Panorama - 2023

Run Time: 30 mins
Air Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2023
Average Rating: ⭐ 6.2 (13 votes)
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The NHS Crisis: Can It Be Fixed?
Season 71 - Episode 1
The NHS is in a critical condition. As hospitals struggle with soaring demand, increasing waiting times and their biggest ever workforce cri...

Dogs, Dealers and Organised Crime
Season 71 - Episode 2
Reporter Sam Poling goes undercover to reveal the increasingly close relationship between organised crime and dog dealing.

Forgotten Heroes of the Covid Front Line
Season 71 - Episode 3
Catherine Burns meets NHS workers who are living with long Covid and struggling to return to work. They now face the prospect of having to r...

Is the Cloud Damaging the Planet?
Season 71 - Episode 4
Panorama reporter Richard Bilton investigates the environmental cost of moving our lives online and into the cloud.

Aftershock: The Turkey-Syria Earthquake
Season 71 - Episode 5
More than 30,000 people are known to have been killed in the earthquake that devastated Turkey and Syria. Panorama asks if more could have b...

Sex for Work: The True Cost of Our Tea
Season 71 - Episode 6
An undercover investigation for Panorama reveals that women working on plantations producing tea for PG Tips and Lipton are pressured to hav...

Ukraine's War Diaries
Season 71 - Episode 7
When Russian forces invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Panorama asked five Ukrainians to start filming their lives. The result is a powerful ...

Crisis Pregnancy Centres Uncovered
Season 71 - Episode 8
An investigation into pregnancy advice centres outside the NHS giving misleading information. Reporter Divya Talwar also uncovers links betw...

Elon Musk's Twitter Storm
Season 71 - Episode 9
When one of the world’s richest men bought Twitter, almost everything there changed. Thousands of staff were sacked and users previously ban...

Cops, Cash and Fraudsters
Season 71 - Episode 10
Every year, scammers steal billions from the public, and fraud now represents around 40 per cent of all reported crime in the UK. Over the l...

Surviving the Pay Squeeze
Season 71 - Episode 11
Millions of people in the UK feel like they've had a pay cut, with wages often not keeping up with the cost of living. As public sector work...

What’s Gone Wrong with Our Housing?
Season 71 - Episode 12
Richard Bilton investigates the problems Margaret Thatcher's right-to-buy policy is causing 40 years later, including the return of slum lan...

The Drug Wars that Killed Olivia
Season 71 - Episode 13
When Olivia Pratt-Korbel was shot dead in her home, the nine-year-old became the youngest victim of Liverpool's drug wars. There have been d...

Road Wars - Neighbourhood Traffic Chaos
Season 71 - Episode 14
Justin Rowlatt reports on plans to reduce traffic through Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, in what has become a battle between those who support ...

Will King Charles Change the Monarchy?
Season 71 - Episode 15
As the nation prepares for the coronation of King Charles III, Panorama asks if the new king will adapt the monarchy to suit modern times.

Private ADHD Clinics Exposed
Season 71 - Episode 16
More and more people are turning to private clinics for an assessment to determine whether they have ADHD. Panorama investigates whether the...

Landfill: Britain’s Toxic Secrets
Season 71 - Episode 17
Every year, millions of tonnes of waste are dumped in landfill sites, but how safe are they? Reporter Amber Haque investigates a Staffordshi...

Ultra-Processed Food: A Recipe for Ill Health?
Season 71 - Episode 18
The UK is facing a chronic illness epidemic, with diabetes rates at record levels and cancers in young people rising steeply. Now, there’s g...

Electric Cars: Is It Time to Buy?
Season 71 - Episode 19
With the sale of new petrol and diesel cars to be banned in less than seven years, we’re all supposed to be going electric. But so far fewer...

The Antidepressant Story
Season 71 - Episode 20
In the UK, around one in seven now take an antidepressant. Globally they have made the pharmaceutical industry billions. When the current ge...

Is China Watching You?
Season 71 - Episode 21
From spy balloons to secret police stations and dissidents on the run, Panorama investigates China’s global surveillance operation. We revea...

Westminster's Toxic Culture
Season 71 - Episode 22
Parliament is once again under fire over complaints about sexual harassment and bullying, with MPs suspended from their parties and claims o...

Debt Trap: Who's Cashing In?
Season 71 - Episode 23
As the cost of living crisis deepens, figures suggest almost 13 million people in the UK are falling behind on their bills and struggling wi...

The Millionaire Who Cheated a Council
Season 71 - Episode 24
A series of disastrous investments has left Thurrock Council effectively bankrupt. Services are being cut and council tax raised to try to c...

Beyond Human: Artificial Intelligence and Us
Season 71 - Episode 25
Reporter Lara Lewington speaks to some of the so-called 'godfathers' of AI about their hopes and fears, and she meets researchers developing...

Lucy Letby: The Nurse Who Killed
Season 71 - Episode 26
Lucy Letby has been convicted of murdering and harming babies. So what turned a likeable nurse into a serial killer? For the first time, Pan...

Teenage Vaping: What's the Harm?
Season 71 - Episode 27
Vaping among Britain's teenagers is on the rise, and there's growing concern that some companies are targeting underage vapers. So, should w...

The Dark Side of Ballet Schools
Season 71 - Episode 28
Panorama investigates claims of bullying and body shaming at two of the UK's top ballet schools, The Royal Ballet School in London and Elmhu...

Downfall of the Crypto King
Season 71 - Episode 29
Panorama explores the breakneck rise and sensational fall of Sam Bankman-Fried, the maths genius who set out to transform the world of crypt...

The Abercrombie Guys: The Dark Side of Cool
Season 71 - Episode 30
Panorama investigates allegations of exploitation and abuse at the top of one of the biggest fashion brands in the US.

The Big Mortgage Squeeze
Season 71 - Episode 31
The BBC’s cost of living correspondent Colletta Smith meets the homeowners feeling the squeeze as they come off cheaper fixed-rate mortgages...

Challenging Putin: Moscow and the Mutiny
Season 71 - Episode 32
Jane Corbin investigates what really happened during the mutiny led by Yevgeny Prigozhin and asks what the long-term consequences might be f...

At War: Crisis in the Middle East
Season 71 - Episode 33
Panorama reports on the conflict between Israel and Hamas. After 1,400 Israelis, including women and children were murdered by Hamas fighter...

Prime Suspect: Who Took Madeleine McCann?
Season 71 - Episode 34
It’s been 16 years since the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. Richard Bilton travels across Portugal and Germany to find out more about th...

Boohoo's Broken Promises
Season 71 - Episode 35
Fast fashion giant Boohoo faced serious criticism in 2020 for poor working conditions at its suppliers. A Panorama investigation reveals ren...

Why Are We Still Searching for Fossil Fuels?
Season 71 - Episode 36
Richard Bilton investigates why oil, coal and gas exploration is booming when almost every country in the world has committed to limit the r...

Putin and Ukraine's Stolen Children
Season 71 - Episode 37
The Ukrainian government says that thousands of children have been taken unlawfully to Russia since the start of the war. The International ...

My Teacher the Abuser: Fighting for Justice
Season 71 - Episode 38
Ever since Nicky Campbell went public about the abuse that he both experienced and witnessed in the 1970s, he’s become the public face of a ...

The Water Pollution Cover-Up
Season 71 - Episode 39
Water companies are dumping huge quantities of sewage in UK rivers every year. So why do some of the worst offenders have such good environm...

The Billionaire Bishop and the Global Megachurch
Season 71 - Episode 40
With more than 30 branches in the UK, the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, led by a Brazilian billionaire businessman, claims to tran...

Care Workers under Pressure
Season 71 - Episode 41
Panorama investigates a care home short of staff, where external medical professionals report seeing residents neglected, and overseas staff...