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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2008x01 The Truth About Your Food (1)
10 January, 2008 8:00 pm
Journalist Jane Moore investigates whether the prices of premium ranges reflect their nutritional value, what's in 'healthier' options, and reveals how we're not always being told the truth about the food we eat.
2008x02 The Truth About Your Food (2)
17 January, 2008 8:00 pm
Journalist Jane Moore examines how much food we're really eating and puts the spotlight on the food industry to reveal what effect our increased dining-out habit is having on our health.
2008x03 The Court of Ken
21 January, 2008 8:00 pm
An investigation of the Office of London’s former Mayor.
2008x04 Why Kids Kill
28 January, 2008 8:00 pm
A report on the increase of gang culture and murder that teenagers participate in the UK.
2008x05 Heat Or Eat: The Pensioners' Dilemma
04 February, 2008 8:00 pm
2008x06 The Children Left Behind
11 February, 2008 8:00 pm
2008x07 How the Banks Bet Your Money
18 February, 2008 8:00 pm
A global credit crunch has put Britain's banks in a crisis that threatens the future of jobs and businesses and may even trigger a wholesale recession.
2008x08 Checking-in to Airport Chaos
25 February, 2008 8:00 pm
2008x09 Iraq's Lost Generation
16 March, 2008 8:00 pm
Award-winning journalist Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy travels to Syria and Jordan to investigate the plight of Iraqi refugees. These are the very people on whom the new, democratic Iraq was to be built - the professional middle classes - nearly half of whom now live as desperate refugees, driven out by the violence and civil breakdown.
2008x10 Iraq: The Betrayal
17 March, 2008 8:00 pm
Political journalist Peter Oborne accompanies the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, as he travels across Iraq meeting the main players who will determine the future of the country.
2008x11 Jon Snow's Hidden Iraq
18 March, 2008 8:00 pm
Five years after the invasion, Channel 4 News anchor Jon Snow examines the brutal reality of life inside post-invasion Iraq, meeting a variety of its citizens - from victims of bomb blasts and war widows, to human rights activists and politicians.
2008x12 Undercover in Tibet
31 March, 2008 8:00 pm
Tibetan exile Tash Despa returns to the homeland he risked his life escaping from to carry out secret filming with the award-winning, Bafta-nominated director Jezza Neumann.
2008x13 Immigration: The Inconvenient Truth (1)
07 April, 2008 8:00 pm
2008x14 Immigration: The Inconvenient Truth (2)
14 April, 2008 8:00 pm
2008x15 Immigration: The Inconvenient Truth (3)
21 April, 2008 8:00 pm
2008x16 The Mobile Phone Rip-Off
28 April, 2008 8:00 pm
2008x17 The Truth About Beauty Creams
12 May, 2008 8:00 pm
2008x18 In God's Name
19 May, 2008 8:00 pm
2008x19 Warlords Next Door?
26 May, 2008 8:00 pm
2008x20 Gordon Brown: Where Did It All Go Wrong?
09 June, 2008 8:00 pm
Andrew Rawnsley, the award-winning broadcaster, who presented last year's widely acclaimed The Rise and Fall of Tony Blair, assesses Gordon Brown's first year as Prime Minister.
2008x21 From Jail to Jihad
16 June, 2008 8:00 pm
2008x22 The Truth About Food Prices
23 June, 2008 8:00 pm
2008x23 The Truth About Street Weapons
30 June, 2008 8:00 pm
2008x24 A Widow's War On Yobs
05 July, 2008 8:00 pm
2008x25 It Shouldn't Happen to a Muslim
07 July, 2008 8:00 pm
2008x26 The Jab That Can Stop Cancer
21 July, 2008 8:00 pm
2008x27 Sandwiches Unwrapped
28 July, 2008 8:00 pm
2008x28 How The Banks Never Lose
25 August, 2008 8:00 pm
As the credit crunch continues to leave Britain cash-strapped and high street banks report huge losses, Dispatches investigates who is responsible for the current crisis.
2008x29 Undercover Mosque: The Return
01 September, 2008 8:00 pm
A year-and-a-half after the critically acclaimed film Undercover Mosque was first screened, Dispatches goes undercover again to see whether extremist beliefs continue to be promoted in certain key British Muslim institutions. The film also investigates the role of the Saudi Arabian religious establishment in spreading a hard-line, fundamentalist Islamic ideology in the UK - the very ideology the Government claims to be tackling.
2008x30 Hope for the Last Chance Kids
08 September, 2008 8:00 pm
2008x31 What's in your Wine?
05 September, 2008 8:00 pm
With wine consumption in the UK hitting record levels, Jane Moore investigates the many different substances - including fish and dairy products - that can be used to produce wine but which rarely appear on the label of the average bottle.
2008x32 The Human Cost of the Credit Crunch
22 September, 2008 8:00 pm
Dispatches travels across Britain to meet the families who feel let down after more than a decade of struggling to better themselves. Having thought there lives were getting better, these families now see themselves sliding back down the social ladder.
2008x33 Cameron's Money Men
20 September, 2008 8:00 pm
Originally broadcast in 2008, Antony Barnett investigates the funding of the Tories under Cameron and examines how the party is using its newfound resources to ensure its leader becomes the next Prime Minister.
2008x34 The Hidden World of Lap Dancing
06 October, 2008 8:00 pm
In high streets and seaside towns all over the country, a growing number of clubs are offering one-on-one lap dances where for a few pounds men can buy extensive bodily contact with a near-naked woman. From any viewpoint, these are undoubtedly personal, sexual encounters. Yet current UK licensing law says they are not.
2008x35 The Trouble With British Airways
13 October, 2008 8:00 pm
An investigation into British Airways, assessing the airline's reputation following a series of blunders involving price-fixing, mislaid baggage and the troubled opening of Heathrow's Terminal 5.
2008x36 The Truth About Your Energy Bill
20 October, 2008 8:00 pm
This year the average UK household gas and electricity bill has risen by nearly 40 per cent. While more and more families struggle to pay their energy bills, are the big companies that dominate the domestic market making millions in profit for themselves and for their shareholders? They say they have no choice but to pass on their rising costs to the customer, but is this the truth? Dispatches reporter Deborah Davies investigates why our charges are so high and how much the companies make from estimating bills.
2008x37 Jon Snow's American Journey
26 October, 2008 8:00 pm
2008x38 Don't Bank on the Bailout
27 October, 2008 8:00 pm
Has the multi-billion-pound bank bailout saved our economy? City speculator Hugh Hendry doesn't think so.
This film follows Hugh as he travels from the Square Mile in London to Wall Street in America, talking to some of the world's leading economists and investors along the way. Hugh argues that, as a nation, we have to prepare for the worst - and let's not bank on the bailout.
2008x39 Mum Loves Drugs, Not Me
03 November, 2008 8:00 pm
In this Dispatches film, award-winning filmmakers Brian Woods and Kate Blewett reveal the devastating impact that illegal drugs have on neglected children, whose childhoods are blighted by chaos.
2008x40 Saving Africa's Witch Children
12 November, 2008 8:00 pm
In some of the poorest parts of Nigeria, where evangelical religious fervour is combined with a belief in sorcery and black magic, many thousands of children are being blamed for catastrophes, death and famine: and branded witches. Denounced as Satan made flesh by powerful pastors and prophetesses, these children are abandoned, tortured, starved and murdered: all in the name of Jesus Christ.
This Dispatches special follows the work of one Englishman, Gary Foxcroft, who has devoted his life to helping these desperate and vulnerable children. Gary's charity, Stepping Stones Nigeria, raises funds to help Sam Itauma who, five years ago, rescued four children accused of witchcraft. He now struggles to care for over 150 in a makeshift shelter and school called CRARN (Child Rights and Rehabilitation Network).
2008x41 Iraq: The Legacy
13 December, 2008 8:00 pm
Peter Oborne returns to Iraq in a follow-up to his Dispatches film, Iraq: The Betrayal. His aim is to find out whether - as Barack Obama hoped in the build-up to his presidency - that it is 'safe' for Western forces to leave.
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