Dispatches

Series & Episodes

  • The Hunt for Britain's Sex Gangs The Hunt for Britain's Sex Gangs

    First broadcast: Thursday 23 May, 9PM on Channel 4

    In 2010 Telford police allowed cameras to start filming what was to become one of the biggest child sex abuse cases in the UK.

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  • Murdered in Tenerife Murdered in Tenerife: Chanenl 4 Dispatches

    First broadcast: Monday 13 May 2013, 8PM on Channel 4

    In 2011, Jennifer Mills-Westley, a 60-year-old British grandmother, was attacked and publicly beheaded in broad daylight in Tenerife.

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  • Secrets of Your Missing Mail Secrets of Your Missing Mail

    First broadcast: Monday 29 April 2013, 8PM on Channel 4

    With shoppers increasingly relying on private parcel companies to deliver online purchases, Dispatches goes undercover to find out why couriers sometimes fail to deliver.

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  • Britain's Millionaire Criminals Britain's Millionaire Criminals: Channel 4 Dispatches

    First broadcast: Monday 22 April 2013, 8PM on Channel 4

    Why are some convicted criminals still enjoying luxury lifestyles funded by their ill-gotten gains?

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  • Syria: Across the Lines Syria: Across the Lines

    First broadcast: Wednesday 17 April 2013, 10PM on Channel 4

    Award-winning documentary maker Olly Lambert has spent weeks living deep inside Syrian territory - with both government and opposition supporters - to explore how the two-year-old conflict is tearing communities apart.

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  • Immigration Undercover Immigration Undercover: Channel 4 Dispatches

    First broadcast: Monday 15 April 2013, 8PM on Channel 4

    Immigration remains at the top of the political agenda, with reports that tens of thousands of files sit uncleared in the system and there remains a large backlog of immigration cases not dealt with. Morland Sanders investigates whether Britain's immigration system is fit for purpose.

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  • The Truth About Junior Doctors The Truth about Junior Doctors: Channel 4 Dispatches

    First broadcast: Monday 25 March 2013, 8PM on Channel 4

    When he was a junior doctor, Dr Christian Jessen worked dangerously long hours, which he feared might be putting patients at risk. He wasn't alone. The excessive hours junior doctors worked were front-page news.

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  • Rich and on Benefits Rich and on Benefits: Channel 4 Dispatches

    First broadcast: Monday 18 March 2013, 8PM on Channel 4

    Michael Buerk investigates claims that Britain's pensioners are part of an untouchable group when it comes to government welfare cuts and that some should not be receiving any help at all.

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  • Undercover Designer Dogs Undercover Designer Dogs: Channel 4 Dispatches

    First broadcast: Monday 11 March 2013, 8PM on Channel 4

    Designer dogs are all the rage with celebrities and many animal lovers. But Dispatches has discovered a darker side to this canine phenomenon: thousands of puppies are being imported illegally into Britain every year from Eastern Europe.

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  • Death on the Wards Death on the Wards: Channel 4 Dispatches

    First broadcast: Monday 04 March 2013, 8PM on Channel 4

    Dispatches investigates the truth behind allegations that tens of thousands of seriously ill people have been put on a pathway to death - likened to legalised euthanasia - and claims from families that doctors have callously killed off patients who could have had months or even years to live.

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  • Britain on Benefits Britain on Benefits: Channel 4 Dispatches

    First broadcast: Monday 25 February 2013, 8PM on Channel 4

    The Disability Living Allowance helps more than three million people lead useful lives. It pays for transport and carers, meaning that disabled people can work and lead independent lives.

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  • The Horse Meat Scandal dispatches_morland_generic_brand

    First broadcast: Monday 18 February 2013, 8PM on Channel 4

    From burgers to ready meals, Britain's horse meat scandal has grown and grown. For Dispatches, Morland Sanders asks how Britain's meat supplies became so contaminated with unauthorised horse meat, who is to blame, and what impact will this have on your health and all of our eating habits?

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  • How Safe Is Your Child's Nursery? How Safe Is Your Child's Nursery?: Channel 4 Dispatches

    First broadcast: Monday 11 February 2013, 8PM on Channel 4

    As the government unveils plans to increase the number of children each nursery staff member is allowed to look after, Dispatches investigates whether parents can really trust their child's nursery.

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  • Plebs, Lies & Videotape Plebs, Lies & Videotape: Channel 4 Dispatches

    First broadcast: Monday 04 February 2013, 8PM on Channel 4

    In December 2012 Channel 4 Dispatches revealed the CCTV footage of the 'plebgate' incident that cast serious doubt on the police's version of events.

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  • Britain's Hidden Child Abuse Britain's Hidden Child Abuse: Channel 4 Dispatches Special

    First broadcast: Wednesday 30 January 2013, 10.30PM on Channel 4

    A victim of child sex abuse in one of Britain's religious communities goes undercover to expose the way his community has for decades been dealing with paedophilia.

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  • Weight Watchers: How They Make Their Millions Weight Watchers - How They Make Their Money: Channel 4 Dispatches

    First broadcast: Monday 28 January 2013, 8PM on Channel 4

    Dispatches investigates the UK's largest diet brand: Weight Watchers. Journalist Jane Moore talks to food experts, dieters and scientists to assess just how effective the company's diet plans and food products are, and asks whether they're worth the money.

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  • Secrets of Your Supermarket Shop Secrets of Your Supermarket Shop: Channel 4 Dispatches

    First broadcast: Monday 21 January 2013, 8PM on Channel 4

    As food prices rise, what's the best way to reduce your weekly bill at the supermarket? Channel 4 Dispatches conducts a nationwide fruit and veg experiment to find out if you could save money by heading to the market stall, the shop next door, or even just a different branch of the same supermarket down the road.

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  • Sharing Mum and Dad Sharing Mum and Dad: Channel 4 Dispatches

    First broadcast: Monday 14 January 2013, 8PM on Channel 4

    Today, one in three children in the UK grow up in a home with only one parent. But are we doing what's best for the children of separated parents?

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  • Secrets of Your Car Insurance Secrets of Your Car Insurance: Channel 4 Dispatches

    First broadcast: Monday 07 January 2013, 8PM on Channel 4

    Dispatches reveals the secrets of car insurance that all drivers should know. Harry Wallop investigates claims that major insurers cash in when you have a crash, through maximising profits, lucrative referral fees and rebate deals, sometimes at the expense of doing what's best for you and your car.

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  • The American School Massacre The American School Massacre: Channel 4 Dispatches

    First broadcast: Monday 17 December 2012, 8PM on Channel 4

    On Friday 14 December, a lone gunman walked into his local primary school in Newtown, Connecticut, and shot dead 20 children aged between five and ten. Seven adults were also killed.

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  • How Safe Is Your Cash? How Safe Is Your Cash?: Channel 4 Dispatches

    First broadcast: Monday 10 December 2012, 8PM on Channel 4

    In the first four months of 2012, the number of fraudulent attacks on credit and debit cards almost doubled. Reporter Morland Sanders discovers a growing concern that some of the major banks are refusing to accept liability if the account holder's personal identification number has been compromised.

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  • The Chinese Are Coming The Chinese Are Coming: Channel 4 Dispatches

    First broadcast: Monday 03 December 2012, 8PM on Channel 4

    As China continues to flex its financial muscle by buying into British airports, water and breakfast cereals, Dispatches investigates growing Chinese power in the UK.

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  • Where Has Your Aid Money Gone? Where Has Your Aid Money Gone?: Channel 4 Dispatches

    First broadcast: Monday 26 November 2012, 8PM on Channel 4

    Public spending is being slashed across the board. But the Department for International Development, which doles out Britain's overseas aid, is set to enjoy substantial year-on-year increases to £11bn by 2015.

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  • MPs: Are They Still at It? MPs: Are They Still at It?: Channel 4 Dispatches

    First broadcast: Monday 19 November 2012, 8PM on Channel 4

    Two years after the MPs expenses scandal, Dispatches examines whether our parliamentarians are still abusing the system. The investigation discovers a system still with problems and a lack of transparency, while unearthing evidence that some MPs are still cashing in.

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  • Chinese Murder Mystery Chinese Murder Mystery

    First broadcast: Monday 12 November 2012, 8PM on Channel 4

    In November 2011, public school educated Neil Percival Heywood reportedly died of alcohol poisoning in the Lucky Holiday Hotel, in a remote Chinese city. His death, virtually unnoticed at the time, has gone on to shake China's Communist Party to the core.

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  • Nuclear War Games Nuclear War Games: Channel 4 Dispatches

    First broadcast: Monday 05 November 2012, 8PM on Channel 4

    In the midst of a turbulent post Arab-spring Middle East, Israel's threats of military strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities have raised fears of a confrontation between the two countries. This film, which has obtained exclusive access to Israeli theoretical war exercises, provides unprecedented insight into Israel's internal tensions concerning an attack between Israel and Iran which, if escalates, could have major implications for global stability.

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  • Getting Rich on the NHS Getting Rich on the NHS: Channel 4 Dispatches: Morland Sanders

    First broadcast: Monday 29 October 2012, 8PM on Channel 4

    Under the new health reforms, private firms are being awarded millions of pounds-worth of NHS contracts.

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  • Do You Know Your Partner's Past? dispatches_do_you_know_partners_past_wk43

    First broadcast: Monday 22 October 2012, 8PM on Channel 4

    Earlier this year Tina Nash's boyfriend was jailed for life after gouging her eyes out.

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  • Secrets of Your Boss's Pay secrets_your_boss_pay_dispatches_wk41_brand

    First broadcast: Monday 08 October 2012, 8PM on Channel 4

    As the pay packets of Britain's top bosses continue to grow, Channel 4 Dispatches follows the former Greggs chief executive Sir Michael Darrington as he launches a campaign to call a halt to corporate greed.

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  • Cruises Undercover: The Truth Below Deck dispatches_cruises_undercover_wk40

    First broadcast: Monday 01 October 2012, 8PM on Channel 4

    Almost two million Brits took a cruise last year. For many, it's the holiday of a lifetime with hard-earned savings going in to a dream adventure.

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  • Undercover Retirement Home dispatches_undercover_retirement_home

    First broadcast: Monday 24 September 2012, 8PM on Channel 4

    Dispatches goes undercover to investigate the multi-million pound retirement property industry.

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  • Secrets of Poundland Harry Wallop

    First broadcast: Monday 17 September 2012, 8PM on Channel 4

    As other High Street retailers struggle for survival, discount leader Poundland is booming.

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  • The School Dinner Scandal The School Dinner Scandal: Channel 4 Dispatches

    First broadcast: Monday 10 September 2012, 8PM on Channel 4

    After Jamie Oliver's high-profile campaign to improve school meals, millions of pounds were pumped into improving school canteens and tough minimum standards on food and nutrition were set and enforced. Reporter Tazeen Ahmad examines evidence that strategies to improve the food served in all our schools are fast coming undone.

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  • Property Nightmare: The Truth About Leaseholds Property Nightmare: The Truth About Leaseholds: Channel 4 Dispatches

    First broadcast: Monday 20 August 2012, 8PM on Channel 4

    The economic downturn has made buying property outright more difficult than ever but our obsession with home-ownership has led three million of us to choose the apparently cheaper option: leasehold properties. But purchasing a home in this way can come at a cost, leaving those owners vulnerable to excessive and unfair charging, to the tune of tens of thousands of pounds.

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  • Tricks of the Dole Cheats Tricks of the Dole Cheats: Channel 4 Dispatches

    First broadcast: Monday 13 August 2012, 8PM on Channel 4

    Reporter Morland Sanders investigates Jobcentre Plus, the organisation tasked with getting Britain back to work and cracking down on dole cheats. With the help of jobseekers, undercover filming and a former insider, the programme reveals the shirkers' tricks that make it easy to cheat the system.

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  • Britain's High Street Gamble dispatches_britains_high_street_gamble_625x352

    First broadcast: Monday 06 August 2012, 8PM on Channel 4

    Britain's high streets are struggling to survive, but one business is booming; betting shops. On average one new bookie opens every week. In one London high street there are now 10 within yards and the locals are fed up.

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  • Britain on the Sick Britain on the Sick: Channel 4 Dispatches

    First broadcast: Monday 30 July 2012, 8PM on Channel 4

    Using undercover filming, reporter Jackie Long investigates the controversial processes used to assess whether sickness and disability benefit claimants should be declared fit for work.

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  • Can You Trust Your Bank? Can You Trust Your Bank?

    First broadcast: Monday 23 July 2012, 7.30PM on Channel 4

    The Barclays interest rate scandal, unimaginable bonuses and insurance misselling have put the banking sector firmly in the public spotlight. In this special report, Jon Snow travels around the UK, meeting consumers, businesses and bankers, to ask whether we can trust our banks.

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  • Myths about Your 5 a Day Myths about Your 5 a Day: Channel 4 Dispatches

    First broadcast: Monday 16 July 2012, 8PM on Channel 4

    Dispatches investigates what's happened to the five-a-day campaign, which was designed to get us all eating more fruit and veg. Reporter Jane Moore reveals how this vital health message has been hijacked as a marketing tactic, and how the food industry uses the campaign to promote sugary, fatty, salty products like ready meals, soups and drinks.

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  • Secrets of the Taxman Secrets of the Taxman: Channel 4 Dispatches

    First broadcast: Monday 09 July 2012, 8PM on Channel 4

    An undercover report partly filmed in the Channel Islands presents new revelations about tax avoidance.

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  • Cashing in on the Games Cashing in on the Games: Channel 4 Dispatches

    First broadcast: Monday 02 July 2012, 8PM on Channel 4

    The Olympics could be a once-in-a-generation opportunity to show off the best of Britain and boost our ailing economy. But in the rush for gold, will retailers and businesses out to make a quick profit tarnish our reputation?

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  • Undercover Undertaker Undercover Undertaker: Channel 4 Dispatches

    First broadcast: Monday 25 June 2012, 8PM on Channel 4

    Dispatches lifts the lid on the funeral industry. Using undercover filming, Jackie Long investigates what really happens to our loved ones when they die.

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  • Let Our Dad Die Let Our Dad Die: Channel 4 Dispatches

    First broadcast: Monday 18 June 2012, 8PM on Channel 4

    In 2005 Tony Nicklinson had a catastrophic stroke, which left him utterly paralysed. He had what is known as 'locked in syndrome' and couldn't move, talk, feed himself or perform even the most basic function without help. He could only communicate via a computer controlled by his eyes.

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  • The Real Mr & Mrs Assad Asma-Bashar-series

    First broadcast: Monday 28 May 2012, 8PM on Channel 4

    Channel 4 Dispatches reveals a portrait of a golden couple who have become global hate figures. The programme shows intimate footage of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria and his wife Asma that helps explain why the West bought the idea they were true modernisers.

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  • Beating the Recession - Cash vs Cards Beating the Recession - Cash vs Cards: Channel 4 Dispatches

    First broadcast: Monday 21 May 2012, 8PM on Channel 4

    Personal finance expert Harry Wallop investigates whether cutting up our credit cards and paying for everything in cash could leave us with more money in our pockets.

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  • Watching the Detectives Watching the Detectives: Channel 4 Dispatches

    First broadcast: Monday 14 May 2012, 8PM on Channel 4

    How safe are your secrets? Channel 4 Dispatches reveals how easy it is to buy our most personal and confidential information.

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  • The Great Ticket Scandal The Great Ticket Scandal

    First broadcast: Thursday 23 February 2012, 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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  • Olympic Tickets for Sale Olympic Tickets for Sale

    First broadcast: Monday 13 February 2012, 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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  • Landlords from Hell Landlords from Hell

    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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  • Britain's Sex Gangs Britain's Sex Gangs: Tazeen Ahmad

    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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  • Britain's Rubbish Britain's Rubbish

    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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  • Can You Trust Your Doctor? Can You Trust Your Doctor?

    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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  • The Wonderful World of Tony Blair Peter Oborne

    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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  • Gypsy Eviction: The Fight for Dale Farm Gypsy Eviction: The Fight for Dale Farm

    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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  • The Truth About Drugs in Football The Truth About Drugs in Football

    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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  • How to Buy a Football Club How to Buy a Football Club

    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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  • Murder on Honeymoon Murder on Honeymoon

    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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  • Landlords from Hell Landlords from Hell: Dispatches

    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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  • The Real Price of Gold The Real Price of Gold: Dispatches

    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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  • Conservation's Dirty Secrets Conservation's Dirty Secrets: Dispatches

    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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  • The Thief Catchers The Thief Catchers: Dispatches

    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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  • America's Secret Killers Dispatches

    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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  • The Truth About Your Dentist The Truth About Your Dentist

    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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  • The Truth About Going Under the Knife Dispatches

    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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  • Undercover Hospital Dispacthes: Undercover Hospital

    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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  • Cashing In on Degrees Dispatches: Cashing in on Degrees

    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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  • BP: In Deep Water Dispatches: BP: In Deep Water

    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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  • Train Journeys from Hell Train Journeys from Hell

    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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  • Britain's Secret Fat Cats Britain's Secret Fat Cats

    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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  • Selling Off Britain Dispatches: Selling Off Britain

    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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  • Secret NHS Diaries Dispatches: Secret NHS Diaries

    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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  • The Truth about Hospital Food Dispatches: The Truth about Hospital Food

    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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  • Lessons in Hate and Violence Dispatches: Lessons in Hate and Violence

    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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  • Fish Unwrapped Dispatches: Fish Unwrapped: Alex Thomson

    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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  • The Battle for Haiti Dispatches: The Battle for Haiti

    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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  • The Kids Britain Doesn't Want Dispatches

    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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  • Riding Europe's Gravy Train Euros and the European flag

    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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  • Fashion's Dirty Secret Dispatches

    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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  • Britain's Street Kids Dispatches: Street Kids

    First broadcast: Friday 05 November 2010, 2.35AM 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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  • Iraq's Secret War Files Helicopters

    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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  • City of Fear Amber and Gohar

    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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  • How the Rich Beat the Taxman Antony Barnett

    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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  • Bravo's Deadly Mission Bravo Company in Afghanistan

    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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  • What's the Point of the Unions? Placard

    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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  • How the MoD Wastes Our Billions Sam Kiley

    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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  • Britain's Secret Slaves Britain's Secret Slaves

    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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  • When Cousins Marry Tazeen Ahmad

    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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  • Britain's Witch Children Britain's Witch Children

    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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  • Gun Nation Catching the Gun Runners

    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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  • Africa's Last Taboo Sorious Samura in Africa

    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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  • How to Save £100 Billion - Live krish_413x232

    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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  • How the Banks Won Will Hutton

    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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  • Undercover Social Worker Undercover Social Worker

    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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  • The Lost Girls of South Africa The Lost Girls of South Africa

    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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  • Tracing the Marathon's Millions Tower Bridge

    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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  • Politicians for Hire The Houses of Parliament

    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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  • Cameron Uncovered Andrew Rawnsley

    First broadcast: Monday 15 March 2010, 3.50AM 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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  • Britain's Islamic Republic Andrew Gilligan

    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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  • Kids Don't Count (Part 2 of 2) Rachel Riley

    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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  • Kids Don't Count (Part 1 of 2) Kids Don't Count

    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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  • Afghanistan: Behind Enemy Lines Afghanistan: Behind Enemy Lines

    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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  • The Slumdog Children of Mumbai Deepa

    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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  • Christmas on Credit Jane Moore

    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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  • Lords, Billionaires and the Russian Connection Antony Barnett

    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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  • Return to Africa's Witch Children Return to Africa's Witch Children

    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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  • Inside Britain's Israel Lobby Peter Oborne

    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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  • Ready for a Riot Police officers

    First broadcast: Monday 19 October 2009, 8PM on Channel 4

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  • Who Took Your Pension? Protesters in Parliament Square

    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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  • Cops on the Cheap? Cops on the Beat

    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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  • Middle Class and Jobless Middle Class and Jobless

    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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  • The War Against Street Weapons Cherie Booth QC

    First broadcast: Tuesday 04 August 2009, 3.20AM 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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  • Bankrolling Mugabe Military men in Zimbabwe holding a portrait of Robert Mugabe

    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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  • Undercover Debt Collector Bundles of banknotes

    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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  • The Children Britain Betrayed Peter Oborne

    First broadcast: Wednesday 15 July 2009, 11.05PM on More4

    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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  • Terror in Mumbai An armed terrorist in Mumbai

    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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  • Afghanistan's Dirty War Dispatches_logo_brand

    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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  • Crash Gordon Journalist Andrew Rawnsley

    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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  • Orphans of Burma's Cyclone Orphan children in Burma

    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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  • Britain's Bankers: Still Cashing In Jane Moore at a Saville Row tailor's

    First broadcast: Wednesday 20 May 2009, 11.05PM on More4

    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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  • Lost in Care Rageh Omar

    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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  • Crash - How Long Will It Last? Will Hutton at the London Stock Exchange

    First broadcast: Thursday 30 April 2009, 12.05AM on More4

    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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  • Crash - How the Banks Went Bust Will Hutton

    First broadcast: Thursday 23 April 2009, 12.05AM on More4

    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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  • The Westminster Gravy Train freedom-of-information campaigner Heather Brooke

    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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  • Afghanistan - Mission Impossible? Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup

    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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  • The Trouble with Boris Boris Johnson

    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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  • Confessions of a Nurse An NHS nurse

    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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  • Pakistan's Taliban Generation A young boy who wishes to join the Taliban

    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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  • How They Squander Our Billions Jane Moore

    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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  • The Problem Princes Prince William

    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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  • The Big Job Hunt Lord Digby Jone

    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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  • Too Old to Work Two elderly ladies take a medical test

    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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  • Congo's Forgotten Children A child in the Congo

    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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  • Unseen Gaza Jon Snow

    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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  • The True Cost of Cheap Food Jay Rayner

    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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  • Mum, Dad, Alzheimer's and Me Fiona Phillips and her dad Neville

    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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  • Britain's Challenging Children Young school boy in a classroom

    First broadcast: Thursday 08 January 2009, 12.05AM on More4

    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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  • Iraq: The Legacy The sword from an Iraqi statue

    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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  • The Human Cost of the Credit Crunch Gordon Brown and Tony Blair

    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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  • Cameron's Money Men Cameron

    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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  • What's In Your Wine? Jane Moore holding a glass of wine

    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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  • Undercover Mosque: The Return Muslims at prayer

    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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  • Gordon Brown: Where Did It All Go Wrong? Gordon Brown

    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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  • Undercover in Tibet Reporter Tash Despa in Tibet

    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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  • Jon Snow's Hidden Iraq Jon Snow in Iraq

    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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  • Dispatches: Iraq's Lost Generation Dispatches

    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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  • Britain Under Water Cars driving in flood water

    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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  • Abortion: What We Need to Know A woman walking towards a doctor's surgery

    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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  • China's Stolen Children Playing cards with missing children on them

    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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  • Iraq's Death Squads Deborah Davies in Iraq

    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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  • Undercover Mosque An Islamic man in quiet contemplation

    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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  • Burma's Secret War Burmese people crossing a river

    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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  • Re-Opening The Post Dispatches

    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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  • MMR: What They Didn't Tell You A child and a syringe

    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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  • Third Class Post Post van

    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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  • Young, Nazi and Proud Mark Collett

    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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  • Sex on the Street Sex on the Street

    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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  • Beneath the Veil Saira Shah in Afghanistan

    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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  • The Torture Trail Torture Trail

    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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  • A Year Inside Number 10 A Year Inside Number 10: Nick Clegg and David Cameron

    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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  • Britain on the Breadline Britain on the Breadline: Channel 4 Dispatches

    The year 2012 will mostly be remembered for two things: the austerity and hardship felt by millions, and the wave of euphoria and pride evoked by the Diamond Jubilee, Olympics and Paralympics. Britain won 29 Olympic gold medals, thousands of people took up volunteering, and the biggest cuts to the welfare state since the 1970s came into force.

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  • Election Uncovered Ben Laurance

    Journalist Ben Laurance analyses the political parties' campaigns in the run up to polling day.

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  • Gordon Brown's Missing Billions Gordon Brown

    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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  • MPs, Planes and Gravy Trains DISPATCHES

    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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  • Mum Loves Drugs, Not Me A young woman

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