Dispatches

  • Premiered: Oct 1987
  • Episodes: 998
  • Followers: 17
  • Running
  • Channel 4
  • Monday at 20
  • Documentary News

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Season 1987
1987x1
Dispatches
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 30, 1987
First in a new series of weekly documentary reports. this week, the black market in weapons grade ureanium operated from Khartoum.
1987x2
In The Red
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 06, 1987
Investigation of the alledged misuse of funds at three Labour Party Social Clubs in Dundee.
1987x3
AIDS - The Unheard Voices
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 13, 1987
The program challenges the theory that AIDS is caused by the H.I.V. virus and discusses the social pressures on those diagnosed as H.I.V. positive.
1987x4
Divided by Law
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 20, 1987
Explains how new D.N.A. testing techniques could help to re-unite divided immigrant families and looks at claims that the government has delayed progress pending on legislation. Includes .. show full overview
1987x5
Selling the Tunnel
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 27, 1987
TVS's Business Unit tells the inside story of the Eurotunnel Management Team's battle to persuade the City and the public to back the issue of shares and raise capital. Includes an interview with Robert Maxwell who invested £37 million.
1987x6
Gunning for Government
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 04, 1987
The undercover world of arms dealing is revealed by a defector (Frank Turner) who reveals his involvement with the CIA and British Ministry of Defence.
1987x7
Kimberly Carlile - Falling Through the Net
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 11, 1987
Rehearsed `All-Star' cast reading some of the evidence from the inquiry into the death of four-year-old Kimberley Carlile. Louis Blom-Cooper QC is interviewed by Anna Ford.
1987x8 Season finale
Korea: Poverty Prohibited
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 18, 1987
Investigation into the democratic government of South Korea which selectively ignores the tragic plight of its urban poverty by evicting them forcibly to make way for up market apartment .. show full overview

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