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First broadcast: Monday 16 November, 8PM 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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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First broadcast: Tuesday 21 July 2009, 11PM 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…
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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…
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First broadcast: Monday 29 June 2009, 11PM 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…
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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…
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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…
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First broadcast: Monday 01 June 2009, 8PM 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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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, 8PM 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…
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First broadcast: Monday 09 March 2009, 8PM on Channel 4
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'…
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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: Monday 09 February 2009, 8PM 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…
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First broadcast: Monday 02 February 2009, 8PM 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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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: Sunday 21 September 2008, 11PM 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…
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First broadcast: Thursday 04 September 2008, 11PM 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…
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First broadcast: Sunday 31 August 2008, 11PM 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…
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First broadcast: Sunday 30 March 2008, 11PM 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…
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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: Tuesday 16 October 2007, 11PM 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…
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First broadcast: Sunday 07 October 2007, 11PM 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…
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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…
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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…
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First broadcast: Sunday 01 October 2006, 11PM 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…
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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…
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First broadcast: Sunday 15 September 2002, 11PM 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…
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First broadcast: Wednesday 25 July 2001, 11PM 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…
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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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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…
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