CCTV: You Are Being Watched

Britain is the most watched nation on earth, with more than four million surveillance cameras. CCTV first came to Britain fifty years ago. This two-part history of CCTV reveals how it spread and where it's going.

As CCTV spreads like wildfire, Jamie Theakston reveals how scientists are developing surveillance cameras which think for themselves and identify us by the way we walk and talk. In this second part of the series about the 50 year history of CCTV in Britain, we see how the police and local councils in the UK increasingly turn to cameras which automatically save lives and prevent crime.