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Whether it is 10-year-olds talking about who they have snogged or schoolgirls calling themselves sluts on their social-networking profile pages, it seems our kids can't get away from sex. But what happens when the banter and name-calling gets physical?
Jeremy Vine reveals the problem of sexual bullying in our schools and hears from experts, parents and teachers - but most importantly from the kids themselves - on what we can do to tackle it.
Raphael Rowe goes inside prisons to gain rare access to the young offenders convicted of carrying, using or even killing with a knife.
Barack Obama takes over as US President with a promise to change America and make it a fairer place. Can he reshape the world's most powerful country?
Frank Skinner is one of Britain's most controversial comedians but even he felt the comments broadcast last year by Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand on BBC Radio went too far. As he experiments with reducing the expletive count in his own stand-up show, Frank sets out to discover if the Ross-Brand storm really was a watershed in broadcasting's debate about bad language and offence.
Britain is bust and ordinary taxpayers are getting hammered, but it seems that the super-rich can still squirrel their money away in tax havens like Liechtenstein, Jersey and the Caymans.
John Sweeney follows the missing millions, and asks if it is time to close the tax havens down.
As Israel prepares to vote on its future, the BBC's Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen travels through a devastated Gaza to ask where the recent Operation Cast Lead now leaves the future of the region.
MI5 say that they cannot keep tabs on all of the country's Muslim extremists.
As ministers prepare to announce a new counter-terrorism strategy, Panorama asks whether we should isolate or talk to the radicals, and examines suspicions that government-funded community projects are being covertly used to gather intelligence.
Business dragon Theo Paphitis asks if the banks and the government are doing enough to help Britain's 4.7 million small businesses survive the recession. Providing jobs for some 13 million people, they are currently going bust at a rate of 120 a day, according to the Federation of Small Businesses.
In a bid to stop the rot, the government says it has ordered the banks to be more supportive, but what is really happening? Are Britain's small firms are getting credit where it's due?
As RBS announces what are predicted to be the biggest losses in British history, Panorama tells the story of the bank's dramatic fall from grace.
In February 2009 the bankers responsible, including former RBS chief Fred Goodwin, apologised publicly for their parts in the banking crisis. Now Panorama asks,"What happens after sorry?"
Panorama looks at a proposed amnesty for hundreds of thousands of long-standing illegal immigrants, offering them the right to work and full citizenship.
London Mayor Boris Johnson is in favour of the idea, and 93 MPs from across the country support it.
But it is a big ask with the UK in the grip of a credit crunch, and amid protests calling for British jobs for British workers.
Panorama reveals how organised crime is defeating attempts to claw back its profits.
Reporter Samantha Poling goes undercover to show how major drug dealers and money launderers are making a mockery of high-profile laws designed to take the proceeds of their crime.
And the programme discovers the Crown is now reduced to making deals with criminals that can result in a drug dealer paying less "tax" than the rest of the population.
As the credit crunch pushes Britain's long-running pensions and savings time-bomb to a critical new stage, Panorama takes the experts to those facing a very uncertain retirement to see if they can find a solution.
Record low interest rates and miserly returns are punishing those who put money away for the future, yet the bankers who created the economic problems are being bailed out. Panorama asks: just who is on the side of the savers?
With soldiers and police once again being killed in Northern Ireland, Panorama offers the most detailed analysis yet of the resurgent terrorist threat in Northern Ireland based on ten years' work investigating the breakaway Republican movement, its aims, its roots and its tactics.
Panorama goes undercover in the millionaires' playground of Dubai to look at luxury developments. Reporter Ben Anderson discovers that behind the glossy sales brochures is an army of construction workers living in poor conditions.
Panorama goes undercover to expose a world of chaos and alleged neglect in the care of the elderly.
Carers on minimum wages - often with very little training - are frequently frustrated by poor management as they try to provide decent care. Paul Kenyon looks at how big business is in some cases driving the price of care down to as little as 10 pounds an hour.
When high street retail giant Woolworths closed down in January 2009, 27,000 people found themselves out of work. The collapse of one of the country's iconic high street names provided dramatic evidence that the UK was heading towards a recession.
Since the closure of the company's 807 outlets, Panorama has followed former Woolies staff from across the country as they desperately try to escape the burgeoning ranks of the unemployed.
Panorama investigates why the deadly serious matter of health and safety has become a laughing stock.
Undercover Nurse Margaret Haywood put a twenty year career on the line to help Panorama expose serious failings in the care of the elderly at one NHS Hospital. She dared to go public four years ago and has been fighting attempts to have her struck off the nursing register ever since.
As her case finally comes to a head Panorama asks why more aren't willing to speak out when vulnerable patients are put at risk.
Reporter Alison Holt has further revelations on the case of Baby P, the baby boy who died while under the care of social workers in Haringey, London.
Twenty-twenty cricket promoter and banker Sir Allen Stanford arrived at Lords last summer by helicopter and was hailed as the saviour of the English game. Now the Texan is accused of a multi-billion dollar fraud. John Sweeney goes on the trail of the dark side of the off-shore banker who bowled over English cricket.
The current affairs programme follows a British family to China as they pin their hopes on a new stem cell therapy to give their daughter sight.
As evidence mounts that some treatments offered abroad are bogus, will the child's eyesight improve, or are they destined for disappointment?
The expenses scandal is just the beginning and not the end of Westminster's troubles. Shelley Jofre reports on the other ways in which the new appetite for transparency may embarrass honourable members.
David Southall has been branded a 'very dangerous doctor' and is notorious for accusing a man of killing his child after watching a TV documentary. But he's also faced false accusations himself and been subjected to a vicious hate campaign. With child protection again in the spotlight Vivian White challenges him to answer his critics and uncovers new evidence that may support his claim of victimisation.
Iran could be the West's enemy number one; its leaders have called for the destruction of Israel, and have questioned the holocaust. But it could be a powerful broker for peace.
As Iranians prepare to elect a president beneath the gaze of its Ayatollah and supreme leader, Jane Corbin asks whether Obama's recent plea for greater understanding will be heeded.
A Chelsea footballer accused of cheating on his wife and a sports boss with a taste for spanking are at the forefront of an assault on the way the British press operates.
Celebrities and public figures alike are turning to privacy laws to suppress stories and photographs that show them in a bad light.
But it is not only kiss and tell stories that are under threat, and editors fear serious investigative journalism could be jeopardised; Panorama investigates this growing trend.
Exclusive access to airborne troops and to footage shot in Taliban-controlled towns reveals the inside story of Pakistan's fight against extremists in its mountains and valleys.
Reporter John Sweeney comes under fire as he joins troops battling to regain territory from the Taliban, whose rule of terror has left shootings, beheadings and burning of schools in its wake.
Ten years after devolution the Scots want still more power concentrated north of the border, and the Scottish Nationalists want to force a referendum on independence. Can the UK be kept in one piece, and if the Scots left would the rest of the country miss them? Panorama talks to the people who could hold the fate of Scotland and the union in their hands, from Alex Salmond to Gordon Brown to David Cameron, and to Tony Blair, the man who began it all by giving the Scots their Parliament.
When we want to fight plans to build a waste dump in our back yard, we take to the streets in protest. But what if that results in the police filming and searching us, noting down our car registrations and keeping our details on file for up to seven years?
Panorama asks if police tactics aimed at preventing troublemakers taking over demonstrations are eroding the freedom to protest for all but the most hardened activists.
Panorama investigates whether the interrogation techniques used by the Bush administration after 9/11 broke US and international law.
Evidence uncovered by Hilary Andersson is likely to fuel the debate over whether interrogators, lawyers or politicians should be charged.
Panorama helps citizen journalists Steven, Belinda and Tony find out the future of the steel industry, which employs tens of thousands of people.
They research the Welsh industry's past and talk to experts about its chances of surviving the recession, travelling first to London to ask a minister why the government will not subsidise it, and then to Mumbai to tackle the MD of Indian parent company Tata.
Veteran BBC war reporter Allan Little investigates how the battlefield trauma of the Vietnam War - post-traumatic stress disorder - now ends up in British motor insurance claims, workplace accidents and school bullying.
With compelling first-hand accounts, Panorama reveals the endless game of cat and mouse between prisoners determined to get their fix and officers equally determined to keep drugs out of their jails.
With exclusive access to a Category A jail, reporter Raphael Rowe hears from inmates and officers as well as from smugglers, mules and even a corrupt prison officer, fresh out of jail himself after being caught taking in drugs in return for money.
Panorama visits the town tackling binge drinking with a radical new approach.
Richard Bilton looks at reclaiming Britain's town centres from the drunk and violent, with the bar that makes it too difficult to get drunk and the battle against cheap drink promotions.
Jane Corbin attempts to find out if the lives of Afghan women have got any better since the start of the war there as it was one of the justifications for going to war in the first place.
Panorama reports on the frail and elderly people on the warpath, claiming that a promise made to them has been broken. They live in sheltered housing with a residential warden, but the warden is being taken away. Up and down the country, old people have been taking to the streets in protest, as well as threatening legal action, to save their wardens.
Sand, sea and sewage. With the quality of bathing water on the UK's beaches in decline, Panorama investigates the outflow pipes that discharge sewage, tampons and condoms after heavy rain, and commissions its own scientific tests, with some disturbing results.
Paul Kenyon travels three thousand miles along the most dangerous illegal immigration route out of Africa. Many die crossing the Sahara, or at sea on the way to a better life in Europe, but can the survivors convince those who follow that Europe in recession is no longer worth the risk?
Everything you need to know about the first flu pandemic of the 21st century.
Jeremy Vine, Sophie Raworth and Fergus Walsh travel through the UK and the world to expose the myths and the dangers of swine flu. Who is most vulnerable? How do you avoid it? And can the NHS cope?
Billions of taxpayers' money has been handed out to keep the banking system afloat, but what exactly have the banks given customers in return? Panorama sets out a sorry tale of tax avoidance and bonus schemes, set against a backdrop of businesses going bust and first-time buyers struggling to find a mortgage.
The recession may be over its worse, but now it's payback time. Whoever wins the next election will be faced with the biggest overdraft in this country's recent history.
Everyone now accepts that public spending will be cut, but by how much? How quickly? And which areas will be squeezed the most? John Ware challenges the politicians to come clean about their plans to slash public spending.
In a Panorama special, the programme investigates a key Labour health policy that slashed waiting lists by using the private sector to treat NHS patients. Six years on, was it worth the price? Thousands benefited from fast-track operations, but bereaved families and senior surgeons say risks were taken with patient safety and millions of pounds wasted.
Reporter Paul Kenyon continues his journey out of Africa following the route taken by 40,000 migrants a year seeking a better life in Europe. He discovers the way to the UK blocked by a new hardline policy in France to round up economic migrants and send them home, and an unlikely partnership with Libya's Colonel Gaddafi, who has reached an agreement with Italy to capture Europe-bound migrants at sea and lock them up in desert prisons.
But what about those fleeing war and persecution, and relying on Europe to protect them? Can it really justify handing them over to a military dictatorship outside the rule of international law?
Vivian White investigates the reasons why the ultimate 'no frills' airline has gained a reputation as the brand Britain loves to hate but can't stop using.
Passengers, suppliers and insiders contribute, and chief executive Michael O'Leary doorsteps the programme makers in his own unique style.
Bullied, attacked and racially-abused more than fifty times in eight weeks. That's the experience of two British Asian reporters posing as a couple and living undercover on a housing estate in Britain during summer 2009.
In a shocking insight into race hate and anti-social behaviour in our neighbourhoods, Tamanna Rahman was pelted with glass and stones and threatened with a brick during an attempted mugging by an 11-year-old boy. Her "husband," Amil Khan, was punched in the head. Yet the head of the government's equality watchdog has said that having a neighbour of a different ethnic background isn't an issue any more.
Panorama investigates the truth about racism and anti-social behaviour in Britain today.
Contains racially offensive language.
Are we safe from dangerous prisoners released back onto our streets?
A Panorama investigation reveals that known sex offenders and violent offenders are committing many more serious crimes, including rape and murder, on their release from prison than the government tells us about. With reporter Raphael Rowe.
In the aftermath of Baby Peter, Panorama has gained exclusive access to Coventry's social workers. The film follows the city-wide emergency response team and one of the local neighbourhood teams - all tasked with identifying children at risk, assessing parents' capabilities and, if deemed necessary, separating families.
Child protection social workers are facing huge caseloads, working with marginalised families, juggling the time-consuming problem of multi-agency coordination and tackling the mountains of paperwork. Not to mention low pay, a staffing crisis and the knowledge that they are always only one phone call away from finding themselves at the centre of a tabloid witch-hunt.
In the midst of all this, are they managing to keep children safe?
A man given a beating in his own home. A young woman bitten and punched by a man. A bottle smashed onto the head of an innocent bystander in an argument. Three victims, all violently assaulted - yet their attackers escaped prosecution, receiving cautions instead.
Half of all criminal cases brought to justice in England and Wales are now dealt with out of court. It's fast justice...but is it fair?
The government says out-of-court punishments, like cautions and fines, are helping to unclog the overburdened courts system and deal swiftly with antisocial behaviour. Critics say it is simply justice on the cheap, letting some serious criminals off the hook and, crucially, denying victims their day in court.
Shelley Jofre investigates whether these decisions, made behind closed doors instead of in open court, are tough on crime or the causes of crime.
Loan sharks are thriving in recession-hit Britain, as the poor and vulnerable run out of credit and find themselves relying on criminals instead.
Reporter Simon Boazman finds the victims who have suffered brutal violence, and looks at the lenders who can charge 17,000 per cent interest.
Who are your children hanging around with, and what would happen if a fight started? Because of a little-known law called joint enterprise, anyone caught up in a serious incident could face the same jail sentence as the person wielding the boot, knife or gun.
The police say it helps to curb gang violence, but Panorama investigates whether this catch-all policy is also leading to miscarriages of justice.
It has been blamed for concreting over the countryside, and running up endless air miles importing food and trucking it the length and breadth of Britain, but is Tesco now leading the business fightback against man-made global warming?
Six months on from the MP's expenses scandal, the series takes a look at what has changed and if MP's can be now be trusted and whether the public has forgiven them.
What is wrong with the Royal Mail? Panorama investigates the service that gets around 5,000 complaints a day, and asks if it is failing its customers.
