Fifteen documentary films about life in Britain made week-by-week from September to Christmas last year.

For the people of Cornwall it was a week dominated by three stories. The fishing of mackerel off their coastline, the threat of oil from the ill-fated tanker Christos Bitas to North Cornish beaches and the bid by an American entrepreneur to open the Wheal Jane tin mine. For John Pardoe, Liberal MP for North Cornwall, the week followed the announcement that there would be no October election. He faced another long winter working to hold a precarious majority in a highly-marginal seat.
Photography JIM KNIGHTS Film editor JUSTIN SMITH Producer DENNIS ADAMS
Executive producer JAMES DUWAR
BBC South West