Dispatches Season 21 Episodes

Episode 1

Fighting the Taliban

Episode 2

Meeting the Taliban

Episode 3

Undercover Mosque

48 mins

Investigative journalist, Bobby Pathak, has investigated a number of mosques run by high profile national organisations that claim to be dedicated to moderation and dialogue with other faiths. But reporting undercover he joined worshippers to find a message of religious bigotry and extremism being preached. The investigation reveals Saudi Arabian universities are recruiting young Western Muslims to train them in their extreme theology, then sending them back to the West to spread the word. Saudi-trained preachers are also promoted in DVDs and books on sale at religious centres and sermons broadcast on websites. These publications and webcasts disseminate beliefs about women such as: "Allah has created the woman deficient, her intellect is incomplete", and girls: "By the age of 10 if she doesn't wear hijab, we hit her," and there's an extreme hostility towards homosexuals. And the Dispatches reporter discovers that British Muslims can ask for fatwas, religious rulings, direct from the top religious leader in Saudi Arabia, the Grand Mufti.

Episode 4

Labour's Gambling Addiction

Episode 5

Iraq's Death Squads

Episode 6

At Home with the Terror Suspects

Episode 7

The Supermarket That's Eating Britain

Episode 8

NHS: Where Did All the Money Go?

Episode 9

Greenwash

60 mins

The government is set to achieve only a third to a half of its overall policy target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. Dispatches reports. The expert-reviewed audit by the UCL Environment Institute is the first comprehensive investigation into the real impact of the Government's carbon-cutting policies across all government departments mandated with reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Each of the four most important sectors: Energy Supply, Business, Transport and Domestic have been reviewed. The report: Audit of UK Greenhouse Gas emissions to 2020: Will current Government policies achieve significant reductions? written by Mark Maslin and a team of expert researchers at UCL, reveals that, at best, the government's existing policies (which are supposed to deliver a cut by 2020 in the UK's greenhouse gas emissions of 30 per cent on 1990 levels) will only deliver a reduction of between 12 per cent and 17 per cent. The reasons for these failures of policy are due to the current voluntary nature of most of the policy. Where policies are mandatory there is currently no enforcement. If current policies were mandatory and new more prescriptive future policies were developed then the Audit believes the UK could still make significant cuts in its greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, thus providing world leadership in combating climate change.

Episode 10

Charles: The Meddling Prince

Episode 11

When Did You Last Beat Your Wife?

Episode 12

Cameron; Toff at the Top

Episode 13

Undercover Prisoner

Episode 14

Murdering the Truth

Episode 15

Between the Mullahs and The Military

Episode 16

The Indian Miracle?

Episode 17

Gordon Brown: Fit for Office?

Episode 18

Afghanistan Unveiled

Episode 19

Bin Wars

Episode 20

Kidnapped to Order

Episode 21

Drinking Yourself to Death

Based on medical research and personal findings Dispatches investigates the effects binge drinking can have on a consumer's health and whether low-priced (supermarket bought) alcohol is one of the causes for an increase in alcohol consumption.

Episode 22

The Man Who Lost Himself

Episode 23

The War on Britain's Jews

Episode 24

Great Green Smokescreen

Episode 25

Undercover Mother

Tazeen Ahmad investigates the overstretched maternity services which are resulting in new mothers having traumatic births and at worst, putting lives at risk.

Episode 26

Britain's Bad Housing

Episode 27

Britain Under Attack

Episode 28

The Olympic Cash Machine

Episode 29

Unholy War (II)

Episode 30

Nice Work If You Can Get It

Political journalist Peter Oborne examines how politicians and MPs use their power to gain financial benefits.

Episode 31

Immigrants: The Inconvenient Truth

Looks at the beneficial social and economical contributions made by different immigrant groups, drawing on research done by the Institute for Public Policy Research. Contrasts this with the perception of immigrants and political and media issues.

Episode 32

China's Stolen Children

80 mins

Ten years after the policy-changing and award-winning film, The Dying Rooms, the same team returns to a very different China where the infamous One Child Policy has had the horrific side effect of a boom in stolen children. With extraordinary access to devastated parents desperately searching for their stolen son; a man who brokers the deals and has sold his own offspring; and prospective parents grappling with giving up their soon-to-be-born daughter through lack of options, we are brought face to face with the crisis that such a stringent government policy has created among China's poorest people. Beautiful, haunting, deeply tragic, but impossible to ignore, this film takes us into the heart of modern China. A place where girl babies are being sold for 3,000-4,000 RMB (£200-270); detectives specialise in finding kidnapped children; and child traffickers are so relaxed about the trade they ply, that they allow the film-makers to covertly record them buying and selling tiny human lives. Tens of thousands of children are now kidnapped and traded on the black market whilst the State is more concerned with keeping the story quiet than tracing Chinas stolen children.

Episode 33

Abortion: What We Need to Know

An investigation into abortion; focusing on how new scientific research on foetal pain could cause for a change to current abortion laws.

Episode 34

Searching for Madeleine

After the disappearance of child, Madeline McCann 168 days ago; Dispatches sent a team of five of the UK's best-qualified criminal investigators to Praia da Luz to investigate and assess the situation.

Episode 35

Why Our Children Can't Read

Episode 36

How to Get Ahead in Africa

Episode 37

The Housing Trap

Episode 38

Bottleneck Britain

Episode 39

Mark Thomas on Coca-Cola

48 mins

Comedian and activist Mark Thomas reports on how Coca-Cola has caused problems in the world with pollution, worker exploitation and even death. The documentary also reports on how Coca-Cola respond to these allegations.

Episode 40

Britain Under Water

Episode 41

Christmas Credit Crisis

Episode 42

How Safe Are Your Christmas Toys?

Deborah Davies reports on potentially dangerous toys that can be bought in the UK. These toys are then safety tested and the findings reported to authorities.