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Rating:3.3 of 5Total number of episodes:190Last broadcast:18/02/2019 at 20:00
February 2019

Grenfell: Did the Fire Brigade Fail?

3.0 23 x
Dispatches investigates the London Fire Brigade's response to the Grenfell fire, through interviews with survivors and firefighters, and using critical new evidence released by the public inquiry

HS2: The Great Train Robbery

3.0 16 x
From April, the government will start spending over £4 billion a year on the HS2 high-speed train line, for ten years. Is this the right part of the rail network to receive so much investment?

Skipping School: Britain's Invisible Kids

2.5 129 x
As the number of children leaving school in favour of home education doubles, Dispatches asks why, and if parents' rights to remove a child are coming before the education, or safety, of children
January 2019

The Truth About Vegans

Expired 4.0 13 x
Dispatches investigates the rising popularity of veganism. It's better for your health, the environment and animals but why do some activists resort to such extreme tactics to promote it?
December 2018

North Korea: Life Inside the Secret State

Expired 3.0 5 x
North Korean citizens reveal what life is like for the 24 million people who live in the world's most secretive country, where every aspect of their life is controlled by the state
October 2018

Born on the Breadline

Expired 3.0 14 x
Dispatches examines the growing need for baby banks in the UK and meets the working parents who are turning to them, to provide their young children with nappies, clothes, toys and cots

Cannabis: Time to End the Ban?

Expired 4.0 30 x
Over two million people smoke cannabis in the UK. Some police forces no longer prosecute for possession. Canada and several American States have legalised it. So should the UK follow suit?

Witness Intimidation Revealed

Expired 4.0 3 x
Dispatches explores the dark world of online witness intimidation, meeting gangsters who threaten 'stitches for snitches' and families of witnesses who paid the price for telling the truth in court

Lawless Britain: Where Are the Police?

Expired 4.0 18 x
Dispatches meets the victims of crimes that the police choose not to investigate
August 2018

How to Lose Seven Billion Pounds

Expired 3.0 23 x
Liam Halligan unfolds the story of Carillion, the vast British company that was built on billions of pounds of public money and that imploded in January 2018
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