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47 Episodes 2014 - 2014
Episode 1
60 mins
John Sweeney examines the secretive world of the family courts and asks if they have unfairly removed children from their parents based on flawed medical evidence. Tiny fractures on juvenile bones may be evidence of abuse - or rickets.
Episode 2
30 mins
The police firearms units are elite, highly-trained marksmen authorized to use lethal force if necessary. They are also under intense scrutiny following a series of high profile cases. Panorama gets unprecedented access to these officers.
Episode 3
30 mins
The cost of the Sochi Winter Olympics have quadrupled to more than £30 billion. John Sweeney investigates claims of massive corruption.
Episode 4
30 mins
In the heart of the most closed and secretive state on Earth sits a university paid for and run by the West, which attempts to open the minds of its pupils.
Episode 5
30 mins
Panorama lifts the lid on the multi-million pound trade in immigration visas, uncovering the frauds that allow bogus foreign students to remain in the UK. They also show how Government-approved exams are being sat by bogus students.
Episode 6
As Britain is once again battered by extreme weather conditions, Richard Bilton explores the causes of the widespread flooding that is ruining lives. Can anything be done to prevent it or will the Government have to choose areas to save?
Episode 7
30 mins
Panorama investigates the mysterious disappearance of a British businessman in Dubai. British authorities handed confidential documents over to the Iranian Government, despite warnings that to do so would endanger his life.
Episode 8
30 mins
Panorama investigates the dramatic increase in the number of food banks across the UK and the numbers of people claiming free food from them. Is this due to benefit changes, the economic slowdown or people taking advantage.
Episode 9
As Russia and the West square up to each other over Ukraine, Paul Kenyon reports from inside the flashpoint military bases of Crimea as they are surrounded by Russian troops.
Episode 10
Vivian White spends a week in a hospital in Stockton, hearing from doctors and nurses about the relentless pressure of working to strict government waiting time targets.
Episode 11
30 mins
Panorama investigates fraud in the National Health Service. With the NHS under financial pressure, Fiona Walker hears claims that it is losing billions each year to fraudsters.
Episode 12
30 mins
Panorama investigates whether the system of directly elected mayors has placed too much power into the hands of one individual. John Ware focuses on the mayor of Tower Hamlets in London who has been accused of injecting faith into politics.
Episode 13
On the eve of the Queen's historic trip to the Vatican, Jane Corbin examines Pope Francis' shake-up of the Catholic Church. Are his reforms more about style than substance?
Episode 14
30 mins
Panorama goes undercover to expose the tactics used by some bailiffs pursuing unpaid parking fines. As well as seizing cars and charging large sums to release them they are accused of intimidating motorists and lying about their powers.
Episode 15
60 mins
As the government's benefits changes begin to bite, Panorama gains exclusive access to one of London's worst-hit boroughs and follows the personal stories of those most affected.
Episode 16
With the NHS spending more than £10 billion a year on drugs, Panorama looks at some of the tactics used by pharmaceutical companies to tap into that market and influence which drugs medics choose to prescribe for their patients.
Episode 17
30 mins
Panorama's Darragh Macintyre investigates the truth about F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone, and asks why he is still in charge after two courts say he paid a 44 million dollar bribe.
Episode 18
60 mins
Panorama investigates what life can be like inside the world of elderly care with the aid of undercover filming, and asks if parts of the system are letting down a generation.
Episode 19
30 mins
The number of Muslims imprisoned in England and Wales has doubled in the past ten years. The prison system has the greatest concentration of radical and extremist Islamists, are they converting and radicalizing other prisoners?
Episode 20
Paul Kenyon travels around Eastern Ukraine to meet some of the separatists who are seizing control of towns and fighting for a breakaway republic.
Episode 21
Shelley Jofre investigates why Jimmy Savile was given access to vulnerable patients at Broadmoor Hospital and asks how the DJ got so close to the heart of Britain's establishment.
Episode 22
50 mins
Brazil is hosting the 2014 World Cup, but the build-up has been overshadowed by violent protests against the spiralling cost of staging the tournament.
Episode 23
Expert witnesses who give evidence in court are supposed to be impartial. But an undercover investigation by Panorama discovers handwriting experts, CCTV analysts and animal behaviorists who are hiding the truth to protect their clients.
Episode 24
The number of people made homeless due to eviction by private landlords has tripled over the last 5 years. Richard Bilton talks to families forced out of their homes and asks if Government policies are putting vulnerable people at risk.
Episode 25
60 mins
Following the 'Phone Hacking Trial', Robert Peston asks if the police and politicians from all parties helped cover up the activities of the press in order to protect their own relationships with Rupert Murdoch?
Episode 26
The American prison system is having to cope with an influx of prisoners with serious mental health problems. Hilary Anderson investigates reports of mentally ill inmates being chained to beds, kept in isolation indefinitely and abused.
Episode 27
30 mins
An investigation into Isis and how it is ripping Iraq apart. Paul Wood speaks to members of the terror group and sees the fighting in Iraq first-hand. Will British recruits bring the terror home?
Episode 28
30 mins
Panorama investigates if changes to the driving laws in the UK have seen the justice system soften its approach to dangerous driving and if in-car technology is driving Britain's drivers to distraction.
Episode 29
60 mins
A report on Baverstock Academy, which attempts to save problem pupils from the scrap heap. The Headmaster of the school explains why they oppose the exclusion of disruptive children and hope to provide an example for others to follow.
Episode 30
30 mins
Alison Holt investigates the grooming and sexual exploitation of children which has devastated lives in the South Yorkshire town of Rotherham for more than twenty years.
Episode 31
30 mins
John Sweeney challenges Russian Premier Vladimir Putin over his country's involvement in the Ukrainian civil war and the shooting down of flight MH17.
Episode 32
30 mins
On the eve of the referendum on Scottish Independence, Allan Little presents an exploration of the issues facing Scotland and the UK. How, over the past 40 years, has this question gone from a fringe idea to dominating British politics?
Episode 33
30 mins
In the aftermath of the Referendum on Scottish Independence, Panorama travels around Scotland following the lives of ordinary people who took part in this momentous decision.
Episode 34
30 mins
For seven weeks Hamas rockets roared over the border into Israel while Israeli bombs pounded Gaza. Panorama's Jane Corbin goes deep into the underground tunnels where battles have been fought to investigate the war that has devastated Gaza.
Episode 35
Every year in the UK, over 3,000 babies are stillborn. Panorama's Paul Kenyon meets the clinicians who say they could save hundreds of babies' lives a year.
Episode 36
30 mins
Millions of British workers are being paid too little to live on and some are on such low wages they cannot afford to eat properly. Richard Bilton meets workers on the breadline.
Episode 37
30 mins
UKIP have shaken up British politics attracting disillusioned voters and defecting MP's. Darragh MacIntyre asks if their charismatic leader, Nigel Farage, is really any different from the politicians that he challenges?
Episode 38
30 mins
On the eve of the withdrawal of NATO forces from Afghanistan, Panorama gains unique access to a Taliban stronghold 60 miles from Kabul.
Episode 39
65 mins
Panorama tells the story of the paralyzed man who's able to walk again thanks to a revolutionary new technique using regenerative cells.
Episode 40
30 mins
An undercover investigation reveals blatant cheating and the drugging of dogs in the UK dog racing industry. Is it now time for the sport's self-regulation to be re-examined?
Episode 41
30 mins
Eleven years on from the disappearance of Blackpool schoolgirl Charlene Downes, Shelley Jofre investigates why nobody has been brought to justice for her murder.
Episode 42
30 mins
Mazher Mahmood has exposed a large number of scandals whilst posing as 'the fake sheik' for a national newspaper. But after Mahmood was branded a liar in a British court recently, Panorama investigates his methods.
Episode 43
45 mins
Panorama spent a month in Sierra Leone following British doctors and nurses who are working in clinics tackling the devastating Ebola outbreak.
Episode 44
30 mins
Have two of the banks bailed out by the British taxpayer been deliberately running down businesses that they are supposed to be helping?
Episode 45
30 mins
Panorama reveals the harrowing footage of domestic violence that is being captured by a new style of police evidence gathering.
Episode 46
30 mins
Scots nurse Colin Norris is serving a minimum of 30 years for the murder of four elderly patients. Mark Daly reveals new evidence that casts doubt on his convictions.
Episode 47
60 mins
Richard Bilton takes an undercover look at what life is like for the workers making the iPhone 6 in China and the children working in dangerous tin mines in Indonesia.