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.

Last Updated: 12/12/2024Network: Channel 4Status: Continuing
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#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.

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#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.

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#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?

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#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

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Growing Up Poor: Britain's Breadline Kids
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#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.

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#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.

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#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.

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#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.

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#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.

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#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.

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#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.

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#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?

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#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.

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#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.

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#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.

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#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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New Landlords From Hell
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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.

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#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.

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#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.

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#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.

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#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.

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#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.

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#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.

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#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.

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#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