Dispatches
Dispatches
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Dispatches

6.7 / 10
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

    30-10-198745m

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

  • Ep 2

    2.In The Red

    06-11-198745m

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

  • Ep 3

    3.AIDS - The Unheard Voices

    13-11-198745m

    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

    20-11-198745m

    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

    27-11-198745m

    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

    04-12-198745m

    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

    11-12-198745m

    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

    18-12-198745m

    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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