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56 Episodes 2008 - 2008
Episode 1
Jeremy Vine examines how kids can be kept safe on the internet, revealing the dangers of online predators and the sheer speed and ease with which they target children online - and even persuade them to meet.
Episode 2
Paul Kenyon follows the most dangerous illegal immigration route into Europe, used by tens and thousands of migrants a year seeking a better life.
Episode 3
40 mins
Panorama goes undercover to investigate the security industry. Is the body set-up to clean up this £7 billion a year sector doing so? A whistle-blower exposes the legal loophole that allows criminals to keep working in the industry.
Episode 4
In this production for Panorama. Alex James confesses to spending a million pounds on champagne and cocaine during the Britpop years with Blur. Now with the drug more popular in the UK than ever before and celebrities in the firing line for promoting it he travels to Colombia at the invitation of its government. He meets the farmers, the sellers and the enforcers and hears the message that every gram is tainted in blood.
Episode 5
Investigation into sharp practice in the housing market which has kept house prices artificially high and plunged homeowners into negative equity.
Episode 6
Fergal Keane travels to South Africa to ask if the new leader of the ANC, Jacob Zuma, is fit to lead either the party or the nation. Zuma has been charged with corruption, while the murder rate and AIDS infection rate have rocketed.
Episode 7
30 mins
Tom Heap asks if Britain's love of bottled water is the ultimate triumph of marketing over common sense. Environment Minister Phil Woolas has said that the £2 billion a year we spend on bottled water is 'morally unacceptable'.
Episode 8
Jeremy Vine interviews Tony Blair's Attorney General Lord Goldsmith and General Sir Mike Jackson, asking how rules preventing abuse and torture of prisoners in Iraq were overturned.
Episode 9
Should people stand up and confront vandals and teenage gangs? Richard Bilton talks to Zoe Newlove, whose father was beaten to death in the street for doing just that. Is community action a better, safer way to tackle anti-social behavior?
Episode 10
An investigation into the case of childminder Keran Henderson who was convicted last year of shaking an 11-month-old baby to death. Her family claim she couldn't have done it, while medical experts are convinced of her guilt.
Episode 11
Gerry Northam investigates how ruthless gangs have been luring teenage girls into drug abuse and prostitution on Britain's streets. This isn't Eastern European people trafficking but British girls on British streets.
Episode 12
A report on the police investigation into allegations of child abuse at the Haut de la Garenne children's home on the island of Jersey. The programme looks into claims that a deliberate cover-up has taken place.
Episode 13
Ten years on from the Good Friday Agreement, Panorama examines what power-sharing has done for those living with Northern Ireland's deep sectarian divisions.
Episode 14
Credit crunch, rising fuel prices and talk of recession - we've been warned of a tough year ahead. But how will we really be affected? Declan Curry discovers if we can weather the storm of the global forces buffeting our economy.
Episode 15
Could pollution on board aeroplanes be damaging passengers' health? This investigation carries out a series of tests to discover which toxins exist in the air we breathe when we fly.
Episode 16
The superbug C difficile is so rife in our hospitals that the equivalent of one person dies with it every hour. Sally Magnusson investigates its spread and how to control it.
Episode 17
The UN polices conflicts around the world, but can it police itself? Raphael Rowe reveals how the organisation is struggling to eradicate the rot at its core.
Episode 18
Ross McWilliam investigates claims that unsuitable and dangerous convicts are being sent to open prisons to help solve the overcrowding crisis.
Episode 19
The Government says formal testing helps to drive up standards, but are English children being given too many exams, placing them under unnecessary pressure? Vivian White reports.
Episode 20
60 mins
Experts and diplomats including Lord Hurd, Christopher Mallaby and Bernard Lovell assess the predictions made about the world's future in an edition of Panorama from 1960.
Episode 21
The Government has been cracking down on sickness benefit fraud. But can they achieve their aim of getting a million people back to work within the next eight years? Shelley Jofre investigates.
Episode 22
A look at how Panorama's simple experiment of putting a young girl's details onto social networking websites ended with the arrest of an online predator.
Episode 23
30 mins
With house prices now on the slide and fewer of us able to secure a mortgage, has the British obsession with home ownership finally run out of steam? Richard Bilton meets some of the winners and losers in the property market.
Episode 24
30 mins
Panorama catches up with those soldiers to find out: what happened after 'Taking on the Taliban?' Some have been awarded for bravery, while others are either planning to leave the army or have already left.
Episode 25
Panorama investigates that as much as $23bn may have been lost, stolen or not properly accounted for in Iraq. More than 70 whistleblower cases threaten to reveal the scandals behind billions of dollars worth of waste, theft and corruption.
Episode 26
30 mins
Posing as industry buyers in India, Tom Heap and his team find some of India's poorest people working long, gruelling hours in slum workshops and refugee camps - breaking Primark promises on child labour, working hours and wages.
Episode 27
30 mins
The tragic shooting of Liverpool schoolboy Rhys Jones last year brought the issue of armed teenage gangs into the headlines. Reporter Graham Johnson reveals how ingrained the culture of guns and violence has become in parts of Britain.
Episode 28
30 mins
Reporter Sally Magnusson investigates what many see as a creeping privatisation of the Health Service (NHS) and asks if it is cause for concern.
Episode 29
30 mins
Panorama provides evidence of how China is supplying the Sudanese government with arms to enable it to wage a campaign of violence in Darfur - all for oil.
Episode 30
At a time when the Government is lecturing the country on green issues, a report on its support for a third runway at Heathrow, amid claims that it has used misleading scientific evidence regarding air and noise pollution.
Episode 31
30 mins
With the price of fuel rocketing at the pumps, Jane Corbin reports on how fuel prices are affecting Britain and what alternatives might be available.
Episode 32
Paul Kenyon investigates the world of betting in the sport of kings, and reveals why industry experts are so concerned about gamblers betting vast sums of money on horses not to win, but to lose.
Episode 33
As the Beijing Games approach, reporter John Sweeney travels across China to test whether the Chinese government's pledges regarding press freedom for foreign journalists are being honoured.
Episode 34
Travel writer Bill Bryson presents a personal and passionate account of how Britain has become a rubbish tip since his arrival from the USA in 1972.
Episode 35
Shelley Jofre takes a road trip around the UK and discovers how the quality of treatment from the NHS very much depends on where you live.
Episode 36
30 mins
An investigation into how factors such as mass immigration and devolution are forever changing the concept of 'Britishness'. Vivian White reports.
Episode 37
30 mins
Jeremy Vine investigates the stories behind the credit-crunch headlines and reveals the effects of the economic downturn on a brick-cutter, a publican, a mother and a pawnbroker.
Episode 38
30 mins
Panorama asks whether the money markets can achieve what campaigners and law enforcement have so far failed to, and make trees more valuable alive than dead.
Episode 39
50 mins
Peter Taylor uncovers the inside story of the operation which thwarted a terrorist plot to cause explosions and led to increased security at British airports.
Episode 40
Panorama reveals the secret intelligence which was withheld from the detectives when 29 people and two unborn babies were murdered in Omagh.
Episode 41
30 mins
Jane Corbin looks at how the crisis facing the world's financial institutions could impact on the nation's banks, mortgages, insurance and pensions.
Episode 42
But can you hide? Simon Boazman investigates how much information is held on him, whether it is secure and if he can reduce his data trail.
Episode 43
30 mins
Nick Robinson accompanies Conservative Party leader David Cameron to Birmingham as he attempts to persuade voters he is prime minister material.
Episode 44
30 mins
Panorama investigates racism in Britain's police force. Mark Daly - who exposed racism amongst police recruits in The Secret Policeman five years ago - returns to uncover the truth about being a Black Ethnic Minority Cop today.
Episode 45
30 mins
Russia's actions in the conflict in Georgia proved that the superpower has no qualms about flexing its muscles. Mark Franchetti finds out from Vladimir Putin's inner circle what the Russians think and what it could mean for the rest of us.
Episode 46
30 mins
Matt Frei investigates Barack Obama's rise in the opinion polls, and asks if the current financial crisis has put him on the home straight.
Episode 47
60 mins
Jeremy Vine asks why our economy ran into trouble, and who is to blame for the credit crunch and banking crisis which threatens to affect us all.
Episode 48
30 mins
The British Commander on the ground admits the war against the Taliban cannot be won by force alone in this eye-opening assessment of the Afghanistan conflict.
Episode 49
30 mins
With the credit crunch affecting everyone, Panorama reveals the lengths some lenders are now going to in order to get borrowers to pay off their debts.
Episode 50
30 mins
A six-month investigation by the programme reveals the mistakes and missed opportunities that led to the death of a 17-month-old boy known only as Baby P.
Episode 51
30 mins
In Addicted to Aid, award-winning Sierra Leonean reporter Sorious Samura, a man well-known for asking difficult questions of Africa's leaders, examines these issues. He asks whether we might have got it all wrong, and if we have become distracted by arguments over how much money to give and paid too little attention to where it ends up.
Episode 52
30 mins
An investigation into the Government's support of a new wave of opencast coal mining, in spite of fierce opposition from local communities.
Episode 53
60 mins
Panorama presents the inside story on the disappearance of Shannon Matthews, as it investigates the events that led to Karen Matthews being convicted for the kidnap of her own daughter.
Episode 54
Politician and Parkinson's sufferer Margo MacDonald uncovers the truth about assisted dying, meeting those with illnesses like hers who are desperate to die.
Episode 55
30 mins
Jane Corbin makes the hazardous journey to the frontline in the War on Terror, the remote and forbidding mountains along the Pakistan-Afghan border - where Britain's top terror suspect Rashid Rauf was allegedly killed.
Episode 56
30 mins
It has been a cataclysmic year for our banks and economy. With exclusive interviews with the major players, BBC's Business Editor Robert Peston reflects on how these momentous events will affect us all.