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Panorama

TV Show 1953 6.3/10 2365 episodes
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Synopsis

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

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2015 Episodes

Episode 1 EP 1
The Battle for British Islam

Panorama investigates the battle for the hearts and minds of British Muslims. John Ware hears from Muslims trying to promote a form of Isla…

Episode 2 EP 2
Trouble at Tesco

Tesco is losing customers, its share price is down and its profits have taken a tumble. As it faces a criminal investigation over its accou…

Episode 3 EP 3
Rescued from a Forced Marriage

British girls are being forced into marriage against their will. Jane Corbin goes with a team from the British High Commission in Pakistan …

Episode 4 EP 4
Emergency in A&E

Vivian White reports on a week spent in the accident and emergency department of the University Hospital of North Tees in Stockton, as the …

Episode 5 EP 5
The Bank of Tax Cheats

Reporter Richard Bilton reveals how Britain's biggest bank helped some of its wealthiest customers dodge tax and asks why these tax evaders…

Episode 6 EP 6
Can You Cure My Cancer?

Panorama reports on the cancer patients who are pioneering a new generation of drug treatments, with access to trials at the Royal Marsden …

Episode 7 EP 7
Children of the Great Migration

Panorama's Paul Kenyon investigates the children, some as young as seven, travelling alone on the world's most dangerous migration route.

Episode 8 EP 8
What Britain Wants: Someone to Love

In the first of a special four-part series of Panorama reports, Fergal Keane examines love of family, community and country, asking what bi…

Episode 9 EP 9
What Britain Wants: Somewhere to Live

In the second of Panorama's four-part series on how voters are feeling as the general election approaches, Mariella Frostup reports on what…

Episode 10 EP 10
What Britain Wants: Somewhere to Work

Continuing Panorama's four-part series on how voters are feeling as the general election approaches, Clive Myrie asks if modern Britain sti…

Episode 11 EP 11
What Britain Wants: Something to Hope For

In the last of Panorama's four-part series in the run-up to the general election, John Humphrys asks if politicians can offer the thing the…

Episode 12 EP 12
DIY Justice

Raphael Rowe meets the parents fighting for access to their children without any legal assistance. Cuts to legal aid mean they must represe…

Episode 13 EP 13
A Suicide in the Family

Simon Jack's father took his own life when he was 44. Now the same age, Simon investigates why more middle-aged men kill themselves than an…

Episode 14 EP 14
The Great Housing Benefit Scandal

Alys Harte investigates the unscrupulous landlords getting millions of pounds from the taxpayer for housing people in cramped and poor qual…

Episode 15 EP 15
Who Will Win the Election?

Reporter Richard Bacon takes statistician Nate Silver on a road trip around the country. Ten days before polling day, can he tell us which …

Episode 16 EP 16
Panorama Live

Following one of the most closely fought general election battles in decades, Jeremy Vine hosts a special live edition of Panorama from the…

Episode 17 EP 17
Antibiotic Apocalypse

Panorama investigates the global advance of antibiotic-resistant superbugs and the threat they pose to modern medicine and millions of pati…

Episode 18 EP 18
Britain's Secret Terror Deals

British security forces have been accused of involvement in dozens of murders during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Reporter Darragh Mac…

Episode 19 EP 19
The Most Dangerous Woman in Britain?

Panorama goes behind the scenes with Scotland's first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, to investigate the rise to power of the woman who holds th…

Episode 20 EP 20
Catch Me If You Can

Mark Daly investigates doping in athletics and explores apparent allegations against Alan Wells, Alberto Salazar and Galen Rupp, allegation…

Episode 21 EP 21
GM Food - Cultivating Fear

A new generation of GM foods is winning over critics, and scientists say they could help feed people in the developing world. Are those who…

Episode 22 EP 22
Stolen Childhoods: The Legacy of Grooming

It's nearly a year since a damning report into sexual exploitation revealed the abuse of 1400 children in Rotherham. Panorama reporter Alis…

Episode 23 EP 23
Disaster on Everest

BBC reporter Tom Martienssen shares his footage of Everest taken after the devastating Nepalese earthquake. He reveals a story of an extrao…

Episode 24 EP 24
The Missing Stolen School Children

Over a year after the kidnap of 276 girls from a school in Chibok town in Nigeria, Tulip Mazumdar tracks down women and girls who've escape…

Episode 25 EP 25
Greece: Euro or Bust?

Filming in Athens and Rhodes, Richard Bilton discovers families whose lives have been shattered by the economic collapse and political chao…

Episode 26 EP 26
NHS: The Perfect Storm

The NHS faces a desperate fight for survival. Filmed over six months in Liverpool, this Panorama special reports from the frontline of the …

Episode 27 EP 27
The Train that Divides Jerusalem

On the anniversary of last summer's brutal conflict in Gaza, film-maker Adam Wishart visits Jerusalem and rides the city's controversial ne…

Episode 28 EP 28
Young, Homeless and Fighting Back

What's it like to be young, homeless and struggling in a town where one in four households are on benefit? Panorama investigates.

Episode 29 EP 29
Terror on the Beach

On 26 June 38 tourists, 30 of them British, were gunned down in a brutal terror attack on a Tunisian beach. Panorama's Jane Corbin hears th…

Episode 30 EP 30
Fighting Terror With Torture

How far should we go in the fight against terrorism? Panorama hears from those who approved, ran and suffered waterboarding in secret CIA p…

Episode 31 EP 31
Trouble at the Post Office

The Post Office has prosecuted dozens of postmasters after their computers showed that money had gone missing. Reporter John Sweeney invest…

Episode 32 EP 32
The Schools Scandal: Playing the System

Demand for places at high-achieving state schools across the UK far outstrips supply, turning the schools admissions process into a battleg…

Episode 33 EP 33
Jeremy Corbyn: Labour's Earthquake

With behind-the-scenes access to Jeremy Corbyn, reporter John Ware reveals how, from nowhere, he came to dominate the Labour leadership ele…

Episode 34 EP 34
Could A Robot Do My Job?

Britain is on the brink of a technological revolution. Reporter Rohan Silva looks at the workplaces already using new technology and asks w…

Episode 35 EP 35
Rugby and the Brain - Tackling the Truth

As the Rugby World Cup kicks off, former rugby international John Beattie investigates the link between the sport and brain injuries.

Episode 36 EP 36
Europe's Border Crisis: The Long Road

As Europe witnesses the dramatic movement of people across its borders, Panorama reporter John Sweeney joins the thousands making the journ…

Episode 37 EP 37
Edward Snowden: Spies and the Law

Edward Snowden, the man responsible for the biggest leak of top secret intelligence files the world has ever seen, gives his first BBC inte…

Episode 38 EP 38
The VIP Paedophile Ring: What's the Truth?

Panorama investigates sensational allegations of historical child abuse and murder by some of the most prominent people in Britain.

Episode 39 EP 39
Tough Justice in Britain - Texas Style

As the UK's imprisonment rate remains the highest in western Europe, Panorama joins Michael Gove - the man in charge of British prisons - o…

Episode 40 EP 40
The Xi Factor

The BBC's China editor Carrie Gracie retraces Chinese leader President Xi Jinping's extraordinary journey from cave dweller to absolute pow…

Episode 41 EP 41
Britain's Mental Health Crisis

With funding cuts drastically reducing bed numbers, Panorama goes inside one of the UK's largest frontline mental health trusts.

Episode 42 EP 42
Hooked on Painkillers

Doctors in the UK are prescribing record doses of highly addictive painkillers. Declan Lawn meets patients who have been hooked on painkill…

Episode 43 EP 43
How Hackers Steal Your ID

Hackers have stolen the personal details of millions of customers from companies like Talk Talk. So how do cybercriminals get hold of our d…

Episode 44 EP 44
Terror in Paris

Panorama hears the stories of those who were caught up in the unfolding violence in Paris and looks at the emerging evidence of internation…

Episode 45 EP 45
The VW Emissions Scandal

Volkswagen fooled the world with a scam to rig pollution tests. Richard Westcott investigates how the company used clever computer software…

Episode 46 EP 46
The Secret Bribes of Big Tobacco

Panorama exposes corruption at one of Britain's biggest companies. Reporter Richard Bilton uncovers evidence that employees bribed civil se…

Episode 47 EP 47
Fifa, Sepp Blatter and Me

Reporter Andrew Jennings sets his sights on Sepp Blatter's Fifa. His report includes an FBI investigation, Qatar's World Cup bid and how mu…

Episode 48 EP 48
The Taliban Hunters

Mobeen Azhar joins Police Superintendent Ijaz and his team of Taliban Hunters as they try to regain control of Karachi.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How many episodes does Panorama (1953) have?

Since its debut in 1953, Panorama has aired over 1,500 episodes, with new editions still broadcast weekly.

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