Dispatches (1987)
Dispatches (1987)
Long-running Channel 4 documentary series covering issues about British society, politics, health, religion, international current affairs and the environment. Known for featuring a mole inside organisations under journalistic investigation.

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1987x01 The Plutonium Black Market

30 October, 1987 8:00 pm
First in a new series of weekly documentary reports. this week, the black market in weapons grade ureanium operated from Khartoum.

1987x02 In The Red

06 November, 1987 8:00 pm
Investigation of the alledged misuse of funds at three Labour Party Social Clubs in Dundee.

1987x03 AIDS - The Unheard Voices

13 November, 1987 8:00 pm
The program challenges the theory that AIDS is caused by the H.I.V. virus and discusses the social pressures on those diagnosed as H.I.V. positive.

1987x04 Divided by Law

20 November, 1987 8:00 pm
Explains how new D.N.A. testing techniques could help to re-unite divided immigrant families and looks at claims that the government has delayed progress pending on legislation. Includes an interview with Timothy Renton, Minister of State at the Home Office, and talks to Asian immigrants wanting to bring their families to join them in the UK.

1987x05 Selling the Tunnel

27 November, 1987 8:00 pm
TVS's Business Unit tells the inside story of the Eurotunnel Management Team's battle to persuade the City and the public to back the issue of shares and raise capital. Includes an interview with Robert Maxwell who invested £37 million.

1987x06 Gunning for Government

04 December, 1987 8:00 pm
The undercover world of arms dealing is revealed by a defector (Frank Turner) who reveals his involvement with the CIA and British Ministry of Defence.

1987x07 Kimberly Carlile - Falling Through the Net

11 December, 1987 8:00 pm
Rehearsed `All-Star' cast reading some of the evidence from the inquiry into the death of four-year-old Kimberley Carlile. Louis Blom-Cooper QC is interviewed by Anna Ford.

1987x08 Korea: Poverty Prohibited

18 December, 1987 8:00 pm
Investigation into the democratic government of South Korea which selectively ignores the tragic plight of its urban poverty by evicting them forcibly to make way for up market apartment blocks. Includes an interview with Jesuit priest Father John Daly.

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