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34 Episodes 2005 - 2005
Episode 1
Archive film from 1961 on the plight of youth and their passion for jazz.
Episode 2
As Iraq holds historic elections, John Simpson looks at the state of Iraq today. Will the elections put the country on the road to peace or push it deeper into war?
Episode 3
In one small city 17 young men committed 100's of crimes. The police found they all shared a grim secret: they had been abused as children by one of Britain's worst paedophiles.
Episode 4
On Thursday plans for a civil marriage between Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles were announced. But some experts who have been looking at the proposal this week believe that it could run into trouble with the law.
Episode 5
Do the figures add up? Panorama investigates what lies behind the numbers that frequently make headline news and what is happening to the money being poured into the health service (NHS).
Episode 6
Sectarianism and religious bigotry have long been accepted as part of a way of life in Scotland. The divide between Protestant and Catholic, the Orange and the Green, is most visibly reflected in the support for Rangers and Celtic.
Episode 7
Panorama travelled the world to create "The dollar a day dress" - a symbol of how the world trade system harms the poor. Reporter Steve Bradshaw travelled from the Sahara to the Andes to discover some of the harsh truths about free trade.
Episode 8
Two years after Tony Blair took British forces into Iraq, John Ware examines how the Prime Minister made the case for war. As allegations persist that he misled the country, just how straight was the Labour leader being?
Episode 9
Her Majesty's Customs and Excise is under investigation by the police after a criminal sting resulted in a disastrous anti-fraud operation. Customs officers were found to have misled judges in secret hearings and lied in court.
Episode 10
Panorama looks at the way we tackle bullying in schools - and asks why thousands of children are left with nowhere to turn.
Episode 11
The programme has filmed extensively with West Yorkshire Police to discover whether a new performance culture with tough targets for crime reduction has affected crime rates. Panorama has filmed inside one of Britain's largest prisons, Armley in Leeds, meeting inmates and staff who work to rehabilitate them. The programme also hears from prolific criminals and the victims of crime to find out what they think will cut offending.
Episode 12
Over the period of a year Panorama has filmed the reality of economic migration, following 11 East Europeans who came to the UK seeking work.
Episode 13
Britain has the highest proportion of young cannabis smokers of any European country - 38 per cent have tried the drug by the age of 16. Until recently, little was known about how cannabis affects developing brains.
Episode 14
Why are so many women in poorer countries dying in pregnancy and childbirth? In one African hospital, Dr. Grace Kodindo is running out of medical supplies, but elsewhere there's reason for hope. Steve Bradshaw reports .
Episode 15
Panorama talks to the hostages who came home from Iraq and the families who lived through the crisis only to see their loved ones murdered.
Episode 16
Ten years ago after the Rwandan genocide world leaders said they would never again delay and argue while innocent people were killed. Panorama investigates why the world has failed to confront what President Bush calls 'genocide' in Darfur
Episode 17
Following a year-long BBC investigation, Peter Taylor explores the terrorist threat. He reveals why it so difficult to track the people who now conduct attacks like those in London this week.
Episode 18
Part one of a two-part special undercover in Britain's Hospitals. The programme investigates one of the country's biggest 3-star hospitals to see what is happening on the front line of hospital hygiene.
Episode 19
Panorama looks at the care given to servicemen from more recent conflicts who've suffered severe, often disabling psychological wounds, but ones which may be ignored by military authorities.
Episode 20
60 mins
Following last week's expose on hospital hygiene, horrifying evidence of what can happen within the - National Health Service when you are old and not regarded as a priority. Shabnam Grewal reports.
Episode 21
Britain is losing the war against drugs - on the streets of our cities the price of heroin has halved in the past decade fuelling addiction and a wave of crime. 95% of the heroin for sale in the UK comes from one country - Afghanistan.
Episode 22
Candid prison interviews with some of Britain's most brutal young offenders provide a disturbing insight into the increasingly violent world inhabited by many children and young people today. With reporter Shelley Jofre.
Episode 23
John Ware examines questions raised by senior members of the Muslim community themselves: Questions about the direction and role of the Muslim Council of Britain and the influences on the leadership of the organisation and its affiliates.
Episode 24
The Prime Minister calls him "the best chancellor for 100 years." He is the man who has overseen the longest economic expansion in modern times, and hopes one day soon to ride his economic record right into Number 10.
Episode 25
The Prince of Wales's marriage to Camilla Parker Bowles was widely seen as a fiasco fraught with PR disasters, doubts about its legality and rumours of a snub by the Queen. Steve Bradshaw gauges the impact on the monarchy's future.
Episode 26
45 mins
Documentary focusing on civil liberties in the UK's "war on terror". The wide gulf between the British PM Tony Blair and his human rights lawyer wife (Cherie) is dramatised in an imaginary conversation within the documentary based on their actual, publicly stated, positions, which also examines several real life cases (also partly reconstructed)
Episode 27
Half a million young UK adults are thought to have a sexually transmitted infection, with HIV, gonorrhoea, syphilis and chlamydia showing huge increases. Andy Davies reports on how a risky approach to sex is fuelling a public-health crisis
Episode 28
With the government promising that no family should suffer "postcode poverty", can a bright seven-year-old escape the whirlpool of poverty, drugs and crime that has engulfed his neighbours? Steve Bradshaw reports.
Episode 29
An increasing number of British people want a timetable for the withdrawal of the troops from Iraq. In a debate from the Imperial War Museum, David Dimbleby hears evidence from experts on both sides.
Episode 30
As fears grow of a new strain of avian flu that could kill millions, the first of 2 investigations reveals the results of a 4 month study on the chances of the H5N1 bird-flu virus jumping the species barrier and triggering a human pandemic
Episode 31
Following last week's investigation into the spread of bird flu and the risk it poses of a human-flu pandemic, representatives from the Gov't, the vaccine industry, as well as scientific and health policy experts, tackle viewers' questions
Episode 32
Tony Blair says tackling anti-social behaviour is a top priority for his Government and the number of ASBOs issued has been doubling year on year, with hundreds of adults and children going to jail for breaching their orders.
Episode 33
As Britain's presidency of the EU moves towards its climax with the leaders summit, Tony Blair continues to call on Europe's heads of gov't to wake up to a new reality - the need to embrace free market reform to halt Europe's decline.
Episode 34
For the third year running, and in direct response to audience demand, Panorama returns to some of the most important stories it has covered over the last year to find out What Happened Next?