The BEST episodes of Panorama season 2007

#1 - Midwives Undercover

Season 2007 - Episode 17 - Aired 5/3/2007

The series looks at St Mary's hospital in Manchester and Barnet hospital in London. The show looks at the staff working in the maternity wards and the difficulties they face each day.

#2 - White Fright

Season 2007 - Episode 18 - Aired 5/7/2007

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

#3 - Trust Me I'm Gordon... Not Tony

Season 2007 - Episode 25 - Aired 6/25/2007

#4 - Dogfighting Undercover

Season 2007 - Episode 35 - Aired 8/30/2007

Investigation into the secret world of international dogfighting, as an undercover BBC team operates alongside dogfighting gangs in the UK and Europe.

#5 - Our Missing Children

Season 2007 - Episode 26 - Aired 7/2/2007

John Sweeney reports on child welfare in Norfolk.

#6 - Heroes of 21/7

Season 2007 - Episode 27 - Aired 7/9/2007

On 21st July 2005, a group of suicide bombers set out to bring death to the capital. Panorama talks to the bus and tube passengers who thought they would die that day.

#7 - Tagging Undercover: A Panorama Special

Season 2007 - Episode 28 - Aired 7/10/2007

As more offenders are being tagged as an alternative to custody, reporters go undercover to reveal 'life on the tag' from inside one of the government's key law and order schemes.

#8 - Immigration: How We Lost Count

Season 2007 - Episode 29 - Aired 7/23/2007

The Government has no idea how many immigrants enter Britain illegally, but how many enter lawfully? Panorama visits some of the immigration hotspots.

#9 - The Cost of Keeping Britain Dry

Season 2007 - Episode 31 - Aired 8/6/2007

Kate Silverton looks at how much the summer floods have cost the UK and how much more we are prepared to spend to defend the country from future downpours.

#10 - On a Knife Edge

Season 2007 - Episode 32 - Aired 8/13/2007

As the number of youths killed on the streets of London this year rises to 17, with more young victims across the country, Panorama profiles two 15-year-old boys on the fringe of gang culture. The programme offers a rare insight into the confusing and dangerous world of the inner city teenager.

#11 - Return to Gaza

Season 2007 - Episode 33 - Aired 8/20/2007

Six weeks after the release of the BBC's Alan Johnston, Panorama goes back to Gaza to examine what's become of the place now that the world has looked away again.

#12 - Real Apprentices

Season 2007 - Episode 36 - Aired 9/3/2007

Investigation into why nearly a million young people in the UK are not in work or education. With the figure reportedly at a ten-year high, the programme challenges four young men to get jobs and break the cycle of unemployment.

#13 - Destination Europe

Season 2007 - Episode 37 - Aired 9/10/2007

Paul Kenyon traces the criminal gangs behind the illegal and hazardous migration routes which thousands of Africans are desperate enough to try to get into the UK.

#14 - Wasting Police Time

Season 2007 - Episode 38 - Aired 9/17/2007

There may be more police officers than ever, but what are they actually doing? Frontline officers tell Panorama they find it increasingly difficult to do their job effectively and claim they're being undermined by paperwork and pressure to meet government targets.

#15 - Give Us Your DNA

Season 2007 - Episode 39 - Aired 9/24/2007

Someone is added to the DNA database every minute, including people who haven't been charged with any offence. It can solve crimes and free the innocent. So shouldn't all of us now be on the database whether we like it or not, or should we pull back? Vivian White investigates.

#16 - How I Became a Muslim Extremist

Season 2007 - Episode 40 - Aired 10/1/2007

Investigative report. After the 7/7 bombings, the government vowed to silence Muslim extremists. Two years on, radical group Hizb ut-Tahrir remains legal. Shiraz Maher, a former member of Hizb, explores what needs to be done to win the hearts of Britain's angry young Muslims.

#17 - Sub-prime Suspect

Season 2007 - Episode 41 - Aired 10/8/2007

With mortgages regularly being sold to people on benefits and some home loans being given at up to sixteen times the applicant's salary, Panorama finds out if the misselling of mortgages to those with bad credit records could cause a financial crisis in Britain similar to that in the US.

#18 - Is America Ready for a Black President?

Season 2007 - Episode 42 - Aired 10/15/2007

Barack Obama is a political sensation in the States - an African-American with a real chance of becoming President next year. But although he is promising to unite the nation, can he overcome America's racial divisions and become the country's first black President? Hilary Andersson investigates.

#19 - FIFA and Coe

Season 2007 - Episode 43 - Aired 10/22/2007

With England set to bid for the 2018 World Cup, Panorama investigates allegations against FIFA and asks if England can expect fair play from football's ruling body.

#20 - Jill Dando: The Jury's Out

Season 2007 - Episode 45 - Aired 10/29/2007

Raphael Rowe investigates claims that the forensic evidence which lead to the conviction of Barry George for the murder of Jill Dando in 2001 was unreliable and misleading.

#21 - The Mystery of Madeleine McCann

Season 2007 - Episode 49 - Aired 11/19/2007

Investigation into why Madeleine McCann's parents have found it so hard to shake off the suspicion that they somehow had a role in her disappearance.

#22 - Please Look After Dad

Season 2007 - Episode 50 - Aired 12/3/2007

Investigation into the case of a woman convinced that the powerful anti-psychotic drugs prescribed for her father's dementia were doing him harm, and the disclosure of the results of a long-term scientific study which shows that she may have been right.

#23 - The Battle for Basra Palace

Season 2007 - Episode 51 - Aired 12/10/2007

Using combat footage shot by the soldiers themselves, the story of the last and bloodiest British fight in southern Iraq - the battle for Basra Palace.

#24 - Basra - The Legacy

Season 2007 - Episode 52 - Aired 12/17/2007

Reporter Jane Corbin examines the dark heart of Basra. Once Iraq's most cosmopolitan city, it is now a place where murder and corruption is rife.

#25 - Weekend 'Nazis'

Season 2007 - Episode 34 - Aired 8/27/2007

Re-enacting battles from World War Two is a popular summer pastime in the UK, but although we won the war it's the Germans that most people want to portray and the 'SS' who are the most popular of all. John Sweeney tours the biggest event of its type in Kent and discovers a darker side to the fun, with a convicted holocaust denier signing books, a trader selling a relic from Belsen and some Nazi enthusiasts expressing extreme racist views.