The BEST episodes of Panorama season 2008
Every episode of Panorama season 2008, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Panorama season 2008!
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#1 - Next Stop, Downing Street?
Season 2008 - Episode 46 - Aired 9/29/2008
Nick Robinson accompanies Conservative Party leader David Cameron to Birmingham as he attempts to persuade voters he is prime minister material.
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#2 - How Safe is my Money?
Season 2008 - Episode 44 - Aired 9/22/2008
Jane Corbin looks at how the crisis facing the world's financial insitutions could impact on the nation's banks, mortgages, insurance and pensions.
#3 - Primark: On the Rack
Season 2008 - Episode 29 - Aired 6/23/2008
Panorama puts Primark's claims that it can deliver cheap, fast fashion without breaking ethical guidelines to the test.
#4 - Taking Back The Streets
Season 2008 - Episode 30 - Aired 6/30/2008
Panarama investigates the rise of armed teenage street gangs and discovers how shockingly ingrained the culture of guns and violence is in Britain.
#5 - NHS for Sale
Season 2008 - Episode 31 - Aired 7/7/2008
Sally Magnusson investigates the creeping privatisation of the NHS.
#6 - Friends in High Places
Season 2008 - Episode 33 - Aired 7/21/2008
Panorama investigates the government's proposals for a third runway at Heathrow which, critics argue, will have a dramatic effect on the environment.
#7 - Can We Afford to Fill Up?
Season 2008 - Episode 34 - Aired 7/28/2008
With the price of fuel rocketing at the pumps, Jane Corbin reports on how fuel prices are affecting Britain and what alternatives might be available.
#8 - Racing's Dirty Secret
Season 2008 - Episode 35 - Aired 7/30/2008
Panorama investigates horse racing and reveals why those running the sport are so concerned about gamblers betting on horses not to win, but to lose.
#9 - China's Olympic Promise
Season 2008 - Episode 36 - Aired 8/4/2008
As the Games approach, award-winning journalist John Sweeney travels across China to discover whether foreign journalists are being allowed to report freely.
#10 - Notes on a Dirty Island
Season 2008 - Episode 37 - Aired 8/11/2008
Travel writer Bill Bryson presents a personal and passionate account of how Britain has become a rubbish tip since his arrival from the USA in 1972.
#11 - The NHS Postcode Lottery: It Could Be You
Season 2008 - Episode 38 - Aired 8/18/2008
Shelley Jofre takes a road trip around the UK and discovers how the quality of treatment from the NHS very much depends on where you live.
#12 - True Brits
Season 2008 - Episode 39 - Aired 8/25/2008
An investigation into how factors such as mass immigration and devolution are forever changing the concept of 'Britishness'.
#13 - How the Economy Got Personal
Season 2008 - Episode 40 - Aired 9/1/2008
Jeremy Vine presents personal stories of regular Britons affected by the credit crunch.
#14 - Can Money Grow on Trees?
Season 2008 - Episode 41 - Aired 9/8/2008
Panorama asks whether the money markets can achieve what campaigners and law enforcement have so far failed to, and make trees more valuable alive than dead.
#15 - Terror in the Skies?
Season 2008 - Episode 42 - Aired 9/9/2008
Peter Taylor uncovers the inside story of the operation which thwarted a terrorist plot to cause explosions and led to increased security at British airports.
#16 - What Happened After Taking On the Taliban?
Season 2008 - Episode 26 - Aired 6/9/2008
Panorama meets the soldiers featured in last year's Taking On the Taliban special, to find out what they're doing now.
#17 - You Can Run...
Season 2008 - Episode 45 - Aired 9/26/2008
But can you hide? Simon Boazman investigates how much information is held on him, whether it is secure and if he can reduce his data trail.
#18 - The Secret Policeman Returns
Season 2008 - Episode 47 - Aired 10/6/2008
In the wake of the resignation of Britain's top police officer, Panorama investigates racism in Britain's police force. Mark Daly - who exposed racism amongst police recruits in The Secret Policeman five years ago - returns to uncover the truth about being a Black Ethnic Minority Cop today.
#19 - Should We Be Scared of Russia?
Season 2008 - Episode 48 - Aired 10/10/2008
Mark Franchetti meets Vladimir Putin's inner circle in an attempt to decipher Russia's intentions on domestic and international fronts.
#20 - Obama and the Pitbull: An American Tale
Season 2008 - Episode 49 - Aired 10/13/2008
Matt Frei investigates Barack Obama's rise in the opinion polls, and asks if the current financial crisis has put him on the home straight.
#21 - Britain in the Red - Your Questions Answered
Season 2008 - Episode 50 - Aired 10/16/2008
Jeremy Vine asks why our economy ran into trouble, and who is to blame for the credit crunch and banking crisis which threatens to affect us all.
#22 - Three Bloody Summers
Season 2008 - Episode 51 - Aired 11/3/2008
The British Commander on the ground admits the war against the Taliban cannot be won by force alone in this eye-opening assessment of the Afghanistan conflict.
#23 - Can't Pay, Won't Pay
Season 2008 - Episode 52 - Aired 11/10/2008
With the credit crunch affecting everyone, Panorama reveals the lengths some lenders are now going to in order to get borrowers to pay off their debts.
#24 - What Happened to Baby P?
Season 2008 - Episode 53 - Aired 11/17/2008
A six-month investigation by the programme reveals the mistakes and missed opportunities that led to the death of a 17-month-old boy known only as Baby P.
#25 - Comeback Coal
Season 2008 - Episode 55 - Aired 12/1/2008
An investigation into the Government's support of a new wave of opencast coal mining, in spite of fierce opposition from local communities.