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Panorama

Season 2008 2008
TV-PG

  • 2008-01-07T20:30:00Z on BBC One
  • 30m
  • 1d 5h (58 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary, News
Panorama is a BBC Television current affairs documentary programme. First broadcast in 1953, it is the world's longest-running public affairs television programme.

58 episodes

Season Premiere

2008-01-07T20:30:00Z

2008x01 One Click from Danger

Season Premiere

2008x01 One Click from Danger

  • 2008-01-07T20:30:00Z30m

An update to our film 'One Click from Danger' about internet paedophiles exploiting vulnerable youngsters online.

2008-01-14T20:30:00Z

2008x02 Destination UK

2008x02 Destination UK

  • 2008-01-14T20:30:00Z30m

Panorama's Paul Kenyon follows one of the most dangerous illegal immigration routes into Europe. A route used by thousands of migrants seeking a better life.

Panorama goes undercover in Britain's security industry and discovers criminals continue to operate in the business.

Alex James confessed to spending a million pounds on champagne and cocaine in his Blur years. He travels to Colombia to see the damage caused by the drug.

Panorama discovers how the buy-to-let dream for some investors has turned into a nightmare.

2008-02-11T20:30:00Z

2008x06 No More Mandelas

2008x06 No More Mandelas

  • 2008-02-11T20:30:00Z30m

Fergal Keane witnessed the end of apartheid. He returns to South Africa for Panorama, to find out what happened to the hope from that time.

Tom Heap sets out to discover if the popularity of bottled water is a triumph of marketing over common sense.

2008-02-25T20:30:00Z

2008x08 On Whose Orders?

2008x08 On Whose Orders?

  • 2008-02-25T20:30:00Z30m

Panorama investigates allegations of abuse by the British Army against former Iraqi prisoners who are now claiming compensation.

2008x09 Taking Back the Streets

  • 2008-03-03T20:30:00Z30m

Richard Bilton looks at the dilemma of whether to tackle vandals and teenage gangs or to surrender the streets and thus create more victims.

2008-03-10T20:30:00Z

2008x10 Shaken Babies

2008x10 Shaken Babies

  • 2008-03-10T20:30:00Z30m

Panorama's John Sweeney investigates the row behind Shaken Baby Syndrome following the conviction of childminder Keran Henderson.

2008-03-27T20:30:00Z

2008x11 Teenage Sex for Sale

2008x11 Teenage Sex for Sale

  • 2008-03-27T20:30:00Z30m

Girls as young as 12 are being sold for sex by organised gangs on the streets of Britain, Gerry Northam investigates for Panorama.

As police continue their investigations into allegations of abuse at Haute de la Garenne, Panorama looks at claims of abuse at a second home.

2008-04-07T19:30:00Z

2008x13 Divide and Rule

2008x13 Divide and Rule

  • 2008-04-07T19:30:00Z30m

Ten years on from the Good Friday Agreement, Declan Lawn returns to Northern Ireland to see how far lives have changed.

2008-04-14T19:30:00Z

2008x14 Feeling the Pinch

2008x14 Feeling the Pinch

  • 2008-04-14T19:30:00Z30m

BBC Business presenter Declan Curry asks if Britain has what it takes to weather the storm of the global forces buffeting our economy.

2008-04-21T19:30:00Z

2008x15 Something in the Air

2008x15 Something in the Air

  • 2008-04-21T19:30:00Z30m

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.

The superbug c.difficile is rife in our hospitals. Sally Magnusson reveals how sloppy hygiene, understaffing and overcrowded wards contributed to its spread.

2008-04-28T19:30:00Z

2008x17 Mission Impossible

2008x17 Mission Impossible

  • 2008-04-28T19:30:00Z30m

Panorama talks to ex-militia leaders accused of murdering men, women and children. They now face war crimes charges.

2008-05-05T19:30:00Z

2008x18 Prisons Unlocked

2008x18 Prisons Unlocked

  • 2008-05-05T19:30:00Z30m

Panorama investigates claims that unsuitable and dangerous convicts are being sent to open prisons to help solve the overcrowding crisis.

2008-05-12T19:30:00Z

2008x19 Tested to Destruction

2008x19 Tested to Destruction

  • 2008-05-12T19:30:00Z30m

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.

2008-05-19T19:30:00Z

2008x21 Britain on the Sick

2008x21 Britain on the Sick

  • 2008-05-19T19:30:00Z30m

Shelley Jofre examines the Government's tough new benefit rules.

2008-05-26T19:30:00Z

2008x22 One Click from Capture

2008x22 One Click from Capture

  • 2008-05-26T19:30:00Z30m

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.

2008-06-02T19:30:00Z

2008x23 The Property Game

2008x23 The Property Game

  • 2008-06-02T19:30:00Z30m

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?

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.

2008-06-23T19:30:00Z

2008x26 Young Gunmen

2008x26 Young Gunmen

  • 2008-06-23T19:30:00Z30m

Panorama investigates the rise of armed teenage street gangs and discovers how shockingly ingrained the culture of guns and violence is in parts of Britain.

The programme sees how teenage gangs and their turf wars devastate whole communities, and meets parents of teenagers who are being dragged into gang culture.

2008-06-23T19:30:00Z

2008x27 Primark: On the Rack

2008x27 Primark: On the Rack

  • 2008-06-23T19:30:00Z30m

Panorama puts Primark's claims that it can deliver cheap, fast fashion without breaking ethical guidelines to the test.

2008x28 Taking Back The Streets

  • 2008-06-30T19:30:00Z30m

Panarama investigates the rise of armed teenage street gangs and discovers how shockingly ingrained the culture of guns and violence is in Britain.

2008-07-07T19:30:00Z

2008x29 NHS for Sale

2008x29 NHS for Sale

  • 2008-07-07T19:30:00Z30m

Sally Magnusson investigates the creeping privatisation of the NHS.

2008-07-14T19:30:00Z

2008x30 China's Secret War

2008x30 China's Secret War

  • 2008-07-14T19:30:00Z30m

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.

2008-07-21T19:30:00Z

2008x31 Friends in High Places

2008x31 Friends in High Places

  • 2008-07-21T19:30:00Z30m

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.

2008-07-30T19:30:00Z

2008x33 Racing's Dirty Secret

2008x33 Racing's Dirty Secret

  • 2008-07-30T19:30:00Z30m

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.

2008x34 China's Olympic Promise

  • 2008-08-04T19:30:00Z30m

As the Games approach, award-winning journalist John Sweeney travels across China to discover whether foreign journalists are being allowed to report freely.

2008x35 Notes on a Dirty Island

  • 2008-08-11T19:30:00Z30m

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.

2008-08-25T19:30:00Z

2008x37 True Brits

2008x37 True Brits

  • 2008-08-25T19:30:00Z30m

An investigation into how factors such as mass immigration and devolution are forever changing the concept of 'Britishness'.

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.

2008-09-09T19:30:00Z

2008x40 Terror in the Skies?

2008x40 Terror in the Skies?

  • 2008-09-09T19:30:00Z30m

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.

Panorama reveals the secret intelligence which was withheld from the detectives when 29 people and two unborn babies were murdered in Omagh.

2008-09-22T19:30:00Z

2008x42 How Safe is my Money?

2008x42 How Safe is my Money?

  • 2008-09-22T19:30:00Z30m

Jane Corbin looks at how the crisis facing the world's financial insitutions could impact on the nation's banks, mortgages, insurance and pensions.

2008-09-26T19:30:00Z

2008x43 You Can Run...

2008x43 You Can Run...

  • 2008-09-26T19:30:00Z30m

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.

2008-11-03T20:30:00Z

2008x49 Three Bloody Summers

2008x49 Three Bloody Summers

  • 2008-11-03T20:30:00Z30m

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.

2008-11-07T20:30:00Z

2008x50 Can't Pay, Won't Pay

2008x50 Can't Pay, Won't Pay

  • 2008-11-07T20:30:00Z30m

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.

2008-11-24T20:30:00Z

2008x52 Addicted to Aid

2008x52 Addicted to Aid

  • 2008-11-24T20:30:00Z30m

Reporter Sorious Samura visits Uganda and his home country of Sierra Leone to reveal how aid money is lost, stolen and frittered away.

2008-12-01T20:30:00Z

2008x53 Comeback Coal

2008x53 Comeback Coal

  • 2008-12-01T20:30:00Z30m

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.

2008-12-08T20:30:00Z

2008x55 I'll Die When I Choose

2008x55 I'll Die When I Choose

  • 2008-12-08T20:30:00Z30m

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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