List of After Dark editions
After Dark was a British late night television discussion programme, produced by Open Media. It ran off and on Channel 4 between 1987 and 1997, and on the BBC in 2003.[1] Here follows a complete list of all editions, with dates of live transmission and the names of all guests and hosts.

After Dark – picture shows the edition of 2 July 1988, "Animal Rights" - with that week's host Beverly Anderson (centre) were Katie Boyle, Rex Hudson, Ralph Cook, Miriam Rothschild, Mark Gold, Judy MacArthur and Frank Evans. Katie Boyle brought her dogs.
Series 1
Series 2
| Date of broadcast | Title of programme | Host | Guests |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 February 1988 | Beyond the Law | John Underwood | Colin Woods, Eileen Gray, Martin Short, Brian Woollard, David Napley, Ian Hunt, T. Dan Smith |
| 26 February 1988 | Marriage: What Do Women Want? | Stuart Hood | James Dearden, Carol McMillan, Julie Grant, Mary Whitehouse, Joan Wyndham, Naim Attallah, Shere Hite |
| 4 March 1988 | No Place Like Home | Helena Kennedy | Susanne Reedes, Martin Daunton, Kathy Hearne, William "Spider" Wilson, John Heddle, Sheila McKechnie, Bill More |
| 11 March 1988 | You Are What You Wear | Gaia Servadio | Brenda Polan, Bishop of Lewes, Bruce Oldfield, Nicholas Coleridge, Terry Melville, Katharine Hamnett, Raghib Ashan |
| 18 March 1988 | Licensed to Kill? | Paul Sieghart | Pauline Perry, Onora O'Neill, Michael Wiseman, Anthony Farrar-Hockley, Bridie Maguire, Arnold Dousse, Bernadette Devlin McAliskey |
| 25 March 1988 | Iran/Iraq: A Holy War? | John Underwood | Noel Pickering, Haleh Afshar, Norman Kirkham, Shusha Guppy, Ezzat Altamimi, Hoshyar Zebari, Hamid Houshangi, Dilip Hiro |
| 9 April 1988 | Horse Racing: Sport Of Kings? | Tony Wilson | Barney Curley, John McCririck, Duncan Keith, Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, General Sir Cecil "Monkey" Blacker, Alan Gibbons, Brian Radford, "Michael" |
| 16 April 1988 | What Is Prison For? | Professor Ian Kennedy | John Renton, John Masterson, Ken Murray, Terry Dicks, Tony Hoare, Yolande McShane |
| 23 April 1988 | Race and the Classroom: Education for All? | Helena Kennedy | Blake Bedford, Olna Manyan, Ray Honeyford, John Sentamu, Ann Dummett, Dipak Basu, Lurline Champagnie |
| 30 April 1988 | Bewitched, Bothered or Bewildered? | Tony Wilson | Moira Woods, Olivia Durdin-Robertson, Jack Shackleford, Jack Dover Wellman, Audrey Harper, Margot Adler, Trevor Turner |
| 7 May 1988 | Derry '68 Look Back in Anger? | Professor Ian Kennedy | Roy Bradford, Paul Brennan, Henry Kelly, DeLores Tucker, Noirin Connolly, Eamonn McCann, Glenn Barr |
| 14 May 1988 | Israel: Forty Years On | John Underwood | Yohanan Lahav, Anton Shammas, Marie Colvin, Gerald Kaufman, Moshe Amirav, Faisal Aweidah, Nadia Hijab |
| 21 May 1988 | What is Sex For? | Professor Anthony Clare | Andrea Dworkin, Anthony Burgess, Jim Haynes, Julia Ronder, Jack Dominian, Roz Kaveney |
| 28 May 1988 | Winston Churchill | Trevor Hyett | David Irving, Lord Hailsham, Anthony Montague Browne, David Reynolds, Jack Jones, Jean Howard |
| 4 June 1988 | Open to Exposure | Professor Ian Kennedy | Peter Hillmore, Lester Middlehurst, Harvey Proctor, Annette Witheridge, Laurie Manifold, Christine Keeler, Nina Myskow |
| 11 June 1988 | South Africa | Trevor Hyett | Harry Belafonte, Denis Worrall, Essop Pahad, Breyten Breytenbach, Nick Mitchell, Victoria Brittain, Ismail Ayob |
| 18 June 1988 | How Do You Survive a Murder? | Professor Anthony Clare | Lord Longford, Georgina Lawton, June Patient, Patricia Highsmith, Peter Whent, David Howden, James Nelson, Sarah Boyle |
| 25 June 1988 | Pornography | Helena Kennedy | Hanna Segal, Paula Meadows, Bill Margold, Susanne Kappeler, James Bogle, David Hebditch, "Dave" |
| 2 July 1988 | Animal Rights | Beverly Anderson | Katie Boyle, Rex Hudson, Ralph Cook, Miriam Rothschild, Mark Gold, Judy MacArthur, Frank Evans |
| 9 July 1988 | After Cleveland | Trevor Hyett | Beatrix Campbell, Shirley Edwards, Ray Wyre, A father from Cleveland, Ralph Underwager, Simon Court, "John", Raine Roberts |
| 16 July 1988 | British Intelligence | John Underwood | Gary Murray, Alastair Mackie, Merlyn Rees, Robin Ramsay, Jock Kane, Robert Harbinson, H. Montgomery Hyde |
| 23 July 1988 | It's a Mad, Mad World? | Beverly Anderson | Errol Francis, Anne Newnham, Glynn Harrison, Sashi Sashidharan, Derek Francis, Pamela Taylor, Thomas Szasz |
| 30 July 1988 | Save the Whale, Save the World? | Roisin McAuley | Kieran Mulvaney, Heathcote Williams, Petra Kelly, James Lovelock, Tony Ball, C. W. Nicol, Shigeko Misaki |
| 6 August 1988 | Nicaragua | John Underwood | John Silber, Alfred Sherman, Roberto Ferrey, Susan Morgan, Bianca Jagger, Amalia Chomarro, Allan Francovich, John Bevan |
| 13 August 1988 | Money | Henry Kelly | Michael Lee, Owen Oyston, Michael Bassett, Nicholas van Hoogstraten, Marie Jahoda, Hannah Ward, Frances Jankowski |
| 20 August 1988 | Born to Serve? | Trevor Hyett | Peter Clarke, John Cawston, John Rentoul, Eva Figes, Doris Williams, Jessica Mitford, Pamela Hilton, Cora |
| 27 August 1988 | Sentencing | Professor Ian Kennedy | Isobel Brydie, David Napley, Sarah Helm, Michael Argyle, Peter Herbert, John Coker, Vivian Berger |
| 3 September 1988 | Alternative Medicine | Tony Wilson | Debra Freechild, Ronald Davey, James Randi, Jacques Benveniste, Erica Jones, Walter Stewart, David Reilly, Jonathan Miller |
| 10 September 1988 | Blacklist? | Professor Ian Kennedy | Harold Musgrove, Hilary Wainwright, Hugo Cornwall, Richard Norton-Taylor, George Brumwell, John Macreadie, Michael Noar |
Series 3
| Date of broadcast | Title of programme | Host | Guests |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 May 1989 | Out of Bounds | John Underwood | Eddie Chapman, Tony Benn, Lord Dacre, James Rusbridger, Miles Copeland, Anthony Cavendish, Adela Gooch |
| 20 May 1989 | Football – The Final Whistle? | Jancis Robinson | Peter Garrett, Rhodes Boyson, Garth Crooks, James Delaney, Cass Pennant, Margaret Simey, John Williams, Eileen Delaney |
| 27 May 1989 | Drugs – Is Britain Cracking Up? | Professor Ian Kennedy | Blue, Robert Lefever, Nell Campbell, Terry Goddard, "Louise", Margaret White, Allan Parry |
| 3 June 1989 | Back in the USSR? | Professor Anthony Clare | Mikki Doyle, Vladimir Bukovsky, Denis Healey, Martin Walker, Tatyana Tolstaya, Vitali Vitaliev |
| 10 June 1989 | Britain – Out on a Limb? | Beverly Anderson | Peter Ustinov, Kenneth Minogue, Shirley Williams, Richard Perle, Alastair Morton, Josef Joffe, Edward Heath |
| 17 June 1989 | Rock Bottom? | Matthew Parris | Eartha Kitt, Pauline Black, Simon Napier-Bell, Pat Kane, Imruh Bakari, Jonathan Ashby |
| 24 June 1989 | Pride and Prejudice | Beverly Anderson | Ole Espersen, Russell Watkyn, Jo Purvis, Ismond Rosen, Jennie Wilson, Martin Sherman, Ken Skeates |
| 1 July 1989 | What's Up Doc? | Tony Wilson | Ivor Daniels, Alex Comfort, James Hammond, Ian McColl, Joanna Trowell, David Widgery, Jane Rosbotham |
| 8 July 1989 | Who Dares Wins? | Professor Anthony Clare | Frederick Martens, Tony Colston-Hayter, Victor Lownes, 'Dougie', Mary-Ann Hushlak, Bishop of Willesden, David Berglas, Al Alvarez |
| 15 July 1989 | School's Out | Matthew Parris | Robert Munks, Adae Whitcombe, Sonia Leiper, Darren Brind, Nadeem Inayat, Paula McNamara, Kieran Clifton |
| 22 July 1989 | The Cost of Divorce | Professor Ian Kennedy | Denis Cooper, Marvin Mitchelson, George MacBeth, Sue Stapely, Gill Cooper, Elizabeth Browne, George Brown |
| 29 July 1989 | What Is There To Believe In? | Tony Wilson | Lynette Burrows, Steven Rose, David Holloway, Frank Cioffi, The Bishop of Durham, Dorothy Rowe, Michael Bentine |
| 2 September 1989 | Germany – 50 Years On | Professor Anthony Clare | Amity Shlaes, Reinhard Spitzy, Albert Friedlander, Christof Wackernagel, Donald Cameron Watt, Franz Schoenhuber, Jozef Garlinski |
| 9 September 1989 | Superpowers – All In The Mind | Tony Wilson | Martin Israel, Ivy Northage, James Randi, Athena Pattengill, Stephen O'Brien, Susan Blackmore |
| 16 September 1989 | What Do We Do With Sex Offenders? | Helena Kennedy | Gerald Silverman, John Coker, Ray Wyre, 'Peter', Maurice White, Nell McCafferty, Michael Bettsworth |
| 23 September 1989 | Freud – 50 Years On | Professor Ian Kennedy | Donald Reeves, Jeffrey Masson, Hans Lobner, Stuart Sutherland, Isabel Menzies Lyth, Ralph Steadman, Anna Raeburn |
| 30 September 1989 | Body Beautiful – What Do We Want? | Sheena McDonald | Mandy Mudd, Nabil Shaban, Dee Wells, Arthur Marwick, Molly Parkin, Zoe Warwick, Suzanne Younger |
| 7 October 1989 | Death Penalty? | Professor Anthony Clare | Sean O'Dochartaigh, Syd Dernley, Dorothea Morefield, Evelyn Ann Theobald, Peter Thornton, Michael Argyle, Guy Rais |
| 14 October 1989 | Ethiopia | John Underwood | Mark Bowden, Mary Dines, Richard Balfe, Berhane Ghebrehiwot, Rebecca Asrate, Peter Bauer, Charles Stewart, Abadi Zemo |
| 21 October 1989 | The Royal Family – Dallas or Palace? | Tony Wilson | Edgar Wilson, Andrew Morton, Archduke Karl von Habsburg, Peregrine Worsthorne, Gwyn Fitch, Peter Russell, Rhoda Koenig |
| 28 October 1989 | Men and Women: What's the Difference? | Matthew Parris | Mary Stott, Maria Scherer, Malcolm Bennett, Hans Eysenck, Helen Haste, David Stayt, Xaviera Hollander |
| 4 November 1989 | What Makes MPs Run? | Trevor Hyett | David Lewis, Ken Livingstone, Andrew Roth, 'Barbara', Edwina Currie, Julia Langdon, Julia Stonehouse |
| 11 November 1989 | War and Peace | Professor Anthony Clare | Father Owen Hardwicke, Scilla Elworthy, Anthony Farrar-Hockley, Jean Ward, Major the Rev'd David Cooper, Wade Tidbury, Arthur Moyse |
| 18 November 1989 | Space: How Far Should We Go? | Professor Ian Kennedy | Heinz Wolff, Stephen Donnelly, Buzz Aldrin, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Whitley Strieber, Ian Watson, Tom Wilkie |
| 25 November 1989 | Shall We Live In South Africa? | Professor Anthony Clare | Lady Bernard, Zoe Wicomb, Abdullah Ibrahim, Donald Woods, Matthew Oliphant, Shula Marks, John Nash, Mike Ramsay |
| 1 December 1989 | Terrorism | Professor Ian Kennedy | Ariel Merari, Yehudi Menuhin, Fred Holroyd, Richard Clutterbuck, Michael Opperskalski, Jillian Becker, Gordon Liddy |
Series 4
| Date of broadcast | Title of programme | Host | Guests |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 January 1991 | Arms and the Gulf | Professor Ian Kennedy | Tam Dalyell, Bruce Hemmings, Robert Jarman, James Lunt, Joey Martyn–Martin, Adel Darwish, Rana Kabbani |
| 19 January 1991 | Survival – At What Cost? | Professor Anthony Clare | Sheila Cassidy, Richard Morefield, Brummie Stokes, Hugo Gryn, Karma Nabulsi, Monica McKibbin |
| 26 January 1991 | Do Men Have To Be Violent? | Helena Kennedy | Antoinette Giancana, Neil Lyndon, Keith Simpson, Arthur Hyatt Williams, Oliver Reed, Kate Millett, Elliott Leyton |
| 2 February 1991 | Counting The Cost of a Free Press | Helena Kennedy | Duncan Campbell, Lord Lambton, Gordon Winter, Jane Moore, Clare Short, Anthony Howard |
| 9 February 1991 | Abortion | Anthony Holden | Helen Brook, Michael Chapman, John Finnis, Wendy Savage, Alison Davis, Angela Farley, Mary Kenny |
| 16 February 1991 | Sexaholics | Kay Avila | Dirg Aab-Richards, Colin Brewer, Charlotte Davis Kasl, Corky McGuinness, Michael Seed, 'Jackie', 'Mike' |
| 23 February 1991 | Prisons: No Way Out | Professor Ian Kennedy | Theodore Dalrymple, Paul Dolese, Sheila Heather-Hayes, Tony Lambrianou, Joe Whitty, Taki Theodoracopolous, Mary Eaton, Jim Wood |
| 2 March 1991 | The Gulf: Counting The Cost | John Plender | Adnan Al-Bahar, Chris Cowley, Edward Heath, Robert McGeehan, Lord Weidenfeld, Mona Bauwens, Adnan Khashoggi |
| 9 March 1991 | After Rochdale | Tony Wilson | Beatrix Campbell, Andy Croall, Her Honour Jean Graham Hall, Sherrill Mulhern, John Shirley, Deborah Cameron, Wendy Lindsay, Bill Thompson |
| 16 March 1991 | The Luck of the Irish? | Trevor Hyett | Father Patrick Buckley, Patrick Cosgrave, J. P. Donleavy, David Norris, Emily O'Reilly, Paul Hill, Ethel Smith, Francis Stuart |
| 23 March 1991 | What Should Teachers Learn? | Professor Anthony Clare | Peter Davies, Annis Garfield, Steve McCarthy, Zoe Readhead, Catherine Finnan, James Harries, Russell Profitt, Eleanor MacDonald |
| 31 March 1991 | Who Believes In Miracles? | Tony Wilson | Ann Diamond, Prof Teddy Hall, Barbara Smoker, Matthew Fox, Tom Wright, Hyam Maccoby, Ian Wilson |
| 6 April 1991 | Serial Success? | Matthew Parris | Jeremy Coid, Stefan Jaworzyn, Detective Ray Pierce, Michael Winner, Catherine Itzin, John Sutcliffe, Helen Zahavi |
Specials
| Date of broadcast | Title of programme | Host | Guests |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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
| Date of broadcast | Title of programme | Host | Guests |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 February 2003 | Iraq: What's Oil Got To Do 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 |
References
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