The BEST episodes of Panorama season 2010
Every episode of Panorama season 2010, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Panorama season 2010!
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 - The Secrets of Scientology
Season 2010 - Episode 36 - Aired 9/28/2010
Reporter John Sweeney's last investigation into the Church of Scientology resulted in an explosive confrontation with church officials. This time, in a Panorama Special, one of those officials has turned whistleblower to help him reveal the dark secrets of the church, which boasts Hollywood A-listers Tom Cruise and John Travolta among its devotees.
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#3 - What's Up With The Weather?
Season 2010 - Episode 21 - Aired 7/2/2010
The series takes a look at what we really know about our climate and how it will affect us in the future. Tom Heap talks to some of the world's leading scientists on both sides of the argument about global warming.
#4 - It Shouldn't Happen At A Vets
Season 2010 - Episode 25 - Aired 7/22/2010
The series takes a closer look at one of Britain's largest veterinary chains and it reveals that there are many questionable bills being charged and inadequate care of people's pets.
#5 - Supermarkets: What Price Cheap Food?
Season 2010 - Episode 50 - Aired 12/22/2010
The Big Four supermarkets are expanding at an unprecedented rate. It's being dubbed the new "space race", with Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda and Morrison's fighting for dominance on high streets and shopping malls across the UK. But how can they keep on expanding, and slashing our food prices, when we're in the middle of a global downturn? In a Panorama Special, reporter Paul Kenyon looks behind the cellophane wrappers and the "Buy-one-get-one-frees" to examine the true cost of our cheap food. He visits the mega-farms coming our way from the United States, with cows being kept indoors and milked on giant "dairy-go-rounds", and pigs housed in "sty-scrapers". He also takes a look at space-age greenhouses where fruit grows without soil. The Big Four's UK expansion has never really been charted, until now. Panorama has pieced together the location of every new store currently being planned and built. And as the production costs of our food are driven downwards, saving us pounds during the recession, Panorama carries out pioneering scientific research to discover whether "Made in Britain" always means what it says.
#6 - Orphans of Haiti
Season 2010 - Episode 23 - Aired 7/12/2010
Six months to the day when a devastating earthquake struck Haiti, Raphael Rowe returns to uncover what has happened to the country's orphaned and abandoned children. There are more than four hundred thousand children now living in Haiti's orphanages. Many of those rescued from the rubble are still unidentified or have simply been abandoned by their parents. Panorama meets others still living on the streets - vulnerable to child traffickers - and asks whether meeting the demand for them to be adopted in other countries, especially America, is really the best answer.
#7 - Spoilt Rotten?
Season 2010 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/13/2010
With unprecedented access to Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool, Panorama meets the children suffering from preventable conditions as a result of their lifestyles.
#8 - Chocolate: The Bitter Truth
Season 2010 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/24/2010
We spend more on chocolate each year than investors spend on gold - but as Easter approaches, how much do we really know about where it comes from or how it is made? Panorama reporter Paul Kenyon goes undercover as a cocoa trader in West Africa and discovers children as young as seven working long hours on cocoa farms, helping to make the chocolate we love so much. He buys a tonne of cocoa made with child labour, and sees how easy it is to sell it into the supply chain which leads to our high streets. He also helps rescue a 12 year old boy - trafficked across borders - to pick cocoa as a modern-day slave and reunites him with his mother. For the first time, we meet the kids who harvest our cocoa but who have never tasted chocolate.
#9 - Britain's Disappearing Wildlife
Season 2010 - Episode 31 - Aired 8/30/2010
A look at the decline of UK wildlife. There is more at stake than simply protecting the beauty of nature - our food supply could be under threat.
#10 - A Risk Worth Taking?
Season 2010 - Episode 32 - Aired 9/6/2010
Shelley Jofre investigates the drug Avandia and asks whether the medicine's regulator is putting the interests of the drugs industry before patients.
#11 - What the Pope Knew
Season 2010 - Episode 33 - Aired 9/13/2010
On the eve of the first Papal visit to Britain in 28 years, Fergal Keane investigates the Pope's personal track record of dealing with paedophile priests.
#12 - Because We're Worth It - the Taxpayers' Rich List
Season 2010 - Episode 34 - Aired 9/20/2010
Panorama reveals the results of an extensive investigation into public sector pay.
#13 - Who Took My Pension?
Season 2010 - Episode 37 - Aired 10/4/2010
We all know our pensions are in crisis - we aren't paying enough into them and we're living too long. But could there be another reason? Penny Haslam reveals the fees and commissions that take vast amounts from our pension pots. In some cases, more than two-thirds of the amount of money we pay into our pensions over the years is taken out in fees. Rather than heading for retirement with a golden parachute, some of us will be left holding a lead balloon.
#14 - Britain in the Dock
Season 2010 - Episode 35 - Aired 9/27/2010
In two separate inquiries, the British Army stands accused of committing war crimes in Iraq, and ex-Defence Minsters are now being called to account. With the MOD and the military justice system tainted by allegations that soldiers have got away with torture and murder, Paul Kenyon asks if the British army can really be trusted to police itself.
#15 - Kids in Care
Season 2010 - Episode 38 - Aired 10/5/2010
Since the case of Baby P, there has been a 40% increase in the number of children taken into care by the state. There are now 70,000 children being 'looked after' in the system. What happens to them? Can the system offer them a better life? Panorama follows children in the care of Coventry Social Services for six months to find out if the state can be a real parent - even though children in care are more at risk of failing school and committing crime than any other group. Narrated by Samantha Morton, who herself grew up in care.
#16 - Lord Ashcroft's Millions
Season 2010 - Episode 39 - Aired 10/11/2010
Lord Ashcroft, the biggest political donor since records began, resigned as deputy chairman of the Conservative Party in September 2010. His millions helped bank-roll David Cameron into power, but where does Lord Ashcroft's money come from? Panorama travels to other countries he calls home, and hears allegations about secret deals and tax avoidance.
#17 - Trapped - The Chile Miners' Story
Season 2010 - Episode 40 - Aired 10/18/2010
Trapped alive longer and deeper underground than anybody in history, the 33 Chilean miners somehow survived to be rescued. For weeks, Panorama followed and engineers at the surface as they worked to free the men. But should they ever have been trapped in the first place? Reporter Dan McDougall reveals new evidence of massive safety problems in the mine being ignored just weeks before the collapse.
#18 - The Great Housing Rip Off?
Season 2010 - Episode 41 - Aired 10/25/2010
With a shortage of social housing, and the private rented market booming, reporter John Sweeney investigates the so-called 'rogue landlords' - the housing barons accused of receiving large amounts of housing benefit while using the small print in their tenancy agreements to exploit the poor and vulnerable. Councils say they don't have the right laws to combat them, but with the new housing minister ruling out any changes in the law, Panorama examines a problem that is not going to go away.
#19 - What Have the Drugs Done to Dad?
Season 2010 - Episode 42 - Aired 11/1/2010
An elderly father sedated with a 'chemical cosh' of powerful drugs and secretly filmed by his daughter. Families who care for their loved ones at home to help them come off the anti-psychotic drugs that worsen their symptoms and shorten their lives. As the government orders a crackdown on the use of these drugs among the elderly, Vivian White reports on the crisis of care in the treatment of patients with dementia.
#20 - Are You Paying Too Much Tax?
Season 2010 - Episode 43 - Aired 11/8/2010
Panorama reporter Adam Shaw recruited his own "A-Team" of tax consultants to help civil servant Douglas Marsh after money started disappearing from his pay packet. Mr Marsh is one of millions caught up in HMRC's glitch that led to him being told he has been underpaying and now owes more than £11,000.
#21 - Tax the Fat
Season 2010 - Episode 44 - Aired 11/18/2010
Britain is the fattest nation in Europe, and it's slowly killing us. So is it time to tax the fat? Would putting up the price of junk food, high in sugar and fat, cut obesity rates in the same way as a tax on cigarettes has helped reduce smoking? Panorama travels to Denmark - the first country in the world to implement such a tax - to see how it's working there, and to the US, where a proposal to tax sugary drinks like Coca Cola has met with fierce opposition. Could a fat tax here help the NHS to afford the ever-rising cost of treating obesity-related illnesses like diabetes and heart disease? Reporter Shelley Jofre puts the idea to the Health Secretary, and to families who would have to pay more for junk food.
#22 - British Schools, Islamic Rules
Season 2010 - Episode 45 - Aired 11/22/2010
Investigation which uncovers disturbing evidence that some Muslim children are being exposed to extremist preachers and fundamentalist Islamic groups. We also expose the part-time schools where hate is on the curriculum. The programme asks why school inspectors have missed the warning signs and examines the impact this could have on young Muslims' ability to integrate into mainstream British life.
#23 - FIFA's Dirty Secrets
Season 2010 - Episode 46 - Aired 11/29/2010
Panorama investigates corruption allegations against some of the Fifa officials who will vote on England's World Cup bid. Reporter Andrew Jennings exposes new evidence of bribery, and accuses some executives of taking kickbacks. He also uncovers the secret agreements that could guarantee Fifa a financial bonanza if England hosts the World Cup.
#24 - Addicted to Games
Season 2010 - Episode 47 - Aired 12/6/2010
As pester power kicks in and the computer games' industry launches its latest products on to the Christmas market, Panorama hears from youngsters who've dropped out of school and university to play games for anything up to 21 hours a day. They describe their obsessive gaming as an addiction. Reporter Raphael Rowe, meets leading experts calling for more independent research into this controversial subject, and reveals the hidden psychological devices in games that are designed to keep us coming back for more.
#25 - Baby P: In His Mother's Words
Season 2010 - Episode 48 - Aired 12/13/2010
Panorama reveals the controversial video-taped interview with the mother of Baby P and asks whether crucial warning signs were missed. Tracey Connelly tells clear lies in the training interview with a senior social worker. But she also gives some vital clues about what was going on in her son Peter's life. Panorama investigates whether these clues were adequately followed up, and examines the ground-breaking research into child protection that is now a part of Baby P's legacy.