Panorama - 2009
Run Time: 30 mins
Air Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009
Average Rating: ⭐ 6.2 (13 votes)
BBC One53 Episodes
Kids Behaving Badly
Season 57 - Episode 1
Whether it is 10-year-olds talking about who they have snogged or schoolgirls calling themselves sluts on their social-networking profile pa...
Jailed for a Knife
Season 57 - Episode 2
Raphael Rowe goes inside prisons to gain rare access to the young offenders convicted of carrying, using or even killing with a knife.
What Now, Mr President?
Season 57 - Episode 3
Barack Obama takes over as US President with a promise to change America and make it a fairer place. Can he reshape the world's most powerfu...
Have I Got Bad Language For You?
Season 57 - Episode 4
Frank Skinner sets out to discover if the Ross-Brand storm really was a watershed in broadcasting's debate about bad language and offence.
Tax Me if You Can
Season 57 - Episode 5
Britain is bust and ordinary taxpayers are getting hammered, but it seems that the super-rich can still squirrel their money away in tax hav...
Gaza: Out of the Ruins
Season 57 - Episode 6
As Israel prepares to vote on its future, Jeremy Bowen travels through a devastated Gaza to ask where the recent conflict now leaves the fut...
Muslim First, British Second
Season 57 - Episode 7
The current affairs series asks how radicals should be treated and examines suspicions that community projects are being used to gather inte...
Credit Where It's Due
Season 57 - Episode 8
Business dragon Theo Paphitis asks if the banks and the government are doing enough to help Britain's 4.7 million small businesses survive t...
What Happens After Sorry?
Season 57 - Episode 9
As RBS announces what are predicted to be the biggest losses in British history, Panorama tells the story of the bank's dramatic fall from g...
Immigration - Time for an Amnesty?
Season 57 - Episode 10
Panorama looks at a proposed amnesty for hundreds of thousands of long-standing illegal immigrants, championed by London mayor Boris Johnson...
Crime Pays
Season 57 - Episode 11
Panorama reveals how organised crime is defeating attempts to claw back its profits, and how the Crown has been reduced to making tax deals ...
Who Will Save the Savers?
Season 57 - Episode 12
As the credit crunch pushes Britain's pensions and savings time-bomb to a new level, Panorama asks experts to help those facing an uncertain...
1959: A Panorama Guide
Season 57 - Episode 13
Documentary looking back at 1959 through the eyes of the BBC current affairs programme Panorama, recalling a time when Britain finally reali...
The Gunmen Who Never Went Away
Season 57 - Episode 14
With soldiers and police once again being killed in the province, Panorama offers a detailed analysis of the resurgent terrorist threat in N...
Slumdogs and Millionaires
Season 57 - Episode 15
Panorama goes undercover in the millionaires' playground of Dubai to look at luxury developments. Reporter Ben Anderson discovers that behin...
Britain's Homecare Scandal
Season 57 - 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 tra...
Life After Woolies
Season 57 - Episode 17
Current affairs. Since the closure of Woolworths' 807 retail outlets, Panorama has followed some of the 27,000 former staff as they try to e...
May Contain Nuts
Season 57 - Episode 18
Current affairs. Panorama investigates why the deadly serious matter of health and safety has become a laughing stock, and why it has straye...
Who'd Be an NHS Whistleblower?
Season 57 - Episode 19
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...
Baby P - The Whole Truth?
Season 57 - Episode 20
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...
The Six Billion Dollar Man
Season 57 - Episode 21
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 dolla...
Stem Cells and Miracles
Season 57 - Episode 22
The current affairs programme follows a British family to China as they pin their hopes on a new stem cell therapy to give their daughter si...
Is Your MP Working for You?
Season 57 - Episode 23
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 n...
'A Very Dangerous Doctor'
Season 57 - Episode 24
Vivian White challenges David Southall to answer his critics and uncovers evidence that may support his claim of victimisation.
Obama and the Ayatollah
Season 57 - Episode 25
As Iranians prepare to elect a president, Jane Corbin asks whether Obama's recent plea for greater understanding will be heeded.
The Death of Kiss and Tell
Season 57 - Episode 26
Investigating the growing trend of celebrities and public figures turning to privacy laws to suppress stories and photographs showing them i...
The Battle of Swat Valley
Season 57 - Episode 27
Exclusive access to airborne troops and to footage shot in Taliban-controlled towns reveal the story of Pakistan's fight against extremists.
Will the Scots Ever Be Happy?
Season 57 - Episode 28
Ten years after devolution, the Scots want more power north of the border, and the SNP want a referendum on independence. Can the UK be pres...
What Ever Happened to People Power?
Season 57 - Episode 29
Panorama asks if police tactics aimed at preventing troublemakers taking over demonstrations are eroding the freedom to protest.
Licence to Torture
Season 57 - Episode 30
Current affairs. Did interrogation techniques used by the Bush administration after 9/11 break US and international law? Hilary Andersson in...
Save Our Steel
Season 57 - Episode 31
Current affairs. Panorama helps citizen journalists Steven, Belinda and Tony find out the future of the steel industry, which employs tens o...
The Trauma Industry
Season 57 - Episode 32
Veteran BBC war reporter Allan Little investigates how the battlefield trauma of the Vietnam War - post-traumatic stress disorder - now ends...
Smugglers' Tales
Season 57 - Episode 33
Panorama reveals the endless game of cat and mouse between prisoners determined to get their fix and officers equally determined to keep dru...
The Truth About Happy Hour
Season 57 - Episode 34
Panorama visits the town tackling binge drinking with a radical new approach. Richard Bilton looks at reclaiming Britain's town centres fro...
What Are We Fighting For?
Season 57 - Episode 35
With British soldiers dying in record numbers and the country arguing over the wisdom of the war, Jane Corbin travels across Afghanistan to ...
Gimme Shelter
Season 57 - Episode 36
Panorama reports on the elderly people who are taking to the streets in protest, and threatening legal action, because their residential war...
Britain's Dirty Beaches
Season 57 - Episode 37
Sand, sea and sewage. With the quality of bathing water on the UK's beaches in decline, Panorama investigates the outflow pipes that dischar...
Europe or Die Trying
Season 57 - Episode 38
Paul Kenyon travels three thousand miles along the most dangerous illegal immigration route out of Africa. Many die crossing the Sahara, or ...
Swine Flu: Everything You Need To Know
Season 57 - Episode 39
Everything you need to know about the first flu pandemic of the 21st century. Jeremy Vine, Sophie Raworth and Fergus Walsh travel through t...
Banks Behaving Badly?
Season 57 - Episode 40
Billions of taxpayers' money has been handed out to keep the banking system afloat, but what exactly have the banks given customers in retur...
The Truth About Spending Cuts
Season 57 - 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 publ...
Dying to Be Treated?
Season 57 - 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 ye...
Migrants, Go Home!
Season 57 - Episode 43
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...
Why Hate Ryanair?
Season 57 - Episode 44
Vivian White investigates the reasons why the ultimate 'no frills' airline has gained a reputation as the brand Britain loves to hate but ca...
Undercover - Hate on the Doorstep
Season 57 - Episode 45
Two British Asian reporters pose as a couple living on a housing estate to investigate racism in Britain. Contains racially offensive langua...
Freed to Offend Again
Season 57 - Episode 46
Are we safe from dangerous prisoners released back onto our streets? A Panorama investigation reveals the extent of crimes committed by ex-c...
The Child Protectors
Season 57 - Episode 47
With exclusive access to Coventry's social workers, Panorama follows the emergency response team as they attempt to identify children at ris...
Assault on Justice
Season 57 - Episode 48
Shelley Jofre investigates whether punishing violent crimes with cautions and fines is letting some serious criminals off the hook and denyi...
Swimming with Loan Sharks
Season 57 - Episode 49
Loan sharks are thriving in recession-hit Britain, as the poor and vulnerable run out of credit and find themselves relying on criminals ins...
Lethal Enterprise
Season 57 - 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 misc...
Can Tesco Save the World?
Season 57 - Episode 51
Panorama investigates whether supermarket giant Tesco is now leading the business fightback against man-made global warming.
Can You Forgive Your MP?
Season 57 - 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 t...
Can't Deliver, Won't Deliver
Season 57 - Episode 53
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 ...