Dispatches
Dispatches
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Dispatches

6.7 / 10 · 12 votes
TV-PG
1987
40 seasons
1026 episodes
DocumentaryNews

Long-running Channel 4 documentary series covering issues about British society, politics, health, religion, international current affairs and the environment. Known for featuring a mole inside organisations under journalistic investigation.

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Seasons

  • Ep 1

    1.The Plutonium Black Market

    30-10-198745 min

    Investigating the black market in weapons grade uranium operated from Khartoum.

  • Ep 2

    2.In The Red

    06-11-198745 min

    Investigation of the alleged misuse of funds at three Labour Party Social Clubs in Dundee.

  • Ep 3

    3.AIDS - The Unheard Voices

    13-11-198745 min

    The program challenges the theory that AIDS is caused by the H.I.V. virus and discusses the social pressures on those diagnosed as H.I.V. positive.

  • Ep 4

    4.Divided by Law

    20-11-198745 min

    Explains how new D.N.A. testing techniques could help to re-unite divided immigrant families and looks at claims that the government has delayed progress pending on legislation.

  • Ep 5

    5.Selling the Tunnel

    27-11-198745 min

    TVS's Business Unit tells the inside story of the Eurotunnel Management Team's battle to persuade the City and the public to back the issue of shares and raise capital.

  • Ep 6

    6.Gunning for Government

    04-12-198745 min

    The undercover world of arms dealing is revealed by a defector (Frank Turner) who reveals his involvement with the CIA and British Ministry of Defence.

  • Ep 7

    7.Kimberly Carlile - Falling Through the Net

    11-12-198745 min

    4 1/2 year old Kimberley was starved, dehydrated and beaten and weighed 24Ibs-small for a normal child her age. Her stepfather Nigel Hall was jailed for life for her murder, the mo...

  • Ep 8

    8.Korea: Poverty Prohibited

    18-12-198745 min

    In the run-up to the Olympics, the Seoul urban poor are forced from their homes to make way for the developers.

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