34 teenagers were stabbed to death in the UK in 2008. The number of prison sentences handed out for carrying a knife has risen ten-fold. Why are so many youngsters arming themselves with knives? Raphael Rowe enters prisons to speak to them.
Barack Obama won the US Presidential election promising to make America a fairer country. But he has inherited the worst economic crisis in almost a century. Can he change the most powerful country in the world, and should he?
Despite Britain being in economic crisis and ordinary taxpayers getting hit hard it seems that the super-rich can still take advantage of 'off-shore' tax havens to protect their millions. John Sweeney asks if it is time these were closed.
As Israel prepares to vote on its future, BBC Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen travels through a devastated Gaza to ask if the 22-day Operation Cast Lead has really weakened Hamas or merely sown the seeds for further bloodshed.
As the government prepares to announce a new counter-terrorism strategy, the Secret Service (MI5) say that they cannot monitor all of the Muslim extremists in Britain. Richard Watson asks should we talk to or isolate the radicals.
Dragon's Den star Theo Paphitis investigates if the banks and the government are doing enough to help the 4.7 million small businesses in the UK to survive the recession. 120 businesses are reportedly closing down each day.
RBS are predicted to be about to announce the biggest losses in British history. In February 2009 the bank's chief executive apologized for their part in the banking crisis. Mark Daly looks at what is next for the bank and its staff.
Panorama reveals how organised crime is defeating attempts to claw back its profits, and how the Crown has been reduced to making tax deals with criminals.
As credit crunch pushes Britain's long-running pensions and savings time-bomb to a critical new stage, Panorama takes experts to those facing a very uncertain retirement to see if they can find a solution.
Documentary looking back at 1959 through the eyes of the BBC current affairs programme Panorama, recalling a time when Britain finally realised that the old world was disappearing.
With soldiers and police once again being killed in the province, Panorama offers a detailed analysis of the resurgent terrorist threat in Northern Ireland, based on ten years' work investigating the breakaway Republican movement.
Panorama goes undercover in the millionaires' playground of Dubai to look at luxury developments. Reporter Ben Anderson discovers that behind the glossy sales brochures is an army of construction workers living in appalling conditions.
Paul Kenyon investigates care of the elderly and goes undercover to expose a world of chaos. Carers on minimum wages - often with little training - battle to provide decent care.
Panorama follows a British family to China as they pin their hopes on a new stem cell therapy to give their daughter sight. As evidence mounts that some treatments offered abroad are bogus, will the child's eyesight improve?
The expenses scandal is just the beginning and not the end of Westminster's troubles. Shelley Jofre reports on the other ways in which the new appetite for transparency may embarrass honourable members of government.
As Iranians prepare to elect a president beneath the gaze of its Ayatollah and supreme leader, Jane Corbin asks whether Obama's recent plea for greater understanding will be heeded.
Panorama investigates the growing trend of celebrities and public figures turning to privacy laws to suppress stories and photographs showing them in a bad light.
Exclusive access to airborne troops and to footage shot in Taliban-controlled towns reveals the inside story of Pakistan's fight against extremists in its mountains and valleys. John Sweeney reports.
Ten years after devolution the Scots want still more power concentrated north of the border, and the Scottish Nationalists want to force a referendum on independence. Can the UK be preserved?
Panorama asks if police tactics aimed at preventing troublemakers taking over demonstrations are eroding the freedom to protest for all but the most hardened activists.
Who authorised the torture of terror suspects in US custody? Panorama investigates whether the interrogation techniques used by the Bush administration after 9/11 broke US and international law.
Veteran BBC war reporter Allan Little investigates how the battlefield trauma of the Vietnam War - post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) - now ends up in British motor insurance claims, workplace accidents and school bullying.
Panorama reveals the endless game of cat and mouse between prisoners determined to get their fix and officers equally determined to keep drugs out of their jails.
Richard Bilton looks at reclaiming Britain's town centres from the drunk and violent, with the bar that makes it too difficult to get drunk and the battle against cheap drink promotions.
With British soldiers dying in record numbers and the country arguing over the wisdom of the war, Jane Corbin travels across Afghanistan to ask if the British presence has made the lives of Afghan women any better.
Panorama reports on the elderly people who are taking to the streets in protest, and threatening legal action, because their residential wardens are being taken away.
With the quality of bathing water on the UK's beaches in decline, Panorama investigates the outflow pipes that discharge sewage, tampons and condoms after heavy rain, and commissions its own scientific tests, with some disturbing results.
Paul Kenyon travels 3000 miles along the most dangerous illegal immigration route out of Africa. Many die crossing the Sahara, or at sea, but can the survivors convince those who follow that Europe in recession is no longer worth the risk?
Jeremy Vine, Sophie Raworth and Fergus Walsh travel through the UK and the world to expose the myths and the dangers of swine flu. Who is most vulnerable? How do you avoid it? And can the NHS cope?
The real effects of the recession may just be starting as John Ware challenges the politicians to come clean about their plans to slash public spending.
In a Panorama special, the programme investigates a key Labour health policy that used the private sector to slash NHS waiting lists. Six years on, was it worth the price?
Vivian White investigates the reasons why the ultimate 'no frills' airline has gained a reputation as the brand Britain loves to hate but can't stop using.
Bullied, attacked and racially-abused more than fifty times in eight weeks. That's the experience of two British Asian reporters posing as a couple and living undercover on a housing estate in Britain during summer 2009.
Shelley Jofre investigates whether punishing violent crimes with cautions and fines is letting some serious criminals off the hook and denying justice to victims.
Loan sharks are thriving in recession-hit Britain, as the poor find themselves relying on criminals. Simon Boazman finds the victims who have suffered brutal violence, and looks at the lenders who can charge 17,000 per cent interest.
Panorama investigates a little-known law called joint enterprise, used to curb gang violence, and asks if the catch-all policy leads to miscarriages of justice.
