Dispatches

  • Premiered: Oct 1987
  • Episodes: 998
  • Followers: 17
  • Running
  • Channel 4
  • Monday at 20
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Season 2004
2004x1
What Hutton Won't Tell you
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Jan 23, 2004
Documentary that takes a look at the Hutton enquiry and the intelligence used to justify the war in Iraq. Includes interviews with Larry Johnson (Counter terrorism Advisor to the .. show full overview
2004x2
Third Class Post
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Apr 29, 2004
Documentary in which reporter Simon Barnes goes undercover as a postal worker and highlights serious problems of bad management, machinery problems, lack of training, workers operating .. show full overview
2004x3
Keep Them Out
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May 06, 2004
Documentary on public opinion on asylum seekers, visiting Lee-on-the-Solent in southern England where the government had wanted to build a hostel to hold some four hundred asylum .. show full overview
2004x4
Fit to Eat
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May 13, 2004
Documentary looking at the state of meals provided in hospitals in terms of their content and nutrition. An undercover reporter reveals unhygienic practices at a factory providing .. show full overview
2004x5
Spiked
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Sep 13, 2004
Investigation into the extent of drink spiking in Britain, whereby unsuspecting people's drinks are spiked with drugs which render them helpless to attack and rape. Includes interviews .. show full overview
2004x6
The Dirty Meat Scandal
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Sep 20, 2004
Investigative report on the flaws in the system which is supposed to prevent unfit or diseased meat reaching the public. Undercover reporters reveal instances of illegal and dirty meat .. show full overview
2004x7
MMR: What They Didn't Tell You
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Nov 18, 2004
In February 1998 Dr Andrew Wakefield claimed to have discovered a possible link between the MMR vaccine and autism. A global health scare ensued. This documentary investigates the scare and some of the facts that parents were not told at the time.
2004x8
Profiting From Kids in Care
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Nov 25, 2004
Undercover investigation into residential care homes for children in Britain, many of which have now been privatised, and how they are being paid vast sums of money for often inadequate .. show full overview
2004x9
Barrack Room Bullies
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Dec 02, 2004
Documentary investigating systematic abuse of personnel within the British armed forces, including bullying, sexual humiliation and abuse, and assault. Also considers the Deepcut .. show full overview
2004x10 Season finale
Living With Refugees
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Dec 09, 2004
Report on the experiences of refugees in Sudan. Documentary-maker Sorious Samura travels to the Sudan-Chad border with refugees from Dafur, experiencing their diet and walking miles .. show full overview

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