The BEST episodes of Dispatches season 2002
Every episode of Dispatches season 2002, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Dispatches season 2002!
Covers issues about British society, politics, health, religion, international current affairs and the environment, and often features a mole inside organisations under journalistic investigation.
#1 - Sex on the Street
Season 2002 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/16/2002
In an unprecedented investigation that took almost a year and involved interviewing over 100 street prostitutes in red light districts in 18 towns and cities, a terrifying pattern of violence emerged - one that, until now, has gone hidden and unreported. Sixty per cent of the sex workers interviewed said that they had been raped or seriously beaten by clients in the previous 12 months. What's more they're being attacked because they are available and vulnerable - and worse - our prostitution laws are making them easy targets.
#2 - Young, Nazi and Proud
Season 2002 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/4/2002
As the British National Party seeks to present itself as a more electable proposition, Dispatches reporter David Modell spends eight months with Mark Collett, leader of the Young BNP, to reveal the future face of the far right in Britain. From the BNP's electoral inroads in this year's local elections to their annual Red, White and Blue festival and confrontations with the Anti-Nazi League, Modell follows Collet into the murky world of right-wing politics and offers a shocking insight into the thoughts and beliefs of the far right's most charismatic youth leader.
#3 - Secrets of the Saudi State
Season 2002 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/5/2002
'Dispatches' reporter Deborah Davies goes undercover in Saudia Arabia, one of the world's most secretive and repressive states. Davies talks to one of the Britons accused of involvement in the illegal alcohol trade and reports on the appalling conditions endured by westerners in Saudi jails. Davies also details how non-Muslim foreign workers are routinely tortured and even executed for minor crimes.
#4 - State of Terror
Season 2002 - Episode 2 - Aired 5/13/2002
An investigation into the Israelis' tactics in quelling the Palestinian revolt, including the recent attack on the refugee camp at Jenin.
#5 - The Colombian Connection
Season 2002 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/26/2002
Documentary investigating why three Irishmen with strong IRA links were arrested in the summer of 2001 in an area of Colombia controlled by the narco-terrorist group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Reporter Sandra Jordon looks into the background of the three men, interviews former FARC operatives and learns how FARC appear to have adopted IRA military tactics as evidence of the IRA's involvement in global terrorism grows.
#6 - How to Break into Britain
Season 2002 - Episode 4 - Aired 6/9/2002
Documentary about illegal entry into Britain, from forged papers to hiding in the back of a lorry. Includes filming at the Sangatte centre in France with members of a people smuggling network.
#7 - Speed Trap
Season 2002 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/6/2002
An investigation into whether speed cameras are making Britain's roads safer. Jonathan Miller travels on some of the country's most dangerous roads and finds evidence that motorists are using various tactics to avoid being caught speeding, and that the Government's policies are failing to cut road death figures.
#8 - Bin Laden's New Network
Season 2002 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/8/2002
Dispatches reports from the new frontlines of the war on terrorism where, far from being beaten and disbanded, the 10,000 fighters of Al Qaeda are now regrouping for the next phase of their war on the West.
#9 - Lifting the Veil
Season 2002 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/10/2002
Just over a year after going undercover in Afghanistan to make the award-winning Beneath the Veil , Dispatches returns to the former Taliban-run country to reveal the story behind one of that film's most shocking images. Pictures smuggled out by the opposition group RAWA showed the medieval barbarity of the regime - symbolised by the execution of a woman in the middle of a football pitch. But what had the 35-year-old woman and mother of seven children done to warrant her fate? The Dispatches team track down her children and reveal her harrowing story as well as uncovering shocking evidence that the plight of women in Afghanistan has changed very little since the fall of the Taliban.
#10 - Truth and Lies in Baghdad
Season 2002 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/17/2002
Reporter Sam Kiley goes undercover in Iraq to discover the barbarity that Saddam Hussein and his government want to keep from the outside world. He discovers a people terrorised by its own government and secret police. Civilians are assassinated and subjected to military brutality and women are beheaded in busy streets.