The BEST episodes of Dispatches season 2015

#1 - Britain's Benefits Experiment

Season 2015 - Episode 22 - Aired 11/2/2015

Tazeen Ahmed reports on a Department for Work and Pensions initiative to encourage people in work and in receipt of benefits to boost their income and reduce their dependency on the state. The project has implications for Britain's million lowest paid workers, and this documentary investigates if advice and encouragement will help them earn more, or if financial punishments, also known as sanctions, are the best way to get the working poor off benefits.

#2 - Salt: Are You Eating Too Much?

Season 2015 - Episode 16 - Aired 6/29/2015

Tazeen Ahmad uncovers worrying inaccuracies in salt content food labelling

#3 - Hunted: Gay and Afraid

Season 2015 - Episode 21 - Aired 7/23/2015

Dispatches investigates well-funded global networks that are supporting a wave of anti-gay laws around the world, including the World Congress of Families in the USA.

#4 - Aldi's Supermarket Secrets

Season 2015 - Episode 23 - Aired 11/9/2015

While Tesco and the other big supermarkets falter, Aldi goes from strength to strength. Named Supermarket of the Year, it has now overtaken Waitrose as Britain's sixth largest supermarket. But does the discounter always deliver on promises to provide amazing value, without compromising on quality and service? As more and more shoppers switch to Aldi, Dispatches goes undercover to investigate.

#5 - Low Pay Britain

Season 2015 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/19/2015

Morland Sanders investigates the reality of employment in post-recession Britain: ultra-flexible, insecure and part-time work, and self-employment.

#6 - Secrets Of The Parking Wardens

Season 2015 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/16/2015

Dispatches goes undercover to investigate the private companies issuing more than 2.5 million parking tickets a year. It's a booming industry, thanks to new camera technology and changes in the law.

#7 - How Safe Are Our Planes?

Season 2015 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/1/2015

Last week an Airbus 320 heading from Barcelona to Dusseldorf crashed in the Alps with the loss of 150 lives, and after initial concerns over mechanical failure or an act of terrorism, it was eventually revealed to be an act of mass murder committed by the co-pilot. This documentary asks whether air travel is still the safest form of transport, examining the airline industry's safety record and incidents involving pilot error or emotional breakdown.

#8 - Escape from Isis

Season 2015 - Episode 20 - Aired 7/15/2015

This Dispatches special exposes the brutal regime suffered by millions of women living under Isis, and the extraordinary story of a secret underground network trying to save them.

#9 - The Great Car Con

Season 2015 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/26/2015

Motorists were promised diesel would be the cheap, green fuel of the future, but it turns out that's not the case. Why did politicians encourage the 'dash for diesel'?

#10 - How to Buy a Meeting with a Minister

Season 2015 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/23/2015

A special undercover investigation into politics in the run-up to the General Election

#11 - The Secrets of Sports Direct

Season 2015 - Episode 11 - Aired 4/27/2015

Dispatches goes undercover to investigate the hidden cost of the clothes, shoes and discount gear that have helped Sports Direct buck the high street trend, making billions for Mike Ashley.

#12 - Where to Save Your Money

Season 2015 - Episode 13 - Aired 6/8/2015

#13 - Trains: Are You Paying Too Much?

Season 2015 - Episode 12 - Aired 6/1/2015

Dispatches goes undercover in one of Britain's biggest rail operators, investigating ticket prices, overcrowding and compensation, and revealing what the rail companies don't tell their passengers.

#14 - Exams: Cheating the System?

Season 2015 - Episode 14 - Aired 6/15/2015

The show takes a look at how some teachers and pupils are dealing with the pressure by bending the rules and sometimes cheating the system.

#15 - How to Blow Your Pension

Season 2015 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/12/2015

From April 2015, people over 55 will be able to take as much as they want from their private pensions. Michael Buerk examines the consequences, and the firms that are courting pension holders.

#16 - Politicians for Hire

Season 2015 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/23/2015

Dispatches investigates the behaviour of politicians in Westminster.

#17 - Britain's Benefits Crackdown

Season 2015 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/2/2015

Reporter Liz MacKean investigates Britain's new benefits regime and asks what life is really like for those hit with penalties.

#18 - Benefits Britain

Season 2015 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/9/2015

The government say their flagship new benefit, Universal Credit, is working well and is helping people into work. Critics say it is a shambles. Dispatches goes undercover to investigate.

#19 - Britain's Defence Squeeze

Season 2015 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/16/2015

Following cuts to the defence budget, can the UK defend itself against a range of new threats, from terror groups like IS to Russian bombers close to UK airspace?

#20 - The Great British Property Divide

Season 2015 - Episode 15 - Aired 6/22/2015

Morland Sanders finds out the impact of new state-of-the-art housing developments and asks whether exorbitant house prices are squeezing out poorer residents and transforming our communities.

#21 - Kids in Crisis

Season 2015 - Episode 17 - Aired 7/1/2015

Across the UK, children are being moved far from home to receive mental health treatment

#22 - How Councils Blow Your Millions

Season 2015 - Episode 18 - Aired 7/6/2015

Dispatches uncovers unknown deals between councils and banks that cost taxpayers millions.

#23 - Pensions and the Price of Growing Old

Season 2015 - Episode 19 - Aired 7/13/2015

As Britain's pensioner population soars, Michael Buerk investigates whether the public can continue to rely on the state to support us in our old age.

#24 - How To Stop Your Nuisance Calls (II)

Season 2015 - Episode 24 - Aired 10/25/2015

Millions of us are plagued by nuisance callers flogging things we don't want. Dispatches goes undercover to find out how the cold calling trade works, and reveals how people are fighting back.

#25 - Britain's Nightmare New Homes

Season 2015 - Episode 25 - Aired 11/16/2015

The Government has committed to building a million new houses by 2020. Dispatches investigates what impact the rush to put up new housing will have on the quality of these homes.