Inside Out South West
A closer look at stories from the South West
Inside Out South West - 01/02/2010
Samantha Smith reports on the Cornish orphans sent to Australia in the 1950s and 60s. Plus we follow the young Plymouth tenor in search of a career as a classical musician.
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Inside Out South West - 01/03/2010
Samantha Smith meets the Devon DJ left in a wheelchair after drug abuse who now tours schools in Plymouth with a stark warning to youngsters about the dangers of drugs.
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Inside Out South West - 01/10/2008
Surprising real-life stories from familiar places. Sam Smith reports on a Cornishman retracing his ancestor's journey to Mexico where he helped establish the mining industry.
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Inside Out South West - 01/11/2010
Sam Smith chats to Pippa Davey, who is attempting to rebuild her life after having her child taken into care. And Mark Horton tours Devon's ancient stone circles and hill forts.
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Inside Out South West - 02/05/2008
Janine Jansen investigates the shortage of traveller sites in Cornwall and its consequences, and Russell Labey follows the re-creation of an Elizabethan garden in Saltash.
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Inside Out South West - 02/11/2009
Samantha Smith follows the controversy surrounding a new fish market in Newlyn. We find out how a 19th century banking crisis led to the break up of a historic Devon estate.
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Inside Out South West - 03/10/2007
Sam Smith interviews Herbert Powell, Britain's oldest killer; Dick Strawbridge checks out an eco-farming community; David Stafford visits a rehabilitation centre for firefighters.
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Inside Out South West - 04/02/2009
Sam Smith reports on the amateur landlords who believe they can buck the economic trend by opening a pub, and David Braine looks at the world of the amateur weather forecaster.
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Inside Out South West - 04/03/2009
Local stories. Sam Smith reports on the battle to save a historic barn in Somerset, while Mark Horton goes on the trail of Newton Abbot's most famous son and reveals a heroic tale.
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Inside Out South West - 04/04/2008
Janine Jansen asks whether the South West will benefit from the 2012 Olympics.
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Inside Out South West - 05/11/2008
Local stories. Sam Smith tells the story of HMS Exeter's heroic final battle, and of two of the survivors as they return to Indonesia to pay a final tribute to their ship.
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Inside Out South West - 06/12/2010
Sam Smith follows the region's road gritters as they grapple with the worst November snow in decades. And the story of a Guernsey evacuee's transatlantic penpal relationship.
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Inside Out South West - 07/03/2008
Janine Jansen reports on the revealing video diary of a teenage girl trying to give up binge drinking, and Mike Dilger tracks down the seal that lost its way home to Cornwall.
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Inside Out South West - 07/11/2007
Sam Smith visits a pioneering scheme that tackles alcohol-related crime. A Cornish couple buying a French vineyard.
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Inside Out South West - 07/12/2009
Samantha Smith reports on how a Devon woman lost nearly two hundred thousand pounds to a man she met through online dating.
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Inside Out South West - 08/02/2010
Samantha Smith reports on the Cornishwoman who uncovered the grim secret of concentration camps run by the British during the Boer War.
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Inside Out South West - 08/03/2010
Samantha Smith reports on the controversy over a planned new children's air ambulance. Adam Hart-Davis visits Canonteign falls in Devon where a 130-year-old mine is to be reopened.
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Inside Out South West - 08/10/2008
Surprising real-life stories from familiar places. Sam Smith follows a troubled Cornish teenager. Chris Packham is checking the wildlife on Elbury farm.
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Inside Out South West - 08/11/2010
Sam Smith reveals the links between the Cornish port of Newlyn and over one hundred Breton men who escaped from the Ile de Sein to fight with the Free French in World War Two.
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Inside Out South West - 09/11/2009
Samantha Smith finds out why German tourists are flocking to Cornwall in their thousands, while Josie d'Arby uncovers a global scam centred on a muddy field in Somerset.
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Inside Out South West - 10/01/2011
Sam Smith follows Plymouth retail magnate Chris Dawson as he tries to mentor a young art student and get him off benefits and into work. Plus Exeter Museum's refit.
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Inside Out South West - 10/10/2007
Sam Smith investigates a loan company preying on vulnerable borrowers in the South West. Katie Hopkins tries to rescue a struggling village store in Devon.
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Inside Out South West - 11/01/2010
Samantha Smith reports on how the cold weather is impacting on vulnerable people in the South West. Weatherman David Braine has exclusive access to a weather research flight.
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Inside Out South West - 11/02/2009
Local stories. Joe Crowley investigates the pitfalls of buying mobile homes abroad, and Inside Out follows a top Devon chef representing the UK in a global competition.
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Inside Out South West - 11/03/2009
Local magazine programme, with an investigation into pyramid selling and we follow a Devon woman undergoing life-changing surgery to remove disfiguring tumours from her head.
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Inside Out South West - 11/04/2008
Janine Jansen reports on the Dover cameraman diving with whales under the Arctic ice, plus a report on the controversy surrounding beech-tree felling on Dartmoor.
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Inside Out South West - 12/10/2009
A report into the background behind the highly sensitive Vanessa George child abuse case. Plus Chris Packham visits wildlife-friendly Bookham Farm.
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Inside Out South West - 12/11/2008
Local stories. Sam Smith exposes dodgy dietary advice being peddled by one South West college, and Chris Packham goes on a moth hunt at wildlife-friendly Elbury Farm.
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Inside Out South West - 13/12/2010
Why Devon fishermen are suspicious of new marine conservation zones. Plus, the extraordinary story of a Camborne man's escape from a Russian gulag and trek to freedom during WWII.
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Inside Out South West - 14/01/2009
Sam Smith reports on a Torbay Cafe struggling for survival, and cameras follow a South West adventurer attempting a British first by climbing one of the world's tallest mountains.
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Inside Out South West - 14/11/2007
Sam Smith looks at the pressure Plymouth Fire Brigade is under around bonfire night. Mike Dilger helps return a seal to the wild.
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Inside Out South West - 15/02/2010
Samantha Smith reveals why some Cornish schools face bigger bills for their maintenance in the future. Poet Matt Harvey finds out why men in Montacute can expect a long retirement.
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Inside Out South West - 15/10/2008
Surprising real-life stories from familiar places. Sam Smith on the South West family that helped create the Chelsea Flower show. Katie Hopkins helps an ailing pub in Bideford.
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Inside Out South West - 15/11/2010
Sam Smith investigates a historic Cornish hotel and follows the divers searching for the wreck of HMS Ullswater - a Royal Navy Patrol Service ship sunk by enemy action in WWII.
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Inside Out South West - 16/11/2009
Sam Smith reports on the mother whose son has been kept alive by machine for nine years. And the trials and tribulations of a beekeeper as his bees try to survive a wet summer.
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Inside Out South West - 17/01/2011
Sam Smith follows Plymouth retail magnate Chris Dawson as he tries to mentor a young art student. Mark Horton tells the story of Somerset-born scientist Thomas Young.
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Inside Out South West - 17/09/2008
Surprising real-life stories from familiar places, with presenter Sam Smith. Jeremy Gould searches for the seven worst streets in the South West.
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Inside Out South West - 17/10/2007
Sam Smith investigates how the Cornwall Partnership Trust has handled the finances of vulnerable adults. Dick Strawbridge meets the man who spent two years building a 37ft boat.
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Inside Out South West - 18/01/2010
Samantha Smith reports the problems facing Newquay. David Stafford finds out the link between a sycamore tree and the birth of the trade union movement.
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Inside Out South West - 18/02/2009
Local stories. Sam Smith reports on the decline of ITV's regional output in the south west. Joe Crowley meets two Dorset brothers facing eviction for the second time in 60 years.
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Inside Out South West - 18/04/2008
A look at the extraordinary rescue of a pet monkey and Janine Jansen reports on the revealing video diary of a teenage girl trying to give up binge drinking.
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Inside Out South West - 18/10/2010
Sam Smith investigates how cuts in housing benefit will affect tenants and landlords in the South West. Can the Devon pasty beat the traditional Cornish? David Stafford finds out.
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Inside Out South West - 19/09/2007
Real-life stories from familiar places. Sam Smith uncovers serious concerns over fire safety in South West hotels. Judi Spiers discovers the untold story of the Devon Blackshirts.
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Inside Out South West - 19/10/2009
Samantha Smith investigates the Penhallow Hotel fire in which three people died and uncovers disturbing evidence about the fire safety regime there.
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Inside Out South West - 21/01/2009
Local stories. Sam Smith looks at the row over a new fish quay on the beautiful Helford estuary, and poet Matt Harvey follows Totnes' bid to become an eco-friendly transition town.
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Inside Out South West - 21/03/2008
Janine Jansen follows a special team working with young runaways, and Russell Labey goes to Dorset on the hunt for truffles.
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Inside Out South West - 22/02/2008
Janine Jansen exposes a dodgy solar panel company. Plus the amazing story of two marines re-enacting the Cockleshell Heroes' journey.
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Inside Out South West - 22/02/2010
The story of a woman undergoing cosmetic surgery to remove unsightly scalp tumours. Plus, follow the clerk of the course at Exeter races on the biggest day in their calendar.
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Inside Out South West - 22/10/2008
Surprising real-life stories from familiar places. Sam Smith investigates whether the South West's public money is being wasted on private property developments.
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Inside Out South West - 22/11/2010
Sam Smith follows the Taxpayers' Alliance as they question whether some council jobs are justified in these austere times. And the management consultant trying to become a comic.
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Inside Out South West - 23/11/2009
Samantha Smith follows the mother of a young man disabled in a tombstoning accident, who tries to persuade youngsters to stop this dangerous activity.
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Inside Out South West - 24/09/2008
Surprising real-life stories from familiar places. Sam Smith reports on the dodgy trade in cannabis seeds. Chris Packham tells the story of a project to save a rare butterfly.
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Inside Out South West - 24/10/2007
A man's fight to live on his own land; the 101 year old who was one of the original Hardy players and the story of Jason Lewis who spent 13 years going round the world on a pedalo.
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Inside Out South West - 25/01/2010
Reports on a man with a passion for reviving Exmoor's peat bogs and a Devon teenager who's undergone major surgery for epilepsy, plus a look at the future of the Cornish language.
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Inside Out South West - 25/02/2009
Local stories. Sam Smith meets the former soldier struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder, while Chris Packham discovers a birder's paradise on the banks of the River Axe.
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Inside Out South West - 25/04/2008
Janine Jansen reports on the immigration unit raiding businesses with illegal workers in Devon, andRussell Labey meets the Cornish couple starting a salami business.
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Inside Out South West - 25/10/2010
Sam Smith chats to Alexis Bowater whose life was damaged by a stalker, and who now runs a charity that supports victims and campaigns for the offence to be taken more seriously.
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Inside Out South West - 26/09/2007
Real-life stories from where you live. Sam Smith investigates the model agency charging large, upfront administration fees with no guarantee of work.
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Inside Out South West - 26/10/2009
Samantha Smith follows a Devon farmer who objects to a new travellers' site. We meet Britain's oldest married couple and trace the amazing journey of ten rare Bank Cormorant eggs.
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Inside Out South West - 28/01/2009
Local stories. Sam Smith meets the pensioner trapped in her home by a controversial mortgage scheme, and Russell Labey witnesses the restoration of Agatha Christie's holiday home.
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Inside Out South West - 28/03/2008
Janine Jansen follows a teenage drinker trying to cut down on alcohol. Plus we unravel the story of Cornish preacher Billy Bray and follow autistic children learning to surf.
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Inside Out South West - 29/02/2008
The team investigate a possible link between the 1994 leak at Hinckley Point power station and the deaths of local children.
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Inside Out South West - 29/10/2008
Real-life stories from familiar places. Sam Smith investigates the pitfalls of living in a park home, and Dick Strawbridge examines the healthy renaissance of allotment gardening.
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Inside Out South West - 29/11/2010
Sam Smith follows a 62-year-old accountant battling ageism in his bid to get work. And a woman sent to Australia as a young girl returns to find long-lost relatives in Cornwall.
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Inside Out South West - 30/11/2009
Samantha Smith reports on a Cornishwoman's struggle to find a job in the midst of deep recession. Mike Dilger explores the soggy autumnal delights of ancient woodland near Looe.
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Inside Out South West - 31/10/2007
Sam Smith investigates the car-cruising culture blighting south west cities. We follow Britain's oldest Steeplejack at work and a controversial scheme to protect native sharks.
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