Panorama - 2008
Series Details
Title: Panorama
Overview: Current affairs programme, featuring interviews and investigative reports on a wide variety of subjects.
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Average Vote: 6.2 (13 votes)
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An update to our film 'One Click from Danger' about internet paedophiles exploiting vulnerable youngsters online.
Paul Kenyon follows the most dangerous illegal immigration route into Europe, used by tens and thousands of migrants a year seeking a better life, and revisits the survivors whose epic journey ended with them marooned on a tuna net in the middle of the Mediterranean.
Panorama goes undercover to expose the flaws in Britain's seven-billion-pound security industry.
Former cocaine-using Blur bassist Alex James travels to Colombia. He meets the drug farmers, sellers and enforcers, and hears the message that every gram is tainted in blood.
Investigation into sharp practice in the housing market which has kept house prices artificially high and plunged homeowners into negative equity.
After witnessing the end of apartheid, Fergal Keane returns to South Africa to find out what happened to the hope from that time.
Reporter Tom Heap sets out to discover if the popularity of bottled water is merely a triumph of marketing over common sense.
Jeremy Vine interviews Tony Blair's Attorney General Lord Goldsmith and General Sir Mike Jackson, asking how rules preventing abuse and torture of prisoners in Iraq were overturned, and analysing new claims that could bring disgrace to the Army.
Richard Bilton examines the dilemma of Garry Newlove, the father beaten to death in the streets. Is a new community action the answer to teenage gangs?
Investigates the row behind shaken-baby syndrome. Last year, childminder Keran Henderson was convicted of shaking an 11-month-old baby to death. Her friends and family say she couldn't have done it, despite medical reports suggesting otherwise.
Gerry Northam investigates ruthless gangs who are targeting teenage girls and offering drugs and excitement. Within weeks, the children are made to work as prostitutes - having sex with a queue of men. This isn't Eastern European people trafficking but British girls on British streets.
Current affairs programme with Jeremy Vine. It is six weeks since police started their search of Haut de la Garenne children's home on Jersey. Other homes and careworkers now being named by alleged abuse victims and many believe there has been a deliberate cover up.
Ten years on from the Good Friday Agreement, Panorama examines what power-sharing has done for those living with Northern Ireland's deep sectarian divisions.
Credit crunch, rising fuel prices and talk of recession - we've been warned of a tough year ahead. But how will we really be affected? Declan Curry discovers if we have what it takes to weather the storm of the global forces buffeting our economy.
Pilots almost passing out at the controls; passengers who say they've been made ill by toxic fumes. Can polluted air on board planes damage your health? Panorama carries out its own tests to discover just what's in the air we breathe when we fly.
Sally Magnusson goes inside a trust which lost 90 patients to the superbug c.difficile, which accounts for four times as many deaths as MRSA.
The UN polices conflicts around the world, but can it police itself? Raphael Rowe reveals how the organisation is struggling to eradicate the rot at its core.
Panorama investigates claims that unsuitable and dangerous convicts are being sent to open prisons to help solve the overcrowding crisis.
Current affairs. Are schoolchildren in England given too many exams? Vivian White reports.
Experts and diplomats including Lord Hurd, Christopher Mallaby and Bernard Lovell assess the predictions made about the world's future in an edition of Panorama from 1960.
Current affairs programme presented by Jeremy Vine. Shelley Jofre examines the Government's tough new benefit rules.
A look at how Panorama's simple experiment of putting a young girl's details onto social networking websites ended with the arrest of an online predator.
Vigorous investigation of a topical issue. Richard Bilton meets the winners and losers in the property market. Is the British love affair with home ownership over?
Current affairs. Panorama meets the soldiers featured in last year's Taking On the Taliban special, to find out what they're doing now.
Jane Corbin investigates the cases which threaten to reveal the corruption behind the past five years of war in the Middle East.
Current affairs. Panorama investigates the rise of armed teenage street gangs, speaking to former gangsters, the police and the young gunmen themselves.
Panorama puts Primark's claims that it can deliver cheap, fast fashion without breaking ethical guidelines to the test.
Panarama investigates the rise of armed teenage street gangs and discovers how shockingly ingrained the culture of guns and violence is in Britain.
Sally Magnusson investigates the creeping privatisation of the NHS.
Panorama provides evidence of how China is supplying the Sudanese government with arms to enable it to wage a campaign of violence in Darfur - all for oil.
Panorama investigates the government's proposals for a third runway at Heathrow which, critics argue, will have a dramatic effect on the environment.
With the price of fuel rocketing at the pumps, Jane Corbin reports on how fuel prices are affecting Britain and what alternatives might be available.
Panorama investigates horse racing and reveals why those running the sport are so concerned about gamblers betting on horses not to win, but to lose.
As the Games approach, award-winning journalist John Sweeney travels across China to discover whether foreign journalists are being allowed to report freely.
Travel writer Bill Bryson presents a personal and passionate account of how Britain has become a rubbish tip since his arrival from the USA in 1972.
Shelley Jofre takes a road trip around the UK and discovers how the quality of treatment from the NHS very much depends on where you live.
Current affairs with Jeremy Vine. An investigation into how factors such as mass immigration and devolution are forever changing the concept of 'Britishness'.
Current affairs. Jeremy Vine presents personal stories of regular Britons affected by the credit crunch.
Panorama asks whether the money markets can achieve what campaigners and law enforcement have so far failed to, and make trees more valuable alive than dead.
Peter Taylor uncovers the inside story of the operation which thwarted a terrorist plot to cause explosions and led to increased security at British airports.
Peter Taylor uncovers the inside story of the operation which thwarted a terrorist plot to cause explosions and led to increased security at British airports.
Jane Corbin looks at how the crisis facing the world's financial insitutions could impact on the nation's banks, mortgages, insurance and pensions.
But can you hide? Simon Boazman investigates how much information is held on him, whether it is secure and if he can reduce his data trail.
Nick Robinson accompanies Conservative Party leader David Cameron to Birmingham as he attempts to persuade voters he is prime minister material.
In the wake of the resignation of Britain's top police officer, Panorama investigates racism in Britain's police force. Mark Daly - who exposed racism amongst police recruits in The Secret Policeman five years ago - returns to uncover the truth about being a Black Ethnic Minority Cop today.
Mark Franchetti meets Vladimir Putin's inner circle in an attempt to decipher Russia's intentions on domestic and international fronts.
Matt Frei investigates Barack Obama's rise in the opinion polls, and asks if the current financial crisis has put him on the home straight.
Jeremy Vine asks why our economy ran into trouble, and who is to blame for the credit crunch and banking crisis which threatens to affect us all.
The British Commander on the ground admits the war against the Taliban cannot be won by force alone in this eye-opening assessment of the Afghanistan conflict.
With the credit crunch affecting everyone, Panorama reveals the lengths some lenders are now going to in order to get borrowers to pay off their debts.
A six-month investigation by the programme reveals the mistakes and missed opportunities that led to the death of a 17-month-old boy known only as Baby P.
Reporter Sorious Samura visits Uganda and his home country of Sierra Leone to reveal how aid money is lost, stolen and frittered away.
An investigation into the Government's support of a new wave of opencast coal mining, in spite of fierce opposition from local communities.
Panorama presents the inside story on the disappearance of Shannon Matthews, as it investigates the events that led to Karen Matthews being convicted for the kidnap of her own daughter.
Politician and Parkinson's sufferer Margo MacDonald uncovers the truth about assisted dying, meeting those with illnesses like hers who are desperate to die.
Jane Corbin makes the hazardous journey to the frontline in the War on Terror, the remote and forbidding mountains along the Pakistan-Afghan border.
It has been a cataclysmic year for our banks and economy, and a year in which the role of the BBC's Business Editor has been in the spotlight as never before. With exclusive interviews with the major players, Robert Peston reflects on how these momentous events will affect us all.
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