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First broadcast: Thursday 23 February, 9PM on Channel 4
Fans queuing for hours to buy tickets get turned away empty handed while tickets for the same 'sold out' events appear online shortly afterwards, sometimes at astronomical prices.
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First broadcast: Monday 13 February, 8PM on Channel 4
We've spent £9 billion paying for the London 2012 Olympics. The organisers say London 2012 will be an accessible and affordable Games, leaving a lasting sporting legacy. But 1.8 million British people applied for tickets in the public ballot - over a million applied for the 100 metres final alone - and the vast majority were disappointed.
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First broadcast: Monday 05 December 2011, 8.30PM on Channel 4
As the numbers of homeless rise, Dispatches goes undercover in the property rental market again to find out what really happens when you're without a roof over your ahead and desperate.
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First broadcast: Monday 07 November 2011, 10.30PM on Channel 4
Research suggests that thousands of children are potentially being sexually exploited by street grooming gangs. This may only be the tip of the iceberg, as experts believe many crimes of this nature go unreported.
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First broadcast: Monday 10 October 2011, 8PM on Channel 4
Dispatches lifts the lid on Britain's bins and asks what the plan is to tackle the country's growing rubbish problem.
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First broadcast: Monday 03 October 2011, 8PM on Channel 4
GPs are among the most trusted and respected of all professions. They are our first port of call for most NHS treatment with 800,000 people visiting surgeries every day. But Dispatches reveals that failing doctors routinely slip through the system.
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First broadcast: Monday 26 September 2011, 8PM on Channel 4
Since resigning in June 2007, Tony Blair has financially enriched himself more than any previous ex-prime minister. Reporter Peter Oborne reveals some of the sources of his new-found wealth, much of which comes from the Middle East.
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First broadcast: Monday 19 September 2011, 8PM on Channel 4
In a film broadcast on the day that the mass eviction was due to start on Dale Farm, Britain's largest traveller site, Dispatches reporter Deborah Davies investigates the controversial relations between gypsies and travellers, their neighbours and the law.
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First broadcast: Monday 12 September 2011, 8PM on Channel 4
Dispatches investigates the use of both recreational and performance-enhancing substances in our national game.
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First broadcast: Monday 25 July 2011, 8PM on Channel 4
Dispatches investigates the world of the Rupert Murdoch and the influence and political power he holds in the UK.
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First broadcast: Monday 18 July 2011, 8PM on Channel 4
With a Select Committee looking into the state of football and growing calls for reform, an undercover investigation by Dispatches finds out who wants to own the beautiful game and reveals how ex players and foreign businessmen are prepared to circumvent the rules, to cash in on a sport that's in financial freefall.
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First broadcast: Monday 11 July 2011, 8PM on Channel 4
What happened to Anni Dewani while on honeymoon in South Africa in November 2010? Why did the life of this young woman, married only a few weeks earlier to Bristol businessman Shrien Dewani, come to such a brutal end in one of South Africa's roughest townships?
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First broadcast: Monday 04 July 2011, 12AM on Channel 4
In this undercover investigation, Jon Snow reports on the return of the slum landlord in 21st-century Britain. At a time when more people than ever are having to rent privately, unable to get on the property ladder, Dispatches reveals the shocking conditions in which tenants are forced to live.
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First broadcast: Monday 27 June 2011, 12AM on Channel 4
Dispatches challenges the British gold jewellery industry to come clean about where the gold in their jewellery comes from. Businesswoman Deirdre Bounds, who ran a successful ethical travel company, reveals what's wrong with the industry and goes on the road to present her unique take on how things could be done very differently.
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First broadcast: Monday 20 June 2011, 12AM on Channel 4
Dispatches reporter Oliver Steeds travels the globe to investigate the conservation movement and its major organisations. Steeds finds that the movement, far from stemming the tide of extinction that's engulfing the planet, has got some of its conservation priorities wrong.
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First broadcast: Monday 13 June 2011, 8PM on Channel 4
For generations criminal justice policy has been predicated on the belief that chasing criminals and locking them up is key to reducing crime. The truth is that for years the police have been repeatedly arresting the same relatively small group of criminals who continue to commit robbery, burglary, theft and other crimes that affect us.
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First broadcast: Monday 06 June 2011, 12AM on Channel 4
The strike that killed Osama bin Laden provided a glimpse of the vast and often secret campaign by US special forces and troops to kill thousands of Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters. They call it 'precision targeting'; their critics say it's assassination.
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First broadcast: Monday 23 May 2011, 12AM on Channel 4
As the government's cuts to the NHS start to bite, Sam Lister, The Times' Health Editor, investigates dentistry, going undercover to reveal how some dentists are misleading patients about their rights to NHS treatment.
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First broadcast: Monday 16 May 2011, 12AM on Channel 4
Dispatches - in a joint investigation with the BMJ - explores what's implanted into our bodies. Almost 40 million of us come into contact with a medical device every day. That includes everything from a basic sticking plaster to hi-tech coils implanted into the arteries leading to the heart. The medical device industry is worth over £200 billion a year. Dispatches investigates whether in the drive for innovation, patient safety can come second. The programme reveals that although these medical devices save thousands of lives every day, there are questions from patients and doctors about the amount of testing that these products go through before they go on general sale.
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First broadcast: Monday 09 May 2011, 8PM on Channel 4
In May 2010 David Cameron and Nick Clegg announced they were forming the first coalition since the National Government during World War II. One year on, Andrew Rawnsley interviews the key politicians and their friends and foes to chronicle the trials and tribulations of the coalition.
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First broadcast: Monday 11 April 2011, 8PM on Channel 4
Dispatches goes undercover inside one of the country's busiest NHS hospitals as it faces multi-million-pound cuts and hundreds of job losses in the next year.
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First broadcast: Monday 04 April 2011, 8PM on Channel 4
With students facing massive increases in their fees, Dispatches investigates the pay, perks and privileges enjoyed by universities' top earners.
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First broadcast: Monday 28 March 2011, 8PM on Channel 4
BP is one of the largest companies in the world and plays an important role in the British economy through UK pension funds, the billions of pounds of tax it pays and as a major employer in the UK.
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First broadcast: Monday 21 March 2011, 12AM on Channel 4
The taxpayer has been spending billions to upgrade the British rail network yet many passengers have complained of high ticket prices, overcrowded carriages and cancellations.
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First broadcast: Monday 14 March 2011, 8PM on Channel 4
Dispatches investigates whether the beneficiaries of the government's cuts are in fact private outsourcing companies.
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First broadcast: Monday 07 March 2011, 8PM on Channel 4
Should Britain flog off the family silver to cut our national debt?
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First broadcast: Monday 28 February 2011, 8PM on Channel 4
The NHS is there to make our final days as dignified and pain-free as possible. But as a devastating health service ombudsman report has shown, the reality can be very different.
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First broadcast: Monday 21 February 2011, 12AM on Channel 4
With NHS figures showing that more people than ever before are leaving hospital malnourished, Dispatches reveals the shocking truth about catering in the NHS. Not only is much of the food disgusting, but some patients are suffering as a result of cost-cutting and sloppy production.
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First broadcast: Monday 14 February 2011, 8PM on Channel 4
Dispatches goes undercover to investigate allegations that teachers regularly assault young children in some of the 2,000 Muslim schools in Britain run by Islamic organisations.
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First broadcast: Monday 07 February 2011, 8PM on Channel 4
In the wake of the resignation of the Downing Street's head of communications Andy Coulson, Dispatches charts the unfolding events in the phone hacking scandal.
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First broadcast: Saturday 15 January 2011, 7.05PM on Channel 4
Dispatches investigates the fish sold on Britain's high street to find out where it is sourced, how it is processed and what is actually in it, as Channel 4 News presenter Alex Thomson unwraps one of the nation's favourite dishes.
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First broadcast: Sunday 09 January 2011, 12AM on Channel 4
On the night of the Haiti earthquake something happened in downtown Port au Prince - the Haitian capital - which would leave the fate of all the aid efforts and the country's future hanging in the balance: 4,500 prisoners escaped from Haiti's terrifying and overcrowded prison, the National Penitentiary.
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First broadcast: Monday 29 November 2010, 8PM on Channel 4
Every year, thousands of children come from all over the world to Britain seeking refuge from persecution, terrorism and war. But many arrive to find this country is not the place of safety that they hoped. Instead they are met by a culture of disbelief and an asylum system that in some cases causes them profound psychological and physical harm.
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First broadcast: Monday 15 November 2010, 8PM on Channel 4
On the same day the British public heard details of the unprecedented cuts in government spending that will affect almost everyone in the country, taxpayers also learnt they'd have to pay extra hundreds of millions of pounds a year to Brussels, as MEPs voted in favour of an increase in their budget.
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First broadcast: Monday 08 November 2010, 8PM on Channel 4
Dispatches investigates the working conditions of clothing manufacturing units in the UK. With British consumers keen to buy the latest designer looks at cheap prices, this film exposes the real human cost behind high street fashion.
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First broadcast: Monday 01 November 2010, 8PM on Channel 4
Every day hundreds of kids are forced to leave home. According to charities like Railway Children, the number of homeless children is bound to rise as a result of the recent government budget cuts.
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First broadcast: Monday 25 October 2010, 12AM on Channel 4
Dispatches exposes the full and unreported horror of the Iraqi conflict and its aftermath. The programme reveals the true scale of civilian casualties, and allegations that after the scandal of Abu Ghraib, American soldiers continued to abuse prisoners; and that US forces did not systematically intervene in the torture and murder of detainees by the Iraqi security services.
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First broadcast: Friday 22 October 2010, 12AM on Channel 4
For one year, Dispatches follows the police and people of Islamabad as Pakistan's capital battles to overcome an unprecedented wave of terrorist attacks, providing a powerful insight into a normally closed world in which everyone battles to survive the daily threat of death with courage and resilience.
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First broadcast: Monday 18 October 2010, 8PM on Channel 4
How do the rich avoid paying tax and protect their fortunes? Dispatches reveals the clever devices they use.
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First broadcast: Thursday 07 October 2010, 12AM on Channel 4
In February 2010, US Marines launched the biggest operation since the start of the war in Afghanistan: Operation Mushtaraq. Bravo's Deadly Mission covers hour-by-hour the entire operation to liberate the strategically vital town of Marjah in February and contains some of the most intense fighting footage ever caught on camera.
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First broadcast: Monday 04 October 2010, 12AM on Channel 4
In a programme first broadcast in October 2010, Dispatches examines allegations that during Andy Coulson's time as editor of News of the World, phone hacking was a routine practice at the paper and carried out with his knowledge.
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First broadcast: Monday 27 September 2010, 8PM on Channel 4
As Britain braces itself for the severest cuts in public spending in more than 60 years, Dispatches examines the response of the trade unions and what their threats of potential mass industrial action mean for the country.
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First broadcast: Monday 20 September 2010, 8PM on Channel 4
Veteran war correspondent Sam Kiley turns his sights on the critical issue of whether the British tax payer, and British soldier, are getting value for money from the Ministry of Defence.
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First broadcast: Monday 30 August 2010, 7.30PM on Channel 4
Over 15,000 domestic workers leave their families to come to Britain every year. Charities claim that many are not only badly treated but that they are living as slaves.
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First broadcast: Monday 23 August 2010, 8PM on Channel 4
Dispatches reveals the tragic consequences of first cousin marriage in Britain. Every year such marriages cause hundreds of children to be born with terrible disabilities; one third of whom are so ill that they die before they are five years old.
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First broadcast: Monday 26 July 2010, 8PM on Channel 4
Dispatches goes undercover in some African churches in the UK, where evangelical pastors perpetuate a strong belief in witchcraft. They preach that some people are possessed by evil spirits, and that these spirits bring bad luck into the lives of others.
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First broadcast: Sunday 18 July 2010, 8PM on Channel 4
For two years, Dispatches has followed an undercover police operation as it tracked a criminal gang trying to smuggle guns into Britain.
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First broadcast: Monday 12 July 2010, 12AM on Channel 4
Gay people in Africa are facing increased persecution in a continent where two thirds of countries retain laws against homosexuals.
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First broadcast: Monday 21 June 2010, 12AM on Channel 4
Filmed live on the eve of the emergency budget announcement, Dispatches sets out controversial cuts that could save Britain £100 billion. Krishnan Guru-Murthy presents a team of experts who believe their radical proposals could get Britain's budget back in shape; but can the nation stomach such swingeing cuts or tax increases?
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First broadcast: Monday 14 June 2010, 8PM on Channel 4
As the government prepares an emergency budget to help pay for the bank bailout, Will Hutton investigates the banks and what they've done with our money.
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First broadcast: Monday 07 June 2010, 8PM on Channel 4
In the wake of the tragic death of Baby P and other high-profile cases of child abuse and murder, Dispatches investigates allegations that child protection procedures and practices continue to be inadequate.
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First broadcast: Sunday 23 May 2010, 12AM on Channel 4
In South Africa a child is raped every three minutes and AIDS continues to spread with epidemic ferocity.
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First broadcast: Monday 03 May 2010, 8PM on Channel 4
Journalist Ben Laurance analyses the political parties' campaigns in the run up to polling day.
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First broadcast: Friday 09 April 2010, 12AM on Channel 4
In a Dispatches episode originally broadcast on 9 April 2010, journalist Ben Laurance looks at what it costs to stage the London Marathon, how much money it generates and the extent of its charitable giving.
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First broadcast: Monday 22 March 2010, 8PM on Channel 4
Following the scandal surrounding MPs' expenses, Dispatches delves into the mostly unregulated world of political lobbying. The programme reveals how politicians are offering to help companies and lobby the government for salaries of up to £5,000 a day.
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First broadcast: Monday 08 March 2010, 8PM on Channel 4
Award-winning columnist and writer Andrew Rawnsley has caused a furore while lifting the lid on Gordon Brown's premiership. Now Rawnsley presents an inside portrait of David Cameron and the government that might be...
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First broadcast: Monday 01 March 2010, 8PM on Channel 4
Dispatches investigates a fundamentalist Islamic group headquartered in Britain, and its claims to have placed its 'brothers' in positions of political power here.
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First broadcast: Monday 22 February 2010, 12AM on Channel 4
In the second half of this two-part special, maths specialist Richard Dunne returns to Barton Hill Primary School, with Countdown's Rachel Riley, to help the pupils with their mental arithmetic.
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First broadcast: Monday 15 February 2010, 12AM on Channel 4
In 2009 more than one in five children left primary school having failed to grasp the basic maths skills required by the national curriculum. In a two-part special, Dispatches asks why and how are we failing Britain's children when it comes to maths.
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First broadcast: Friday 12 February 2010, 3AM on Channel 4
Two reporters go undercover as agency postmen to find out if the Royal Mail has delivered on claims that it is modernising and improving its service.
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First broadcast: Monday 01 February 2010, 12AM on Channel 4
While most new troops stationed in Afghanistan head to the volatile south of the country, a new frontline, operating almost under the radar of NATO, is encircling the north of the country.
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First broadcast: Thursday 21 January 2010, 12AM on Channel 4
Dispatches reveals the brutal reality of life on the streets and in the slums of Mumbai, following the daily struggles of four young children to survive.
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First broadcast: Monday 07 December 2009, 8PM on Channel 4
As banks and building societies close their doors to all but the least 'risky' borrowers, Dispatches reporter Jane Moore investigates a highly lucrative financial industry that has stepped in to provide loans to the millions of people denied credit elsewhere.
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First broadcast: Monday 30 November 2009, 8PM on Channel 4
Dispatches investigates the elusive Russian oligarchs who have been trying to buy up our football teams, newspapers and car companies.
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First broadcast: Monday 23 November 2009, 8PM on Channel 4
In 2008 a Bafta and Emmy Award-winning Dispatches told the story of how children in Africa's Niger Delta were being denounced by Christian pastors as witches and wizards and then killed, tortured or abandoned by their own families.
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First broadcast: Friday 20 November 2009, 3AM on Channel 4
Dispatches investigates one of the most powerful and influential political lobbies in Britain, which is working in support of the interests of the State of Israel.
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First broadcast: Monday 26 October 2009, 8PM on Channel 4
It is the most important meal of the day, but all too often, breakfast in the UK is far from healthy.
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First broadcast: Monday 19 October 2009, 8PM on Channel 4
The death of Ian Tomlinson during the G20 protests in April 2009 and the images of police batons raining down on protestors have put the spotlight on the tactics police deploy during public demonstrations.
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First broadcast: Monday 05 October 2009, 8PM on Channel 4
Dispatches lifts the lid on the pensions crisis. The programme names some of the blue-chip companies that have abandoned final salary pension schemes. It shows how widespread the problem of underperforming pensions is, and how difficult it is to get full compensation if things go wrong.
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First broadcast: Monday 28 September 2009, 8PM on Channel 4
Alex Thomson investigates how MPs have spent their 82-day summer recess, and what is expected of them during this time.
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First broadcast: Monday 21 September 2009, 8PM on Channel 4
They're known as 'Blunkett's Bobbies' or 'Plastic Police'. There are 16,500 Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) walking the 'beat', costing the taxpayer hundreds of millions of pounds per year.
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First broadcast: Monday 14 September 2009, 8PM on Channel 4
Dispatches examines one of the biggest surprises of the credit crunch: middle-class unemployment.
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First broadcast: Monday 03 August 2009, 8PM on Channel 4
Last year, as chair of Channel 4's Street Weapons Commission, Cherie Booth QC said that the use of guns and knives among young people had become so widespread that she feared for the safety of her own children. Since then, the police and government have taken steps to deal with the problem. But are they doing enough?
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First broadcast: Wednesday 22 July 2009, 12AM on Channel 4
Dispatches investigates how Robert Mugabe and politicians in his ZANU-PF party are still clinging on to power in Zimbabwe, focusing on the businessmen who are benefiting from or supporting his campaign of political violence.
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First broadcast: Monday 20 July 2009, 8PM on Channel 4
Dispatches goes undercover to investigate one of Britain's least loved but booming industries - the debt collection business.
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First broadcast: Monday 13 July 2009, 8PM on Channel 4
Almost 10 years after the death of Victoria Climbié, Dispatches investigates the failures still present in Britain's child protection system. With a child being killed by their parent or carer every seven days in the UK, and over 160 child killings since 2004, journalist Peter Oborne examines how such horrific murders might be prevented in the future.
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First broadcast: Tuesday 30 June 2009, 12AM on Channel 4
The untold story of 2008's terrorist attack, in the words of its victims and the gunmen. The programme contains graphic images and descriptions of the atrocity which may upset some viewers. Produced and directed by award-winning filmmaker Dan Reed, Terror in Mumbai tells the story of what happened when 10 gunmen held one of the world's busiest cities hostage; killing and wounding hundreds of people while holding India's crack security forces at bay.
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First broadcast: Monday 22 June 2009, 8PM on Channel 4
In the wake of two recent, high-profile cases in which young women were brutally attacked and raped by groups of young men, journalist Sorious Samura investigates gang rape in the UK.
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First broadcast: Monday 15 June 2009, 8PM on Channel 4
As the US apologises for the recent killing of civilians in air strikes on the Farah province of Afghanistan, Dispatches examines the effect these military operations are having on US-Afghan relations.
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First broadcast: Monday 08 June 2009, 8PM on Channel 4
In the first account of its kind on television, award-winning journalist Andrew Rawnsley presents the inside political story of the credit crunch. The programme features exclusive interviews with senior figures close to the economic crisis, including cabinet ministers, senior politicians and former treasury insiders.
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First broadcast: Monday 01 June 2009, 12AM on Channel 4
As Burma's pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, faces trial by the country's military government, this timely and remarkable Dispatches film follows the lives of eight Burmese orphans as they struggle to survive the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis.
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First broadcast: Monday 18 May 2009, 8PM on Channel 4
Britain's top bankers helped bring the economy to the brink of ruin; their gambling triggered thousands of job losses and exposed taxpayers to over a trillion pounds of possible risk. In this edition of Dispatches, journalist Jane Moore investigates exactly how much these former bosses have been rewarded for these failings - and how much they are still raking in.
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First broadcast: Monday 11 May 2009, 8PM on Channel 4
Part of the Britain's Forgotten Children season, this programme reveals the scandals of the British care system and asks, is it working or failing our children?
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First broadcast: Monday 27 April 2009, 8PM on Channel 4
In the second half of this special two-part Dispatches, economist and author Will Hutton continues the definitive insider's account of how Britain's economy went from boom to bust.
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First broadcast: Monday 20 April 2009, 8PM on Channel 4
Just before he became Prime Minister in 2007, chancellor Gordon Brown congratulated the city on their ingenuity and creativity during his tenure: 'An era that history will record as the beginning of a new golden age for the city of London'. He couldn't have been more wrong.
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First broadcast: Sunday 19 April 2009, 7PM on Channel 4
In May 2008, freedom-of-information campaigner Heather Brooke won a court battle that should have prompted the release of all politicians' expense claims. A year later, with those expenses still to be published and the flow of leaked information ever increasing, Heather studies the information that is available to piece together a forensic insight into how public money is being spent.
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First broadcast: Monday 06 April 2009, 8PM on Channel 4
As war in Afghanistan persists and British soldiers continue to lose their lives fighting an insurgency that many commentators say they can't defeat, reporter Stephen Grey investigates whether our military is engaged in an impossible mission.
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First broadcast: Monday 30 March 2009, 8PM on Channel 4
As the first anniversary of Boris Johnson's election as Mayor of London approaches, Dispatches takes a look at his first 11 months in office to find out where he is taking the nation's capital in the build-up to the 2012 Olympics.
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First broadcast: Monday 23 March 2009, 8PM on Channel 4
As patient numbers and pressures increase, Dispatches investigates the reality of work for nurses around the country and examines whether patient care is being compromised in NHS hospitals.
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First broadcast: Monday 16 March 2009, 12AM on Channel 4
Award-winning Pakistani journalist Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy investigates how the war on terror is creating a generation of child terrorists in her homeland - children prepared to kill both inside and outside Pakistan.
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First broadcast: Wednesday 11 March 2009, 9PM on More4
As the country enters a nasty recession and we feel the need to tighten our belts, journalist and broadcaster Jane Moore examines how the government is wasting billions of pounds of taxpayers' money each year.
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First broadcast: Monday 23 February 2009, 8PM on Channel 4
Channel 4 News presenter Alex Thomson investigates the roles currently adopted by the royal princes and asks how their activities are shaping the modern monarchy that Prince William will inherit.
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First broadcast: Monday 16 February 2009, 8PM on Channel 4
Four months after leaving his post as minister of trade, Lord Digby Jones examines how the government is tackling the unemployment crisis.
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First broadcast: Tuesday 10 February 2009, 2.10AM on Channel 4
With the number of unemployed in the UK nudging two million, Dispatches reveals the ageism rife amongst employers and recruitment agencies. The investigation reveals that being 'older' - even just over 45-years-old - is a risk in the workplace. Older workers are more likely to lose their jobs and fail to secure another position.
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First broadcast: Friday 06 February 2009, 2.20AM on Channel 4
Deborah Davies examines how the children of Congo are being affected by the latest fighting that is tearing their country apart. An entire generation has been scarred by a seemingly endless conflict - in the last 12 years at least three million children have died as a result of fighting and the hunger and disease that war creates.
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First broadcast: Thursday 22 January 2009, 11.05PM on Channel 4
Is what has been presented on our screens and in our papers a true reflection of events on the ground in Gaza? And how do these reports differ to those aired in other countries?
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First broadcast: Thursday 22 January 2009, 8PM on Channel 4
As the credit crunch bites, thousands of families are cutting back by swapping expensive premium-range food for cheaper budget lines - but at what cost? Food critic and author Jay Rayner examines what goes into these budget products and asks why, too often, low cost means low quality.
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First broadcast: Monday 12 January 2009, 8PM on Channel 4
Fiona Phillips investigates the struggle of Alzheimer's sufferers and their families to get adequate care and support.
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First broadcast: Monday 05 January 2009, 8PM on Channel 4
With primary schools across the country being stretched by the violent and disruptive behaviour of a small minority, Dispatches reveals the results of an extensive, in-depth survey of teachers to identify the impact on their ability to teach, and documents the efforts of five schools which are tackling the problem head on.
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First broadcast: Saturday 13 December 2008, 12AM on Channel 4
Peter Oborne returns to Iraq in a follow-up to his Dispatches film, Iraq: The Betrayal. His aim is to find out whether - as Barack Obama hoped in the build-up to his presidency - that it is 'safe' for Western forces to leave.
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First broadcast: Wednesday 12 November 2008, 9PM on Channel 4
In some of the poorest parts of Nigeria, where evangelical religious fervour is combined with a belief in sorcery and black magic, many thousands of children are being blamed for catastrophes, death and famine: and branded witches. Denounced as Satan made flesh by powerful pastors and prophetesses, these children are abandoned, tortured, starved and murdered: all in the name of Jesus Christ.
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First broadcast: Monday 03 November 2008, 8PM on Channel 4
In this Dispatches film, award-winning filmmakers Brian Woods and Kate Blewett reveal the devastating impact that illegal drugs have on neglected children, whose childhoods are blighted by chaos.
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First broadcast: Monday 22 September 2008, 12AM on Channel 4
Dispatches travels across Britain to meet the families who feel let down after more than a decade of struggling to better themselves. Having thought there lives were getting better, these families now see themselves sliding back down the social ladder.
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First broadcast: Saturday 20 September 2008, 12AM on Channel 4
Originally broadcast in 2008, Antony Barnett investigates the funding of the Tories under Cameron and examines how the party is using its newfound resources to ensure its leader becomes the next Prime Minister.
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First broadcast: Friday 05 September 2008, 12AM on Channel 4
With wine consumption in the UK hitting record levels, Jane Moore investigates the many different substances - including fish and dairy products - that can be used to produce wine but which rarely appear on the label of the average bottle.
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First broadcast: Monday 01 September 2008, 12AM on Channel 4
A year-and-a-half after the critically acclaimed film Undercover Mosque was first screened, Dispatches goes undercover again to see whether extremist beliefs continue to be promoted in certain key British Muslim institutions. The film also investigates the role of the Saudi Arabian religious establishment in spreading a hard-line, fundamentalist Islamic ideology in the UK - the very ideology the Government claims to be tackling.
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First broadcast: Monday 09 June 2008, 12AM on Channel 4
Andrew Rawnsley assesses Gordon Brown's first year as prime minister. Includes interviews with cabinet ministers, politicians, his intimates and his opponents.
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First broadcast: Monday 31 March 2008, 12AM on Channel 4
Tibetan exile Tash Despa returns to the homeland he risked his life escaping from to carry out secret filming with the award-winning, Bafta-nominated director Jezza Neumann.
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First broadcast: Tuesday 18 March 2008, 12AM on Channel 4
Five years after the invasion, Channel 4 News anchor Jon Snow examines the brutal reality of life inside post-invasion Iraq, meeting a variety of its citizens - from victims of bomb blasts and war widows, to human rights activists and politicians.
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First broadcast: Sunday 16 March 2008, 12AM on Channel 4
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy travels to Syria and Jordan to investigate the plight of Iraqi refugees who have been driven from their homes by war and sectarian violence
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First broadcast: Monday 03 December 2007, 12AM on Channel 4
Dispatches investigates what the authorities are doing to protect the public from an increased risk of flooding and questions whether adequate resources are being spent on flood defences.
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First broadcast: Wednesday 17 October 2007, 12AM on Channel 4
Featuring the findings of a survey into doctors' opinions on abortion, Dispatches reveals why many doctors would like to see the law changed, and lifts the lid on the private debates that are happening within the medical profession.
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First broadcast: Monday 08 October 2007, 12AM on Channel 4
More than a decade after producing The Dying Rooms - a powerful film about the neglect of abandoned babies in Chinese orphanages - the same award-winning team returns to a very different China, where the infamous One Child Policy has created the horrific side-effect of a boom in stolen children.
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First broadcast: Monday 29 January 2007, 12AM on Channel 4
Iraq's Death Squads follows on from a previous Dispatches investigation that revealed the close links between high-ranking Shia politicians and the death squads that rampage through Iraq's main cities.
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First broadcast: Monday 15 January 2007, 12AM on Channel 4
Dispatches undertakes an extensive investigation into a number of British mosques to reveal how a message of hatred and segregation is being spread throughout the UK. Filming undercover at mosques run by key organisations, whose public faces are presented as moderate and mainstream, our reporter finds preachers condemning the idea of integration into British society, condemning British democracy as un-Islamic and praising the Taliban for killing British soldiers.
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First broadcast: Monday 02 October 2006, 12AM on Channel 4
Dispatches exposes the surge in violence inflicted on the Burmese people by their own regime. Enslaved by a brutal military dictatorship which wields absolute power, Burma is a secretive state where suppression reigns and dissent is not tolerated.
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First broadcast: Thursday 14 July 2005, 12AM on Channel 4
Fourteen months after the original Royal Mail undercover investigation, Dispatches returns to secretly film and establish whether the service, as they claim, has dramatically improved. Has Chief Exec Adam Crozier taken control of untrained staff, outdated machinery, ineffective managers and poor industrial relations as he promised?
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First broadcast: Friday 19 November 2004, 12AM on Channel 4
In February 1998 Dr Andrew Wakefield claimed to have discovered a possible link between the MMR vaccine and autism. A global health scare ensued.
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First broadcast: Thursday 29 April 2004, 12AM on Channel 4
A six-month investigation exposing the laziness, ineptitude and theft within the Royal Mail that has huge implications for the safety of all our post.
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First broadcast: Monday 04 November 2002, 12AM on Channel 4
As the British National Party seeks to present itself as a more electable proposition, Dispatches reporter David Modell spends eight months with Mark Collett, leader of the Young BNP (pictured left), to reveal the future face of the far right in Britain.
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First broadcast: Monday 16 September 2002, 12AM on Channel 4
In an unprecedented investigation that took almost a year and involved interviewing 110 street prostitutes in 18 towns and cities, a terrifying pattern of violence emerged. One that, until now, has gone unreported.
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First broadcast: Thursday 26 July 2001, 12AM on Channel 4
Beneath the Veil follows freelance journalist Saira Shah as she travels covertly through her father's homeland of Afghanistan. Visiting major towns and small villages, Shah's journey reveals how the fundamentalist Taliban regime affects the lives of ordinary people.
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First broadcast: Wednesday 11 January 1995, 12AM on Channel 4
Dispatches infiltrates the most secretive arms fair in the world and reveals how weapons that can be used for torture are sold by British companies throughout the world. This disturbing investigation reveals the businessmen who profit from this trade and the politicians who allow it to occur, and speaks to some of its victims.
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In an edition from 2005, economist Andrew Dilnot looks at where Gordon Brown's policies have gone wrong, and examines the consequences for all of us. Brown's misjudgements, Dilnot warns, are something we will all ultimately have to pay for.
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In 2009, Fiona Phillips investigated the struggle of Alzheimer's sufferers and their families to get adequate care and support in Dispatches: Mum, Dad, Alzheimer's and Me.
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