennedy
9 February 1991Abortion Anthony Holden
16 February 1991SexaholicsKay Avila
23 February 1991 Prisons: No Way Out Professor Ian Kennedy
2 March 1991 The Gulf: Counting The Cost John Plender
9 March 1991 After Rochdale Tony Wilson
  • Beatrix Campbell
  • Andy Croall
  • Her Honour Jean Graham Hall
  • Sherrill Mulhern
  • John Shirley
  • Deborah Cameron
  • Wendy Lindsay
  • Bill Thompson
16 March 1991The Luck of the Irish?Trevor Hyett
23 March 1991 What Should Teachers Learn? Professor Anthony Clare
31 March 1991Who Believes In Miracles? Tony Wilson
6 April 1991 Serial Success? Matthew Parris

Specials

Date of broadcastTitle of programmeHostGuests
7 August 1993 Bloody Bosnia Professor Ian Kennedy Fitzroy Maclean, Nikola Koljević, Gordana Knezević, Melanie McDonagh, Sean Gervasi, Amela, Branka Magas
30 May 1994Brave New World Sheena McDonald Tom Shakespeare, Lewis Wolpert, Anthony Fisher, Adrienne Asch, Germaine Greer, Brian Richards, Robert Winston, Claire Austin
21 January 1995 Ireland: Sex & Celibacy, Church & State Helena Kennedy Garret FitzGerald, Gabriel Daly, Tom Stack, Eddie Humphries, Helena O'Donoghue, Emily O'Reilly, Mary Kenny, Richard Sipe, Sinéad O'Connor
17 August 1995 Lethal Justice John Underwood June Homer, James Grigson, Norman Parker, Norman Brennan, Hanna Segal, Don Cabana, Clive Stafford Smith
28 May 1996The Price of Life (see Jaymee Bowen)Professor Ian Kennedy Roger Gould, Julian Tudor Hart, Martin Israel, Richard Nicholson, Ron Zimmern, Paige Sipes Metzler, Marion Harris
13 September 1997After Diana Helena Kennedy Beatrix Campbell, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Victoria Mitford, Frank Prochaska, George Monbiot, Frank McQuerins, Claus von Bülow
1 November 1997Abortion – Whose Choice? John Underwood Gerard Casey, Bernard Nathanson, John Parsons, John Harris, Josephine Barnes, Fay Weldon, Sarah Walsh

BBC Four series

Date of broadcastTitle of programmeHostGuests
22 February 2003Iraq: What's Oil Got To Do With It? Tony Wilson Jonathan Aitken, Ray Leonard, Hannah Sell, Colleen Graffy, Miriam, Norah Sabri, Nabil Musawi, Robert Mabro
1 March 2003 Child Protection: How Far Should We Go? Helena Kennedy Esther Rantzen, Tom O'Carroll, Bill Thompson, June Taylor, Jeremy Coid, Peter Garsden, Christian Wolmar
8 March 2003 Terrorism: Who Wins? Professor Sir Ian Kennedy Albie Sachs, Mohammad al-Massari, Jim Swire, Silke Maier-Witt, Michael Swetnam, David Shayler
22 March 2003Stop the War? Sheena McDonald Michael Randle, Lord Hannay, Alice Nutter, Ruth Wedgwood, Ken O'Keefe, Tony Robinson, Robert Fox, Daniel Mason
29 March 2003 Iraq: Truth and Lies? John Underwood Saad Hattar, Corinne Souza, Gerald James, David Gore-Booth, Jenny Moore, Haitham Rashid Al-Withaib, Yosri Fouda

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