Dispatches

The True Cost of Cheap Food: Research

Thursday 22 January 2009

Dispatches commissioned John Thanassoulis, lecturer in economics at Oxford University, to conduct new research into how UK supermarkets operate and make profits.

Reporter - Fiona Phillips

Mum, Dad, Alzheimer's and Me: My Story

Monday 12 January 2009

A few weeks ago, my dad was found by police wandering around Portsmouth in the middle of the night, in the freezing cold, unable to remember his home address.

Reporter - Deborah Davies

Iraq's Death Squads

Friday 19 January 2007

Standing in a large family house in the Hurriya district of Baghdad a little boy, no more than ten years old, with huge round eyes silently points out the bullet holes in each of the bedrooms. He goes from room to room, pointing out the marks in the wardrobe door, in the bed-frame, in the wall - he knows where they all are. It's the kind of knowledge no child should be burdened with.

Reporter - Evan Williams

Inside Burma's Secret War

Monday 02 October 2006

'Shhhh - everyone down and quiet,' came the whispered order of my translator. I was on a track in an open piece of tropical forest with dozens of guerrilla fighters from the Karen National Union. Enemy troops from Burma's government army were just ahead of us... close enough I was told to hear their footsteps on the dirt road where they were patrolling less than fifty metres away.