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53 Episodes 2009 - 2009
Episode 1
30 mins
Jeremy Vine reveals the problem of sexual bullying in schools and hears from experts, parents, teachers and kids on what can be done to tackle it.
Episode 2
30 mins
34 teenagers were stabbed to death in the UK in 2008. The number of prison sentences handed out for carrying a knife has risen ten-fold. Why are so many youngsters arming themselves with knives? Raphael Rowe enters prisons to speak to them.
Episode 3
30 mins
Barack Obama won the US Presidential election promising to make America a fairer country. But he has inherited the worst economic crisis in almost a century. Can he change the most powerful country in the world, and should he?
Episode 4
30 mins
Frank Skinner sets out to discover if the Ross-Brand storm really was a watershed in broadcasting's debate about bad language and offence.
Episode 5
30 mins
Despite Britain being in economic crisis and ordinary taxpayers getting hit hard it seems that the super-rich can still take advantage of 'off-shore' tax havens to protect their millions. John Sweeney asks if it is time these were closed.
Episode 6
30 mins
As Israel prepares to vote on its future, BBC Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen travels through a devastated Gaza to ask if the 22-day Operation Cast Lead has really weakened Hamas or merely sown the seeds for further bloodshed.
Episode 7
30 mins
As the government prepares to announce a new counter-terrorism strategy, the Secret Service (MI5) say that they cannot monitor all of the Muslim extremists in Britain. Richard Watson asks should we talk to or isolate the radicals.
Episode 8
30 mins
Dragon's Den star Theo Paphitis investigates if the banks and the government are doing enough to help the 4.7 million small businesses in the UK to survive the recession. 120 businesses are reportedly closing down each day.
Episode 9
30 mins
RBS are predicted to be about to announce the biggest losses in British history. In February 2009 the bank's chief executive apologized for their part in the banking crisis. Mark Daly looks at what is next for the bank and its staff.
Episode 10
Panorama looks at a proposed amnesty for hundreds of thousands of long-standing illegal immigrants, championed by London mayor Boris Johnson.
Episode 11
30 mins
Panorama reveals how organised crime is defeating attempts to claw back its profits, and how the Crown has been reduced to making tax deals with criminals.
Episode 12
30 mins
As credit crunch pushes Britain's long-running pensions and savings time-bomb to a critical new stage, Panorama takes experts to those facing a very uncertain retirement to see if they can find a solution.
Episode 13
Documentary looking back at 1959 through the eyes of the BBC current affairs programme Panorama, recalling a time when Britain finally realised that the old world was disappearing.
Episode 14
With soldiers and police once again being killed in the province, Panorama offers a detailed analysis of the resurgent terrorist threat in Northern Ireland, based on ten years' work investigating the breakaway Republican movement.
Episode 15
30 mins
Panorama goes undercover in the millionaires' playground of Dubai to look at luxury developments. Reporter Ben Anderson discovers that behind the glossy sales brochures is an army of construction workers living in appalling conditions.
Episode 16
Paul Kenyon investigates care of the elderly and goes undercover to expose a world of chaos. Carers on minimum wages - often with little training - battle to provide decent care.
Episode 17
30 mins
Since the closure of Woolworths' 807 retail outlets, Panorama has followed some of the 27,000 former staff as they try to escape unemployment.
Episode 18
30 mins
Panorama investigates why the deadly serious matter of health and safety has become a laughing stock, and why it has strayed from its original aim.
Episode 19
30 mins
Margaret Haywood put her career on the line to expose failings in the care of the elderly. Jeremy Vine asks why more aren't willing to speak out.
Episode 20
30 mins
Reporter Alison Holt has further revelations on the case of Baby P, the baby boy who died while under the care of social workers in Haringey, London.
Episode 21
30 mins
John Sweeney goes on the trail of the dark side of banker Sir Allen Stanford who bowled over cricket and is accused of a multi-billion dollar fraud.
Episode 22
30 mins
Panorama follows a British family to China as they pin their hopes on a new stem cell therapy to give their daughter sight. As evidence mounts that some treatments offered abroad are bogus, will the child's eyesight improve?
Episode 23
30 mins
The expenses scandal is just the beginning and not the end of Westminster's troubles. Shelley Jofre reports on the other ways in which the new appetite for transparency may embarrass honourable members of government.
Episode 24
30 mins
Vivian White challenges David Southall to answer his critics and uncovers evidence that may support his claim of victimisation.
Episode 25
30 mins
As Iranians prepare to elect a president beneath the gaze of its Ayatollah and supreme leader, Jane Corbin asks whether Obama's recent plea for greater understanding will be heeded.
Episode 26
Panorama investigates the growing trend of celebrities and public figures turning to privacy laws to suppress stories and photographs showing them in a bad light.
Episode 27
Exclusive access to airborne troops and to footage shot in Taliban-controlled towns reveals the inside story of Pakistan's fight against extremists in its mountains and valleys. John Sweeney reports.
Episode 28
30 mins
Ten years after devolution the Scots want still more power concentrated north of the border, and the Scottish Nationalists want to force a referendum on independence. Can the UK be preserved?
Episode 29
30 mins
Panorama asks if police tactics aimed at preventing troublemakers taking over demonstrations are eroding the freedom to protest for all but the most hardened activists.
Episode 30
30 mins
Who authorised the torture of terror suspects in US custody? Panorama investigates whether the interrogation techniques used by the Bush administration after 9/11 broke US and international law.
Episode 31
30 mins
Panorama helps citizen journalists Steven, Belinda and Tony find out the future of the steel industry, which employs tens of thousands of people.
Episode 32
30 mins
Veteran BBC war reporter Allan Little investigates how the battlefield trauma of the Vietnam War - post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) - now ends up in British motor insurance claims, workplace accidents and school bullying.
Episode 33
30 mins
Panorama reveals the endless game of cat and mouse between prisoners determined to get their fix and officers equally determined to keep drugs out of their jails.
Episode 34
30 mins
Richard Bilton looks at reclaiming Britain's town centres from the drunk and violent, with the bar that makes it too difficult to get drunk and the battle against cheap drink promotions.
Episode 35
30 mins
With British soldiers dying in record numbers and the country arguing over the wisdom of the war, Jane Corbin travels across Afghanistan to ask if the British presence has made the lives of Afghan women any better.
Episode 36
30 mins
Panorama reports on the elderly people who are taking to the streets in protest, and threatening legal action, because their residential wardens are being taken away.
Episode 37
30 mins
With the quality of bathing water on the UK's beaches in decline, Panorama investigates the outflow pipes that discharge sewage, tampons and condoms after heavy rain, and commissions its own scientific tests, with some disturbing results.
Episode 38
30 mins
A documentary on illegal, essentially economic migration from African countries, notably leaving from the Libyan shores, to 'promised land' Europe. Reporting home to Ghana allows a 'famous' lucky emigrant, who got into Italy, to explain that even in the unlikely event of surviving the trip without being returned, life as unschooled immigrant hardly lives up to dreams before departure.
Episode 39
60 mins
Jeremy Vine, Sophie Raworth and Fergus Walsh travel through the UK and the world to expose the myths and the dangers of swine flu. Who is most vulnerable? How do you avoid it? And can the NHS cope?
Episode 40
30 mins
In 2008, the British (and many other) banks were bailed out by governments. In return for billions of tax payers money, they were supposed to help kick-start the economy and clean up their management bonus-act. A year later, the bank sector's record on both counts is contemptible. Instead of passing on cheap credit, they stifle business investments and private credit, even the mortgages they over-sold before - and causing the credit crunch. Furthermore they keep organizing tax evasion.
Episode 41
The real effects of the recession may just be starting as John Ware challenges the politicians to come clean about their plans to slash public spending.
Episode 42
In a Panorama special, the programme investigates a key Labour health policy that used the private sector to slash NHS waiting lists. Six years on, was it worth the price?
Episode 43
30 mins
Reporter Paul Kenyon continues his journey out of Africa following the route taken by 40,000 migrants a year seeking a better life in Europe.
Episode 44
30 mins
Vivian White investigates the reasons why the ultimate 'no frills' airline has gained a reputation as the brand Britain loves to hate but can't stop using.
Episode 45
Bullied, attacked and racially-abused more than fifty times in eight weeks. That's the experience of two British Asian reporters posing as a couple and living undercover on a housing estate in Britain during summer 2009.
Episode 46
Are we safe from dangerous prisoners released back onto our streets? A Panorama investigation reveals the extent of crimes committed by ex-convicts.
Episode 47
30 mins
With exclusive access to Coventry's social workers, Panorama follows the emergency response team as they attempt to identify children at risk.
Episode 48
Shelley Jofre investigates whether punishing violent crimes with cautions and fines is letting some serious criminals off the hook and denying justice to victims.
Episode 49
Loan sharks are thriving in recession-hit Britain, as the poor find themselves relying on criminals. Simon Boazman finds the victims who have suffered brutal violence, and looks at the lenders who can charge 17,000 per cent interest.
Episode 50
Panorama investigates a little-known law called joint enterprise, used to curb gang violence, and asks if the catch-all policy leads to miscarriages of justice.
Episode 51
Is the supermarket chain, once criticised for concreting over the countryside and importing its food from abroad, leading the fightback against man-made global warming? Tom Heap reports.
Episode 52
Old politics were due to be swept away on a tide of moats and mortgages. But what has changed? Politicians discuss how they can regain the trust of voters.
Episode 53
30 mins
What is wrong with the Royal Mail? Panorama investigates the service that gets around 5,000 complaints a day, and asks if it is failing its customers.