The BEST episodes of Dispatches season 2019
Every episode of Dispatches season 2019, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Dispatches season 2019!
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 - Britain's New Build Scandal
Season 2019 - Episode 19 - Aired 7/15/2019
Reporter Liam Halligan investigates allegations of shoddy standards, poor customer care and excessive profits at Britain's second biggest - and most profitable - builder, Persimmon.
Watch Now:Amazon#2 - Grenfell: Did the Fire Brigade Fail?
Season 2019 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/18/2019
Dispatches investigates the London Fire Brigade's response to the Grenfell fire, through interviews with survivors and firefighters, and using critical new evidence released by the public inquiry.
#3 - The Truth About Vegans
Season 2019 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/2/2019
Reporter Morland Sanders investigates the rising popularity of veganism. It's better for your health, the environment and animals but why do some activists resort to such extreme tactics to promote it?
Watch Now:Amazon#4 - The Prince and the Paedophile
Season 2019 - Episode 23 - Aired 10/21/2019
Dispatches investigates the friendship between Prince Andrew and paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, as the Prince stands accused of sleeping with a 17-year-old girl supplied by the investor
#5 - Growing Up Poor: Britain's Breadline Kids
Season 2019 - Episode 28 - Aired 12/2/2019
In Britain, 4.1 million children are growing up in poverty. Dispatches follows three families to show what life is like if there's not enough money for life's essentials.
#6 - Jeremy Kyle: TV on Trial
Season 2019 - Episode 12 - Aired 5/27/2019
In the wake of The Jeremy Kyle Show's cancellation after the death of a man who had been a guest on the programme, Morland Sanders investigates what lies behind the headlines, what went wrong and who might be to blame. Talking to insiders and former guests, he examines the culture of the programme and others like it and asks what its abrupt end might mean for the future of reality TV.
Watch Now:Amazon#7 - The Brexit Millionaires
Season 2019 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/11/2019
Dispatches investigates those who have got rich since the Brexit referendum, capitalising on the almost unprecedented political uncertainty around Britain's exit from the EU.
Watch Now:Amazon#8 - When the Immigrants Leave
Season 2019 - Episode 11 - Aired 4/8/2019
In the run-up to Brexit, reporter Seyi Rhodes finds out how a lack of EU migrants could affect agriculture, social care and healthcare in Britain.
Watch Now:Amazon#9 - The Truth About Chlorinated Chicken
Season 2019 - Episode 13 - Aired 6/3/2019
As President Trump touches down in the UK, a post-Brexit trade deal is top of the agenda. And one of the most controversial issues is whether the nation will have to accept chemically washed American chicken as part of a deal. It's been banned in the EU for more than 20 years because of concerns that it masks poor hygiene practices in other parts of the supply chain. Dispatches goes undercover in a major US poultry processing plant to investigate, while reporter Kate Quilton meets whistle blowers and insiders who claim that the Trump administration's close relationship with the industry may mean that the worst is yet to come.
Watch Now:Amazon#10 - Britain's Breast Implant Scandal
Season 2019 - Episode 16 - Aired 6/24/2019
Reporter Abbie Eastwood investigates whether breast implants are making women sick - or, worse still, causing cancer.
#11 - Officer Down - Police Under Attack
Season 2019 - Episode 17 - Aired 7/1/2019
Former police officer Dan Clark-Neal investigates what's behind rising numbers of assaults on police officers.
#12 - Puppet Masters: The Men Who Really Run Britain
Season 2019 - Episode 25 - Aired 11/4/2019
Dispatches examines the influence of Dominic Cummings and Seumas Milne, controversial advisors to Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn. Are they driven by party politics or their own agendas?
#13 - How Safe Are Your Medicines?
Season 2019 - Episode 15 - Aired 6/17/2019
A major investigation for Dispatches reveals how thousands of unsafe medicines used to treat conditions like prostate cancer, schizophrenia and epilepsy were dispensed to NHS patients.
Watch Now:Amazon#14 - Sex, Drugs and Murder
Season 2019 - Episode 22 - Aired 9/8/2019
A Dispatches investigation into the epidemic use of the drug GHB in the gay community, where users are vulnerable to overdosing and sexual abuse.
Watch Now:Amazon#15 - £2 Million Passport: Welcome to Britain
Season 2019 - Episode 20 - Aired 7/22/2019
Reporter Antony Barnett investigates the 'golden visa' scheme, which offers British residency to wealthy foreign nationals.
#16 - Britain's Toxic Air Scandal
Season 2019 - Episode 14 - Aired 6/10/2019
Dispatches runs a world-first experiment to reduce hundreds of primary school children's exposure to toxic air, and discovers that unidentified toxins are coming off every vehicle, even electric ones.
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#17 - New Landlords From Hell
Season 2019 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/25/2019
A year-long investigation reveals the shocking conditions that tenants of one of Britain's biggest housing associations live in, and the effect those conditions have had on vulnerable tenants' health.
Watch Now:Amazon#18 - Skipping School: Britain's Invisible Kids
Season 2019 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/4/2019
As the number of children leaving school in favour of home education doubles, Dispatches asks why, and if parents' rights to remove a child are coming before the education, or safety, of children.
#19 - Great Formula Milk Scandal
Season 2019 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/18/2019
Kate Quilton asks if formula milk is being priced fairly, and whether claims made for it are unbiased and scientifically proven.
#20 - Britain's Hidden War
Season 2019 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/1/2019
With BAE helping to keep Saudi jets flying, and British military officers working in the Saudi Air Operations Centre, Dispatches investigates the extent to which the war in Yemen is made in Britain.
#21 - Young, British and Depressed
Season 2019 - Episode 21 - Aired 7/29/2019
Reporter Sanah Ahsan explores Britain's youth depression crisis, to find out what's fuelling it and to examine what treatment is available for young people.
#22 - Trump's Plan for the NHS
Season 2019 - Episode 24 - Aired 10/28/2019
How Trump's proposed trade agreement with post-Brexit Britain could cost the NHS billions.
#23 - The Secrets of Amazon
Season 2019 - Episode 26 - Aired 11/11/2019
Amazon is the largest online retailer in the world - one in three online purchases are made through its site. Dispatches reporter Sophie Morgan investigates its unstoppable growth.
#24 - HS2: The Great Train Robbery
Season 2019 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/11/2019
Channel 4 Dispatches investigates whether High Speed Two (HS2), a high-speed rail line connecting London to Birmingham by 2026 and then Manchester and Leeds by 2033, will bring the jobs and economic growth to the North of England the government is promising.
#25 - Safe at Last: Inside a Women's Refuge
Season 2019 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/26/2019
In a television first, cameras are allowed inside a women's refuge to follow the stories of women who are fleeing from violent partners, and who have agreed to be identified