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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.
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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.
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Reporter - Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Pakistan's Taliban Generation: Reporter Feature
Thursday 12 March 2009
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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.
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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.
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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.
