Panorama Season 61 Episodes

Episode 1

Immigration Undercover

30 mins

It is estimated that there are more than half a million foreign migrants hiding from the authorities in the UK. Paul Kenyon goes undercover to expose the illegal travel network smuggling them in and OUT of Britain.

Episode 2

The Great Disability Scam?

30 mins

Only half of people with a disability are in work. Panorama investigates if one of the government's most ambitious welfare reforms can solve the problem of disability unemployment. Samantha Poling reports.

Episode 3

The Great Abortion Divide

30 mins

Victoria Derbyshire investigates the great abortion divide between Northern Ireland and most of the United Kingdom, and asks if it is time to change the law.

Episode 4

Inside Barclays: Banking on Bonuses

After a series of controversies, bosses at Barclays say they're changing the culture of the bank. But what went wrong? Reporter Richard Bilton investigates the bonus culture that drove one of our biggest banks.

Episode 5

What's Really in Our Food?

30 mins

Panorama investigates the horse meat scandal and reveals more concerns about what is really in our food. Richard Bilton questions the 'light touch' regulation of the food industry.

Episode 6

Mission Accomplished? Secrets of Helmand

Reporter Ben Anderson joins Allied troops preparing to hand over to Afghan forces next year, finding the Afghan army and police to be poorly trained and lacking resources.

Episode 7

America's Gun Addiction

30 mins

Following the Newtown massacre, Panorama meets the teachers who want to use guns to protect their schools and reveals America's national crisis in mental healthcare.

Episode 8

The Spies Who Fooled the World

60 mins

On the eve of the tenth anniversary of the Iraq War, Panorama reveals how key aspects of the secret intelligence used by Downing Street and the White House to justify the invasion were based on fabrication, wishful thinking and lies.

Episode 9

The Great Savings Wipeout

Panorama reveals how investors in 2 schemes; a dodgy hotel developer specialising in the Caribbean and the Connaught/Tiuta Ponzi fund, were fleeced under the noses of regulators and others who had a duty of care to protect consumers assets

Episode 10

The Derby Fire: Secrets and Lies

30 mins

The Derby Fire, in which six children died, shocked Britain. Mick Philpott, the father of the children, was hailed a hero for trying to rescue them but later convicted of starting the blaze. Panorama investigates this tragic case.

Episode 11

North Korea Undercover

30 mins

While North Korea's 'Supreme Commander' Kim Jong-Un has been threatening thermo-nuclear war against the United States, Panorama reporter John Sweeney spent eight days undercover inside the most rigidly-controlled nation on Earth.

Episode 12

Secrets of Britain's Sharia Councils

30 mins

Panorama goes undercover to investigate what is really happening in Britain's Sharia Councils - Islamic religious courts. Campaigners say it is time to tackle the parallel legal system which can run counter to British law.

Episode 13

The Russians Are Coming

Reporter Darragh MacIntyre investigates a death in a Russian prison that has brought the threat of violence to the UK, and the death of a whistleblower found in Surrey.

Episode 14

Jobs for the Boys?

Former England and Arsenal footballer Sol Campbell investigates why the unemployment rate for young black British men is roughly double that of their white counterparts.

Episode 15

Hillsborough: How They Buried the Truth

60 mins

A Panorama investigation reveals how police, politicians, lawyers and judges all played a part in burying the truth about Britain's worst football disaster.

Episode 16

Cancer: Hope for Sale?

Richard Bilton investigates a controversial American doctor who claims he can cure cancer. Why has he been allowed to sell an unproven and experimental treatment for 30 years?

Episode 17

Cash for Questions Undercover

A Panorama special going undercover to reveal lobbying practices which raise serious questions about standards in political life.

Episode 19

Blacklist Britain

Richard Bilton does the first TV interview with the bookkeeper for the organisation which ran a secret blacklist subscribed to by some of the biggest names in British business.

Episode 20

Traffic Fines: Highway Robbery?

30 mins

With councils fining drivers in ever-greater numbers after capturing them on CCTV, Panorama tries to find new ways to cut down on the mountain of traffic tickets issued each year.

Episode 21

Elderly Care: Condition Critical?

Using secret filming and exclusive research into the mortality rates of care and nursing homes for the elderly in England, Panorama exposes the pain of poor care and neglect.

Episode 22

Kids Lost in Care

30 mins

Panorama investigates the standard of residential care for vulnerable children. In homes where care is not up to scratch, some young people run away into risky situations.

Episode 23

The Truth About Pills and Pregnancy

Many women have to take medicines while pregnant. But could they be risking the health of their unborn child? Decades after the Thalidomide scandal shocked the world, Panorama reveals how another medicine has damaged far more children.

Episode 24

The Trouble with Trump

Reporter John Sweeney asks if the Scottish government knew enough about self-proclaimed billionaire Donald Trump before accepting his investment proposal.

Episode 25

Broken by Battle

60 mins

Panorama investigates the true personal cost of the war in Afghanistan on British troops, going beyond the limits of the Ministry of Defence's statistics on suicide.

Episode 26

Jungle Outlaws: Chainsaw Trail

Panorama investigates illegal logging in the rainforest and the timber trail from Africa to West Europe. Raphael Rowe spent six months tracking logs from Congo's jungle.

Episode 27

Tainted Love: Secrets of the Dating Game

Panorama exposes the tricks of the UK's online dating industry, worth millions of pounds a year. Fiona Walker investigates how some unscrupulous dating websites are preying on those looking for love and searching for their perfect partner.

Episode 28

The Brothers Who Bombed Boston

Panorama explores how the two suspected Boston Marathon bombers - brothers raised and educated in the US - became radicalised, and asks if America's war on terror has come home.

Episode 29

Locked Up for Being Ill

There is a crisis in police cells across the country, and it is not to do with crime, according to senior officers. The police say they regularly have to detain mental health patients who should be dealt with by psychiatric professionals

Episode 30

Tax, Lies and Videotape

30 mins

The government says it is cracking down on tax avoidance and evasion, but does the tough talk really stand up to scrutiny? Panorama goes undercover in the City to investigate the truth about UK tax policy.

Episode 31

The Honeymoon Murder: Who Killed Anni?

60 mins

When a beautiful young bride was murdered on her honeymoon in South Africa - allegedly on the orders of her British husband - it made headlines around the world. Nearly three years on, the truth about Anni Dewani's killing remains a mystery, while in July a British judge ordered Shrien Dewani - still sectioned under the mental health act in the UK - should be extradited to South Africa to stand trial. BBC Panorama has obtained the secret police files which make up the prosecution case against the 33-year-old Bristol businessman, and has commissioned leading forensic experts to review all the evidence. Their findings expose fundamental mistakes both in the police investigation and in the interpretation of forensic evidence. Could Shrien Dewani be - as he has always claimed - an innocent man?

Episode 32

Dying for a Bargain

30 mins

On April 2013, Rana Plaza building collapsed in Bangladesh, killing about 1100 garment workers. Plus various fires in other factories and extensive work ships, the dangerous situation the workers have to endure to make UK and other western countries retail and well-known brand garments, were revealed.

Episode 33

Terror in Nairobi

Panorama investigates the network al-Shabab uses to cross the Somali-Kenyan border at will and this terror group's appeal to radicalised Muslim youths in Britain and beyond.

Episode 34

Saving Syria's Children

Panorama travels with British doctors inside Syria to exclusively reveal the devastating impact of the war on children caught in the conflict.

Episode 35

Malala: Shot for Going to School

One year ago, Malala Yousafzai was shot by the Taliban on her school bus. In this Panorama special, she talks exclusively to Mishal Husain about her remarkable journey.

Episode 36

Britain's New Banking Scandal

Panorama reporter Adam Shaw lifts the lid on what could be Britain's biggest financial mis-selling scandal - the hard sell of so-called interest rate swaps.

Episode 37

Murder in the Alps

With exclusive access to eyewitnesses and investigators, Panorama reveals how and asks why a British family and a French cyclist were brutally murdered by a hitman.

Episode 38

Our Dirty Nation

Cleaning up Britain's rubbish costs more than a billion pounds each year. Journalist and Labour peer Joan Bakewell argues that we all need to take more pride in our surroundings.

Episode 39

After Savile: No More Secrets?

Reporter Sanchia Berg talks to victims, police and senior figures who are now calling for Britain to change the law and uncovers secret files which show that the government knew for decades that children's homes and schools covered up abuse. Head teachers and governors routinely moved abusers, sending them on with a good reference, rather than call the police.

Episode 40

The Great House Price Bubble?

With house prices hitting record highs at the same time as living standards continue to be squeezed, Adam Shaw goes in search of affordable homes for ordinary working families.

Episode 41

Britain's Secret Terror Force

Reporter John Ware interviews former members of a secret undercover unit run by the British Army in the early 1970's as they reveal how they took the war to the IRA.

Episode 42

Amazon: The Truth Behind the Click

How well does online retailer Amazon treat its workers? Conditions in the company's giant warehouses have been condemned by unions as among the worst in Britain.

Episode 43

Where's Our Aid Money Gone?

30 mins

The Global Fund has spent nearly £15 billion fighting AIDS, malaria and TB around the world. But its inspector general was sacked after exposing corruption. Richard Bilton asks why the UK Government is about to give it a further £1 billion.

Episode 44

Energy Bills: Power Failure?

Energy bills have gone up by around a quarter in the past four years and politicians from all sides say they are determined to bring them down. Can they deliver?

Episode 45

All in a Good Cause

Do we really know about the charities we support? Declan Lawn hears from donors and charity workers who believe the quest for money is undermining the mission.

Episode 46

The Romanians Are Coming?

30 mins

Reporter Paul Kenyon joins British police in a Romanian village where most of the men have left to pursue work in the black markets of London, as they try to stem the flow.

Episode 47

Woolwich: The Untold Story

60 mins

With two British Muslim converts found guilty of the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby, Panorama asks if the security services among others missed opportunities to prevent Lee's death.