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.
Series 1 edit
Series 2 edit
| Date of broadcast | Title of programme | Host | Guests |
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| 19 February 1988 | Beyond the Law | John Underwood |
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| 26 February 1988 | Marriage: What Do Women Want? | Stuart Hood |
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| 4 March 1988 | No Place Like Home | Helena Kennedy |
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| 11 March 1988 | You Are What You Wear | Gaia Servadio |
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| 18 March 1988 | Licensed to Kill? | Paul Sieghart |
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| 25 March 1988 | Iran/Iraq: A Holy War? | John Underwood |
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| 9 April 1988 | Horse Racing: Sport Of Kings? | Tony Wilson |
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| 16 April 1988 | What Is Prison For? | Professor Ian Kennedy |
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| 23 April 1988 | Race and the Classroom: Education for All? | Helena Kennedy |
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| 30 April 1988 | Bewitched, Bothered or Bewildered? | Tony Wilson |
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| 7 May 1988 | Derry '68 Look Back in Anger? | Professor Ian Kennedy | |
| 14 May 1988 | Israel: Forty Years On | John Underwood |
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| 21 May 1988 | What is Sex For? | Professor Anthony Clare |
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| 28 May 1988 | Winston Churchill | Trevor Hyett | |
| 4 June 1988 | Open to Exposure | Professor Ian Kennedy |
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| 11 June 1988 | South Africa | Trevor Hyett | |
| 18 June 1988 | How Do You Survive a Murder? | Professor Anthony Clare |
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| 25 June 1988 | Pornography | Helena Kennedy |
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| 2 July 1988 | Animal Rights | Beverly Anderson |
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| 9 July 1988 | After Cleveland | Trevor Hyett |
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| 16 July 1988 | British Intelligence | John Underwood |
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| 23 July 1988 | It's a Mad, Mad World? | Beverly Anderson |
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| 30 July 1988 | Save the Whale, Save the World? | Roisin McAuley |
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| 6 August 1988 | Nicaragua | John Underwood |
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| 13 August 1988 | Money | Henry Kelly |
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| 20 August 1988 | Born to Serve? | Trevor Hyett |
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| 27 August 1988 | Sentencing | Professor Ian Kennedy |
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| 3 September 1988 | Alternative Medicine | Tony Wilson |
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| 10 September 1988 | Blacklist? | Professor Ian Kennedy |
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Series 3 edit
| Date of broadcast | Title of programme | Host | Guests |
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| 13 May 1989 | Out of Bounds | John Underwood | |
| 20 May 1989 | Football – The Final Whistle? | Jancis Robinson |
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| 27 May 1989 | Drugs – Is Britain Cracking Up? | Professor Ian Kennedy |
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| 3 June 1989 | Back in the USSR? | Professor Anthony Clare | |
| 10 June 1989 | Britain – Out on a Limb? | Beverly Anderson | |
| 17 June 1989 | Rock Bottom? | Matthew Parris |
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| 24 June 1989 | Pride and Prejudice | Beverly Anderson |
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| 1 July 1989 | What's Up Doc? | Tony Wilson |
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| 8 July 1989 | Who Dares Wins? | Professor Anthony Clare |
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| 15 July 1989 | School's Out | Matthew Parris |
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| 22 July 1989 | The Cost of Divorce | Professor Ian Kennedy |
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| 29 July 1989 | What Is There To Believe In? | Tony Wilson |
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| 2 September 1989 | Germany – 50 Years On | Professor Anthony Clare | |
| 9 September 1989 | Superpowers – All In The Mind | Tony Wilson |
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| 16 September 1989 | What Do We Do With Sex Offenders? | Helena Kennedy |
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| 23 September 1989 | Freud – 50 Years On | Professor Ian Kennedy |
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| 30 September 1989 | Body Beautiful – What Do We Want? | Sheena McDonald |
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| 7 October 1989 | Death Penalty? | Professor Anthony Clare |
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| 14 October 1989 | Ethiopia | John Underwood |
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| 21 October 1989 | The Royal Family – Dallas or Palace? | Tony Wilson |
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| 28 October 1989 | Men and Women: What's the Difference? | Matthew Parris |
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| 4 November 1989 | What Makes MPs Run? | Trevor Hyett |
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| 11 November 1989 | War and Peace | Professor Anthony Clare |
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| 18 November 1989 | Space: How Far Should We Go? | Professor Ian Kennedy |
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| 25 November 1989 | Shall We Live In South Africa? | Professor Anthony Clare |
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| 1 December 1989 | Terrorism | Professor Ian Kennedy |
Series 4 edit
| Date of broadcast | Title of programme | Host | Guests |
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| 12 January 1991 | Arms and the Gulf | Professor Ian Kennedy |
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| 19 January 1991 | Survival – At What Cost? | Professor Anthony Clare | |
| 26 January 1991 | Do Men Have To Be Violent? | Helena Kennedy |
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| 2 February 1991 | Counting The Cost of a Free Press | Helena Kennedy | |
| 9 February 1991 | Abortion | Anthony Holden |
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| 16 February 1991 | Sexaholics | Kay Avila |
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| 23 February 1991 | Prisons: No Way Out | Professor Ian Kennedy |
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| 2 March 1991 | The Gulf: Counting The Cost | John Plender |
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| 9 March 1991 | After Rochdale | Tony Wilson |
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| 16 March 1991 | The Luck of the Irish? | Trevor Hyett | |
| 23 March 1991 | What Should Teachers Learn? | Professor Anthony Clare |
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| 31 March 1991 | Who Believes In Miracles? | Tony Wilson | |
| 6 April 1991 | Serial Success? | Matthew Parris |
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Specials edit
| Date of broadcast | Title of programme | Host | Guests |
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| 7 August 1993 | Bloody Bosnia | Professor Ian Kennedy | Fitzroy Maclean, Nikola Koljević, Gordana Knezević, Melanie McDonagh, Sean Gervasi, Amela, Branka Magas |
| 30 May 1994 | Brave 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 1996 | The 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 1997 | After Diana | Helena Kennedy | Beatrix Campbell, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Victoria Mitford, Frank Prochaska, George Monbiot, Frank McQuerins, Claus von Bülow |
| 1 November 1997 | Abortion – Whose Choice? | John Underwood | Gerard Casey, Bernard Nathanson, John Parsons, John Harris, Josephine Barnes, Fay Weldon, Sarah Walsh |
BBC Four series edit
| Date of broadcast | Title of programme | Host | Guests |
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| 22 February 2003 | Iraq: 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 2003 | Stop 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 |