Bill Grundy

A through trip down Simpson Pot and out of the Valley Entrance of Kingsdale Master Cave. Filmed over a dozen trips, it features cavers from the Happy Wanderers Cave and Pothole Club. It was commissioned by BBC Leeds, and was first broadcast on BBC One in October 1972.

World in Action was Granada Television’s flagship ITV current affairs series, running from 7 Jan 1963 to 7 Dec 1998, and built a reputation for film-led investigative reporting and a forceful editorial stance. Its journalism produced major public and political repercussions—including investigations associated with miscarriages of justice such as the Birmingham Six—and it also served as a platform for landmark documentary projects, including the first broadcast of “Seven Up!” as part of the strand in 1964.