Dispatches

Reporter - Will Hutton

Crash: Making the Films

Monday 20 April 2009

I've been writing and broadcasting about the credit crunch ever since it first broke in September 2007 - the fateful weekend we watched the first bank run since the nineteenth century. I thought I had a pretty good grip about what had happened and why. But making these two Dispatches films was the first time I'd had the opportunity to stand back and look back at the last 20 months as a whole - and talk both on and off the record to many of the people involved. It was highly revealing.

Reporter - Heather Brooke

The Westminster Gravy Train

Thursday 16 April 2009

The Palace of Westminster is meant to be the mother of all Parliaments. It is lauded as a beacon of democracy. Dispatches set out to examine the state of our primary political institution: how democratic is it and how accountable are MPs and Lords to the citizens they are meant to represent.

Afghanistan: Video Interviews

Wednesday 08 April 2009

Watch extended video interviews with the key British military personnel featured in Afghanistan: Mission Impossible?

Reporter - Stephen Grey

The Making of Mission Impossible?

Thursday 02 April 2009

I got my first taste of the war in Helmand nearly 18 months back when I joined a group of British soldiers on a mission to recapture the then Taliban stronghold of Musa Qala.

The Trouble with Boris: Darius Guppy Phone Call

Monday 30 March 2009

In 1990, Boris Johnson received an infamous phone call from his friend from Eton and Oxford, Darius Guppy. Dispatches has acquired a recording of the conversation, which until now has never been broadcast. It is a recording that suggests Boris was not only willing to break the rules - but even to break the law.

Reporter - Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Pakistan's Taliban Generation

Thursday 12 March 2009

Three hours' drive north of Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, the flat highway gives way to the windy roads that weave through the Hindu Kush mountains. At the mouth of the Swat valley lies the town of Qambar. A desolate unmanned police station is the only sign that the government's writ was once established here.