Episodes List

Ep.1 Fighting the Taliban

Air Date: 2007-01-08

Ep.2 Meeting the Taliban

Air Date: 2007-01-11

Ep.3 Undercover Mosque

Air Date: 2007-01-15

Investigative journalist, Bobby Pathak, has investigated a number of mosques run by high profile national organisations that claim to be dedicated to moderation and dialogue with other faiths. But reporting undercover he joined worshippers to find a message of religious bigotry and extremism being preached. The investigation reveals Saudi Arabian universities are recruiting young Western Muslims to train them in their extreme theology, then sending them back to the West to spread the word.

Ep.4 Labour's Gambling Addiction

Air Date: 2007-01-22

Ep.5 Iraq's Death Squads

Air Date: 2007-01-29

Ep.6 At Home with the Terror Suspects

Air Date: 2007-02-05

Ep.7 The Supermarket That's Eating Britain

Air Date: 2007-02-19

Ep.8 NHS: Where Did All the Money Go?

Air Date: 2007-02-26

Ep.9 Greenwash

Air Date: 2007-03-05

The government is set to achieve only a third to a half of its overall policy target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. Dispatches reports. The expert-reviewed audit by the UCL Environment Institute is the first comprehensive investigation into the real impact of the Government's carbon-cutting policies across all government departments mandated with reducing greenhouse gas emissions

Ep.10 Charles: The Meddling Prince

Air Date: 2007-03-12

Ep.11 When Did You Last Beat Your Wife?

Air Date: 2007-03-19

Ep.12 Cameron- Toff at the Top

Air Date: 2007-03-26

Ep.13 Undercover Prisoner

Air Date: 2007-04-02

Ep.14 Murdering the Truth

Air Date: 2007-04-16

Ep.15 Between the Mullahs and The Military

Air Date: 2007-04-23

Ep.16 The Indian Miracle?

Air Date: 2007-04-30

Ep.17 Gordon Brown: Fit for Office?

Air Date: 2007-05-14

Ep.18 Afghanistan Unveiled

Air Date: 2007-05-17

Ep.19 Bin Wars

Air Date: 2007-05-24

Ep.20 Kidnapped to Order

Air Date: 2007-06-11

Ep.21 Drinking Yourself to Death

Air Date: 2007-06-18

Based on medical research and personal findings Dispatches investigates the effects binge drinking can have on a consumer's health and whether low-priced (supermarket bought) alcohol is one of the causes for an increase in alcohol consumption.

Ep.22 The Man Who Lost Himself

Air Date: 2007-06-25

Ep.23 The War on Britain's Jews

Air Date: 2007-07-09

Ep.24 Great Green Smokescreen

Air Date: 2007-07-16

Ep.25 Undercover Mother

Air Date: 2007-07-23

Tazeen Ahmad investigates the overstretched maternity services which are resulting in new mothers having traumatic births and at worst, putting lives at risk.

Ep.26 Britain's Bad Housing

Air Date: 2007-07-30

Ep.27 Britain Under Attack

Air Date: 2007-08-06

Ep.28 The Olympic Cash Machine

Air Date: 2007-09-10

Ep.29 Unholy War (II)

Air Date: 2007-09-17

Ep.30 Nice Work If You Can Get It

Air Date: 2007-09-24

Political journalist Peter Oborne examines how politicians and MPs use their power to gain financial benefits.

Ep.31 Immigrants: The Inconvenient Truth

Air Date: 2007-10-01

Looks at the beneficial social and economical contributions made by different immigrant groups, drawing on research done by the Institute for Public Policy Research. Contrasts this with the perception of immigrants and political and media issues.

Ep.32 China's Stolen Children

Air Date: 2007-10-08

Ten years after the policy-changing and award-winning film, The Dying Rooms, the same team returns to a very different China where the infamous One Child Policy has had the horrific side effect of a boom in stolen children. With extraordinary access to devastated parents desperately searching for their stolen son; a man who brokers the deals and has sold his own offspring; and prospective parents grappling with giving up their soon-to-be-born daughter through lack of options, we are brought face to face with the crisis that such a stringent government policy has created among China's poorest people

Ep.33 Abortion: What We Need to Know

Air Date: 2007-10-17

An investigation into abortion; focusing on how new scientific research on foetal pain could cause for a change to current abortion laws.

Ep.34 Searching for Madeleine

Air Date: 2007-10-18

After the disappearance of child, Madeline McCann 168 days ago; Dispatches sent a team of five of the UK's best-qualified criminal investigators to Praia da Luz to investigate and assess the situation.

Ep.35 Why Our Children Can't Read

Air Date: 2007-10-22

Ep.36 How to Get Ahead in Africa

Air Date: 2007-10-29

Ep.37 The Housing Trap

Air Date: 2007-11-05

Ep.38 Bottleneck Britain

Air Date: 2007-11-12

Ep.39 Mark Thomas on Coca-Cola

Air Date: 2007-11-19

Comedian and activist Mark Thomas reports on how Coca-Cola has caused problems in the world with pollution, worker exploitation and even death. The documentary also reports on how Coca-Cola respond to these allegations.

Ep.40 Britain Under Water

Air Date: 2007-12-03

Ep.41 Christmas Credit Crisis

Air Date: 2007-12-10

Ep.42 How Safe Are Your Christmas Toys?

Air Date: 2007-12-17

Deborah Davies reports on potentially dangerous toys that can be bought in the UK. These toys are then safety tested and the findings reported to authorities