The BEST episodes of Panorama

#1 - Violent Women

Season 1996 - Episode 33 - Aired 11/4/1996

Statistics show that British women are committing more and more violent crimes. Panorama investigates the shift in the traditional role of women as victims or accessories to crime to the aggressor. Su Pennington talks to women who get a thrill from their own brutality, and to some victims of the disturbing trend.

#2 - White Fright

Season 2007 - Episode 17 - Aired 5/7/2007

The show looks at several communities which have been split by colour and religion.

#3 - Britain’s Newest Bank: How Safe Is Your Money?

Season 2024 - Episode 31 - Aired 10/14/2024

Reporter Catrin Nye investigates the stories of Revolut customers who say scammers took tens of thousands of pounds from their accounts, and that Revolut failed to protect them.

#4 - The Menopause Industry

Season 2024 - Episode 29 - Aired 9/30/2024

Kirsty Wark investigates the multi-billion-pound global menopause industry promising women relief from often debilitating symptoms if they buy specially branded supplements, teas and even pyjamas.

#5 - Can We Live Without Our Phones?

Season 2024 - Episode 25 - Aired 9/2/2024

What happens when smartphones are taken away from kids for a week? With the help of two families and lots of remote cameras, Panorama finds out.

#6 - The Riots That Shocked the Country

Season 2024 - Episode 24 - Aired 8/19/2024

Darragh MacIntyre reports from some of the towns and cities most affected by the recent riots in the UK and asks what can be done to prevent such violence from happening again.

#7 - Alzheimer’s: A Turning Point?

Season 2024 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/12/2024

Fergus Walsh follows patients with Alzheimer's disease, who have been taking two new drugs that have been shown to slow down its progression. Is this a turning point in its treatment?

#8 - Aftershock: The Turkey-Syria Earthquake

Season 2023 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/13/2023

More than 30,000 people are known to have been killed in the earthquake that devastated Turkey and Syria last week, and the death toll is expected to increase. With the help of teams from BBC Turkish and BBC Arabic, Panorama follows survivors and rescue workers from both sides of the border, and asks if more could have been done to save lives.

#9 - Am I British?

Season 2021 - Episode 17 - Aired 5/5/2021

Reporter Greg McKenzie meets young people born or brought up in the UK who say Home Office immigration policy treats them as second-class citizens.

#10 - The Operation that Ruined My Life

Season 2017 - Episode 47 - Aired 12/11/2017

Women across the UK are suffering after an operation they were told would transform their lives. Instead, some of them say their lives have been ruined. For years women have been fitted with mesh-like devicesto treat prolapse or incontinence - often caused by childbirth. Although it's been a successful treatment for many of them, thousands of women in the US, the UK and Australia are now suing, after finding themselves in agony or suffering other serious complications. Reporter Lucy Adams meets women living with constant pain. She investigates how and why these devices were approved for use in the first place and asks whether manufacturers and regulators should have acted sooner to take some of them off the market.

#11 - Iraq: The Final Judgement

Season 2016 - Episode 20 - Aired 6/29/2016

As the country awaits next week's verdict from the long-delayed Iraq Inquiry into why we went to war and what the lessons should be, Jane Corbin returns to southern Iraq. With her are parents who lost a son, a soldier, there and the general who led British troops into battle. Why did it all go so wrong?

#12 - Emergency in A&E

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

Panorama reports on a week spent in the accident and emergency department of the University Hospital of North Tees in Stockton, as this vital part of the NHS faces unprecedented pressure. It is the second programme Panorama has made in this hospital. One year on, why have things changed so much? There are more patients who are more ill, others who should never have come to A&E in the first place, and the hospital's 'regulars' - one has come in over 100 times. Panorama talks to patients and to stressed and overstretched staff, the front line troops of the NHS.

#13 - Ebola Frontline

Season 2014 - Episode 43 - Aired 11/17/2014

NHS doctors and nurses have been working on the front line against Ebola in clinics in West Africa. Panorama spent a month in Sierra Leone with British-born Dr Javid Abdelmoneim filming his every moment working at a treatment centre run by the charity MSF. Using specially adapted cameras, Dr Javid records the physical and emotional impact of this deadly virus on whole families and on the medical staff treating them. Even in these desperately difficult circumstances there are moments of euphoria as patients who have been cured leave the centre.

#14 - Drivers Who Kill

Season 2014 - Episode 28 - Aired 7/21/2014

Every day five people die on Britain's roads - but they seldom make headlines. Is this complacency leading to a lack of justice for victims and their families? Tonight's Panorama investigates whether a change to the driving laws has seen our justice system go soft on dangerous driving and questions whether in car technology is driving us to distraction behind the wheel.

#15 - Educating North Korea

Season 2014 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/3/2014

It's one of the most closed and repressive societies on earth. Its ruthless young leader Kim Jong-un has threatened nuclear war against America and recently executed his own uncle. Yet in the heart of North Korea's absolute dictatorship, a remarkable university - paid for by the west - is attempting to open the minds of the secretive state's future elite. Panorama has gained unprecedented access to this most unusual of academic institutions - which is educating the sons of the brutal regime. Reporter Chris Rogers lives with them on campus and asks: can the class of 2014 help to bring the hermit nation in from the cold?

#16 - England's Shame

Season 2000 - Episode 20 - Aired 6/20/2000

In a special investigation, Panorama goes undercover with English supporters at Euro 2000.

#17 - Towards the Zero Hour

Season 2001 - Episode 33 - Aired 12/12/2001

#18 - Poor America

Season 2012 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/13/2012

Panorama's Hilary Andersson comes face to face with the reality of poverty in America and finds that, for some, the last resort has become life in a tented encampment. Just off the side of a motorway on the fringes of the picturesque town of Ann Arbor, Michigan, a mismatched collection of 30 tents tucked in the woods has become home - home to those who are either unemployed, or whose wages are so low that they can no longer afford to pay rent. Conditions are unhygienic. There are no toilets and electricity is only available in the one communal tent where the campers huddle around a wood stove for warmth in the heart of winter. Ice weighs down the roofs of tents, and rain regularly drips onto the sleeping campers' faces. Tent cities have sprung up in and around at least 55 American cities - they represent the bleak reality of America's poverty crisis.

#19 - Are the Net Police Coming for You?

Season 2010 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/15/2010

Jo Whiley looks at how a proposed new law could end up disconnecting the millions of internet users who unlawfully download free music, films and TV.

#20 - Murdoch's TV Pirates

Season 2012 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/26/2012

As Rupert Murdoch faces accusations of law-breaking and corruption at his British tabloid newspapers, Panorama reveals fresh hacking allegations striking at the heart of News Corporation's pay-TV empire. The investigation examines the role of former senior police officers in recruiting people to break the law - in order to bring down Murdoch's commercial rival. Vivian White reveals fresh allegations of hacking at the heart of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, this time involving its pay-TV services. The investigation examines the alleged role of former senior police officers in recruiting people to break the law in order to bring down one of the media mogul's commercial rivals. Postponed from Monday March 12.

#21 - Ukraine's War Diaries

Season 2023 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/21/2023

When Russian forces invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Panorama asked five Ukrainians to start filming their lives. The result is a powerful documentary marking the first anniversary of the war.

#22 - The Drug Wars That Killed Olivia

Season 2023 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/3/2023

When Olivia Pratt-Korbel was shot dead in her home, the nine-year-old became the youngest victim of Liverpool's drug wars. There have been dozens of deaths in the city as rival gangs fight for control of the lucrative drug trade. Reporter Bronagh Munro investigates how the city came to dominate the UK drug market and how organised crime brought death to Olivia’s door.

#23 - Obesity: Who Cares If I'm Bigger?

Season 2022 - Episode 16 - Aired 4/20/2022

Eighteen months after the prime minister launched his strategy to help the nation lose weight, EastEnders actress Clair Norris, who is overweight herself, wants to know if it is working.

#24 - Ukraine's Resistance: Standing Up to Putin

Season 2022 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/21/2022

For almost a month, Ukraine has fought off one of the world's super-powers. Can it repel Putin’s forces? Panorama's Paul Kenyon reports from the frontline in southern Ukraine.

#25 - Trump Voters: One Year On

Season 2018 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/15/2018

Donald Trump has changed the face of American politics, but what do the people who voted for him make of his tumultuous first year in office? Filmed over a year in Michigan, Wyoming, Texas and Florida, this programme hears from Trump supporters who hoped that he would 'make America great again'. But with so much promised, Panorama asks whether his supporters are still happy and if they would vote for him again.