Dispatches

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

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Season 2008
2008x1
The Truth About Your Food (1)
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Jan 10, 2008
Journalist Jane Moore investigates whether the prices of premium ranges reflect their nutritional value, what's in 'healthier' options, and reveals how we're not always being told the truth about the food we eat.
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The Truth About Your Food (2)
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Jan 17, 2008
Journalist Jane Moore examines how much food we're really eating and puts the spotlight on the food industry to reveal what effect our increased dining-out habit is having on our health.
2008x3
The Court of Ken
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Jan 21, 2008
An investigation of the Office of London’s former Mayor.
2008x4
Why Kids Kill
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Jan 28, 2008
A report on the increase of gang culture and murder that teenagers participate in the UK.
2008x5
Heat Or Eat: The Pensioners' Dilemma
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Feb 04, 2008
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The Children Left Behind
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Feb 11, 2008
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2008x7
How the Banks Bet Your Money
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Feb 18, 2008
A global credit crunch has put Britain's banks in a crisis that threatens the future of jobs and businesses and may even trigger a wholesale recession.
2008x8
Checking-in to Airport Chaos
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Feb 25, 2008
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2008x9
Iraq's Lost Generation
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Mar 16, 2008
Award-winning journalist Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy travels to Syria and Jordan to investigate the plight of Iraqi refugees. These are the very people on whom the new, democratic Iraq was to .. show full overview
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Iraq: The Betrayal
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Mar 17, 2008
Political journalist Peter Oborne accompanies the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, as he travels across Iraq meeting the main players who will determine the future of the country.
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Jon Snow's Hidden Iraq
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Mar 18, 2008
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.
2008x12
Undercover in Tibet
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Mar 31, 2008
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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Immigration: The Inconvenient Truth (1)
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Apr 07, 2008
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Immigration: The Inconvenient Truth (2)
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Apr 14, 2008
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Immigration: The Inconvenient Truth (3)
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Apr 21, 2008
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2008x16
The Mobile Phone Rip-Off
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Apr 28, 2008
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2008x17
The Truth About Beauty Creams
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May 12, 2008
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2008x18
In God's Name
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May 19, 2008
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2008x19
Warlords Next Door?
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May 26, 2008
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2008x20
Gordon Brown: Where Did It All Go Wrong?
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Jun 09, 2008
Andrew Rawnsley, the award-winning broadcaster, who presented last year's widely acclaimed The Rise and Fall of Tony Blair, assesses Gordon Brown's first year as Prime Minister.
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From Jail to Jihad
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Jun 16, 2008
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2008x22
The Truth About Food Prices
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Jun 23, 2008
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2008x23
The Truth About Street Weapons
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Jun 30, 2008
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2008x24
A Widow's War On Yobs
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Jul 05, 2008
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2008x25
It Shouldn't Happen to a Muslim
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Jul 07, 2008
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2008x26
The Jab That Can Stop Cancer
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Jul 21, 2008
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2008x27
Sandwiches Unwrapped
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Jul 28, 2008
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2008x28
How The Banks Never Lose
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Aug 25, 2008
As the credit crunch continues to leave Britain cash-strapped and high street banks report huge losses, Dispatches investigates who is responsible for the current crisis.
2008x29
Undercover Mosque: The Return
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Sep 01, 2008
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 .. show full overview
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What's in your Wine?
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Sep 05, 2008
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.
2008x30
Hope for the Last Chance Kids
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Sep 08, 2008
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2008x33
Cameron's Money Men
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Sep 20, 2008
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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The Human Cost of the Credit Crunch
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Sep 22, 2008
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, .. show full overview
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The Hidden World of Lap Dancing
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Oct 06, 2008
In high streets and seaside towns all over the country, a growing number of clubs are offering one-on-one lap dances where for a few pounds men can buy extensive bodily contact with a .. show full overview
2008x35
The Trouble With British Airways
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Oct 13, 2008
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2008x36
The Truth About Your Energy Bill
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Oct 20, 2008
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2008x37
Jon Snow's American Journey
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Oct 26, 2008
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2008x38
Don't Bank on the Bailout
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Oct 27, 2008
Has the multi-billion-pound bank bailout saved our economy? City speculator Hugh Hendry doesn't think so. This film follows Hugh as he travels from the Square Mile in London to Wall .. show full overview
2008x39
Mum Loves Drugs, Not Me
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Nov 03, 2008
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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Saving Africa's Witch Children
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Nov 12, 2008
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 .. show full overview
2008x41 Season finale
Iraq: The Legacy
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Dec 13, 2008
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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