The BEST episodes of Panorama
Every episode of Panorama ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Panorama!
Panorama is a BBC Television current affairs documentary programme. First broadcast in 1953, it is the world's longest-running public affairs television programme.

#1 - 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.
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#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.
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#3 - Trump, Ukraine and Europe on the Edge
Season 2025 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/3/2025
As the war in Ukraine reaches its third anniversary, the new US president says he’s the man to get a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine. But just how realistic is that?
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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.
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#5 - 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.
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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.
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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.
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#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.
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#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.
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#10 - 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.
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#11 - 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.
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#12 - 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.
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Season 2000 - Episode 20 - Aired 6/20/2000
In a special investigation, Panorama goes undercover with English supporters at Euro 2000.
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#15 - 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.
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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.
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#17 - 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.
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#18 - 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.

#19 - 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.
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#20 - 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.
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#21 - October 7th: One Year On
Season 2024 - Episode 30 - Aired 10/7/2024
Jane Corbin has been following four families, two in Israel and two in Gaza, whose lives have been changed forever by the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
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#22 - What's Gone Wrong with Our Housing?
Season 2023 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/27/2023
Millions of council houses were built after the war to help protect people from slum landlords. They used to be home to around a third of the UK population. Margaret Thatcher’s flagship right-to-buy policy boosted home ownership, but the council house sell-off is causing major problems 40 years on. Many former council properties are now in the hands of private landlords. In some parts of the country, rents are going through the roof, and slum landlords are back. Reporter Richard Bilton investigates what’s been happening, by telling the story of one housing estate in London.
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#23 - Who's Protecting Our Kids?
Season 2021 - Episode 30 - Aired 9/6/2021
Mariella Frostrup meets teenage girls who say they have been abused, assaulted or raped by teenage boys, and asks whether we should be doing more to protect our children. With exclusive new data from police forces, she reveals how reports of abuse have risen sharply in the past four years, despite government promises to tackle the problem. She asks if social media and pornography could be to blame, and if schools could be handling the problem better.
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#24 - Profits before Pupils? The Academies Scandal
Season 2018 - Episode 30 - Aired 9/10/2018
More than 7,000 schools in England have been turned into academies and are now run by private trusts. The people in charge are not supposed to profit from children's education, but what's to stop them from cashing in? Reporter Bronagh Munro investigates a businessman whose companies have been paid millions from school budgets and asks whether it's the pupils who are paying the price.
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#25 - Edward Snowden: Spies and the Law
Season 2015 - Episode 37 - Aired 10/5/2015
Edward Snowden, the man responsible for the biggest leak of top secret intelligence files the world has ever seen, gives his first BBC interview to Panorama. Russia has given him sanctuary. America wants him back. With opinion sharply divided, Snowden is acknowledged to have raised the debate over privacy and national security to a new level - framing the agenda for this autumn's parliamentary debate over controversial new legislation previously criticised as 'the snoopers' charter'.
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