The BEST episodes of Dispatches season 2024

#1 - Kill Zone: Inside Gaza

Season 2024 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/27/2024

The story of the Israeli military assault on Gaza. Seen through the eyes of children, journalists and doctors, Dispatches takes an unflinching look at the horrific challenges and heartbreaking loss.

#2 - Britain's Shoplifting Gangs Exposed

Season 2024 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/25/2024

In this high-stakes true crime investigation, Dispatches goes undercover to expose the organised criminal networks behind the UK's shoplifting epidemic.

#3 - Undercover A&E: NHS in Crisis

Season 2024 - Episode 6 - Aired 6/24/2024

Undercover report filmed over two months at an NHS Accident and Emergency Department, which exposes the suffering and dangers patients face on a daily basis. The programme features footage of seriously ill patients forced to sleep on chairs for up to two days because there are no beds, and a dangerous superbug outbreak linked to overcrowding and falling hygiene standards.

#4 - Britain's Unsolved Crimewave

Season 2024 - Episode 8 - Aired 7/16/2024

Analysing police data, Dispatches reveals local hotspots where 100% of neighbourhood crimes go unsolved. The team watch a theft in action and go on the trail of the criminals.

#5 - The King, The Prince & Their Secret Millions

Season 2024 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/2/2024

For years, the royals kept details of some of their wealth secret. Dispatches reveals what they've kept under wraps - about who's paying them, and for what.

#6 - Coca-Cola's Dirty Secret

Season 2024 - Episode 1 - Aired 5/16/2024

Coca-Cola is the biggest soft drinks producer in the world and stands accused of being its biggest polluter. Reporter Ellie Flynn - herself a big Coca-Cola lover - looks at what Coke says its doing and investigates the reality - from uncovering what happens to used bottles to Coke's claims about recycled plastic and water sustainability. Flynn examines the impact of her thirst for Coke in the UK and globally.

#7 - The War on Britain's Motorists

Season 2024 - Episode 2 - Aired 5/23/2024

Potholes everywhere. Controversial Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and electric vehicle confusion too. Car journalist Ginny Buckley asks is this the worst time ever to be a motorist in the UK?

#8 - Britain's Benefits Scandal

Season 2024 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/2/2024

With the recent rise in working-age people on sickness benefits - many of them under 35 - Dispatches asks what's driving the surge?

#9 - Vinted's Dirty Laundry

Season 2024 - Episode 10 - Aired 10/18/2024

The online secondhand clothes app Vinted is booming. Is its soar-away success too good to be true? Dispatches uncovers the truth behind some of the products sold on the platform.

#10 - The Truth About Temu

Season 2024 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/30/2024

#11 - Barbie's Dirty Secrets

Season 2024 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/11/2024

With Barbiemania putting toy maker Mattel back in the limelight, Dispatches goes undercover in one of Mattel's factories, exposing the reality for workers making the famous dolls

#12 - Rubbish Tip Britain

Season 2024 - Episode 5 - Aired 6/21/2024

A look inside the lucrative world of waste crime with video, surveillance footage and interviews from insiders. Exposing how banned waste has been dumped for years in a major landfill site, seemingly unnoticed by the authorities, while posing a risk to human health. This documentary reveals new satellite data suggesting hundreds of unregulated waste dumps are being operated in plain sight and investigates evidence of the growing role of organisations engaging in illegal fly-tipping, with little fear of action against them.

#13 - Can AI Steal Your Vote?

Season 2024 - Episode 7 - Aired 6/27/2024

Election campaigners and experts have warned that artificial intelligence tools could risk politically motivated disinformation flooding social media feeds in ways that recently seemed unimaginable. The fear is that deepfakes and other AI-generated material could influence votes. Cathy Newman reports on the issue, illustrating the effect that AI could have on 12 households of undecided voters. The homes are fed AI-generated material advised by political experts, with the residents none the wiser. Will the experiment succeed? If so, what does it say about the power of AI to influence the vote?