Panorama - Season 65 / Year 2019

Panorama - Season 65 / Year 2019

Season 65 / Year 2019

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DatesJan 14, 2019 - Dec 16, 2019
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Episodes

Takeaway Secrets Exposed
Year 2019Episode 130 min

Takeaway Secrets Exposed

Reporter Tina Daheley lifts the lid on the secrets of the takeaway industry, investigating how planning laws are being subverted and food safety legislation flouted by producers.

Jan 14, 2019
Killed in Hospital
Year 2019Episode 230 min

Killed in Hospital

Richard Bilton looks into what was going on at Gosport War Memorial Hospital following an official inquiry which found that more than 450 patients had their lives cut short there.

Jan 21, 2019
Brexit: Who's in Charge?
Year 2019Episode 330 min

Brexit: Who's in Charge?

Adrian Chiles follows MPs through a historic fortnight in Westminster to find out who is in charge - and are they putting party politics before the best interests of the country?

Feb 4, 2019
Million Pound Selfie Sell-Off
Year 2019Episode 430 min

Million Pound Selfie Sell-Off

How many followers do you have? The rise of social media has brought with it a new kind of celebrity, the digital influencer. These megastars of Instagram and YouTube have upended the advertising industry by converting their virtual followers into real-world currency.

Big-name brands have flocked to online stars, paying them millions to endorse their products, but the market has been criticised as being a 'Wild West' of misleading and unregulated advertising, plugging everything from bogus diet drinks to online gambling to young audiences.

Panorama reporter Catrin Nye investigates whether companies are being up front and the impact this new form of advertising is having on consumers.

Feb 11, 2019
Trans Kids: Why Medicine Matters
Year 2019Episode 530 min

Trans Kids: Why Medicine Matters

Dr Faye Kirkland investigates how much we understand about the care offered to transgender children.

Feb 25, 2019
These Pills May Kill You
Year 2019Episode 630 min

These Pills May Kill You

Chris Clements reveals stories from one rural community where lives have been devastated by the growing abuse of prescription pills bought illicitly online.

Mar 4, 2019
Britain's Most Controversial Landlord
Year 2019Episode 730 min

Britain's Most Controversial Landlord

Richard Bilton meets the landlord who is evicting 90 families because he wants to cash-in on his property empire, and finds out what life is like for the families facing eviction.

Mar 18, 2019
The Academy Schools Scandal
Year 2019Episode 830 min

The Academy Schools Scandal

Panorama reveals the way some academy trusts are running schools. Exposing the trust where the boss employed relatives and where pupils say they were taught how to cheat in exams.

Mar 25, 2019
Can We Trust Huawei?
Year 2019Episode 930 min

Can We Trust Huawei?

They're one of the biggest and most powerful technology companies in the world, but can we trust the Chinese telecoms giant Huawei? They have the equipment to run the next generation telecoms network - which will power everything from the superfast phones to smart homes and driverless cars - but as we come more reliant on this type of technology, concerns have grown about Huawei allowing this network to be used to spy on us and even shutting the country down. As the government prepares to make the decision about who will build the network in the UK, Spencer Kelly investigates one of the most important and controversial companies in the world.

Apr 8, 2019
The Gatwick Drone Attack
Year 2019Episode 1030 min

The Gatwick Drone Attack

With the most detailed account so far of the three days of disruption and the first in-depth interview with Gatwick since the attack, Justin Rowlatt asks what really happened. Why has no-one been caught? Was there a drone at all? And what needs to be done to protect our skies?

Apr 15, 2019
Scandal in the Church of England
Year 2019Episode 1130 min

Scandal in the Church of England

In-depth investigation by the Panorama team into claims that historic abuse was not investigated properly by the Diocese of Lincoln or the wider Church of England.

Apr 29, 2019
GPs: Why Can't I Get an Appointment?
Year 2019Episode 1230 min

GPs: Why Can't I Get an Appointment?

A report on the crisis facing patients and medical staff due to a shortage of doctors across Britain, which many GPs feel is putting lives at risk.

May 8, 2019
The Iraqi Orphan: 30 Lost Years
Year 2019Episode 1330 min

The Iraqi Orphan: 30 Lost Years

Amar, a victim of napalm attacks by Saddam Hussein's forces in 1991, returns to Iraq for the first time in 30 years to try to find his family.

May 13, 2019
Salmon Farming Exposed
Year 2019Episode 1430 min

Salmon Farming Exposed

Reporter Lucy Adams investigates the ú600million industry producing the UK's biggest food export and the country's favourite fish, and asks whether salmon farming is sustainable.

May 20, 2019
Undercover Hospital Abuse Scandal
Year 2019Episode 1560 min

Undercover Hospital Abuse Scandal

Panorama goes undercover inside a hospital for vulnerable adults and reveals patients being mocked, taunted and intimidated by abusive staff. Olivia Davies reports.

May 22, 2019
Crisis in Care, Part One: Who Cares?
Year 2019Episode 1660 min

Crisis in Care, Part One: Who Cares?

Panorama reveals the failings of our social care system, as our population gets older and more of us need help with day to day living. In the first of a two part series, the BBC's social affairs correspondent Alison Holt has filmed in Somerset for a year, focusing on four families, all exhausted by the demands of caring 24 hours a day for their loved ones, and desperately trying to get more help. She also follows the fortunes of the county council who, like local authorities everywhere, are fighting to balance their books after years of budget cuts.

May 29, 2019
The $10 Billion Energy Scandal
Year 2019Episode 1730 min

The $10 Billion Energy Scandal

Reporter Mayeni Jones investigates a suspicious energy deal involving secret payments made by a controversial businessman to the family of a senior politician.

Jun 3, 2019
Crisis in Care, Part Two: Who Pays?
Year 2019Episode 1860 min

Crisis in Care, Part Two: Who Pays?

In the second of a two part series on the social care crisis, Panorama exposes a chaotic system on the brink of crisis. With more and more care homes closing, and a national shortage of carers, social affairs correspondent Alison Holt meets vulnerable people threatened with selling their homes to pay for their care, and their families battling the funding system. She tells the devastating stories of elderly people with no-one for fight for them and asks why successive governments have failed to reform a system experienced by so many as unfair, confusing and sometimes cruel.

Jun 5, 2019
Britain's Drink Problem
Year 2019Episode 1930 min

Britain's Drink Problem

With alcohol-related deaths on the rise, Adrian Chiles investigates what we know about the dangers of drinking, and why the alcohol industry isn't telling us more.

Jun 10, 2019
Easy Money, Tough Debt?
Year 2019Episode 2030 min

Easy Money, Tough Debt?

Where are people on low incomes turning to in the wake of the collapse of the payday lender Wonga? Fiona Phillips investigates some of the lenders who seem to have stepped into the breach, asking why the cap on payday loans that marked the beginning of the end for Wonga doesn't apply to other types of lending and whether it is still too easy to get what ends up being expensive credit?

Jun 17, 2019
The Race for Number 10
Year 2019Episode 2130 min

The Race for Number 10

After a bruising round of campaigning and vote-offs, there are just two candidates left standing in the race to be the next prime minister. But as they prepare for the final push, the BBC's deputy political editor John Pienaar asks – is either of them capable of ending Britain's Brexit battles?

Jun 24, 2019
No-Deal Brexit: Are We Ready?
Year 2019Episode 2230 min

No-Deal Brexit: Are We Ready?

Jul 8, 2019
Is Labour Anti-Semitic?
Year 2019Episode 2360 min

Is Labour Anti-Semitic?

Panorama goes inside the anti-Semitism crisis gripping Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party. With exclusive interviews from key insiders and access to confidential communications and documents, this is the story of how the issue developed. Reporter John Ware reveals the evasions and contradictions at the heart of the political party, which leader Jeremy Corbyn says has anti-racism at its very core.

Jul 10, 2019
Sex Education: The LGBT Debate in Schools
Year 2019Episode 2430 min

Sex Education: The LGBT Debate in Schools

Sima Kotecha meets parents and campaigners from Islamic and other faith communities protesting against their children being taught about LGBT relationships at school.

Jul 15, 2019
Britain's Brexit Crisis
Year 2019Episode 2560 min

Britain's Brexit Crisis

For the first time, politicians and negotiators on both sides of the channel tell the story of the key events that made Theresa May postpone Brexit and forced her from office.

Jul 18, 2019
America's Abortion War
Year 2019Episode 2630 min

America's Abortion War

Jul 22, 2019
Boeing's Killer Planes
Year 2019Episode 2730 min

Boeing's Killer Planes

Jul 29, 2019
Stacey Meets the IS Brides
Year 2019Episode 2830 min

Stacey Meets the IS Brides

Stacey Dooley travels to Kurdish-controlled northern Syria to holding camps where she meets western women who left their countries to join the so-called Islamic State.

Aug 5, 2019
Addicted to Gambling
Year 2019Episode 2930 min

Addicted to Gambling

Britain's betting industry is booming, with the amount people gamble having almost doubled in a decade and company profits soaring to ú14.5 billion. But are the bookies doing enough to protect problem gamblers? Reporter Bronagh Munro investigates an industry where complaints are rising even more quickly than profits, meeting one person who gambled away more than ú3 million, and families who have lost their children to addiction.

Aug 12, 2019
Inside the School Cuts Crisis
Year 2019Episode 3030 min

Inside the School Cuts Crisis

As schools reopen their doors this week, Panorama asks if we have reached a crisis point in education funding.

Sep 2, 2019
The Hunt for Britain's Slave Gangs
Year 2019Episode 3160 min

The Hunt for Britain's Slave Gangs

This Panorama special follows West Midlands Police as they bring down the biggest human slavery operation that has ever been caught in the UK.

Sep 5, 2019
Knives in the Classroom
Year 2019Episode 3230 min

Knives in the Classroom

Growing numbers of young people are carrying knives and becoming victims of knife crime, while doctors report that the injuries from knives they are treating in hospital are becoming more severe and the victims getting younger. In this programme, Channell Wallace, whose own brother was stabbed to death, meets young people growing up in communities where carrying a knife is normal, sees how violence from knife crime is turning lives upside down and spends time in a school and college to see the impact of knives on the classroom.

Sep 9, 2019
The Khashoggi Murder Tapes
Year 2019Episode 3330 min

The Khashoggi Murder Tapes

Sep 30, 2019
Secrets of the Seduction Bootcamp
Year 2019Episode 3430 min

Secrets of the Seduction Bootcamp

Oct 7, 2019
Climate Change:What Can We Do?
Year 2019Episode 3530 min

Climate Change:What Can We Do?

Oct 14, 2019
Can You Trust the Billion Pound Investors?
Year 2019Episode 3630 min

Can You Trust the Billion Pound Investors?

Oct 21, 2019
Following the Drug Money
Year 2019Episode 3730 min

Following the Drug Money

Oct 28, 2019
David Dimbleby: How Brexits Changed Britain
Year 2019Episode 3860 min

David Dimbleby: How Brexits Changed Britain

David Dimbleby travels across the UK in the lead up to the 2019 general election to reveal why it is going to be one of the most unpredictable elections in recent history. David finds a United Kingdom divided, and discovers people's views on Brexit have largely hardened, while party allegiances have weakened, and fury with politicians is rarely far from the surface.

Nov 6, 2019
Can Flying Go Green?
Year 2019Episode 3930 min

Can Flying Go Green?

Justin Rowlatt investigates the aviation industry's plans to reduce carbon emissions and help save the planet, asking whether it is promising more than it is delivering. With cheap flights leading to a boom in passenger numbers, he hears claims that the industry is putting growth and profits before the environment.

Nov 11, 2019
War Crimes Scandal Exposed
Year 2019Episode 4060 min

War Crimes Scandal Exposed

The government announced the closure of investigations into alleged war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan before a single soldier was prosecuted. Has there been a cover-up in the British military?

Nov 18, 2019
How to Brainwash a Million People
Year 2019Episode 4130 min

How to Brainwash a Million People

Panorama reveals how China runs its re-education camps, where more than a million people have been locked up in one of the biggest mass detentions in modern history.

Nov 25, 2019
The Prince and the Epstein Scandal
Year 2019Episode 4260 min

The Prince and the Epstein Scandal

As Prince Andrew steps back from his public duties, Panorama hears from the victims of his former friend and convicted child sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein.

Dec 2, 2019
Universal Credit: One Year On
Year 2019Episode 4330 min

Universal Credit: One Year On

Reporter Catrin Nye returns to Wales to find out if the roll-out of Universal Credit is still causing difficulties for vulnerable claimants.

Dec 9, 2019
Conned by My Church
Year 2019Episode 4430 min

Conned by My Church

Greg McKenzie investigates accusations of financial irregularities against the Salvation Proclaimers Anointed Church, a charity dedicated to tackling gang violence and crime.

Dec 16, 2019

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