"What's extraordinary is that no one's tried this approach to current affairs before in this country, says reporter Tom Mangold. The model, if any, is the successful US programme 60 Minutes, and the format consists of three film reports per week, contributed by the team of Mangold,
Sybil Ruscoe , Sankha Guha , Lynda Bryans and Mark Easton.
But it's the BBC's correspondent in Bosnia,
Jeremy Bowen , who provides an exclusive for the first edition. He traces the inside story of what happened to the Bosnian girl Irma Hadzimuratovic , whose plight received so much publicity following Bowen's own reports and who was brought to London on John Major's instructions.
Bowen talks to Irma, to the medical team caringfor her and to her father Ramiz, whose wife was killed in the mortar explosion that crippled Irma. He also visits her grandparents.
And with the imposition of VAT on domestic fuel bills imminent, Lynda Bryans asks what can be done to combat the threat of increased charges. Series producer Steve Anderson
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