The BEST episodes of Dispatches season 2022
Every episode of Dispatches season 2022, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Dispatches season 2022!
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 - Myanmar: The Forgotten Revolution
Season 2022 - Episode 13 - Aired 7/25/2022
A look at the world's forgotten civil war, where over 20,000 people have been reported dead, and thousands are fighting against a military coup that has removed elected government.
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#2 - The Enemy Within: Inside Britain's Far Right
Season 2022 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/9/2022
Undercover reporters investigate the far right's current tactics to gain support in some of the most deprived parts of the country. The programme examines how one organisation has been operating through the pandemic, and whether they interfered in a hard-fought by-election. The programme examines the group's plans for home-schooling, and how they are possibly luring a new generation into their membership.
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#3 - Corrupt Cops: What The Met Knew
Season 2022 - Episode 11 - Aired 6/3/2022
Is the Met Police force institutionally corrupt? An investigation into whether officers were linked to organised crime, and of murders left unsolved due to corruption.
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#4 - Cadbury Exposed
Season 2022 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/4/2022
Undercover in Ghana, Antony Barnett investigates Britain's best-loved chocolate brand and reveals for the first time child labour in its supply chain.
#5 - Why Are Your Energy Bills So High?
Season 2022 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/11/2022
Morland Sanders reports on the impact of rising gas and electricity bills on households in Britain. The programme examines the reason for the spike in prices, a string of failures among energy companies, and whether the organisation set up to protect consumers has been up to the job.
#6 - Are We Losing The War on Terror?
Season 2022 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/18/2022
The shocking truth about the Government's de-radicalisation programme - a broken system where obvious warning signs of extremism are being missed.
#7 - MPs Under Threat
Season 2022 - Episode 10 - Aired 5/23/2022
Newly-elected MP Kim Leadbeater investigates the threats and abuse faced by MPs, and the terrible impact it can have on them, their staff and their families. Dispatches reveals new data on the scale of the problem, including powerful testimony from those on the receiving end.
#8 - Boris Johnson: Has He Run Out of Road
Season 2022 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/30/2022
Is Boris Johnson, the great political survivor, finished? Britain's top political interviewer Andrew Neil has the inside track on the Tories in turmoil.
#9 - The Truth about Nike and Adidas
Season 2022 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/16/2022
If the trainer industry was a country, it would be the world's 17th largest polluter - yet major manufacturers all make claims of sustainability. Darcy Thomas travels to the Maldives to assess the ecological impact of the industry, putting the big brands' green credentials to the test.
#10 - Airport Chaos Undercover
Season 2022 - Episode 14 - Aired 8/1/2022
With the summer holidays in full swing, reporter Jane Moore goes undercover in one of Britain's busiest airports, with the truth about delays, cancellations and baggage chaos.
#11 - Cops In Crisis
Season 2022 - Episode 21 - Aired 12/7/2022
An investigation into the crisis facing British policing due to lack of resources, accusations of serious misconduct and toxic culture. Police forces are experiencing increasing demands with fewer resources leaving victims of crime asking: where are the police? Thousands of crimes in the UK are receiving little or no investigation and cuts to other services are exacerbating the problem leaving pressure on officers continuously rising, impacting mental health and morale within the force. Dispatches also speaks to members of the public who feel let down by the police and feel they’re no longer protected by them, asking the question: is the British policing system fit for purpose?
#12 - Trapped, Disabled & Abused
Season 2022 - Episode 20 - Aired 11/7/2022
Sophie Morgan reports on domestic abuse against disabled people, revealing shocking lack of services for survivors and the huge challenges they face with accessing support. Sophie visits the only refuge run by and for disabled survivors, and talks to frontline professionals, including healthcare workers and police, revealing that more than half wouldn't know which specialist service to refer a disabled person to.
#13 - Hospital Undercover: Are Our Wards Safe?
Season 2022 - Episode 19 - Aired 10/10/2022
An undercover investigation into Essex Partnership University Trust, where a series of patient deaths over two decades has driven a group of bereaved families to fight for a statutory inquiry into patient safety. Experts who have reviewed the evidence say the behaviour witnessed is abusive and have called for urgent change. At the heart of the programme are the stories of three mothers, all of whom believe their children died needlessly as a result of failings in their care.
#14 - Britain's Evicted Kids
Season 2022 - Episode 18 - Aired 10/7/2022
How, with record-high rents and no social housing available, many parents with young children are facing an uphill battle to find a new place to call home. Bella, aged seven, and her two younger sisters, Nylah and Macie, are being evicted from their two-bed flat in Birmingham - the only home they have ever known. Soon to be homeless, mother Clarissa and partner Theo have no choice but to turn to their local council for help. Over the course of six months, Dispatches follows Bella and her family as they move and move again - spending week after week cooped up in a hotel room. Narrated by Sheridan Smith.
#15 - Broke: Britain's Debt Emergency
Season 2022 - Episode 17 - Aired 9/21/2022
As Britain suffers the worst cost of living crisis in 70 years, Citizens Advice opens its doors, offering rare access to the work of its debt advisors. The film follows three stories, including that of a Southend mother-of-two who is coping with a spiralling £20,000 debt accrued from one pay-day loan on top of another, and a single father living with the daily threat of the bailiffs calling.
#16 - Britain's Water Scandal
Season 2022 - Episode 16 - Aired 8/29/2022
Jimmy Doherty investigates Britain's water companies dumping untreated sewage into our rivers and seas. Why have companies been getting away with it for so long?
#17 - Why Is My Car So Expensive?
Season 2022 - Episode 15 - Aired 8/15/2022
What's the real story behind the soaring cost of new and second-hand cars? As the car industry pulls in huge profits, Dispatches has top tips on how not to get ripped off.
#18 - Ukraine: Life Under Attack
Season 2022 - Episode 12 - Aired 6/27/2022
The story of the battle for Kharkiv, Ukraine's second city, told through the eyes of the civilians and emergency workers who bore the brunt of the Russian onslaught. For 10 weeks, a documentary crew followed fireman Roman, as he and his team tried to put out the relentless fires, and paramedics Tatjana and Irina, who attempt to save civilian casualties. Narrated by Cate Blanchett.
#19 - Inside the Metaverse: Are You Safe?
Season 2022 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/25/2022
Is the next frontier in cyberspace a thrilling alternative world or the new Wild West? Yinka Bokinni goes undercover in virtual reality and is shocked by what she finds.
#20 - Ukraine: On the Front Line with Johnny Mercer
Season 2022 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/3/2022
Travelling with explorer and veteran Levison Wood, former soldier Johnny Mercer meets his Ukrainian MP counterparts and heads to the focus of the conflict in Kyiv.
#21 - China: The Search for the Missing
Season 2022 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/2/2022
On the eve of the Winter Olympics, Dispatches investigates allegations of mass surveillance, detention and forced labour in China's north-west.