Dispatches

Oct 30, 1987

Investigating the black market in weapons grade uranium operated from Khartoum.

Nov 6, 1987

Investigation of the alleged misuse of funds at three Labour Party Social Clubs in Dundee.

Nov 13, 1987

The program challenges the theory that AIDS is caused by the H.I.V. virus and discusses the social pressures on those diagnosed as H.I.V. positive.

Nov 20, 1987

Explains how new D.N.A. testing techniques could help to re-unite divided immigrant families and looks at claims that the government has delayed progress pending on legislation.

Nov 27, 1987

TVS's Business Unit tells the inside story of the Eurotunnel Management Team's battle to persuade the City and the public to back the issue of shares and raise capital.

Dec 4, 1987

The undercover world of arms dealing is revealed by a defector (Frank Turner) who reveals his involvement with the CIA and British Ministry of Defence.

Dec 11, 1987

4 1/2 year old Kimberley was starved, dehydrated and beaten and weighed 24Ibs-small for a normal child her age. Her stepfather Nigel Hall was jailed for life for her murder, the mother Pauline Carlile was jailed 12 years for cruelty.

Dec 18, 1987

In the run-up to the Olympics, the Seoul urban poor are forced from their homes to make way for the developers.

Jan 8, 1988

A question of concern, doubt and safety of mine workers from around Britain.

Jan 15, 1988

Documentary report which looks at the suitability of doctors' work practices to the needs of the modern National Health Service.

Jan 22, 1988

An investigation over sexual harassment at work, the women behind it and what had been done to justify as a court offense.

Feb 5, 1988

Interview with John Stalker who recently resigned as Deputy Chief Constable of Manchester. He was removed from an investigation of police and army tactics in Northern Ireland, and has now written a book about his experiences.

Feb 12, 1988

Tim Hodlin reports on Iran and it's current state.

Feb 19, 1988

Documentary report on US policies in the Pacific island of Palau and the seeking of an agreement with the islanders, despite their non-nuclear constitution, to bring nuclear weapons to the island.

Feb 26, 1988

Report on the US system of making the unemployed work for their benefits, called Workfare

Mar 4, 1988

A report on the Radioactive Substances Act, which permits over 7000 premises throughout Britain to handle radioactive material.

Mar 11, 1988

Investigation in to the influence of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), known as "The Lobby", in the United States.

Mar 18, 1988

Report into a number of case histories of alleged charity fraud, which leads to an examination of the loopholes in existing charity laws.

Mar 25, 1988

Documentary about how the big unions present themselves to potential new employers in contests to sign single-union deals.

Apr 8, 1988

A report on human rights in Cuba

Apr 15, 1988

Documentary report in which former members of the West German terrorist group, the Red Army Faction, talk about their pasts and their hopes for an amnesty which will let them back into society.

Apr 22, 1988

A look at cancer research, and the lack of evidence that there has been much progress over the last 50-60 years. Some researchers think that there is no cure in sight. Why is so little research done into cancer prevention?

May 6, 1988

The Freemasons have invited cameras into the Grand Lodge at Covent Garden for the first time.

May 13, 1988

May 20, 1988

The first documentary about a war that has been going on for 13 years in the Sahara Desert between Morocco and a rebel army known as the Polisario.

May 27, 1988

Documentary investigation into the nuclear capacity of NATO.

Jun 3, 1988

Documentary report about illegal gambling, worth £400-600 million annually. Hidden cameras are used in pubs and clubs from London to Liverpool.

Jun 10, 1988

Documentary about a model system in Coventry which has been set up to deal with child abuse, and which it is hoped will avoid most of the problems that occurred in Cleveland.

Jun 17, 1988

Documentary made by Nick Downie about the time he spent with the Philippine Communist guerrillas, the New People's Army.

Jun 24, 1988

Jul 1, 1988

Documentary filmed in the Bekaa valley about Lebanon's powerful drug clans.

Oct 5, 1988

Documentary report about the National Front, which will be 21 years old this year. They now work mostly underground as a subversive organization. Also reports on Roberto Fiore in Italy.

Oct 12, 1988

Port employers and the government want to scrap the Dock Labour Scheme, but there is great opposition amongst dockers.

Oct 19, 1988

Documentary report on the attitudes of Israelis and Palestinians to the future of the occupied territories. A look at the idea of forming two separate states, however, people on both sides are opposed to this.

Oct 26, 1988

Documentary report on the continued use of torture in Turkey, despite its desire to join the EEC, which bans such practices. Includes graphic personal accounts.

Nov 2, 1988

Documentary report about the measures taken by the United States to ensure that their high technology is not exported to the Soviet bloc.

Nov 9, 1988

Documentary examining the destruction of the landscape, and the rights and religion of the people of Tibet, which has been ruled by the Chinese for 40 years.

Nov 16, 1988

25 years after the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy, British Channel Four's Dispatches asks the following still unanswered questions: 1) Our evidence points to an inescapable conclusion - this casket is empty. The question is, why? 2) Lyndon B. Johnson - what did this man stand to gain from the death of President Kennedy? 3) Who was this man [at the scene]? 4) Why did all these witnesses have to die? 5) Why was Lee Harvey Oswald arrested so quickly? 6) Who set Jack Ruby up to kill Oswald? 7) Why was it necessary to alter Kennedy's body before the official autopsy in Washington? 8) Why did the Dallas doctors change their testimony the very next day? 9) Why was Kennedy's brain missing at the autopsy in Washington? 10) Why did the Warren commission deceive the world?

Nov 23, 1988

Documentary report on the Iraqi army's poison gas attacks on Kurdish villagers

Nov 30, 1988

Documentary investigation into the controversy surrounding the plan to build a new 6000 houses town, Stone Bassett, in rural Oxfordshire.

Dec 7, 1988

Documentary examination of the growth of "Countertrade" deals - compensatory agreements made between a government and a foreign company to offset the effects of placing an order overseas.

Dec 14, 1988

Documentary about the previously untold story of a 1945 massacre of Polish partisans by Russian troupes and pro-Russian Polish security forces.

Jan 4, 1989

Documentary report on the risks to the area if the Khmer Rouge regains power in Kampuchea.

Jan 11, 1989

Documentary report about the changes in the Soviet Union's psychiatric system caused by Gorbachev's policy of "glasnost".

Jan 18, 1989

Investigation of Thatcher government's alleged misuse of official statistics.

Jan 25, 1989

Documentary examining the continued significance for the USA and her allies, of John Walker, a US Navy Chief Warrant Officer and Soviet Spy.

Feb 1, 1989

Documentary investigation into high pressure shares salesmen. Exposes the 'bucket shops' where share dealers are cheating the small investor.

Feb 8, 1989

Documentary report abut the legal wrangle in Los Angeles involving G.D. Searle, manufacturers of a contraceptive coil which it was forced to withdraw from the American market.

Feb 15, 1989

A four month Afghan report from the eyes and mouth of Jeff Harmon and Alexander Lindsay.

Feb 22, 1989

Documentary on the legal debate surrounding a mother's wish to have sterilized her 35-year old daughter, who has a mental age of four.

Mar 1, 1989

Mar 8, 1989

Mar 15, 1989

Mar 22, 1989

Mar 29, 1989

Apr 5, 1989

A documentary about the Brazilian Chico Mendes, filmed over several years by Adrian Cowell, about the Brazilian campaigner against deforestation of the Amazon rainforest.

Apr 12, 1989

Apr 19, 1989

Four out of ten women had received an unwanted obscene phone call, but a police superintendent could not recall one individual being prosecuted for that offence in 23 years.

Apr 26, 1989

May 3, 1989

May 10, 1989

May 17, 1989

Featuring David Willetts of the Centre for Policy Studies, and a new White Paper on health

May 24, 1989

May 31, 1989

Jun 7, 1989

Jun 14, 1989

Jun 21, 1989

Jun 28, 1989

Jul 5, 1989

Oct 4, 1989

Oct 11, 1989

Oct 18, 1989

Oct 25, 1989

Nov 1, 1989

Nov 8, 1989

Nov 15, 1989

Nov 22, 1989

Documentary profile of the people of Hungary, whose country has been the centre of world attention in 1989 with the return of democratic elections.

Nov 29, 1989

Documentary report from Czechoslovakia on the recent political upheavals over the twelve days since Friday 17th November.

Dec 6, 1989

Dec 13, 1989

Dec 20, 1989

Jan 3, 1990

Jan 10, 1990

Jan 17, 1990

Jan 24, 1990

Jan 31, 1990

Feb 7, 1990

Feb 14, 1990

Feb 21, 1990

Feb 28, 1990

Mar 7, 1990

Mar 14, 1990

Mar 21, 1990

Mar 28, 1990

Apr 4, 1990

Over the years many political activists have been murdered in strange circumstances, but security denied that special 'hit squad' units were responsible. Then Captain Dirk Coetzee, ex-commander of one of these units, fled the country and told his story to the ANC, in extensive interviews Coetzee explains the functioning of the special units. The video also reconstructs attacks carried out against Zimbabwean anti-apartheid campaigners.

Apr 11, 1990

Apr 18, 1990

Apr 25, 1990

May 2, 1990

May 9, 1990

May 16, 1990

May 23, 1990

May 30, 1990

Jun 6, 1990

Jun 13, 1990

Jun 20, 1990

Jun 27, 1990

Sep 26, 1990

Oct 3, 1990

Oct 10, 1990

Oct 17, 1990

Oct 24, 1990

Oct 31, 1990

Nov 7, 1990

Nov 14, 1990

Nov 21, 1990

Nov 28, 1990

Dec 5, 1990

Dec 12, 1990

Dec 19, 1990

Jan 9, 1991

Jan 16, 1991

Jan 23, 1991

Jan 29, 1991

Jan 30, 1991

Feb 6, 1991

Feb 13, 1991

Feb 20, 1991

Feb 27, 1991

Mar 6, 1991

Mar 13, 1991

Mar 20, 1991

Mar 27, 1991

Apr 3, 1991

Apr 10, 1991

Apr 17, 1991

Apr 24, 1991

May 1, 1991

May 8, 1991

May 22, 1991

Director Ken Loach and reporter-producer Lorraine Heggessey defend miners' leader Arthur Scargill against allegations made by the Daily Mirror and ITV's The Cook Report (1987-98), including financial misconduct during the 1984-85 miners' strike.

May 29, 1991

Jun 5, 1991

Jun 12, 1991

Oct 2, 1991

Oct 9, 1991

Oct 16, 1991

Oct 23, 1991

Oct 30, 1991

Nov 6, 1991

Nov 13, 1991

Nov 20, 1991

Nov 27, 1991

Dec 4, 1991

Dec 11, 1991

Dec 18, 1991

Jan 8, 1992

Jan 15, 1992

Jan 22, 1992

Jan 29, 1992

Feb 5, 1992

Feb 12, 1992

Feb 19, 1992

Special investigation into Satanic ritual abuse.

Feb 26, 1992

An investigation into tactics used by the IRA to intimidate citizens of Northern Ireland.

Mar 4, 1992

Mar 11, 1992

Mar 18, 1992

Mar 25, 1992

Apr 1, 1992

Apr 8, 1992

Apr 15, 1992

Apr 22, 1992

Apr 29, 1992

May 6, 1992

May 13, 1992

May 20, 1992

May 27, 1992

Jun 3, 1992

Jun 10, 1992

Jun 17, 1992

Oct 14, 1992

Oct 21, 1992

Oct 28, 1992

Nov 4, 1992

Nov 11, 1992

Nov 18, 1992

Nov 25, 1992

Dec 2, 1992

Dec 9, 1992

Dec 16, 1992

Jan 6, 1993

Jan 13, 1993

Jan 20, 1993

Jan 27, 1993

Feb 3, 1993

Feb 10, 1993

Feb 17, 1993

Feb 24, 1993

Mar 10, 1993

Mar 17, 1993

Mar 24, 1993

Mar 31, 1993

Apr 7, 1993

Apr 14, 1993

Apr 21, 1993

Apr 28, 1993

May 5, 1993

May 12, 1993

May 19, 1993

May 26, 1993

Jun 2, 1993

Jun 9, 1993

Jun 16, 1993

Oct 6, 1993

Oct 13, 1993

Oct 20, 1993

Oct 27, 1993

Nov 3, 1993

Nov 10, 1993

Nov 17, 1993

Nov 24, 1993

Dec 1, 1993

Dec 8, 1993

Dec 15, 1993

Jan 5, 1994

Jan 12, 1994

Jan 19, 1994

Jan 26, 1994

Feb 2, 1994

Feb 9, 1994

Feb 9, 1994

Feb 16, 1994

Feb 23, 1994

Mar 2, 1994

Mar 16, 1994

Mar 23, 1994

Mar 23, 1994

Apr 6, 1994

Apr 13, 1994

Following last year's The Trail of Red Mercury (1993), Dispatches now presents new evidence of how Russian scientists have designed a new miniature neutron bomb using red mercury.

Apr 20, 1994

Apr 27, 1994

May 4, 1994

May 11, 1994

Follows the work of activists against child labour in the US, Russia, India, Egypt and Colombia.

May 18, 1994

May 19, 1994

May 25, 1994

Jun 1, 1994

Jun 8, 1994

Oct 12, 1994

An investigation into safety standards at football grounds and how they are being ignored in spite of the Taylor and Popplewell reports which were issued after the Hillsborough disaster and Bradford stadium fire. Our reporter uncovers through secret filming the many ways in which football clubs are still ignoring these safety regulations. Club chairman are confronted on camera with the evidence collected and are asked to justify their lack of concern.

Oct 16, 1994

Oct 19, 1994

With the increase of insurance claims, insurance companies are involved in a string of scams. This investigation reveals the desperate measures undertaken by insurers to cut their pay out bills. It shows the real-life scam brought on three innocent victims by the use of deceitful tricks and private eyes. The investigation provides 3 people caught in the insurers scams and attempts of interviewing the insurance companies.

Oct 26, 1994

Nov 2, 1994

Nov 9, 1994

Nov 16, 1994

Nov 23, 1994

Nov 30, 1994

Dec 7, 1994

Jan 11, 1995

Jan 18, 1995

Jan 25, 1995

Feb 8, 1995

Feb 15, 1995

Feb 22, 1995

Mar 8, 1995

Mar 15, 1995

Mar 22, 1995

Mar 29, 1995

Apr 5, 1995

May 3, 1995

May 10, 1995

May 17, 1995

May 24, 1995

May 31, 1995

Jun 7, 1995

Oct 11, 1995

Oct 18, 1995

Oct 25, 1995

Nov 1, 1995

Nov 8, 1995

Nov 22, 1995

Nov 29, 1995

An investigation into the alleged disreputable behaviour and secretly-recorded comments of Leicester East MP Keith Vaz suggests that Tony Blair's New Labour may not be such a new way of doing politics after all.

Dec 6, 1995

Dec 13, 1995

Jan 10, 1996

Every year up to two hundred and forty thousand old people suffer form crimes committed by children. Overwhelmingly these crimes take the form of harassment. The elderly are verbally abused, stoned in the street and have their windows smashed. Sometimes the harassment escalates into burglary or even murder. At least 12 old people have been killed by juveniles in the last 4 years. Dispatches contacted all of the main national agencies who care for the elderly and without exception they were all unaware of the extent of the problem. Old people all over Britain are suffering in silence afraid to leave their houses whilst children control the streets.

Jan 17, 1996

Jan 24, 1996

Jan 31, 1996

Feb 7, 1996

Feb 14, 1996

Feb 21, 1996

Feb 28, 1996

Mar 13, 1996

Mar 20, 1996

Mar 27, 1996

Apr 3, 1996

Apr 10, 1996

Apr 17, 1996

Apr 24, 1996

May 1, 1996

May 8, 1996

May 15, 1996

May 22, 1996

May 29, 1996

The program explores the extent to which United Nations officials and commanders in Bosnia put the safety of their troops ahead of their responsibility to the civilians in Srebrenica. Although Srebrenica was designated as a United Nations safe haven, the Serbian forces apparently massacred Bosnian Muslims after they captured the city in July, 1995.

Jun 12, 1996

Jun 19, 1996

Oct 17, 1996

Oct 24, 1996

Oct 31, 1996

Nov 7, 1996

Nov 14, 1996

Nov 21, 1996

Dec 5, 1996

Dec 12, 1996

Jan 9, 1997

Jan 16, 1997

Jan 23, 1997

Jan 30, 1997

Feb 6, 1997

Feb 13, 1997

Feb 20, 1997

Feb 27, 1997

Mar 6, 1997

Mar 13, 1997

Mar 20, 1997

Racism in the British Army.

Mar 27, 1997

Apr 3, 1997

May 8, 1997

May 15, 1997

May 22, 1997

Jun 12, 1997

Nov 6, 1997

Nov 13, 1997

Nov 20, 1997

Nov 27, 1997

Dec 4, 1997

Dec 11, 1997

Dec 18, 1997

Jan 15, 1998

Jan 22, 1998

Jan 29, 1998

Feb 5, 1998

Feb 23, 1998

Mar 5, 1998

Journalist David Jessel and producer Steve Haywood from the acclaimed Trial and Error (1992) come to Dispatches to examine doubts about the safety of the conviction of nanny Louise Woodward for the death of a baby in her care.

Mar 12, 1998

Mar 19, 1998

Mar 26, 1998

GLF is police jargon for "Go Like F***". But does such light-hearted jocularity betray a lack of serious regard for the potential dangers to the public of cops' ability to break the rules of the road when performing high-speed pursuits?

Apr 2, 1998

Apr 9, 1998

Journalists uncover the bloody truth of the world's most successful private army, Executive Outcomes. Sent wherever mineral resources like diamonds or oil promise wealth, these mercenaries, trained as soldiers in apartheid-era South Africa and equipped with state-of-the-art weapons of war, sell their security services to the highest bidder and frequently leave a trail of destruction in their wake. And British interests are behind it all.

Apr 16, 1998

Apr 23, 1998

Apr 30, 1998

May 21, 1998

May 28, 1998

Jun 4, 1998

Documentary investigating the death of Diana Princess of Wales and Dodi Fayed.

Jun 7, 1998

Oct 29, 1998

Oct 30, 1998

Nov 5, 1998

Nov 12, 1998

Nov 19, 1998

Nov 20, 1998

Nov 26, 1998

Dec 3, 1998

Dec 10, 1998

Dec 17, 1998

Jan 7, 1999

Jan 14, 1999

Jan 21, 1999

Jan 28, 1999

Feb 4, 1999

Feb 11, 1999

Feb 25, 1999

Mar 11, 1999

Mar 18, 1999

The revelation that police and criminals are playing a mutually beneficial game, in which the latter admit to crimes they have not committed so the former can then show falsely improved crime figures.

Mar 25, 1999

Apr 1, 1999

Apr 8, 1999

Apr 15, 1999

Apr 22, 1999

Apr 29, 1999

May 6, 1999

May 13, 1999

May 20, 1999

May 27, 1999

Aug 9, 1999

Oct 28, 1999

Nov 4, 1999

Nov 11, 1999

Nov 18, 1999

Nov 25, 1999

Dec 2, 1999

Dec 9, 1999

Feb 3, 2000

Feb 10, 2000

Feb 17, 2000

Feb 24, 2000

Mar 2, 2000

Mar 9, 2000

Investigation of alleged war crimes in Chechnya on the eve of Russian elections.

Mar 16, 2000

Mar 23, 2000

Mar 30, 2000

Apr 6, 2000

Apr 13, 2000

Apr 20, 2000

Apr 20, 2000

Apr 27, 2000

Oct 12, 2000

Oct 19, 2000

Oct 26, 2000

Nov 2, 2000

Nov 16, 2000

In Britain and America, there have been many incidents of Ford cars suddenly accelerating, causing serious injuries and even deaths. However, Ford deny all responsibility, and say that the accidents are caused by driver error.

Nov 23, 2000

Feb 3, 2001

'Bloody Foreigners' is Andrew Smith's investigation into the British attitude towards asylum seekers and immigrants who live and work in the UK. It exposes the culture of hypocrisy under which xenophobia proliferates to such an extreme that asylum seekers are physically and verbally abused on a daily basis. It underlines the fact that these very people are working illegally for well under minimum wage, to line the pockets of seemingly legitimate British businesses. Part one reveals the scam behind a government-funded housing project in Liverpool. The owner receives millions from the council for ostensibly offering accommodation to asylum seekers. Yet the blocks of flats are in a shocking state of disrepair, conditions are freezing - not to mention the treatment the occupants receive from the locals. Secret camera footage shows the assault and harassment of inhabitants, regularly inflicted by neighbouring youths.

Feb 10, 2001

Part two deals with illegal workers who are employed by apparently respectable companies as waitresses, cleaners, and builders, to name but a few, without any legal documents or insurance, and paid as little a £20 for a long day. The final section uses hidden cameras to show the trade in forged passports which is rife in Finsbury Park Mosque, north London.

Jun 1, 2001

Jun 12, 2001

The documentary covers the outcry from the population after hearing about the release of the two boys who killed 2 year-old James Bulger in 1993. Presenting the protests against their release from an institution, the film also gives a background about the killers, their terrible violent act and the impact it caused in UK.

Jun 26, 2001

British journalist Saira Shah travels to Afghanistan with a camera crew to document the realities of life under the Taliban. Filmed just months prior to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the footage reveals the chilling brutality of a fledgling government made up of radicalized followers of Osama bin Laden.

Jul 3, 2001

A critical look at the handling of the Foot-and-mouth outbreak from February 2001 until June 2001.

Nov 1, 2001

Nov 11, 2001

Reporter Saira Shah returns to Afghanistan in the aftermath of the September 11th terrorists attacks. She reunites with three Afghan girls who were forced to watch as her mother was executed by Taliban soldiers. She also tours Northern Alliance fortifications and profiles an aid worker from the United States.

Nov 14, 2001

Dec 2, 2001

Mar 6, 2002

Mar 13, 2002

May 26, 2002

Jun 9, 2002

Jul 6, 2002

Sep 8, 2002

Sep 16, 2002

Nov 4, 2002

Nov 10, 2002

One year on from when she secretly entered Afghanistan to film her original tv special "Beneath the Veil" (2001) (TV) Saira Shah re-visits and investigates the story of a woman whose public execution had been secretly filmed in the first film and to see if women's situation had improved after the fall of the Taliban

Nov 17, 2002

May 11, 2003

May 18, 2003

Dispatches revisits the Gaza Strip to focus on civilians caught in the crossfire of never-ending battles. We meet seriously injured children and their distraught families, and the International Solidarity Movement whose member Tom Hurndall is shot. Then it hits even closer to home, when previous Dispatches director and cameraman James Miller is shot dead while he and Saira Shah are making another of their films together.

Jun 1, 2003

Jun 2, 2003

With unprecedented access, award winning filmmaker Dodge Billingsley tells the story of India Company 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine regiment, crack U.S. frontline troops in Iraq. With some as young as 19, the invasion of Iraq was the first time any of them had actually been sent into combat. Experience a day in the life of these young men as they play a vital role in the liberation of Iraq. With remarkable battle footage, Virgin Soldiers reveals the true story of men who fought their way into the heart of Baghdad.

Jun 8, 2003

Jun 15, 2003

Jun 22, 2003

Aug 10, 2003

Aug 17, 2003

Dec 18, 2003

Apr 5, 2004

Apr 29, 2004

May 6, 2004

May 13, 2004

Sep 13, 2004

Sep 20, 2004

Nov 18, 2004

Nov 25, 2004

Dec 2, 2004

Dec 9, 2004

Jan 24, 2005

Jan 31, 2005

Feb 7, 2005

Feb 21, 2005

Feb 28, 2005

Mar 3, 2005

May 23, 2005

Jun 27, 2005

Jul 7, 2005

Jul 11, 2005

Jul 14, 2005

Jul 18, 2005

Jul 21, 2005

The school siege at Beslan on September 1st, 2004 left 334 dead and a small town in shock, having to come to terms with the loss of so many of its people.

Jul 25, 2005

Jul 28, 2005

Aug 1, 2005

Aug 8, 2005

Sep 8, 2005

Sep 19, 2005

Sep 22, 2005

Just before Christmas 2004, two men dressed as police officers arrive at a remote home and, after tricking their way inside the house they take the family hostage. Meanwhile at another house a second family is taken hostage. The reason for both movements was to gain control over two key employees of the Northern Bank in Belfast. The next day, while the families are still held, the employees are used to carry over £26,000,000 in cash out of the bank in broad daylight. This documentary looks at who did the robbery and how the failings of the British government contributed to the freedom of the robbers to act.

Oct 17, 2005

Oct 24, 2005

Oct 31, 2005

Nov 7, 2005

Nov 21, 2005

Nov 22, 2005

Nov 23, 2005

Dec 20, 2005

Feb 13, 2006

A behind-the-scenes look at low budget airline Ryanair. Uncovering security and health and safety breaches, uncleaned aircraft and long staff working hours.

Feb 20, 2006

Feb 27, 2006

Mar 6, 2006

Mar 20, 2006

Mar 27, 2006

Apr 3, 2006

Two groups of high school kids, one from England and one from Ireland set up shop as online arms dealers and broker various deals, shipping arms from the far east to homes in America.

Apr 6, 2006

Apr 20, 2006

Apr 26, 2006

May 8, 2006

An anonymous woman who is not a journalist blends in with the women of Iraq to find out what life is really like for them.

May 15, 2006

Following Animal Liberation activists.

May 22, 2006

Aug 7, 2006

Aug 14, 2006

Aug 21, 2006

Sep 4, 2006

Sep 25, 2006

An investigation into the secret world of the funding of the Labour Party.

Sep 28, 2006

Oct 1, 2006

Oct 5, 2006

Oct 9, 2006

Oct 12, 2006

Nov 6, 2006

Videos of suicide bombers and insurgent attacks have become an important weapon for Al Qaeda. But who watches these videos and what effect are they having on young people in the Muslim world?

Nov 13, 2006

Nov 13, 2006

How does the care you receive at your local hospital compare with the rest of the UK? Jon Snow reveals the true scale of the NHS postcode lottery, which is denying some patients vital drugs while others receive the same treatment elsewhere

Jan 8, 2007

Jan 11, 2007

Jan 15, 2007

Investigative journalist, Bobby Pathak, has investigated a number of mosques run by high profile national organisations that claim to be dedicated to moderation and dialogue with other faiths. But reporting undercover he joined worshippers to find a message of religious bigotry and extremism being preached. The investigation reveals Saudi Arabian universities are recruiting young Western Muslims to train them in their extreme theology, then sending them back to the West to spread the word.

Jan 22, 2007

Jan 29, 2007

Feb 5, 2007

Feb 19, 2007

Feb 26, 2007

Mar 5, 2007

The government is set to achieve only a third to a half of its overall policy target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. Dispatches reports. The expert-reviewed audit by the UCL Environment Institute is the first comprehensive investigation into the real impact of the Government's carbon-cutting policies across all government departments mandated with reducing greenhouse gas emissions

Mar 12, 2007

Mar 19, 2007

Mar 26, 2007

Apr 2, 2007

Apr 16, 2007

Apr 23, 2007

Apr 30, 2007

May 14, 2007

May 17, 2007

May 24, 2007

Jun 11, 2007

Jun 18, 2007

Based on medical research and personal findings Dispatches investigates the effects binge drinking can have on a consumer's health and whether low-priced (supermarket bought) alcohol is one of the causes for an increase in alcohol consumption.

Jun 25, 2007

Jul 9, 2007

Jul 16, 2007

Jul 23, 2007

Tazeen Ahmad investigates the overstretched maternity services which are resulting in new mothers having traumatic births and at worst, putting lives at risk.

Jul 30, 2007

Aug 6, 2007

Sep 10, 2007

Sep 17, 2007

Sep 24, 2007

Political journalist Peter Oborne examines how politicians and MPs use their power to gain financial benefits.

Oct 1, 2007

Looks at the beneficial social and economical contributions made by different immigrant groups, drawing on research done by the Institute for Public Policy Research. Contrasts this with the perception of immigrants and political and media issues.

Oct 8, 2007

Ten years after the policy-changing and award-winning film, The Dying Rooms, the same team returns to a very different China where the infamous One Child Policy has had the horrific side effect of a boom in stolen children. With extraordinary access to devastated parents desperately searching for their stolen son; a man who brokers the deals and has sold his own offspring; and prospective parents grappling with giving up their soon-to-be-born daughter through lack of options, we are brought face to face with the crisis that such a stringent government policy has created among China's poorest people

Oct 17, 2007

An investigation into abortion; focusing on how new scientific research on foetal pain could cause for a change to current abortion laws.

Oct 18, 2007

After the disappearance of child, Madeline McCann 168 days ago; Dispatches sent a team of five of the UK's best-qualified criminal investigators to Praia da Luz to investigate and assess the situation.

Oct 22, 2007

Oct 29, 2007

Nov 5, 2007

Nov 12, 2007

Nov 19, 2007

Comedian and activist Mark Thomas reports on how Coca-Cola has caused problems in the world with pollution, worker exploitation and even death. The documentary also reports on how Coca-Cola respond to these allegations.

Dec 3, 2007

Dec 10, 2007

Dec 17, 2007

Deborah Davies reports on potentially dangerous toys that can be bought in the UK. These toys are then safety tested and the findings reported to authorities

Jan 10, 2008

Jan 17, 2008

Jan 21, 2008

With just months to go before Londoners vote for the next Mayor of London, the current affairs series investigates the current mayoral system and takes an in depth look at current Mayor, Ken Livingstone and the how he has misused his power to his advantage.

Jan 28, 2008

A report on the increase of gang culture and murder that teenagers participate in the UK.

Feb 5, 2008

Feb 11, 2008

Feb 18, 2008

Feb 25, 2008

Mar 16, 2008

Filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy investigates the biggest and most catastrophic refugee crisis in the Middle East since the Palestinian diaspora of 1948.

Mar 17, 2008

Mar 18, 2008

Mar 31, 2008

Reveals the regime of terror which dominates daily life and makes freedom of expression an impossibility.

Apr 7, 2008

Apr 14, 2008