Panorama (Season 61)

Current affairs programme, featuring interviews and investigative reports on a wide variety of subjects.

  • Poster for Immigration Undercover

    Immigration Undercover (Episode 1)

    Air date: 2013-01-21

    Overview: Reporter Paul Kenyon goes undercover with the new type of gang smuggling illegal immigrants out of the UK as well as in, right under the nose of the British authorities.

  • Poster for The Great Disability Scam?

    The Great Disability Scam? (Episode 2)

    Air date: 2013-01-28

    Overview: Only half of people with a disability are in work. Panorama investigates if one of the government's most ambitious welfare reforms can solve the problem of disability unemployment.

  • Poster for The Great Abortion Divide

    The Great Abortion Divide (Episode 3)

    Air date: 2013-02-04

    Overview: Victoria Derbyshire investigates the great abortion divide between Northern Ireland and most of the United Kingdom, and asks if it is time to change the law.

  • Poster for Inside Barclays: Banking on Bonuses

    Inside Barclays: Banking on Bonuses (Episode 4)

    Air date: 2013-02-11

    Overview: After a series of controversies, bosses at Barclays say they're changing the culture of the bank. But what went wrong? Reporter Richard Bilton investigates the bonus culture that drove one of our biggest banks.

  • Poster for What's Really in our Food?

    What's Really in our Food? (Episode 5)

    Air date: 2013-02-18

    Overview: Panorama investigates the horse meat scandal and reveals more concerns about what is really in our food. Richard Bilton questions the 'light touch' regulation of the food industry.

  • Poster for Mission Accomplished? Secrets of Helmand

    Mission Accomplished? Secrets of Helmand (Episode 6)

    Air date: 2013-02-25

    Overview: Reporter Ben Anderson joins Allied troops preparing to hand over to Afghan forces next year, finding the Afghan army and police to be poorly trained and lacking resources.

  • Poster for America's Gun Addiction

    America's Gun Addiction (Episode 7)

    Air date: 2013-03-11

    Overview: Following the Newtown massacre, Panorama meets the teachers who want to use guns to protect their schools and reveals America's national crisis in mental healthcare.

  • Poster for The Spies Who Fooled the World

    The Spies Who Fooled the World (Episode 8)

    Air date: 2013-03-18

    Overview: On the eve of the tenth anniversary of the Iraq War, Panorama reveals how key aspects of the secret intelligence used to justify the invasion were based on fabrication and lies.

  • Poster for The Derby Fire: Secrets and Lies

    The Derby Fire: Secrets and Lies (Episode 9)

    Air date: 2013-04-02

    Overview: The Derby fire, in which six children died, was an attack on a family that shocked the country. Panorama asks were warnings missed?

  • Poster for North Korea Undercover

    North Korea Undercover (Episode 10)

    Air date: 2013-04-15

    Overview: Panorama reporter John Sweeney spends eight days undercover inside North Korea, the most rigidly-controlled nation on Earth.

  • Poster for Secrets of Britain's Sharia Councils

    Secrets of Britain's Sharia Councils (Episode 11)

    Air date: 2013-04-22

    Overview: Panorama reporter Jane Corbin goes undercover to investigate what is really happening in Britain's Sharia Councils - Islamic religious courts.

  • Poster for The Russians Are Coming

    The Russians Are Coming (Episode 12)

    Air date: 2013-04-29

    Overview: Reporter Darragh MacIntyre investigates a death in a Russian prison that has brought the threat of violence to the UK, and the death of a whistleblower found in Surrey.

  • Poster for Jobs for the Boys?

    Jobs for the Boys? (Episode 13)

    Air date: 2013-05-13

    Overview: Former England and Arsenal footballer Sol Campbell investigates why the unemployment rate for young black British men is roughly double that of their white counterparts.

  • Poster for Hillsborough - How They Buried the Truth

    Hillsborough - How They Buried the Truth (Episode 14)

    Air date: 2013-05-20

    Overview: A Panorama investigation reveals how police, politicians, lawyers and judges all played a part in burying the truth about Britain's worst football disaster.

  • Poster for Cancer: Hope for Sale?

    Cancer: Hope for Sale? (Episode 15)

    Air date: 2013-06-03

    Overview: Richard Bilton investigates a controversial American doctor who claims he can cure cancer. Why has he been allowed to sell an unproven and experimental treatment for 30 years?

  • Poster for Cash for Questions Undercover

    Cash for Questions Undercover (Episode 16)

    Air date: 2013-06-06

    Overview: A Panorama special going undercover to reveal lobbying practices which raise serious questions about standards in political life.

  • Poster for Blacklist Britain

    Blacklist Britain (Episode 17)

    Air date: 2013-06-10

    Overview: Richard Bilton does the first TV interview with the bookkeeper for the organisation which ran a secret blacklist subscribed to by some of the biggest names in British business.

  • Poster for Traffic Fines - Highway Robbery?

    Traffic Fines - Highway Robbery? (Episode 18)

    Air date: 2013-06-12

    Overview: With councils fining drivers in ever-greater numbers after capturing them on CCTV, Panorama tries to find new ways to cut down on the mountain of traffic tickets issued each year.

  • Poster for Elderly Care: Condition Critical?

    Elderly Care: Condition Critical? (Episode 19)

    Air date: 2013-06-17

    Overview: Using secret filming and exclusive research into the mortality rates of care and nursing homes for the elderly in England, Panorama exposes the pain of poor care and neglect.

  • Poster for Kids Lost in Care

    Kids Lost in Care (Episode 20)

    Air date: 2013-06-24

    Overview: Panorama investigates the standard of residential care for vulnerable children. In homes where care is not up to scratch, some young people run away into risky situations.

  • Poster for The Truth about Pills and Pregnancy

    The Truth about Pills and Pregnancy (Episode 21)

    Air date: 2013-07-01

    Overview: Current affairs. Many women have to take medicines while pregnant. But could they be risking the health of their unborn child? Reporter Shelley Jofre investigates.

  • Poster for The Trouble with Trump

    The Trouble with Trump (Episode 22)

    Air date: 2013-07-08

    Overview: Current affairs. Reporter John Sweeney asks if the Scottish government knew enough about self-proclaimed billionaire Donald Trump before accepting his investment proposal.

  • Poster for Broken by Battle

    Broken by Battle (Episode 23)

    Air date: 2013-07-15

    Overview: Panorama investigates the true personal cost of the war in Afghanistan on British troops, going beyond the limits of the Ministry of Defence's statistics on suicide.

  • Poster for Jungle Outlaws: The Chainsaw Trail

    Jungle Outlaws: The Chainsaw Trail (Episode 24)

    Air date: 2013-07-25

    Overview: Panorama investigates illegal logging in the rainforest and the timber trail from Africa to West Europe. Raphael Rowe spent six months tracking logs from Congo's jungle.

  • Poster for Tainted Love: Secrets of the Dating Game

    Tainted Love: Secrets of the Dating Game (Episode 25)

    Air date: 2013-07-29

    Overview: Legal notice - this episode is the subject of a legal complaint. Reporter Fiona Walker investigates how unscrupulous dating websites are preying on those looking for love.

  • Poster for The Brothers Who Bombed Boston

    The Brothers Who Bombed Boston (Episode 26)

    Air date: 2013-08-05

    Overview: Panorama explores how the two suspected Boston Marathon bombers - brothers raised and educated in the US - became radicalised, and asks if America's war on terror has come home.

  • Poster for Locked Up For Being Ill?

    Locked Up For Being Ill? (Episode 27)

    Air date: 2013-09-09

    Overview: Current affairs. With police estimating that dealing with mental health patients takes up 25 percent of their time, Paul Kenyon discovers a world of self-harm and suicide attempts.

  • Poster for Tax, Lies and Videotape

    Tax, Lies and Videotape (Episode 28)

    Air date: 2013-09-16

    Overview: Current affairs. Panorama goes undercover in the City to investigate the truth about UK tax policy, discovering how London is still home to the tax avoidance industry.

  • Poster for The Honeymoon Murder: Who Killed Anni?

    The Honeymoon Murder: Who Killed Anni? (Episode 29)

    Air date: 2013-09-19

    Overview: With access to secret police files, Jeremy Vine looks at the case against the Bristol businessman accused of killing his young bride on honeymoon in South Africa in 2010.

  • Poster for Dying for a Bargain

    Dying for a Bargain (Episode 30)

    Air date: 2013-09-23

    Overview: Panorama investigates how our clothes - including those of some big high street brands - are really made, finding evidence of an industry that still puts profit before safety.

  • Poster for Terror in Nairobi

    Terror in Nairobi (Episode 31)

    Air date: 2013-09-30

    Overview: Panorama investigates the network al-Shabab uses to cross the Somali-Kenyan border at will and this terror group's appeal to radicalised Muslim youths in Britain and beyond.

  • Poster for Saving Syria's Children

    Saving Syria's Children (Episode 32)

    Air date: 2013-09-30

    Overview: In a special edition, Panorama travels with British doctors inside Syria to exclusively reveal the devastating impact of the war on children caught in the conflict.

  • Poster for Malala: Shot for Going to School

    Malala: Shot for Going to School (Episode 33)

    Air date: 2013-10-07

    Overview: One year ago, Malala Yousafzai was shot by the Taliban on her school bus. In this Panorama special, she talks exclusively to Mishal Husain about her remarkable journey.

  • Poster for Britain's New Banking Scandal

    Britain's New Banking Scandal (Episode 34)

    Air date: 2013-10-14

    Overview: Panorama reporter Adam Shaw lifts the lid on what could be Britain's biggest financial mis-selling scandal - the hard sell of so-called interest rate swaps.

  • Poster for Murder in the Alps

    Murder in the Alps (Episode 35)

    Air date: 2013-10-21

    Overview: With exclusive access to eyewitnesses and investigators, Panorama reveals how and asks why a British family and a French cyclist were brutally murdered by a hitman.

  • Poster for Our Dirty Nation

    Our Dirty Nation (Episode 36)

    Air date: 2013-10-28

    Overview: Cleaning up Britain's rubbish costs more than a billion pounds each year. Journalist and Labour peer Joan Bakewell argues that we all need to take more pride in our surroundings.

  • Poster for After Savile: No More Secrets?

    After Savile: No More Secrets? (Episode 37)

    Air date: 2013-11-04

    Overview: In Britain, turning a blind eye to child abuse in a school, hospital or a church is not a crime; Panorama talks to victims, police and senior figures calling for the law to change.

  • Poster for The Great House Price Bubble?

    The Great House Price Bubble? (Episode 38)

    Air date: 2013-11-11

    Overview: With house prices hitting record highs at the same time as living standards continue to be squeezed, Adam Shaw goes in search of affordable homes for ordinary working families.

  • Poster for Britain's Secret Terror Force

    Britain's Secret Terror Force (Episode 39)

    Air date: 2013-11-21

    Overview: Reporter John Ware interviews former members of a secret undercover unit run by the British Army in the early 1970s as they reveal how they took the war to the IRA.

  • Poster for Amazon: The Truth Behind the Click

    Amazon: The Truth Behind the Click (Episode 40)

    Air date: 2013-11-25

    Overview: How well does online retailer Amazon treat its workers? Conditions in the company's giant warehouses have been condemned by unions as among the worst in Britain.

  • Poster for Where's Our Aid Money Gone?

    Where's Our Aid Money Gone? (Episode 41)

    Air date: 2013-12-02

    Overview: Current affairs. With the Global Fund's inspector general sacked for 'unsatisfactory' performance after exposing corruption, Richard Bilton challenges those responsible.

  • Poster for Energy Bills: Power Failure?

    Energy Bills: Power Failure? (Episode 42)

    Air date: 2013-12-09

    Overview: Current affairs. Energy bills have gone up by around a quarter in the past four years and politicians from all sides say they are determined to bring them down. Can they deliver?

  • Poster for All in a Good Cause

    All in a Good Cause (Episode 43)

    Air date: 2013-12-10

    Overview: Current affairs. Do we really know about the charities we support? Declan Lawn hears from donors and charity workers who believe the quest for money is undermining the mission.

  • Poster for The Romanians are Coming?

    The Romanians are Coming? (Episode 44)

    Air date: 2013-12-16

    Overview: Reporter Paul Kenyon joins British police in a Romanian village where most of the men have left to pursue work in the black markets of London, as they try to stem the flow.

  • Poster for Woolwich: The Untold Story

    Woolwich: The Untold Story (Episode 45)

    Air date: 2013-12-19

    Overview: With two British Muslim converts found guilty of the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby, Panorama asks if the security services among others missed opportunities to prevent Lee's death.

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