2009 (2009)
Episodes: 38
Star Cast:
Episodes List
Ep.1 Britain's Challenging Children
Air Date: 2009-01-05
Ep.2 Mum, Dad, Alzheimer's & Me
Air Date: 2009-01-12
Journalist Fiona Phillips tells the very personal story of her father's developing Alzheimer's disease, and how it affects him and the family as a whole.
Ep.3 The True Cost of Cheap Food
Air Date: 2009-01-22
After looking at rising prices in The Truth About Food Prices, Rayner now looks at the other end of the scale - the new cheap food ranges and whether they have a true higher cost ... our health.
Ep.4 Unseen Gaza
Air Date: 2009-01-22
Jon Snow explores the difficulties faced by news organisations around the world in reporting the conflict in Gaza. Who is getting the true picture of events as they happen?
Ep.5 Congo's Forgotten Children
Air Date: 2009-02-02
Ep.6 Too Old to Work
Air Date: 2009-02-09
With the number of unemployed in the UK nudging two million, Dispatches reveals the ageism rife amongst employers and recruitment agencies.
Ep.7 The Problem Princes
Air Date: 2009-02-13
Ep.8 The Big Job Hunt
Air Date: 2009-02-16
An investigation into rising unemployment in the UK and what steps the government are taking to alleviate it.
Ep.9 How They Squander Our Billions
Air Date: 2009-03-09
Ep.10 Pakistan's Taliban Generation
Air Date: 2009-03-16
Ep.11 Confessions of a Nurse
Air Date: 2009-03-23
Following a YouGov report Dispatches takes a candid look at the NHS nursing system - with interviews from nurses and undercover footage.
Ep.12 The Trouble with Boris
Air Date: 2009-03-30
Ep.13 Afghanistan: Mission Impossible?
Air Date: 2009-04-06
Ep.14 The Westminster Gravy Train
Air Date: 2009-04-19
Ep.15 Crash: How the Banks Went Bust!
Air Date: 2009-04-20
Ep.16 Crash: How Long Will It Last?
Air Date: 2009-04-27
Ep.17 Lost in Care
Air Date: 2009-05-11
Ep.18 Britain's Bankers: Still Cashing In
Air Date: 2009-05-18
Ep.19 Orphans of Burma's Cyclone
Air Date: 2009-06-01
Ep.20 Crash Gordon
Air Date: 2009-06-08
Ep.21 Afghanistan's Dirty War
Air Date: 2009-06-15
Ep.22 Rape in the City
Air Date: 2009-06-22
After two recent, high-profile cases in which young women have been attacked and raped by groups of men; Journalist Sorious Samura investigates gang rape in the UK.
Ep.25 Terror in Mumbai
Air Date: 2009-06-30
Ep.26 The Children Britain Betrayed
Air Date: 2009-07-13
Ep.27 Undercover Debt Collector
Air Date: 2009-07-20
Ep.28 Bankrolling Mugabe
Air Date: 2009-07-27
Ep.29 The War Against Street Weapons
Air Date: 2009-08-03
Ep.30 Battle Scarred
Air Date: 2009-09-07
Follows the stories of four soldiers returning from the combat zones in the middle-east and the impact it has had on their lives and the people around them.
Ep.31 Middle Class and Jobless
Air Date: 2009-09-14
Examining middle-class unemployment in Britain.
Ep.32 Cops on the Cheap?
Air Date: 2009-09-21
A look at Police Community Support Officers who patrol the streets and cost the taxpayers millions. This documentary questions if they are good value.
Ep.33 MPs, Planes and Gravy Trains
Air Date: 2009-09-28
Ep.34 Who Took Your Pension?
Air Date: 2009-10-05
Ep.35 Ready for a Riot
Air Date: 2009-10-19
Ep.36 What's in Your Breakfast?
Air Date: 2009-10-26
Ep.37 Inside Britain's Israel Lobby
Air Date: 2009-11-16
Ep.38 Return to Africa's Witch Children
Air Date: 2009-11-23
Ep.39 Lords, Billionaires and the Russian Connection
Air Date: 2009-11-30