
Episodes (57)
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Ep 1
One Click from Danger
2008-01-07•N/A
An update to our film 'One Click from Danger' about internet paedophiles exploiting vulnerable youngsters online.
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Ep 2
Destination UK
2008-01-14•N/A
Paul Kenyon follows the most dangerous illegal immigration route into Europe, used by tens and thousands of migrants a year seeking a better life, and revisits the survivors whose epic journey ended with them marooned on a tuna net in the middle of the Mediterranean.
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Ep 3
Britain's Protection Racket
2008-01-21•N/A
Panorama goes undercover to expose the flaws in Britain's seven-billion-pound security industry.
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Ep 4
Cocaine: Alex James in Colombia
2008-01-28•N/A
Former cocaine-using Blur bassist Alex James travels to Colombia. He meets the drug farmers, sellers and enforcers, and hears the message that every gram is tainted in blood.
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Ep 5
Bursting the House Price Bubble
2008-02-04•N/A
Investigation into sharp practice in the housing market which has kept house prices artificially high and plunged homeowners into negative equity.
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Ep 6
No More Mandelas
2008-02-11•N/A
After witnessing the end of apartheid, Fergal Keane returns to South Africa to find out what happened to the hope from that time.
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Ep 7
Bottled Water - Who Needs It?
2008-02-18•N/A
Reporter Tom Heap sets out to discover if the popularity of bottled water is merely a triumph of marketing over common sense.
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Ep 8
On Whose Orders?
2008-02-25•N/A
Jeremy Vine interviews Tony Blair's Attorney General Lord Goldsmith and General Sir Mike Jackson, asking how rules preventing abuse and torture of prisoners in Iraq were overturned, and analysing new claims that could bring disgrace to the Army.
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Ep 9
Taking Back The Streets
2008-03-03•N/A
Richard Bilton examines the dilemma of Garry Newlove, the father beaten to death in the streets. Is a new community action the answer to teenage gangs?
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Ep 10
Shaken Babies?
2008-03-10•N/A
Investigates the row behind shaken-baby syndrome. Last year, childminder Keran Henderson was convicted of shaking an 11-month-old baby to death. Her friends and family say she couldn't have done it, despite medical reports suggesting otherwise.
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Ep 11
Teenage Sex For Sale
2008-03-27•N/A
Gerry Northam investigates ruthless gangs who are targeting teenage girls and offering drugs and excitement. Within weeks, the children are made to work as prostitutes - having sex with a queue of men. This isn't Eastern European people trafficking but British girls on British streets.
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Ep 12
Jersey - Island of Secrets
2008-03-31•N/A
Current affairs programme with Jeremy Vine. It is six weeks since police started their search of Haut de la Garenne children's home on Jersey. Other homes and careworkers now being named by alleged abuse victims and many believe there has been a deliberate cover up.
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Ep 13
Divide and Rule
2008-04-07•N/A
Ten years on from the Good Friday Agreement, Panorama examines what power-sharing has done for those living with Northern Ireland's deep sectarian divisions.
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Ep 14
Feeling the Pinch
2008-04-14•N/A
Credit crunch, rising fuel prices and talk of recession - we've been warned of a tough year ahead. But how will we really be affected? Declan Curry discovers if we have what it takes to weather the storm of the global forces buffeting our economy.
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Ep 15
Something in the Air
2008-04-21•N/A
Pilots almost passing out at the controls; passengers who say they've been made ill by toxic fumes. Can polluted air on board planes damage your health? Panorama carries out its own tests to discover just what's in the air we breathe when we fly.
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Ep 16
How Clean is Your Hospital?
2008-04-27•N/A
Sally Magnusson goes inside a trust which lost 90 patients to the superbug c.difficile, which accounts for four times as many deaths as MRSA.
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Ep 17
Mission Impossible
2008-04-28•N/A
The UN polices conflicts around the world, but can it police itself? Raphael Rowe reveals how the organisation is struggling to eradicate the rot at its core.
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Ep 18
Prisons Unlocked
2008-05-05•N/A
Panorama investigates claims that unsuitable and dangerous convicts are being sent to open prisons to help solve the overcrowding crisis.
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Ep 19
Tested to Destruction
2008-05-12•N/A
Current affairs. Are schoolchildren in England given too many exams? Vivian White reports.
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Ep 20
The Challenge of the 60s
2008-05-15•N/A
Experts and diplomats including Lord Hurd, Christopher Mallaby and Bernard Lovell assess the predictions made about the world's future in an edition of Panorama from 1960.
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Ep 21
Britain on the Sick
2008-05-19•N/A
Current affairs programme presented by Jeremy Vine. Shelley Jofre examines the Government's tough new benefit rules.
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Ep 22
One Click from Capture
2008-05-26•N/A
A look at how Panorama's simple experiment of putting a young girl's details onto social networking websites ended with the arrest of an online predator.
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Ep 23
The Property Game
2008-06-02•N/A
Vigorous investigation of a topical issue. Richard Bilton meets the winners and losers in the property market. Is the British love affair with home ownership over?
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Ep 24
What Happened After Taking On the Taliban?
2008-06-09•N/A
Current affairs. Panorama meets the soldiers featured in last year's Taking On the Taliban special, to find out what they're doing now.
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Ep 25
Daylight Robbery - What happened to the $23billion?
2008-06-10•N/A
Jane Corbin investigates the cases which threaten to reveal the corruption behind the past five years of war in the Middle East.
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Ep 26
Young Gunmen
2008-06-23•N/A
Current affairs. Panorama investigates the rise of armed teenage street gangs, speaking to former gangsters, the police and the young gunmen themselves.
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Ep 27
Primark: On the Rack
2008-06-23•N/A
Panorama puts Primark's claims that it can deliver cheap, fast fashion without breaking ethical guidelines to the test.
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Ep 28
Taking Back The Streets
2008-06-30•N/A
Panarama investigates the rise of armed teenage street gangs and discovers how shockingly ingrained the culture of guns and violence is in Britain.
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Ep 29
NHS for Sale
2008-07-07•N/A
Sally Magnusson investigates the creeping privatisation of the NHS.
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Ep 30
China's Secret War
2008-07-14•N/A
Panorama provides evidence of how China is supplying the Sudanese government with arms to enable it to wage a campaign of violence in Darfur - all for oil.
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Ep 31
Friends in High Places
2008-07-21•N/A
Panorama investigates the government's proposals for a third runway at Heathrow which, critics argue, will have a dramatic effect on the environment.
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Ep 32
Can We Afford to Fill Up?
2008-07-28•N/A
With the price of fuel rocketing at the pumps, Jane Corbin reports on how fuel prices are affecting Britain and what alternatives might be available.
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Ep 33
Racing's Dirty Secret
2008-07-30•N/A
Panorama investigates horse racing and reveals why those running the sport are so concerned about gamblers betting on horses not to win, but to lose.
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Ep 34
China's Olympic Promise
2008-08-04•N/A
As the Games approach, award-winning journalist John Sweeney travels across China to discover whether foreign journalists are being allowed to report freely.
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Ep 35
Notes on a Dirty Island
2008-08-11•N/A
Travel writer Bill Bryson presents a personal and passionate account of how Britain has become a rubbish tip since his arrival from the USA in 1972.
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Ep 36
The NHS Postcode Lottery: It Could Be You
2008-08-18•N/A
Shelley Jofre takes a road trip around the UK and discovers how the quality of treatment from the NHS very much depends on where you live.
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Ep 37
True Brits
2008-08-25•N/A
Current affairs with Jeremy Vine. An investigation into how factors such as mass immigration and devolution are forever changing the concept of 'Britishness'.
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Ep 38
How the Economy Got Personal
2008-09-01•N/A
Current affairs. Jeremy Vine presents personal stories of regular Britons affected by the credit crunch.
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Ep 39
Can Money Grow on Trees?
2008-09-08•N/A
Panorama asks whether the money markets can achieve what campaigners and law enforcement have so far failed to, and make trees more valuable alive than dead.
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Ep 40
Terror in the Skies?
2008-09-09•N/A
Peter Taylor uncovers the inside story of the operation which thwarted a terrorist plot to cause explosions and led to increased security at British airports.
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Ep 41
Omagh: What the Police Were Never Told
2008-09-15•N/A
Peter Taylor uncovers the inside story of the operation which thwarted a terrorist plot to cause explosions and led to increased security at British airports.
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Ep 42
How Safe is my Money?
2008-09-22•N/A
Jane Corbin looks at how the crisis facing the world's financial insitutions could impact on the nation's banks, mortgages, insurance and pensions.
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Ep 43
You Can Run...
2008-09-26•N/A
But can you hide? Simon Boazman investigates how much information is held on him, whether it is secure and if he can reduce his data trail.
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Ep 44
Next Stop, Downing Street?
2008-09-29•N/A
Nick Robinson accompanies Conservative Party leader David Cameron to Birmingham as he attempts to persuade voters he is prime minister material.
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Ep 45
The Secret Policeman Returns
2008-10-06•N/A
In the wake of the resignation of Britain's top police officer, Panorama investigates racism in Britain's police force. Mark Daly - who exposed racism amongst police recruits in The Secret Policeman five years ago - returns to uncover the truth about being a Black Ethnic Minority Cop today.
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Ep 46
Should We Be Scared of Russia?
2008-10-10•N/A
Mark Franchetti meets Vladimir Putin's inner circle in an attempt to decipher Russia's intentions on domestic and international fronts.
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Ep 47
Obama and the Pitbull: An American Tale
2008-10-13•N/A
Matt Frei investigates Barack Obama's rise in the opinion polls, and asks if the current financial crisis has put him on the home straight.
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Ep 48
Britain in the Red - Your Questions Answered
2008-10-16•N/A
Jeremy Vine asks why our economy ran into trouble, and who is to blame for the credit crunch and banking crisis which threatens to affect us all.
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Ep 49
Three Bloody Summers
2008-11-03•N/A
The British Commander on the ground admits the war against the Taliban cannot be won by force alone in this eye-opening assessment of the Afghanistan conflict.
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Ep 50
Can't Pay, Won't Pay
2008-11-10•N/A
With the credit crunch affecting everyone, Panorama reveals the lengths some lenders are now going to in order to get borrowers to pay off their debts.
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Ep 51
What Happened to Baby P?
2008-11-17•N/A
A six-month investigation by the programme reveals the mistakes and missed opportunities that led to the death of a 17-month-old boy known only as Baby P.
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Ep 52
Addicted to Aid
2008-11-24•N/A
Reporter Sorious Samura visits Uganda and his home country of Sierra Leone to reveal how aid money is lost, stolen and frittered away.
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Ep 53
Comeback Coal
2008-12-01•N/A
An investigation into the Government's support of a new wave of opencast coal mining, in spite of fierce opposition from local communities.
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Ep 54
Shannon: The Mother of All Lies
2008-12-04•N/A
Panorama presents the inside story on the disappearance of Shannon Matthews, as it investigates the events that led to Karen Matthews being convicted for the kidnap of her own daughter.
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Ep 55
I'll Die When I Choose
2008-12-08•N/A
Politician and Parkinson's sufferer Margo MacDonald uncovers the truth about assisted dying, meeting those with illnesses like hers who are desperate to die.
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Ep 56
Britain's Terror Heartland
2008-12-15•N/A
Jane Corbin makes the hazardous journey to the frontline in the War on Terror, the remote and forbidding mountains along the Pakistan-Afghan border.
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Ep 57
The Year Britain's Bubble Burst
2008-12-22•N/A
It has been a cataclysmic year for our banks and economy, and a year in which the role of the BBC's Business Editor has been in the spotlight as never before.
With exclusive interviews with the major players, Robert Peston reflects on how these momentous events will affect us all.