Dispatches (Season 18)

What Hutton Won't Tell You (Episode 1)

Writer: Giovanni Ulleri

Air date: 2004-04-05

Overview: As the Hutton report is published, the actions of the government once again come under minute scrutiny.

Third Class Post (Episode 2)

Air date: 2004-04-29

Overview: In a special investigation, Dispatches reporter Simon Barnes goes undercover inside the Royal Mail to reveal a damning catalogue of skiving workers, ineffective managers and gangs of criminals stealing millions of pounds from the post.

Keep Them Out (Episode 3)

Writer: Richard Fabb

Air date: 2004-05-06

Overview: Award-winning Dispatches director David Modell, investigates how public opinion is affecting the Government's policy on asylum by travelling to Lee-on-the-Solent and revealing how this small town in the south of England reacts when threatened with an influx of asylum seekers.

Fit to Eat (Episode 4)

Air date: 2004-05-13

Overview: Dispatches investigates whether out-sourcing hospital meals to cook-chill cook-freeze food suppliers means that patients are not always receiving all the nutrients that they need for recovery and investigates whether appropriate standards of hygiene are being met.

Spiked (Episode 5)

Air date: 2004-09-13

The Dirty Meat Scandal (Episode 6)

Air date: 2004-09-20

MMR: What They Didn't Tell You (Episode 7)

Air date: 2004-11-18

Profiting from Kids in Care (Episode 8)

Air date: 2004-11-25

Barrack Room Bullies (Episode 9)

Air date: 2004-12-02

Living with Refugees (Episode 10)

Air date: 2004-12-09