Panorama - 2008
Run Time: 30 mins
Air Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008
Average Rating: ⭐ 6.2 (13 votes)
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One Click from Danger
Season 56 - Episode 1
An update to our film 'One Click from Danger' about internet paedophiles exploiting vulnerable youngsters online.
Destination UK
Season 56 - 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...
Britain's Protection Racket
Season 56 - Episode 3
Panorama goes undercover to expose the flaws in Britain's seven-billion-pound security industry.
Cocaine: Alex James in Colombia
Season 56 - Episode 4
Former cocaine-using Blur bassist Alex James travels to Colombia. He meets the drug farmers, sellers and enforcers, and hears the message th...
Bursting the House Price Bubble
Season 56 - Episode 5
Investigation into sharp practice in the housing market which has kept house prices artificially high and plunged homeowners into negative e...
No More Mandelas
Season 56 - Episode 6
After witnessing the end of apartheid, Fergal Keane returns to South Africa to find out what happened to the hope from that time.
Bottled Water - Who Needs It?
Season 56 - Episode 7
Reporter Tom Heap sets out to discover if the popularity of bottled water is merely a triumph of marketing over common sense.
On Whose Orders?
Season 56 - Episode 8
Jeremy Vine interviews Tony Blair's Attorney General Lord Goldsmith and General Sir Mike Jackson, asking how rules preventing abuse and tort...
Taking Back The Streets
Season 56 - Episode 9
Richard Bilton examines the dilemma of Garry Newlove, the father beaten to death in the streets. Is a new community action the answer to tee...
Shaken Babies?
Season 56 - Episode 10
Investigates the row behind shaken-baby syndrome. Last year, childminder Keran Henderson was convicted of shaking an 11-month-old baby to de...
Teenage Sex For Sale
Season 56 - Episode 11
Gerry Northam investigates ruthless gangs who are targeting teenage girls and offering drugs and excitement. Within weeks, the children are ...
Jersey - Island of Secrets
Season 56 - Episode 12
Current affairs programme with Jeremy Vine. It is six weeks since police started their search of Haut de la Garenne children's home on Jerse...
Divide and Rule
Season 56 - 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 sec...
Feeling the Pinch
Season 56 - 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? Decla...
Something in the Air
Season 56 - Episode 15
Pilots almost passing out at the controls; passengers who say they've been made ill by toxic fumes. Can polluted air on board planes damage ...
How Clean is Your Hospital?
Season 56 - Episode 16
Sally Magnusson goes inside a trust which lost 90 patients to the superbug c.difficile, which accounts for four times as many deaths as MRSA...
Mission Impossible
Season 56 - Episode 17
The UN polices conflicts around the world, but can it police itself? Raphael Rowe reveals how the organisation is struggling to eradicate th...
Prisons Unlocked
Season 56 - Episode 18
Panorama investigates claims that unsuitable and dangerous convicts are being sent to open prisons to help solve the overcrowding crisis.
Tested to Destruction
Season 56 - Episode 19
Current affairs. Are schoolchildren in England given too many exams? Vivian White reports.
The Challenge of the 60s
Season 56 - Episode 20
Experts and diplomats including Lord Hurd, Christopher Mallaby and Bernard Lovell assess the predictions made about the world's future in an...
Britain on the Sick
Season 56 - Episode 21
Current affairs programme presented by Jeremy Vine. Shelley Jofre examines the Government's tough new benefit rules.
One Click from Capture
Season 56 - 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 onl...
The Property Game
Season 56 - Episode 23
Vigorous investigation of a topical issue. Richard Bilton meets the winners and losers in the property market. Is the British love affair wi...
What Happened After Taking On the Taliban?
Season 56 - Episode 24
Current affairs. Panorama meets the soldiers featured in last year's Taking On the Taliban special, to find out what they're doing now.
Daylight Robbery - What happened to the $23billion?
Season 56 - Episode 25
Jane Corbin investigates the cases which threaten to reveal the corruption behind the past five years of war in the Middle East.
Young Gunmen
Season 56 - Episode 26
Current affairs. Panorama investigates the rise of armed teenage street gangs, speaking to former gangsters, the police and the young gunmen...
Primark: On the Rack
Season 56 - Episode 27
Panorama puts Primark's claims that it can deliver cheap, fast fashion without breaking ethical guidelines to the test.
Taking Back The Streets
Season 56 - Episode 28
Panarama investigates the rise of armed teenage street gangs and discovers how shockingly ingrained the culture of guns and violence is in B...
NHS for Sale
Season 56 - Episode 29
Sally Magnusson investigates the creeping privatisation of the NHS.
China's Secret War
Season 56 - Episode 30
Panorama provides evidence of how China is supplying the Sudanese government with arms to enable it to wage a campaign of violence in Darfur...
Friends in High Places
Season 56 - Episode 31
Panorama investigates the government's proposals for a third runway at Heathrow which, critics argue, will have a dramatic effect on the env...
Can We Afford to Fill Up?
Season 56 - Episode 32
With the price of fuel rocketing at the pumps, Jane Corbin reports on how fuel prices are affecting Britain and what alternatives might be a...
Racing's Dirty Secret
Season 56 - Episode 33
Panorama investigates horse racing and reveals why those running the sport are so concerned about gamblers betting on horses not to win, but...
China's Olympic Promise
Season 56 - Episode 34
As the Games approach, award-winning journalist John Sweeney travels across China to discover whether foreign journalists are being allowed ...
Notes on a Dirty Island
Season 56 - Episode 35
Travel writer Bill Bryson presents a personal and passionate account of how Britain has become a rubbish tip since his arrival from the USA ...
The NHS Postcode Lottery: It Could Be You
Season 56 - Episode 36
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.
True Brits
Season 56 - Episode 37
Current affairs with Jeremy Vine. An investigation into how factors such as mass immigration and devolution are forever changing the concept...
How the Economy Got Personal
Season 56 - Episode 38
Current affairs. Jeremy Vine presents personal stories of regular Britons affected by the credit crunch.
Can Money Grow on Trees?
Season 56 - Episode 39
Panorama asks whether the money markets can achieve what campaigners and law enforcement have so far failed to, and make trees more valuable...
Terror in the Skies?
Season 56 - Episode 40
Peter Taylor uncovers the inside story of the operation which thwarted a terrorist plot to cause explosions and led to increased security at...
Omagh: What the Police Were Never Told
Season 56 - Episode 41
Peter Taylor uncovers the inside story of the operation which thwarted a terrorist plot to cause explosions and led to increased security at...
How Safe is my Money?
Season 56 - Episode 42
Jane Corbin looks at how the crisis facing the world's financial insitutions could impact on the nation's banks, mortgages, insurance and pe...
You Can Run...
Season 56 - Episode 43
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.
Next Stop, Downing Street?
Season 56 - Episode 44
Nick Robinson accompanies Conservative Party leader David Cameron to Birmingham as he attempts to persuade voters he is prime minister mater...
The Secret Policeman Returns
Season 56 - Episode 45
In the wake of the resignation of Britain's top police officer, Panorama investigates racism in Britain's police force. Mark Daly - who expo...
Should We Be Scared of Russia?
Season 56 - Episode 46
Mark Franchetti meets Vladimir Putin's inner circle in an attempt to decipher Russia's intentions on domestic and international fronts.
Obama and the Pitbull: An American Tale
Season 56 - Episode 47
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.
Britain in the Red - Your Questions Answered
Season 56 - Episode 48
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...
Three Bloody Summers
Season 56 - Episode 49
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 Af...
Can't Pay, Won't Pay
Season 56 - Episode 50
With the credit crunch affecting everyone, Panorama reveals the lengths some lenders are now going to in order to get borrowers to pay off t...
What Happened to Baby P?
Season 56 - Episode 51
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 o...
Addicted to Aid
Season 56 - Episode 52
Reporter Sorious Samura visits Uganda and his home country of Sierra Leone to reveal how aid money is lost, stolen and frittered away.
Comeback Coal
Season 56 - Episode 53
An investigation into the Government's support of a new wave of opencast coal mining, in spite of fierce opposition from local communities.
Shannon: The Mother of All Lies
Season 56 - Episode 54
Panorama presents the inside story on the disappearance of Shannon Matthews, as it investigates the events that led to Karen Matthews being ...
I'll Die When I Choose
Season 56 - Episode 55
Politician and Parkinson's sufferer Margo MacDonald uncovers the truth about assisted dying, meeting those with illnesses like hers who are ...
Britain's Terror Heartland
Season 56 - Episode 56
Jane Corbin makes the hazardous journey to the frontline in the War on Terror, the remote and forbidding mountains along the Pakistan-Afghan...
The Year Britain's Bubble Burst
Season 56 - Episode 57
It has been a cataclysmic year for our banks and economy, and a year in which the role of the BBC's Business Editor has been in the spotligh...