Panorama - 2024

Run Time: 30 mins
Air Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2024
Average Rating: ⭐ 6.2 (13 votes)
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Will My Crime Be Solved?
Season 72 - Episode 1
Only one in 20 crimes in England and Wales result in someone being charged. More criminals are now getting away with everything from burglar...

Britain's Obesity Crisis: Are Weight-Loss Drugs The Answer?
Season 72 - Episode 2
A new generation of anti-obesity drugs are being hailed as game changers for the NHS and for millions of patients. So-called 'skinny jabs' l...

Britain's Crumbling Schools
Season 72 - Episode 3
Panorama investigates the state of many of Britain’s school buildings, meeting the headteachers struggling to keep children safe in their cl...

Midwives under Pressure
Season 72 - Episode 4
Panorama investigates the crisis in maternity care that is putting women and babies at risk. Whistle-blowers at a trust in Gloucestershire t...

Sudden Child Deaths: The Search for Answers
Season 72 - Episode 5
It's a parent's nightmare. An apparently healthy child dying without warning, and no explanation of what went wrong. Yet unexplained deaths ...

Alzheimer’s: A Turning Point?
Season 72 - Episode 6
Fergus Walsh follows patients with Alzheimer's disease, who have been taking two new drugs that have been shown to slow down its progression...

Hamas' Secret Financial Empire
Season 72 - Episode 7
Following the attacks of 7 October 2023, Israel has vowed to destroy Hamas. But can it? John Ware investigates Hamas’ network outside Gaza, ...

Royal Mail: Where's My Post?
Season 72 - Episode 8
As the Post Office scandal continues to make the headlines, Panorama investigates the UK’s other great postal institution, Royal Mail. Milli...

Trump: The Sequel?
Season 72 - Episode 9
Justin Webb and Marianna Spring travel from the frozen plains of Iowa to the swing state of Georgia to explore Donald Trump’s enduring appea...

The Mobile Home Swindle
Season 72 - Episode 10
Hundreds of thousands of people own mobile homes and caravans in the UK, but some discover they don’t have the right to call them home. Repo...

Paying More for Less: Councils in Crisis
Season 72 - Episode 11
Filmed over five months inside a council on the verge of bankruptcy, Panorama explores why many town halls across the UK are in financial cr...

Immigration: The UK’s Record Rise
Season 72 - Episode 12
Over the past couple of years, net migration to the UK has hit record levels. So how has that happened, when the government promised in the ...

NHS Patients Going Private: What Are the Risks?
Season 72 - Episode 13
Panorama investigates a private hospital chain being used to help clear the NHS waiting list. With more than six million people in England a...

Smart Motorways: When Technology Fails
Season 72 - Episode 14
The rollout of smart motorways has been stopped because of safety fears, but there are still 250 miles of the network with no hard shoulder....

Big Brands’ Green Claims Uncovered
Season 72 - Episode 15
Many brands say they are doing their bit for the environment, even big polluters like tech, energy, and airlines. Now, Panorama investigates...

The Crime Bosses Who Terrorised a City
Season 72 - Episode 16
For years, they trafficked huge quantities of drugs and threatened anyone who stood in their way. Now most of the gangsters who ran the Huyt...

Infected Blood: Time for Answers
Season 72 - Episode 17
Between 1970 and the early 1990s more than 30,000 people in the UK were infected with HIV and Hepatitis C through contaminated blood product...

Undercover: Can Probation Keep Us Safe?
Season 72 - Episode 18
Panorama goes undercover in the Probation Service and reveals how easy it is for convicted criminals to go on the run, that drug tests are n...

The Missing Cryptoqueen: Dead or Alive?
Season 72 - Episode 19
Ruja Ignatova, the flamboyant founder of fake cryptocurrency OneCoin, is the world's most wanted woman. Dubbed the 'Missing Cryptoqueen', sh...

Undercover School: Cruelty in the Classroom
Season 72 - Episode 20
Panorama investigates a school for children with special educational needs. Places at LIFE school in the Wirral cost the local authority £50...

Britain's Child Health Crisis
Season 72 - Episode 21
From tooth decay to obesity, our children’s health is in decline, and it’s storing up trouble for the future. Keir Starmer has promised his ...

Labour in Power: Inside the New Government
Season 72 - Episode 22
Labour is back in power with a big majority and some big promises. The new government says it will fix the NHS, grow the economy and build t...

The Nottingham Attacks: A Search for Answers
Season 72 - Episode 23
In June 2023, Barnaby Webber, Grace O'Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates were stabbed to death by Valdo Calocane. Reporter Navtej Johal investigate...

The Riots That Shocked the Country
Season 72 - Episode 24
A knife attack on a Taylor Swift dance workshop in Southport left three children dead and eight others seriously injured. The killings then ...

Can We Live Without Our Phones?
Season 72 - Episode 25
What happens when smartphones are taken away from kids for a week? With the help of two families and lots of remote cameras, Panorama finds ...

Andrew Tate: Accused
Season 72 - Episode 26
Controversial influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan already face charges in Romania of human trafficking and organised crime. Now p...

HS2: The Railway that Blew Billions
Season 72 - Episode 27
HS2 was meant to be the railway of the future, an epic piece of engineering which would get Britain moving and help level up. But more than ...

Supermarket Deals: How Good Are They?
Season 72 - Episode 28
As the cost-of-living squeeze continues to affect many, supermarkets say they’re doing what they can to help us save money, offering discoun...

The Menopause Industry Uncovered
Season 72 - Episode 29
Kirsty Wark investigates the multi-billion-pound global menopause industry. It promises women relief from often debilitating symptoms if the...

October 7th: One Year On
Season 72 - Episode 30
When Hamas attacked Israel on 7 October 2023, it led to a war that threatens to engulf the entire region 12 months later. Jane Corbin has be...

Britain’s Newest Bank: How Safe Is Your Money?
Season 72 - Episode 31
Revolut is a UK business success story. Founded almost a decade ago and offering online payments and foreign currency services, it’s expande...

Lucy Letby: Unanswered Questions
Season 72 - Episode 32
Former nurse Lucy Letby became one of the UK’s most notorious child killers after she was convicted of harming and murdering babies in her c...

Trump: A Second Chance?
Season 72 - Episode 33
For the past two years, Panorama has been following some of Donald Trump’s most ardent supporters. One was just feet away from the former pr...

The Chris Kaba Shooting
Season 72 - Episode 34
With exclusive access to the parents of Chris Kaba, who was shot dead by armed police, Panorama investigates what happened on the night of t...

The Truth about Smart Meters
Season 72 - Episode 35
Smart meters are supposed to make paying our energy bills easier and cheaper. But is that the whole story? In 2011, the coalition government...

Can Scientists Save the World?
Season 72 - Episode 36
Richard Bilton meets the scientists trying to save the world from the consequences of climate change and investigates whether they can reall...

Binge Drinking and Me
Season 72 - Episode 37
Alcohol-related deaths from liver disease among women under 40 have risen sharply over the last decade – but why? Thirty-two-year old BBC jo...

What's on Your Supermarket Shelves? The Dark Side of the Tomato Trade
Season 72 - Episode 38
Tomatoes are a store cupboard staple for many of us, but can we trust what we are eating? Reporting for Panorama, Runako Celina investigates...

The Water Company’s Murky Business
Season 72 - Episode 39
It looks like England’s most successful water company, Severn Trent, is popular with investors. It has been awarded the Environment Agency’s...

Telegram and the Russian Billionaire
Season 72 - Episode 40
Telegram is the fifth most downloaded app on the planet, with almost a billion users worldwide. More than six million people in the UK have ...