Episode list

Panorama

One Click from Danger
Jeremy Vine examines how kids can be kept safe on the internet, revealing the dangers of online predators and the sheer speed and ease with which they target children online - and even persuade them to meet.
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Destination UK

Sun, Jan 13, 2008
Paul Kenyon follows the most dangerous illegal immigration route into Europe, used by tens and thousands of migrants a year seeking a better life.
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Britain's Protection Racket
Panorama goes undercover to investigate the security industry. Is the body set-up to clean up this £7 billion a year sector doing so? A whistle-blower exposes the legal loophole that allows criminals to keep working in the industry.
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Cocaine: Alex James in Colombia
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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No More Mandelas
Fergal Keane travels to South Africa to ask if the new leader of the ANC, Jacob Zuma, is fit to lead either the party or the nation. Zuma has been charged with corruption, while the murder rate and AIDS infection rate have rocketed.
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Bottled Water: Who Needs It?
Tom Heap asks if Britain's love of bottled water is the ultimate triumph of marketing over common sense. Environment Minister Phil Woolas has said that the £2 billion a year we spend on bottled water is 'morally unacceptable'.
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On Whose Orders?
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.
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Taking Back the Streets
Should people stand up and confront vandals and teenage gangs? Richard Bilton talks to Zoe Newlove, whose father was beaten to death in the street for doing just that. Is community action a better, safer way to tackle anti-social behavior?
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Shaken Babies?
An investigation into the case of childminder Keran Henderson who was convicted last year of shaking an 11-month-old baby to death. Her family claim she couldn't have done it, while medical experts are convinced of her guilt.
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Teenage Sex for Sale
Gerry Northam investigates how ruthless gangs have been luring teenage girls into drug abuse and prostitution on Britain's streets. This isn't Eastern European people trafficking but British girls on British streets.
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Jersey - Island of Secrets
A report on the police investigation into allegations of child abuse at the Haut de la Garenne children's home on the island of Jersey. The programme looks into claims that a deliberate cover-up has taken place.
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Divide and Rule
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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Feeling the Pinch
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 can weather the storm of the global forces buffeting our economy.
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Something in the Air
Could pollution on board aeroplanes be damaging passengers' health? This investigation carries out a series of tests to discover which toxins exist in the air we breathe when we fly.
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How Clean Is Your Hospital?
The superbug C difficile is so rife in our hospitals that the equivalent of one person dies with it every hour. Sally Magnusson investigates its spread and how to control it.
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Mission Impossible
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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Prisons Unlocked
Ross McWilliam investigates claims that unsuitable and dangerous convicts are being sent to open prisons to help solve the overcrowding crisis.
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Tested to Destruction
The Government says formal testing helps to drive up standards, but are English children being given too many exams, placing them under unnecessary pressure? Vivian White reports.
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The Challenge of the Sixties
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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Britain on the Sick
The Government has been cracking down on sickness benefit fraud. But can they achieve their aim of getting a million people back to work within the next eight years? Shelley Jofre investigates.
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One Click from Capture
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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The Property Game
With house prices now on the slide and fewer of us able to secure a mortgage, has the British obsession with home ownership finally run out of steam? Richard Bilton meets some of the winners and losers in the property market.
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What Happened After Taking on the Taliban?
Panorama catches up with those soldiers to find out: what happened after 'Taking on the Taliban?' Some have been awarded for bravery, while others are either planning to leave the army or have already left.
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Daylight Robbery - What Happened to the $23 Billion?
Panorama investigates that as much as $23bn may have been lost, stolen or not properly accounted for in Iraq. More than 70 whistleblower cases threaten to reveal the scandals behind billions of dollars worth of waste, theft and corruption.
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Primark on the Rack
Posing as industry buyers in India, Tom Heap and his team find some of India's poorest people working long, gruelling hours in slum workshops and refugee camps - breaking Primark promises on child labour, working hours and wages.
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Young Gunmen

Sun, Jun 29, 2008
The tragic shooting of Liverpool schoolboy Rhys Jones last year brought the issue of armed teenage gangs into the headlines. Reporter Graham Johnson reveals how ingrained the culture of guns and violence has become in parts of Britain.
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NHS for Sale

Sun, Jul 06, 2008
Reporter Sally Magnusson investigates what many see as a creeping privatisation of the Health Service (NHS) and asks if it is cause for concern.
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China's Secret War
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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Friends in High Places
At a time when the Government is lecturing the country on green issues, a report on its support for a third runway at Heathrow, amid claims that it has used misleading scientific evidence regarding air and noise pollution.
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Can We Afford to Fill Up?
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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Racing's Dirty Secrets
Paul Kenyon investigates the world of betting in the sport of kings, and reveals why industry experts are so concerned about gamblers betting vast sums of money on horses not to win, but to lose.
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China's Olympic Promise
As the Beijing Games approach, reporter John Sweeney travels across China to test whether the Chinese government's pledges regarding press freedom for foreign journalists are being honoured.
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Notes on a Dirty Island
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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True Brits

Sun, Aug 24, 2008
An investigation into how factors such as mass immigration and devolution are forever changing the concept of 'Britishness'. Vivian White reports.
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How the Economy Got Personal
Jeremy Vine investigates the stories behind the credit-crunch headlines and reveals the effects of the economic downturn on a brick-cutter, a publican, a mother and a pawnbroker.
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Can Money Grow on Trees?
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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Terror in the Skies?
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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How Safe Is My Money?
Jane Corbin looks at how the crisis facing the world's financial institutions could impact on the nation's banks, mortgages, insurance and pensions.
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You Can Run...
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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Next Stop, Downing Street?
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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The Secret Policeman Returns
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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Should We Be Scared of Russia?
Russia's actions in the conflict in Georgia proved that the superpower has no qualms about flexing its muscles. Mark Franchetti finds out from Vladimir Putin's inner circle what the Russians think and what it could mean for the rest of us.
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Three Bloody Summers
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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Can't Pay, Won't Pay
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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What Happened to Baby P?
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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