Panorama - Season 65 / Year 2019
Season 65 / Year 2019
Episodes
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.
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.
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?
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.
Trans Kids: Why Medicine Matters
Dr Faye Kirkland investigates how much we understand about the care offered to transgender children.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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?
No-Deal Brexit: Are We Ready?
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.
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.
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.
America's Abortion War
Boeing's Killer Planes
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.
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.
Inside the School Cuts Crisis
As schools reopen their doors this week, Panorama asks if we have reached a crisis point in education funding.
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.
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.
The Khashoggi Murder Tapes
Secrets of the Seduction Bootcamp
Climate Change:What Can We Do?
Can You Trust the Billion Pound Investors?
Following the Drug Money
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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