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Dispatches
First Air Date: 1987-10-30
Seasons: 39
Episodes: 383
Rating: 6.7/10
Overview:
Dispatches is the British TV current affairs documentary series on Channel 4, first transmitted in 1987. The programme covers issues about British society, politics, health, religion, international current affairs and the environment, and often features a mole inside organisations under journalistic investigation.
Genres: Documentary, News
📺 Seasons
Episode 1: The Miner's Debate
Episode 2: Waiting for the Consultant
Episode 3: Danger! Men at Work
Episode 4: Interview with John Stalker
Episode 5: Iran
Episode 6: Palau
Episode 7: Working for Welfare
Episode 8: Radioactive Britain
Episode 9: The Lobby
Episode 10: Charity Fraud
Episode 11: Single Union Deals With Employers
Episode 12: Cuba From Inside
Episode 13: Talking to the Terrorists
Episode 14: Cancer Research
Episode 15: Freemasonry
Episode 16: The P.L.O.
Episode 17: War in the Desert
Episode 18: NATO's Nuclear Programme
Episode 19: Illegal Betting
Episode 20: What's Best for the Children? : Coventry
Episode 21: The Raid on San Fernando: Communist Rebels in The Philippines
Episode 22: Milky Business
Episode 23: The Hashish Connection
Episode 24: Disciples of Chaos
Episode 25: Trouble on the Waterfront
Episode 26: The Two State Solution
Episode 27: Turkey: Trading with Torture
Episode 28: Exporting High Technology from West to East
Episode 29: Tibet - A Case to Answer
Episode 30: The Day the Dream Died
Episode 31: The Winds of Death
Episode 32: The Battle for Stone Bassett
Episode 33: The Countertraders
Episode 34: A Very Polish Secret
Episode 1: Return to Year Zero?
Episode 2: Gorbachev's Asylums
Episode 3: Cooking the Books
Episode 4: The Spy Who Broke the Code
Episode 5: Buckets of Money
Episode 6: The Copper Seven Story
Episode 7: Afghan
Episode 8: The Toxic Trail
Episode 9: The Case of 'F'
Episode 10: The Return of the Death Squads
Episode 11: Burma - Dying for Democracy
Episode 12: Voices From Long Larten
Episode 13: Young, Homeless and Broke
Episode 14: Chico
Episode 15: Carry on Flying
Episode 16: The Most Neglected Crime
Episode 17: Dispatches (26/04/1989)
Episode 18: A Suitable Case for Treatment
Episode 19: The Sins of the Fathers
Episode 20: Not What the Doctor Ordered
Episode 21: Warlord of Kayan
Episode 22: The Ultimate Blasphemy
Episode 23: Fit as a Fiddle
Episode 24: Empire of the Sun
Episode 25: Year of the Locust
Episode 26: A State of Decay
Episode 27: Terror Island
Episode 28: The Spanish Connection
Episode 29: The Day of the Technopath
Episode 30: No, Prime Minister
Episode 31: The Undoing of Edwina
Episode 32: Mission Impossible
Episode 33: In the Coal Hole
Episode 34: The False Confession File
Episode 35: Hungarians Not Comrades
Episode 36: Twelve Days in November
Episode 37: Licence to Kill
Episode 38: Privatising Poland
Episode 39: Road to Damascus
Episode 1: The Plunderers
Episode 2: When Porton Pays the Piper
Episode 3: Gamma Alarm
Episode 4: The Great Leap Backwards
Episode 5: Miracle Molecule
Episode 6: Degrees for Sale
Episode 7: Stalin's Ghost
Episode 8: Troubled Waters
Episode 9: Beyond the Rubicon
Episode 10: A Greater Germany
Episode 11: Gerry
Episode 12: Legalise It!
Episode 13: In the Name of Hunger
Episode 14: Apartheid's Assassins
Episode 15: Terms for Peace
Episode 16: The Children of Fire
Episode 17: The Russians A Coming
Episode 18: The Most Neglected Crime
Episode 19: The Great Green Hype
Episode 20: Romanian Roulette
Episode 21: A Tale of Two Cartels
Episode 22: Dispatches (30/05/1990)
Episode 23: The Stasi Tapes
Episode 24: The AIDS Catch
Episode 25: Eritrea: Fight to the Death
Episode 26: Game on the Ice
Episode 27: Guinness - The Inside Story
Episode 28: Listen to the Children
Episode 29: Rivers of Fire
Episode 30: Bad Meat Trail
Episode 31: The Oregon Formula
Episode 32: Black and Blue
Episode 33: Moscow's Mafia Millions
Episode 34: Kingmaker of Karachi
Episode 35: Divided She Falls?
Episode 36: A Good and Faithful Servant
Episode 37: The Case Against War
Episode 38: Against the Odds
Episode 39: The Prozac File
Episode 1: Giant of the Gulf
Episode 2: What Happened at Christmas Island
Episode 3: Mr Bush's Road to War
Episode 4: Hanson Trust
Episode 5: Saddam's Secret Army
Episode 6: Crackdown
Episode 7: Skeletons Have Names
Episode 8: The Provoked Wife
Episode 9: Thinking of the Soldier
Episode 10: Voices From Tibet
Episode 11: A Very British Recession
Episode 12: Keep On Running
Episode 13: Strange Case of Democracy
Episode 14: Sir John's Shuttle
Episode 15: A Dream Betrayed
Episode 16: Tapping into Toxnet
Episode 17: Mr Major's Number 10
Episode 18: The Promised Land
Episode 19: The Ballot Fixers
Episode 20: The Arthur Legend
Episode 21: Saddam's Iraq
Episode 22: Castro's Secret Fix
Episode 23: The Movement
Episode 24: The Committee
Episode 25: Strange Customs
Episode 26: In the Cleaning Machine
Episode 27: Every Child in Britain
Episode 28: Georgian Nightmare
Episode 29: Missing in Action
Episode 30: The Swiss Connection
Episode 31: The Last Taboo
Episode 32: The Truth that Sets Us Free
Episode 33: Don King, Unauthorised
Episode 34: Holding the Baby
Episode 35: Christmas in Kurdistan
Episode 1: The Audit Of War
Episode 2: Patent On Life
Episode 3: Mother Russia's Children
Episode 4: The Hanson File
Episode 5: Sick At Heart
Episode 6: AZT - Cause For Concern
Episode 7: Beyond Faith
Episode 8: The Law Of The Ghetto
Episode 9: A Question Of Sizewell
Episode 10: The End Of The Union?
Episode 11: Election 1992: Democracy In Danger
Episode 12: Election 1992: Every Child In Britain
Episode 13: Election 1992: The Issue They Don't Debate
Episode 14: Campaign Diary
Episode 15: Red Star Unwrapped
Episode 16: Cloud Over Europe
Episode 17: The Return To Olympia
Episode 18: Blind Data
Episode 19: Hidden Assets
Episode 20: Body Search
Episode 21: The Czechoslovak Casino
Episode 22: For Queen Or Country?
Episode 23: The People Of The Shining Path
Episode 24: Missing In Action
Episode 25: Not Quite Forever
Episode 26: Relative Hell
Episode 27: Bordering On Big Brother
Episode 28: Visible Harm?
Episode 29: Germans For Sale
Episode 30: The 'R' Word
Episode 31: The First Thatcherite
Episode 32: The Generation Game
Episode 33: All The Presidency Men
Episode 34: Dying To Diet
Episode 1: How to Blow Your Pension
Episode 2: Low Pay Britain
Episode 3: The Great Car Con
Episode 4: Secrets Of The Parking Wardens
Episode 5: Politicians for Hire
Episode 6: Britain's Benefits Crackdown
Episode 7: Benefits Britain
Episode 8: Britain's Defence Squeeze
Episode 9: How to Buy a Meeting with a Minister
Episode 10: How Safe Are Our Planes?
Episode 11: The Secrets of Sports Direct
Episode 12: Trains: Are You Paying Too Much?
Episode 13: Where to Save Your Money
Episode 14: Exams: Cheating the System?
Episode 15: The Great British Property Divide
Episode 16: Salt: Are You Eating Too Much?
Episode 17: Kids in Crisis
Episode 18: How Councils Blow Your Millions
Episode 19: Pensions and the Price of Growing Old
Episode 20: Escape from Isis
Episode 21: Hunted: Gay and Afraid
Episode 22: Britain's Benefits Experiment
Episode 23: Aldi's Supermarket Secrets
Episode 1: Where's My Missing Mail?
Episode 2: How the Rich Avoid Tax
Episode 3: 999: Where's My Ambulance?
Episode 4: Dirty Secrets: What's Really in Our Air?
Episode 5: Fight Against ISIS
Episode 6: How To Be A Council House Millionaire
Episode 7: Housing Benefit Millionaires
Episode 8: Secrets of Cadbury
Episode 9: Britain's Pensioner Care Scandal
Episode 10: The Great Benefits Row
Episode 11: Isis and the Missing Treasures
Episode 12: The Truth About Cheap Flights
Episode 13: Undercover: Inside Britain's Children's Services
Episode 14: Are You Owed a Pay Rise?
Episode 15: Racist Britain
Episode 16: Is Your Pension Safe?
Episode 17: How School Bosses Spend Your Millions
Episode 18: How Safe Is Your Car?
Episode 19: Brexit: Who'll Do Your Job Now?
Episode 20: The Great Housing Scandal
Episode 21: The Battle for the Labour Party
Episode 22: Britain's Aborton Extremists
Episode 23: Britain's Wealth Gap
Episode 24: Living With Nightmare Neighbours
Episode 25: Addicted to Spending
Episode 26: The Secret Plan to Save Fat Britain
Episode 27: Britain's Homebuilding Scandal
Episode 28: The World According to President Trump
Episode 1: President Trump's Dirty Secrets
Episode 2: Undercover: Britain's Cheap Clothes (1)
Episode 3: Undercover: Britain's Cheap Clothes (2)
Episode 4: Undercover: Britain's Homeless Scandal
Episode 5: Supermarkets: Brexit and Your Shrinking Shop
Episode 6: Inside Britain's Airports
Episode 7: Under Lock and Key
Episode 8: Brexit: Crisis on the Wards
Episode 9: Britain's Benefit Families
Episode 10: Syria's Disappeared: The Case Against Assad
Episode 11: Secrets of Coca-Cola
Episode 12: President Trump: How Scared Should We Be?
Episode 13: Isis and the Battle for Iraq
Episode 14: Trump, The Doctor and The Vaccine Scandal
Episode 15: Bupa Care Homes Undercover
Episode 16: Brexit - How to Get a British Passport
Episode 17: Secrets of Your Cruise
Episode 18: Secrets of Britain's New Homes
Episode 19: Secrets of Your New Car
Episode 20: How to Get a Pay Rise
Episode 21: Trump & Russia: Sex, Spies and Scandal
Episode 22: Who Deserves a Pay Rise?
Episode 23: Is Britain Full?
Episode 24: Trouble on the Trains
Episode 25: The Fight For Mosul
Episode 26: The Great Housing Scandal
Episode 27: How to Avoid the Dementia Tax
Episode 28: Al Fayed Behind Closed Doors
Episode 1: Politicians for Hire: Cashing in on Brexit
Episode 2: Undercover in Premier Inn
Episode 3: Football's Wall of Silence
Episode 4: Undercover: Inside the Priory
Episode 5: Britain's University Spending Scandal
Episode 6: The Fgm Detectives
Episode 7: Undercover: Who's Policing Your Bank?
Episode 8: Who Speaks for British Muslims?
Episode 9: The Truth About Your Pay
Episode 10: Russian Spy Assassins: The Salisbury Attack
Episode 11: Britain's Diesel Scandal
Episode 12: The True Cost of Green Energy
Episode 13: Britain's Benefits Crisis
Episode 14: Myanmar's Killing Fields
Episode 15: After Grenfell, How Safe Are We?
Episode 16: Getting Rich From the Housing Crisis
Episode 17: Inside Facebook: Secrets of the Social Network
Episode 18: Homeless and Working
Episode 19: Breastfeeding Uncovered
Episode 20: Plot to Kill: Britain's Neo-Nazi Terrorists
Episode 21: How to lose Seven Billion Pounds
Episode 22: Lawless Britain: Where are the Police?
Episode 23: Witness Intimidation Revealed: Stitches For Snitches
Episode 24: Cannabis: Time to End the Ban?
Episode 25: Born on the Breadline
Episode 26: North Korea: Life Inside the Secret State
Episode 1: The Truth About Vegans
Episode 2: Skipping School: Britain's Invisible Kids
Episode 3: HS2: The Great Train Robbery
Episode 4: Grenfell: Did the Fire Brigade Fail?
Episode 5: Safe at Last: Inside a Women's Refuge
Episode 6: Britain's Knife Crisis: Young, Armed and Dangerous
Episode 7: The Brexit Millionaires
Episode 8: Great Formula Milk Scandal
Episode 9: New Landlords From Hell
Episode 10: Britain's Hidden War
Episode 11: When the Immigrants Leave
Episode 12: Jeremy Kyle: TV on Trial
Episode 13: The Truth About Chlorinated Chicken
Episode 14: Britain's Toxic Air Scandal
Episode 15: How Safe Are Your Medicines?
Episode 16: Britain's Breast Implant Scandal
Episode 17: Officer Down - Police Under Attack
Episode 18: Battle for the Tory Party
Episode 19: Britain's New Build Scandal
Episode 20: £2 Million Passport: Welcome to Britain
Episode 21: Young, British and Depressed
Episode 22: Sex, Drugs and Murder
Episode 23: The Prince and the Paedophile
Episode 24: Trump's Plan for the NHS
Episode 25: Puppet Masters: The Men Who Really Run Britain
Episode 26: The Secrets of Amazon
Episode 27: Homeless and Pregnant
Episode 28: Growing Up Poor: Britain's Breadline Kids
Episode 1: The Secrets of Big Tobacco: Has Philip Morris International Really Given Up Smoking?
Episode 2: Starbucks & Nespresso: The Truth About Your Coffee
Episode 3: Celebs for Sale: The Great Charity Scandal
Episode 4: Britain's Train Hell
Episode 5: Sex, Money & Power: The Dirty Secrets of Davos
Episode 6: Coronavirus: Can Our NHS Cope?
Episode 7: Coronavirus: How Britain is Changing
Episode 8: The Truth About Traveller Crime
Episode 9: Britain's Coronavirus Catastrophe
Episode 10: Dirty Secrets of American Food: Coming to a Supermarket Near You?
Episode 1: Boris Johnson: Has He Run Out of Road?
Episode 2: China: The Search for the Missing
Episode 3: Ukraine: On the Front Line with Johnny Mercer
Episode 4: Cadbury Exposed
Episode 5: Why Are Your Energy Bills So High?
Episode 6: Are We Losing the War on Terror?
Episode 7: Inside the Metaverse: Are You Safe?
Episode 8: The Enemy Within: The Far Right
Episode 9: The Truth About Nike and Adidas
Episode 10: MPs Under Threat
Episode 11: Corrupt Cops: What the Met Knew
Episode 12: Ukraine: Life Under Attack
Episode 13: Myanmar: The Forgotten Revolution
Episode 14: Airport Chaos Undercover
Episode 15: Why Is My Car So Expensive?
Episode 16: Britain's Water Scandal
Episode 17: Broke: Britain's Debt Emergency
Episode 18: Britain's Evicted Kids
Episode 19: Hospital Undercover Are They Safe?
Episode 20: Trapped, Disabled & Abused
Episode 21: Cops in Crisis
Episode 1: Strippers, Spies & Russian Money
Episode 2: Undercover Ambulance: NHS Chaos
Episode 3: Locked Away: Our Autism Scandal
Episode 4: Britain's Forgotten Pensioners
Episode 5: Boris, the Lord & the Russian Spy
Episode 6: Sri Lanka's Easter Bombings
Episode 7: Russell Brand: In Plain Sight
Episode 8: Hunting Russia's Lost Boys
Episode 1: Coca-Cola's Dirty Secret
Episode 2: The War on Britain's Motorists
Episode 3: Kill Zone : Inside Gaza
Episode 4: The Truth About Temu
Episode 5: Rubbish Tip Britain
Episode 6: Undercover A&E: NHS in Crisis
Episode 7: Can AI Steal Your Vote?
Episode 8: Britain's Unsolved Crimewave
Episode 9: Barbie's Dirty Secrets
Episode 10: Vinted's Dirty Laundry
Episode 11: The King, The Prince & Their Secret Millions
Episode 12: Britain's Shoplifting Gangs Exposed
Episode 13: Britain's Benefits Scandal