A list of Dispatches episodes shows the full set of editions of the Channel 4 investigative documentary series Dispatches.
There have been thirty seven seasons of Dispatches.IMDb Main reporters include Antony Barnett
Episodes 1987 30 October The Plutonium Black Market, about nuclear latency; Sandy Spector; Argentina had allegedly tried to establish a nuclear weapons program in the early 1980s, allegedly developing a weapon in 1983 and allegedly its second in 1986; a youthful-looking Hans Blix, the Swedish director of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Austria; Roger Richter, an IAEA inspector from 1978 to 1981; most commercial sources of plutonium were in Europe; Paul Leventhal of the Nuclear Control Institute; in 1965, 240 kg of enriched uranium was diverted from an American site to Israel, known as the Apollo affair, and from the Kerkira ship in 1968; Israel is thought to have set up the world nuclear black market; in 1980 Iraq set up a nuclear weapons program, which was investigated by Mossad; on 7 June 1981 Israel F-16 aircraft destroyed the Iraq nuclear site, known as Operation Opera, with the site now known as Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Center; Sadiq al-Mahdi, Prime Minister of Sudan, and foreign trading of nuclear material in Sudan; Assem Kabashi of Sudan; Israel had a nuclear plant in Dimona; Nuclear Emergency Support Team (NEST) was at Andrews Air Force Base. Produced by Claudia Milne, made by Twenty Twenty Television. Discussed in the House of Lords on 25 November 1987 by Lord Jenkins of PutneyHouse of Lords November 1987 11 December The Kimberley Carlile Inquiry, a docudrama written and produced by Jon Blair about a public inquiry of the conduct of Greenwich social services by Louis Blom-Cooper, featuring Daniel Day-Lewis, Anna Massey and Zoë WanamakerTimes Friday December 11, 1987, page 17
1988 22 January Danger: Men at Work, about sexual harassment of women at work; the film 'Business as Usual' about a clothing store in Liverpool, with Glenda Jackson, later a Labour MP; Alice Mahon, Labour MP; 25 year old Karen Wileman, an electronics assembly worker in Hampshire, was sacked when she told her employer, 44-year-old Raymond Atthill, that she was taking him to court for sexual harassment, over four years, which she won at an industrial tribunal in Southampton on 4 March 1987;Western Daily Press Thursday 5 March 1987, page 9Daily Record Thursday 5 March 1987 page 13 her company offered her £5 in compensation; Vivian Gay and the Porcelli v Strathclyde Regional Council by Jean Porcelli, a laboratory technician from Mount Florida, at Bellahouston Academy in Glasgow, winning on 31 January 1986, on appeal, after first losing the tribunal in April 1984;The Scotsman Saturday 1 February 1986, page 5 Dorothy Fall received £3,000 in compensation on 21 November 1986,The Scotsman Saturday 22 November 1986, page 7 from taking Lothian Community Relations Council, in Edinburgh, to court; Denise Kingsmill, Baroness Kingsmill; sexual harassment was difficult to fund to take to a tribunal; the Dutch government had formed a national advice centre entitled 'Hands Off'; sexual harassment of nurses had occurred at a former hospital at Brandesburton; Clare Ruhemann of the Labour Research Department; Sarah Howard of the Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs. Reported by Sarah Temple-Smith, produced by Philip Clarke, directed by Dennis Jarvis, made by Diverse Productions 12 February Iran, reported by Tim HodlinTimes Saturday February 13, 1988, page 20 4 March Radioactive Britain, discussed in parliament a week laterRadioactive Britain Parliament 1988 15 April Talking to the Terrorists, about the Red Army Faction, it featured Astrid ProllTimes Saturday April 16, 1988, page 20 27 May NATO's Nuclear Programme, it featured the Women's Defence Dialogue, a European group of women, who investigated short-range nuclear weaponsTimes Saturday May 28, 1988, page 20 3 June Illegal Betting, filmed in a Liverpool pub, illegal betting was thought to be worth £400m to £600m a yearTimes Friday June 3, 1988, page 23 10 June What's Best for Children: Coventry, about how, or if, Coventry social services investigated sexual abuse of children, notably of male parents with previous convictions for that offenceTimes Saturday June 11, 1988, page 20
1 July The Hashish Connection, Christopher Wenner reported from Lebanon, where over two years, he found that 80% of the economy of the Beqaa Valley originated from cannabis, and much of Lebanon's wealth had a similar origin 12 October Trouble on the Waterfront, about the proposed Dock Work Bill, discussed in parliament on 17 April 1989 by Michael MeacherDock Work Parliament April 1989 and again on 24 May 1989Dock Work Parliament May 1989
1989
15 February Afghan, American Jeff B. Harmon and British Alexander Lindsay filmed four months in Afghanistan in 1988Times Wednesday February 15, 1989, page 23 5 April Chico, about the Brazilian Chico Mendes, filmed over several years by Adrian Cowell, about the Brazilian campaigner against deforestation of the Amazon rainforestTimes Wednesday April 5, 1989, page 23 19 April The Most Neglected Crime, four out of ten women had received an unwanted obscene phone call, but a police superintendent could not recall one individual being prosecuted for that offence in 23 years; the crime was not unlike how internet scammers work today; new digital made tracing numbers much quicker; in the US caller ID of unknown callers was being introduced; this would occur in the UK after around five yearsTimes Thursday April 20, 1989, page 20 10 May The Sins of the Fathers, in January 1990 there would be the 1990 Commonwealth Games in New Zealand, so how would events occur for the prime minister David Lange in 1990. He was forced to resign three months later in August 1989Times Wednesday May 10, 1989, page 23 17 May Not What the Doctor Ordered, featuring David Willetts of the Centre for Policy Studies, and a new White Paper on healthTimes Thursday May 18, 1989, page 20 24 May Warlord of Kayan, made by Jeff Harmon and Alexander Lindsay, about AfghanistanTimes Wednesday May 24, 1989, page 23Times Thursday May 25, 1989, page 20 28 June A State of Decay; Belfast had the highest ownership per capita of BMW cars in the UK; Paddy McGrory; Dennis Faul of Dungannon, headteacher of St Patrick's Academy, Dungannon; British soldiers were first brought in to protect Catholic families; since 1968, 2750 people had been killed, with around 1500 killed in the years of 1969-71 alone; Ronald Funston was ambushed by the IRA at around 8am in March 1984, in Pettigo, County Fermanagh; Susan Murphy; the peace lines of Belfast; X-ray photographs at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast; the local building industry had protection rackets of extortion payments, around 15% per contract; Chief Superintendent Eric Anderson of the RUC; David McKittrick; Sylvia Deacon, whose husband in the UDF was killed; the Ballygawley bus bombing in August 1988; Joyce McCarten, whose 17-year-old son was shot by a Protestant group in 1987; Ken Maginnis; Craigavon and a fan belt factory; German factory director Thomas Niedermayer was kidnapped by the IRA in 1973, and killed; his killing was arranged by his former factory employee, trade unionist Brian Keenan (Irish republican); since the Stormont government was suspended in 1972, local councils had executive functions no greater than the operation of leisure centres or bin collection, such as district councils in England; Unionist Reg Empey, the Lord Mayor of Belfast; Alasdair McDonnell; North Down was Northern Ireland's equivalent of wealthy Surrey, in England. Narrated by Jeremy Bugler, directed by Andrew Forrester, made by Fulmar Television 12 October The Day of the Technopath, about computer data protection in the UK; former computer programmer Emma Nicholson, Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne; Mel Croucher; computers were now running industry; Britain had more personal computers per person than any European country; Jan Hruska (computer security) and Ken Wong, and computer viruses; Mark Drew of IBM North Harbour, north of Portsmouth; Tony Cleaver, chief executive of IBM UK; the Datacrime virus; a penetration test; Trevor Nicholas, chief information officer of Barclays Bank; Peter Sommer; Stephen Gold; Judith Vincent of the CBI; Det Supt Don Randall of the City of London Police Fraud Squad; City of London foreign exchange transactions were £200bn per day; the Computer Misuse Act 1990 would soon pass through parliament, but not enough British police knew anything significant about computer security. Reported by Tony Cook, produced by John Goddard, directed by Dominic Cameron, made in association with Gamma TV 18 October No, Prime Minister, a docudrama about the 1986 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in early August 1986, to discuss sanctions on South Africa; Margaret Thatcher was played by Irene Sutcliffe, and Robert Mugabe by Norman BeatonTimes Wednesday October 18, 1989, page 27 8 November In the Coal Hole, discussed in parliament on 16 January 1990, by Alan Meale and Harry BarnesCoal Hole Parliament November 1989 15 November The False Confession File, about obtaining confessions, and the right to remain silent in police interview suitesTimes Thursday November 16, 1989, page 20 22 November Hungarians Not Comrades, about the sudden collapse of Communist ruleTimes Wednesday November 22, 1989, page 23 13 December Privatising Poland, a team from the Adam Smith Institute visit Poland, to give a rapid course in privatisation, and free market economics; inflation in Poland was 40% per monthTimes Wednesday December 13, 1989, page 21 20 December Road to Damascus, about the investigation of Bert Ammerman, who lost his brother, and other victims' relatives, into the Lockerbie incident of Pan Am Flight 103Times Thursday December 21, 1989, page 20
1990 3 January The Plunderers, an investigation by Christopher Wenner into the looting of Mayan artefacts in GuatemalaTimes Wednesday January 3, 1990, page 9 10 January Murder By Microbe, about possible military biological university research in the UK, with the Campaign against Military Research on Campus, and the Microbiology department of the University of BirminghamBirmingham Mail Thursday 11 January 1990, page 11 17 January Gamma Alarm, about the passage of the Food Safety Bill through the Commons, which eventually became the Food Safety Act 1990, the actress Jenny Seagrove spoke for 'Parents for Safe Food', and Donald Louria spoke about food irradiationTimes Wednesday January 17, 1990, page 4 31 January Miracle Molecule, about antineoplastic resistance in methods to eliminate cancer cells, and the discovery of the P-glycoprotein in cancer cells, and the effects of verapamil and nifedipine on cancer cells; cancer cells had glutathione S-transferase to resist being eliminated, which was investigated by Roland Wolf at the Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre; an American team was looking at hexamethylene bisacetamide (HMBA) to switch off cancer cells, also later featured in an Equinox documentary on 9 December 1990.Times Thursday February 1, 1990, page 37