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49 Episodes 2020 - 2020
Episode 1
29 mins
For more than a century, our high streets have been key to our communities but now they face a multitude of challenges. Business journalist Adam Shaw investigates government plans to spend millions of pounds reviving town centres.
Episode 2
29 mins
Leaked documents reveal how an impoverished country was corruptly exploited by its former ruling family. Richard Bilton follows the money trail back to the UK.
Episode 3
29 mins
Richard Bilton asks how safe are 'smart' motorways, where the hard shoulder is turned into a live lane. He assesses the advice given to broken down drivers and learns about the roll-out of the technology.
Episode 4
29 mins
In 2013, a change in planning laws meant companies could buy up and convert old office blocks into homes without planning permission. This programme meets some of those now housed in such blocks by local councils.
Episode 5
29 mins
Ellie Flynn talks to the family of Callie Lewis, who killed herself while in the care of the NHS, and uncovers the extent of the service's failure to provide adequate mental health care.
Episode 6
59 mins
Amazon has risen to become one of the most powerful companies in the world. The technology it is developing has the power to shape our future but is it a force for good or is there a dark side to its power?
Episode 7
29 mins
Mark Daly investigates fresh allegations made against Alberto Salazar, the man who coached Mohamed Farah to Olympic glory.
Episode 8
29 mins
Large numbers of people in the UK fall victim to scams each year, many are run from criminal call centres in India. Rajini Vaidyanathan tracks down the man behind one such centre and some of the victims.
Episode 9
29 mins
The Department for Work and Pensions is meant to help disabled people get back into work. But the DWP has lost more employment tribunals for disability discrimination than any other employer in Britain.
Episode 10
29 mins
Across Britain bus use has plummeted in recent years. Outside London thousands of routes have been cut and bus pass use is down. The prime minister has pledged billions to revitalise the bus network, but is it enough?
Episode 11
29 mins
Jane Corbin looks at how Britain is coping with the Covid 19 crisis - and asks if the government has the right strategy to contain the virus.
Episode 12
29 mins
Richard Bilton examines the financial impact of Covid-19, telling the story of the fight to save the UK's economy from an unprecedented threat.
Episode 13
29 mins
More than one-and-a-half million people across the UK have been told they have to stay at home for at least 3 months because they are most at risk from coronavirus. Richard Bilton hears from some of them.
Episode 14
29 mins
Four weeks into the government lockdown to save lives and protect the NHS, Jane Corbin reports from the frontline to tell the inside story of a Coventry hospital coping with Covid-19.
Episode 15
30 mins
Has the government let down the health workers leading the fight against the coronavirus? Reporter Richard Bilton investigates the delays and mistakes that may have put the lives of NHS staff at risk.
Episode 16
29 mins
Justin Rowlatt reports from the scientific frontline, finding out how science can help us defeat the virus. With access to key drug and vaccine trials, he reveals a race against time to help save lives.
Episode 17
29 mins
A look at how Britain's economy has been radically altered by the Coronavirus pandemic and subsequent lockdown. While some businesses are struggling to stay afloat others face unprecedented demand for their services.
Episode 18
29 mins
An investigation into conditions inside migrant camps in Greece during the Covid-19 lockdown, as experts warn of the potential for dangerous outbreaks inside the camps.
Episode 19
29 mins
Hilary Andersson reports from New York City, meeting doctors, health workers and community activists, she asks why more than 16,000 people have died during the Coronavirus pandemic in a city with some of the best health care in the world.
Episode 20
29 mins
A report on what could be Britain's largest ever miscarriage of justice - the scandal surrounding the Post Office's Horizon computer system and evidence of a cover-up at the Post Office.
Episode 21
29 mins
The death of George Floyd in Minneapolis has prompted the biggest protests about race and police brutality in America for 50 years. Around the world, thousands of people have joined marches against racism. Reporter Clive Myrie asks if this could be a moment that changes race relations in America for good. He hears from protesters, eyewitnesses and former police officers about why this killing has had such a powerful impact, and speaks to people from black and white communities in Minneapolis about their hopes and fears for the future.
Episode 22
29 mins
An investigation into the global network of neo-Nazis and how they are recruiting and radicalising people in the UK, such as the 16-year-old who became the youngest person in Britain to be charged with planning a terrorist attack.
Episode 23
30 mins
Richard Bilton investigates the rapid expansion of our Covid-19 testing capacity and asks whether we have got the world-beating service the prime minister promised.
Episode 24
29 mins
Deborah James, who herself has incurable bowel cancer, investigates fears that the coronavirus pandemic has caused a crisis in cancer care that could mean many thousands more will die.
Episode 25
29 mins
Scotland has dramatically cut violent crime in the past 15 years, but how was it done? Kate Silverton films with Police Scotland's Violence Reduction Unit to find out.
Episode 26
29 mins
The city of Salford lifts the lockdown and tries to get its community back to work. But with the local council approaching bankruptcy, can services be sustained?
Episode 27
29 mins
Dr Faye Kirkland investigates the scientific advice the government followed in the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic and asks if they were taking a gamble with people's lives.
Episode 28
29 mins
Did China hide crucial information about Covid-19? BBC China Editor Carrie Gracie investigates how it delayed reporting the initial outbreak, evidence that it could be spread to humans and how doctors who spoke out were silenced.
Episode 29
58 mins
Were care homes abandoned to battle Covid-19 alone? Over several months, cameras were allowed into two very different care homes, revealing the dedication of staff, frustration of managers and heartache as more and more lives were lost.
Episode 30
29 mins
Stacey visits Bradford Royal Infirmary to find out how the pandemic is transforming the way mothers, midwives and doctors deal with pregnancy and birth.
Episode 31
29 mins
The way we eat is changing - and the way we shop for our food is too. Tom Heap investigates the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on Britain's biggest manufacturing sector, food.
Episode 32
29 mins
Victoria Derbyshire investigates what the coronavirus lockdown has meant for those trapped with an abusive partner, and meets some of those who have managed to escape.
Episode 33
29 mins
Reporter Darragh MacIntyre meets with the families of British people who have been arbitrarily detained in Iran and asks whether the payment of a historic debt could set them free.
Episode 34
29 mins
As most children in England return to their classrooms, reporter Sean Dilley investigates the system for supporting young people with special educational needs.
Episode 35
29 mins
An investigation into one of the world's most brutal trades, the buying and selling of human organs. Meeting the African migrants who have been exploited for their body parts by criminal gangs and pursing those behind the exploitation.
Episode 36
61 mins
Leaked reports expose how banks have failed to tackle crime. Richard Bilton exposes the double life of the man who funded the Brexit Party, secret deals at the top of football and business deals billionaires don't want you to know about.
Episode 37
29 mins
Whistleblowers working inside the government's new coronavirus tracking system reveal chaos, technical problems, confusion and wasted resources and a system that does not appear to them to be working.
Episode 38
29 mins
Thirty-four people died in Australia last year as the worst bush fires in living memory swept across the country. As this year's fire season gets underway, Clive Myrie asks if these levels of destruction are to become normal.
Episode 39
29 mins
Rianna Croxford examines the evidence surrounding the death of the transport worker who was reported to have died of Covid-19 after a passenger at Victoria Station coughed and spat on her.
Episode 40
30 mins
Colin Jackson investigates the hidden extent of eating disorders in British sport and asks what the authorities should be doing to tackle the problem.
Episode 41
29 mins
Kash Jones investigates the long-term consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic on young people, meeting young adults trying to deal with the long-term impact on their education, job prospects and mental health.
Episode 42
29 mins
Tina Daheley investigates whether TikTok, the social media sensation of lockdown, is safe for the millions of young people who have signed up to use it.
Episode 43
29 mins
Jane Corbin visits Liverpool to find out how people are coping with tier three coronavirus restrictions to find out whether people have complied with the rules, if the restrictions are starting to work and what the future now holds.
Episode 44
29 mins
Joe Biden has won the battle for the White House. Reporter Hilary Andersson meets the Trump supporters who believe the election was stolen and asks whether they will ever accept their new president.
Episode 45
58 mins
The extraordinary story of one family's journey from a small town in America to the heart of the Islamic State group and back.
Episode 46
29 mins
Datshiane Navanayagam investigates the government's shared-ownership scheme, designed to get more people on the property ladder, but leaving some with escalating costs and huge debts.
Episode 47
29 mins
Richard Bilton looks at some of the businesses fighting to survive in a global pandemic and sees the pressure on the people trying to save jobs and livelihoods.
Episode 48
58 mins
Justin Rowlatt visits communities around Britain battered by this year's extreme weather - unprecedented rainfall, sunshine and sustained high temperatures - to find out how they have coped.
Episode 49
59 mins
The inside story of the development of the Oxford vaccine against Covid-19. Fergus Walsh scrutinises the data that has come out of the trials, and examines the vaccination's efficacy and safety.