Panorama
NR
7.1
1953
Documentary
, News
Current affairs programme, featuring interviews and investigative reports on a wide variety of subjects.
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Episode 45 : Cost of Living: Can’t Afford My Home
November. 21,2022
What does the winter hold for people struggling to get a home, or hold on to the one they already have? The rapid increase in interest rates has left many at breaking point. With mortgage rates up and rents soaring, Panorama spends time with those trying to survive. From young workers who’ve given up on ever owning a home of their own, to families facing eviction before Christmas. Reporter Richard Bilton investigates what’s gone wrong with the UK’s housing market.
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Episode 44 : Why Is Food So Expensive?
November. 14,2022
Food prices are rising at their fastest rate in more than 40 years. As the cost-of-living crisis continues to squeeze household budgets, Panorama explores why food prices are so high and looks at the impact food inflation is having on our pockets and on our health. Reporter Kate Quilton asks whether supermarkets, food producers and the government are doing enough to help shoppers. And what can people do to help make food bills more affordable?
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Episode 43 : Mariupol: The People's Story
November. 08,2022
In a little under three months, residents of what was a thriving city witnessed the deaths of women and children in a maternity hospital and bodies left abandoned on the streets of Mariupol. Filmed and told by many of the citizens of Mariupol, this powerful documentary records the deaths of thousands and daring escapes, and is the story of their loss, bravery and determination.
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Episode 40 : Disaster Deniers: Hunting the Trolls
October. 31,2022
Panorama investigates how survivors of major terror attacks are hounded and abused by conspiracy theorists who claim they are 'crisis actors'. US conspiracist Alex Jones has just been ordered to pay nearly $1bn to families of the Sandy Hook school shooting after claiming the attack was a hoax. Now the BBC’s disinformation correspondent Marianna Spring hunts the disaster trolls who target survivors of terror attacks in the UK and reveals new research about the popularity of these beliefs.
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Episode 39 : The Champions League Final: What Went Wrong?
October. 17,2022
It was supposed to be a joyous end to an unforgettable season, but it quickly turned into a nightmare. Journalist Layla Wright investigates events as they unfolded at the 2022 UEFA Champions League final in Paris between Liverpool and Real Madrid to try to understand what went wrong. Drawing on extensive first-hand testimony and mobile phone footage, Panorama pieces together the definitive forensic picture of what took place, examines mistakes made by UEFA and the French authorities, and asks what lessons can be learned for the future of fan safety.
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Episode 38 : Will the NHS Care for Me?
October. 10,2022
Line of Duty actor and campaigner Tommy Jessop investigates why people with a learning disability are more than twice as likely to die from avoidable causes than the rest of the population. He hears from relatives who have lost loved ones prematurely, and from a mother on whose behalf the BBC went to court so she could speak publicly about her fight to get lifesaving care for her son.
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Episode 37 : The Green Energy Scandal Exposed
October. 03,2022
The wood-burning Drax power station in Yorkshire provides 12 per cent of the UK’s renewable energy. It has already received £6 billion in green energy subsidies from the government. But are the wood pellets the power station burns really as sustainable as the company claims? Reporter Joe Crowley investigates where the wood comes from and uncovers an environmental scandal. He reveals how Drax is chopping down trees and taking logs from some of the world’s most precious forests.
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Episode 36 : Why Kids Miss School
September. 30,2022
School’s back, but not everyone is turning up. Covid lockdowns have left a legacy of persistent absence amongst some students, and schools are under pressure to get them back through the gates. For Panorama, the BBC’s Education Editor, Branwen Jeffreys, has spent three months following the lives of students struggling to return to the classroom and asks whether harsher measures, including fining parents, can work.
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Episode 35 : Undercover Hospital: Patients at Risk
September. 28,2022
A Panorama undercover investigation has found evidence that a secure NHS psychiatric hospital is failing to protect some of its vulnerable patients. Secret filming reveals evidence of a toxic staff culture, patients being taunted and bullied, inappropriate use of restraint and falsification of important medical paperwork. Experts who have reviewed Panorama's findings have questioned the hospital’s safety, saying the evidence suggests its core therapeutic mission is being corrupted.
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Episode 34 : Channel Crisis: Could People Smugglers Be Stopped?
September. 26,2022
Sending asylum seekers to Rwanda is part of a government plan intended to help cut the number of small boats crossing the Channel and force people smugglers out of business. But will it really deter migrants trying to come to the UK? Reporter Jane Corbin investigates the smugglers who get people into Britain and finds out what the government’s plan means for those attempting the potentially deadly journey.
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Episode 32 : The Energy Crisis: Who's Cashing In?
September. 05,2022
It is being described as a national emergency. Energy bills are soaring and families across the UK are struggling to cope. Millions are falling into fuel poverty and are wondering how they will heat their homes in winter. But not everyone is suffering from the energy crisis. Reporter Bronagh Munro investigates the big companies that are profiting from rising bills and asks whether some are cashing in at our expense.
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Episode 31 : The Secret World of Trading Nudes
August. 22,2022
Panorama investigates the disturbing online trade in sexually explicit images and video of women, often taken and posted online without their consent. Reporter Monika Plaha meets women whose lives were ruined when intimate pictures of them were put on social media. She asks whether some tech companies are doing enough to combat this illicit trade, and she tracks down one man responsible for running an online community awash with explicit material.
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Episode 30 : The Billion-Pound Savings Scandal
August. 16,2022
Offshore money, huge fees, suspicious payments and a phantom head of the KGB - just some of what a group of ordinary British savers discovered when the £46 million fund they had invested in collapsed. Each year, a billion pounds is lost in failed investment schemes. Panorama tells the story of one of them and follows investors as they try to unravel the truth about the Blackmore Bond, a Manchester-based scheme, and challenge the regulators they believe failed them.
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Episode 28 : Airport Chaos: What's Gone Wrong?
July. 18,2022
Strikes, delays, cancellations. With the peak summer holiday season almost here, many of the UK’s airports and airlines are struggling to cope. For Panorama, Rachel Burden investigates the aviation industry at home and across Europe. She hears from holidaymakers fighting to get compensation and reveals the best and worst performing airlines. She also gets tips on the key consumer advice you need to know before you try to get on a flight this summer.
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Episode 27 : The Downfall of Boris Johnson
July. 13,2022
As Boris Johnson is forced from office, for Panorama Laura Kuenssberg follows the dramatic events of the last seven days in Westminster. She looks back at the scandals that defined his premiership and ultimately led to his downfall. She hears from the insiders who tried to persuade him to go, the candidates vying to replace him and the colleagues who warned it was always going to end like this.
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Episode 26 : SAS Death Squads Exposed: A British War Crime?
July. 12,2022
British special forces killed hundreds of people on night raids in Afghanistan. The SAS say they were insurgents who were posing an imminent threat. But were some of the shootings executions? Panorama investigates a series of raids where people were shot dead after they surrendered to British troops. Reporter Richard Bilton uncovers new evidence and tracks down eyewitnesses who say they saw unarmed Afghans being killed in cold blood.
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Episode 25 : Taking us for a Ride: The Uber Files
July. 11,2022
Uber’s aggressive expansion across Europe sparked police raids and violent protests. The US tech firm attracted millions of customers by subsidising fares and undercutting traditional cabbies. Now, a leak of internal documents reveals how the company got away with it. Reporter Richard Bilton uncovers how Uber broke laws, upended employment rights and got the backing of politicians as the company forced its way on to our streets.
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Episode 22 : Undercover: Britain's Biggest GP Chain
June. 13,2022
Panorama investigates Britain's biggest GP network. US owned Operose Health provides GP services to the NHS, with 70 surgeries from Leeds to London and more than half a million registered patients. Reporter Jacqui Wakefield reveals a shortage of GPs, some less qualified medical staff working without adequate supervision and a backlog of important patient paperwork.
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Episode 21 : Recycling: Where Does My Rubbish Go?
May. 30,2022
The logo of US-based company TerraCycle is on the packaging of many of our household goods. The company says it wants to eliminate the idea of waste and that it has recycled more than seven billion items, including hard-to-recycle plastics, worldwide. Reporting for Panorama, Mobeen Azhar investigates TerraCycle’s green credentials and its relationship with major brands.
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Episode 18 : Protecting Our Children: A Balancing Act
May. 16,2022
Granted rare, exclusive permission from the family courts, reporter Louise Tickle hears from families who have been damaged by decisions made by one local authority. With the government pushing social workers to step in earlier than ever, what happens if they go too far, too fast?
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Episode 17 : The Post Office Scandal
April. 25,2022
The story of the most widespread miscarriage of justice in British legal history and those whose lives were devastated by it.
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Episode 15 : Surviving the Cost of Living Crisis
April. 11,2022
Britain is feeling the squeeze. With inflation rising to its highest rate for 30 years and energy bills spiralling, households across the country are having to make do with less. So how are people coping? Panorama follows three families, as they try to cope with what is predicted to be the biggest fall in living standards since the 1950s.
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Episode 14 : Fixing Unfair Britain: Can Levelling Up Deliver?
April. 06,2022
Levelling up is one of Boris Johnson’s flagship policies. It’s intended to improve the quality of life for millions of people who live outside London and the south east by investing in local communities and infrastructure. Billions of pounds have been allocated for high streets, transport links and skills. For Panorama, the BBC’s new political editor Chris Mason returns to his home county of Yorkshire to find out what the residents of Barnsley think of the policy.
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Episode 13 : Beyond Reasonable Doubt: Britain’s Rape Crisis
March. 28,2022
Panorama is on the frontline with Derbyshire Police to investigate why only one per cent of reported rapes in England and Wales results in a conviction. For more than 18 months, the film follows five people who have reported rape and the detectives investigating their cases as they journey through the criminal justice system. They include 'Sam', who says she was raped by a stranger after a night out, and two sisters who say they were repeatedly raped by their father as children and whose case has already been turned down by the Crown Prosecution Service.
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Episode 12 : Ukraine's Resistance: Standing Up to Putin
March. 21,2022
For almost a month, Ukraine has fought off one of the world’s super-powers. Can it hold on and repel President Putin’s forces? Panorama’s Paul Kenyon reports from the frontline in southern Ukraine. In Mykolaiv, he finds a city on the brink, fighting hard not to become encircled by Russian forces and face the same fate as the besieged city of Mariupol. On the Black Sea coast in Odesa, he finds a city bracing itself for the worse. With exclusive footage from inside nearby Kherson, which has already fallen into Russian hands.
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Episode 11 : Roman Abramovich’s Dirty Money
March. 14,2022
Chelsea-owner, Roman Abramovich, has been sanctioned by the UK government for his ties to Vladimir Putin. But where did the Russian billionaire’s money come from? Panorama reporter Richard Bilton travels to Siberia to investigate the corrupt deals that made his fortune. He uncovers new details about Mr Abramovich’s murky past and his relationship with the Kremlin.
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Episode 10 : Manchester Arena Bombing: Saffie’s Story
March. 07,2022
Panorama follows the parents of the youngest victim of the Manchester Arena bombing as they navigate the public inquiry into the attack. As the fifth-anniversary approaches, they ask could the bomber have been stopped and could their daughter have survived her injuries?
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Episode 9 : Putin's War in Ukraine
February. 28,2022
Four days after Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine, Panorama reports on the conflict. With Paul Kenyon in Kyiv and Jane Corbin in London, the programme asks what lies behind Putin's invasion, and how Ukraine and the rest of the world have responded.
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Episode 7 : Why Aren't We Vaccinating the World?
February. 21,2022
The best way to win the battle against Covid is to vaccinate the whole world, but in poorer countries, not enough people are getting the job. Only six and a half per cent of the population in low-income countries are fully protected. There are now enough vaccines being made for everyone on the planet, so why aren’t they being shared more fairly? Reporter Bronagh Munro investigates why the global vaccine rollout is failing and asks if governments and big drug companies could do more to keep us all safe.
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Episode 6 : A Cow's Life: The True Cost of Milk?
February. 14,2022
Most of us drink cow’s milk, but are we paying enough for it? Panorama investigates the dairy industry to find out whether animal welfare is being compromised in the drive to keep milk prices low. The film features disturbing undercover footage of farmworkers abusing cows, while reporter Daniel Foggo speaks to farmers and vets about the lives most dairy herds can expect to lead.
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Episode 5 : Afghanistan: A Country at Breaking Point
February. 07,2022
It is being described as the worst humanitarian crisis on the planet. After decades of war, eight million people are now facing starvation in Afghanistan. A million children could die. Reporter John Simpson goes back to explore the shocking unravelling of a country he has been reporting on for more than 40 years. The Taliban takeover and sanctions imposed by the west have contributed to economic collapse. There is food in the markets, but families are being driven to the edge because they simply don’t have the money to buy it.
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Episode 4 : Boris Johnson on the Brink
January. 31,2022
Panorama tells the extraordinary story of how Downing Street parties led to the greatest crisis of Boris Johnson’s career. Senior Conservatives, backbench MPs and former civil servants explain how the allegations of lockdown breaches have consumed the party and engulfed government. Tracing other recent scandals, reporter John Ware asks what 'partygate' says about the prime minister’s character - and his relationship with sticking to the rules and honesty.
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Episode 3 : Anti-Social Behaviour: Afraid in My Own Home
January. 24,2022
When a Middlesbrough homeowner shouted at kids climbing onto a neighbour’s roof, he had no idea it would trigger a series of violent attacks on his property, some caught on CCTV. Panorama reporter Rory Carson investigates how anti-social behaviour blights communities across Britain and discovers how hard it can be to get help. Research by Panorama reveals that many local councils and police forces are failing to use the full force of the law to stop anti-social behaviour and how, if left unchecked, it can have serious consequences.
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Episode 2 : Britain's Killer Roads
January. 17,2022
Richard Bilton investigates the increased risks we face when we get behind the wheel of a car and asks whether weaker policing could be to blame.
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Episode 1 : The NHS vs Covid: The Fight Goes On
January. 12,2022
Two years since the start of the pandemic, the NHS is facing a new Covid crisis. The latest coronavirus variant, Omicron, is producing the biggest wave of infection yet, adding to the normal winter pressures and a waiting list that now stands at nearly six million in England.
Panorama reporter Jane Corbin returns to University Hospital Coventry, where she was when the pandemic first hit, to see how it is coping now with a surge in cases and a shortage of beds and staff.
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Seasons
Season 3
Starting on 19th September 1955, Richard Dimbleby took over as the presenter of Panorama bringing you “ Television’s Window on the World” according to the Radio Times.
Continuing the weekly listings paper went on “Every Monday in this programme film and television cameras focus on events and personalities of the moment.” The show originated from the BBC Television Studios in London, with contributions from Outside Broadcast units, Regional Studios, and the BBC Film Unit.
(Information from BBC Genome Project https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/)
Season 2
The second season of Panorama began on the 20th of October. Similar to the first year, it was described as “a fortnightly topical magazine” by the Radio Times of the day. Again introduced by Max Robertson the series ran from the end of 1954 until the middle of 1955, ending on the 10th of August.
(Information again collated from BBC Genome project at https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/)
Season 1
Panorama began broadcasting on 11th November 1953 as a fortnightly show. Described by the Radio Times of the day as a “reflection of the contemporary scene” it included reviews of the contemporary arts as well as featuring documentary pieces.
The first season of Panorama concluded its run on 4th August 1954
(Information taken from the Radio Times via BBC Genome project programme index at https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk)