Gold and Diamonds - The Kremlin Connection
Episode 14 · 1981-04-06
- Documentary
- News
Episode overview
'You can carry enough diamonds on your naked body to set you up for life,' said Ian Fleming. Diamonds and gold - the most precious substances known to man - excite the imagination. But by geological accident, in the real world the two biggest producers of gold and diamonds are bitter political enemies - Communist Russia and white-ruled South Africa. Both countries vehemently deny that there are any contacts at all between them. But a top executive of South Africa's leading gold and diamond mining corporation was spotted recently at the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow. What was he doing there? And was his visit part of an unthinkable secret partnership? Michael Cockerell investigates the secret world of gold and diamonds and the strange bedfellows it makes.
Season 29 episodes
1. Whatever Happened To Afghanistan?1981-01-05
2. Italy's Other Earthquake1981-01-12
3. How the Left Won1981-01-19
4. Episode 41981-01-26
5. The Politics of Hunger1981-02-02
6. Episode 61981-02-09
7. Who's Afraid of Rupert Murdoch?1981-02-16
8. Episode 81981-02-23
9. The Right to Privacy - The Need to Know1981-03-02
10. Has the Lady Turned?1981-03-09
11. The Last of the Big Spenders?1981-03-16
12. Episode 121981-03-23
13. Episode 131981-03-30
14. Gold and Diamonds - The Kremlin Connection1981-04-06
15. Episode 151981-04-13
16. France's Seven-Year Itch1981-04-27
17. Episode 171981-05-11
18. The Re-arming of America1981-05-18
19. Episode 191981-06-01
20. The DPP1981-06-08
21. South Africa: To the Last Drop of Blood1981-06-15
22. Episode 221981-06-22
23. The PLO - The Road to Respectability1981-06-29
24. Crash - Whatever Happened To Flight 1008?1981-07-06
25. Episode 251981-07-13
26. Episode 261981-07-20
27. Episode 271981-07-27
28. The Islamic Bomb1981-08-10
29. Episode 291981-08-17
30. Episode 301981-08-24
31. The Class of 811981-09-07
32. Episode 321981-09-14
33. The Provo's Last Card1981-09-21
34. Labour: Which Direction Will the Party Go?1981-09-28
35. Episode 351981-10-05
36. Episode 361981-10-12
37. KGB -Russia's Secret Service in the West1981-10-19
38. Episode 381981-10-26
39. How Many More Skeletons?1981-11-02
40. Episode 401981-11-09
41. Episode 411981-11-16
42. Libya: Trading in Terror1981-11-23
43. Trade Unions and the Law1981-11-30
44. Episode 441981-12-07
45. Experimenting with Life1981-12-14
46. Episode 461981-12-21
