Lefties is a three part 2006 BBC

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 documentary series investigating some aspects of the extreme Left of British

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 politics in the 1970s.

The series was commissioned by the then Controller of BBC Four

BBC Four

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, Janice Hadlow

Janice Hadlow

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. Lefties was produced as a companion series to Tory! Tory! Tory!

Tory! Tory! Tory!

Tory! Tory! Tory! is a 2006 BBC television documentary series on the history of the people and ideas that formed Thatcherism told through the eyes of those on the New Right.-Production:...

an overview of the New Right

New Right

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 and Thatcherism

Thatcherism

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. Hadlow believed that so called 'serious television' was vital in driving ideas, and her commissions were a critical and ratings success.

Episodes

Three episodes of the series were broadcast.

Episode Name	First Broadcast	Description
A Lot of Balls	10 October 2006	The formation of the News on Sunday News on Sunday The News on Sunday was a left-wing British tabloid newspaper. It was launched in April 1987. Publication ceased seven months later, in November 1987.-Origins:...  a left wing tabloid Tabloid A tabloid is a newspaper with compact page size smaller than broadsheet, although there is no standard for the precise dimensions of the tabloid newspaper format...  newspaper formed in 1987.
Property is Theft	11 October 2006	The non-conformist squatters living in South London in the 1970s.
Angry Wimmin	11 October 2006	The story of a form of radical feminism Feminism Feminism is a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women. Its concepts overlap with those of women's rights... in the 1970s.