Skip to content

Dispatches2007

Episodes

  • No preview

    E01 Fighting the Taliban

    Jan 8, 2007

  • No preview

    E02 Meeting the Taliban

    Jan 11, 2007

  • No preview

    E03 Undercover Mosque

    Jan 15, 2007 · 45m

    Investigative journalist, Bobby Pathak, has investigated a number of mosques run by high profile national organisations that claim to be dedicated to moderation and dialogue with other faiths. But reporting undercover he joined worshippers to find a message of religious bigotry and extremism being preached. The investigation reveals Saudi Arabian universities are recruiting young Western Muslims to train them in their extreme theology, then sending them back to the West to spread the word.

  • No preview

    E04 Labour's Gambling Addiction

    Jan 22, 2007

  • No preview

    E05 Iraq's Death Squads

    Jan 29, 2007

  • No preview

    E06 At Home with the Terror Suspects

    Feb 5, 2007

  • No preview

    E07 The Supermarket That's Eating Britain

    Feb 19, 2007

  • No preview

    E08 NHS: Where Did All the Money Go?

    Feb 26, 2007

  • No preview

    E09 Greenwash

    Mar 5, 2007

    The government is set to achieve only a third to a half of its overall policy target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. Dispatches reports. The expert-reviewed audit by the UCL Environment Institute is the first comprehensive investigation into the real impact of the Government's carbon-cutting policies across all government departments mandated with reducing greenhouse gas emissions

  • No preview

    E10 Charles: The Meddling Prince

    Mar 12, 2007

  • No preview

    E11 When Did You Last Beat Your Wife?

    Mar 19, 2007

  • No preview

    E12 Cameron- Toff at the Top

    Mar 26, 2007

  • No preview

    E13 Undercover Prisoner

    Apr 2, 2007

  • No preview

    E14 Murdering the Truth

    Apr 16, 2007

  • No preview

    E15 Between the Mullahs and The Military

    Apr 23, 2007

  • No preview

    E16 The Indian Miracle?

    Apr 30, 2007

  • No preview

    E17 Gordon Brown: Fit for Office?

    May 14, 2007

  • No preview

    E18 Afghanistan Unveiled

    May 17, 2007

  • No preview

    E19 Bin Wars

    May 24, 2007

  • No preview

    E20 Kidnapped to Order

    Jun 11, 2007

  • No preview

    E21 Drinking Yourself to Death

    Jun 18, 2007

    Based on medical research and personal findings Dispatches investigates the effects binge drinking can have on a consumer's health and whether low-priced (supermarket bought) alcohol is one of the causes for an increase in alcohol consumption.

  • No preview

    E22 The Man Who Lost Himself

    Jun 25, 2007

  • No preview

    E23 The War on Britain's Jews

    Jul 9, 2007

  • No preview

    E24 Great Green Smokescreen

    Jul 16, 2007

  • No preview

    E25 Undercover Mother

    Jul 23, 2007

    Tazeen Ahmad investigates the overstretched maternity services which are resulting in new mothers having traumatic births and at worst, putting lives at risk.

  • No preview

    E26 Britain's Bad Housing

    Jul 30, 2007

  • No preview

    E27 Britain Under Attack

    Aug 6, 2007

  • No preview

    E28 The Olympic Cash Machine

    Sep 10, 2007

  • No preview

    E29 Unholy War (II)

    Sep 17, 2007

  • No preview

    E30 Nice Work If You Can Get It

    Sep 24, 2007

    Political journalist Peter Oborne examines how politicians and MPs use their power to gain financial benefits.

  • No preview

    E31 Immigrants: The Inconvenient Truth

    Oct 1, 2007

    Looks at the beneficial social and economical contributions made by different immigrant groups, drawing on research done by the Institute for Public Policy Research. Contrasts this with the perception of immigrants and political and media issues.

  • No preview

    E32 China's Stolen Children

    Oct 8, 2007

    Ten years after the policy-changing and award-winning film, The Dying Rooms, the same team returns to a very different China where the infamous One Child Policy has had the horrific side effect of a boom in stolen children. With extraordinary access to devastated parents desperately searching for their stolen son; a man who brokers the deals and has sold his own offspring; and prospective parents grappling with giving up their soon-to-be-born daughter through lack of options, we are brought face to face with the crisis that such a stringent government policy has created among China's poorest people

  • No preview

    E33 Abortion: What We Need to Know

    Oct 17, 2007

    An investigation into abortion; focusing on how new scientific research on foetal pain could cause for a change to current abortion laws.

  • No preview

    E34 Searching for Madeleine

    Oct 18, 2007

    After the disappearance of child, Madeline McCann 168 days ago; Dispatches sent a team of five of the UK's best-qualified criminal investigators to Praia da Luz to investigate and assess the situation.

  • No preview

    E35 Why Our Children Can't Read

    Oct 22, 2007

  • No preview

    E36 How to Get Ahead in Africa

    Oct 29, 2007

  • No preview

    E37 The Housing Trap

    Nov 5, 2007

  • No preview

    E38 Bottleneck Britain

    Nov 12, 2007

  • No preview

    E39 Mark Thomas on Coca-Cola

    Nov 19, 2007

    Comedian and activist Mark Thomas reports on how Coca-Cola has caused problems in the world with pollution, worker exploitation and even death. The documentary also reports on how Coca-Cola respond to these allegations.

  • No preview

    E40 Britain Under Water

    Dec 3, 2007

  • No preview

    E41 Christmas Credit Crisis

    Dec 10, 2007

  • No preview

    E42 How Safe Are Your Christmas Toys?

    Dec 17, 2007

    Deborah Davies reports on potentially dangerous toys that can be bought in the UK. These toys are then safety tested and the findings reported to authorities

Other Seasons