The BEST episodes of Panorama season 2015
Every episode of Panorama season 2015, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Panorama season 2015!
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 - 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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#2 - Disaster on Everest
Season 2015 - Episode 23 - Aired 6/22/2015
BBC reporter Tom Martienssen was halfway up Mount Everest when an earthquake made the mountain shake. Tom and a team of British Army Gurkhas were trapped after a wall of rock and ice came crashing down around them. Their footage tells the story of an extraordinary rescue and of the people who lost their lives on Everest. After a second devastating quake, Tom returns to Nepal to find the men who were with him on the mountain and to discover how the country is coping amid continuing aftershocks.
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#3 - Could A Robot Do My Job?
Season 2015 - Episode 34 - Aired 9/14/2015
Britain is on the brink of a technological revolution. Machines and artificial intelligence are beginning to replace jobs like never before. Reporter Rohan Silva looks at the workplaces already using this new technology and asks whether we should feel threatened by it, or whether it will benefit all of us. Are we ready for one of the biggest changes the world of work has ever seen?
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#4 - Terror in Paris
Season 2015 - Episode 44 - Aired 11/16/2015
Panorama hears the stories of those who were caught up in the unfolding violence in Paris and looks at the emerging evidence of international links.
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#5 - How Hackers Steal Your ID
Season 2015 - Episode 43 - Aired 11/9/2015
Hackers have stolen the personal details of millions of customers from companies like Talk Talk. So how do cybercriminals get hold of our data? Reporter Daniel Foggo meets the hackers who can break into any website and finds out how criminals profit from our information.
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#6 - Catch Me If You Can
Season 2015 - Episode 20 - Aired 6/3/2015
Mark Daly investigates serious allegations of doping in athletics, spanning more than 30 years and involving some of the biggest stars in the sport. Since the explosion of steroid use in the 1970s, through the years when Lance Armstrong used EPO, the problem of sports doping refuses to go away, and drug testing regimes have struggled to catch the cheats. Daly goes on a journey investigating the world of doping, and in order to truly understand the world he's entering, the reporter becomes a doper himself.
#7 - Trouble at the Post Office
Season 2015 - Episode 31 - Aired 8/17/2015
The Post Office has prosecuted dozens of postmasters after their computers showed that money had gone missing. Some have been jailed, but could there be other explanations for the cash shortfalls? Reporter John Sweeney meets a whistle-blower who says there were problems with the computer system. And he investigates claims that the Post Office charged some postmasters with theft even when the evidence didn't stack up.
#8 - Antibiotic Apocalypse
Season 2015 - Episode 17 - Aired 5/18/2015
Panorama investigates the global advance of antibiotic-resistant superbugs and the threat they pose to modern medicine and millions of patients worldwide. Reporter Fergus Walsh travels to India and finds restricted, life-saving antibiotics on sale without prescription and talks to NHS patients whose recovery depends on them.
#9 - Britain's Secret Terror Deals
Season 2015 - Episode 18 - Aired 5/28/2015
British security forces have been accused of involvement in dozens of murders during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Reporter Darragh MacIntyre investigates.
#10 - GM Food - Cultivating Fear
Season 2015 - Episode 21 - Aired 6/8/2015
A new generation of GM foods is winning over governments and former critics of the technology, and scientists say the crops could help feed people in the developing world. So are those who oppose GM doing more harm than good? And is their opposition based on genuine safety concerns, or is it just feeding fear?
#11 - Terror on the Beach
Season 2015 - Episode 29 - Aired 7/30/2015
On June 26 38 tourists, 30 of them British, were gunned down in a brutal terror attack on a Tunisian beach. Panorama's Jane Corbin hears the extraordinary stories of suffering and heroism and pieces together what actually happened with unseen footage taken by eyewitnesses. And from Tunisia she investigates whether several warnings were ignored which could have saved lives.
#12 - Young, Homeless and Fighting Back
Season 2015 - Episode 28 - Aired 7/6/2015
What's life like to be young, homeless and struggling in a town where one in four households are on benefits? Panorama has spent four weeks filming with the young residents of the YMCA in Stoke, once home to some of the world's greatest potteries. The YMCA in England and Wales provides accommodation and support to just under 10,000 16-25 year olds but fears its services may be under threat by the government's proposed cuts to housing benefit.
#13 - Europe's Border Crisis: The Long Road
Season 2015 - Episode 36 - Aired 9/30/2015
As Europe witnesses the dramatic movement of people across its borders, Panorama reporter John Sweeney joins thousands making the journey from the Greek island of Kos to the Austrian border with Hungary. He meets families fleeing conflict and terror in Syria, refugees separated from their loved ones, children, the old and sick being forced to march to safety. Among this tide of humanity, he also finds economic migrants seeking a better life in northern Europe and he asks, with winter on the way, is the crisis about to claim even more lives?
#14 - Tough Justice in Britain - Texas Style
Season 2015 - Episode 39 - Aired 10/12/2015
As the UK's imprisonment rate remains the highest in western Europe, Panorama joins Michael Gove - the man in charge of British prisons - on a fact-finding mission in Texas. 'Hang 'em high' Texas is not the first place you might look for lessons in criminal justice - they execute more people and lock up more offenders than anywhere else in America. But now this conservative state is the unlikely centre of a rehabilitation-led revolution in prison reform that's sweeping through the US. Crime is down, prisoner numbers have fallen and, on top of this, they have cut costs. Are there valuable lessons to be learned here, and are UK politicians really ready to dole out some Texan justice?
#15 - FIFA, Sepp Blatter and Me
Season 2015 - Episode 47 - Aired 12/7/2015
Reporter Andrew Jennings has been investigating corruption in world football for the past 15 years. He has exposed the criminality of Fifa executives and repeatedly challenged its president to come clean. Now with football in crisis, Andrew is once again back on the road investigating Sepp Blatter's Fifa. His reports includes an insight into an FBI investigation, puts a figure on what Qatar supposedly spent to secure the 2022 World Cup and promises fresh evidence that Sepp Blatter has known about corruption all along.
#16 - The Schools Scandal: Playing the System
Season 2015 - Episode 32 - Aired 8/24/2015
Demand for places at high-achieving state schools across the UK far outstrips supply, turning the schools admissions process into a battleground. For many parents it has become one of the most stressful moments in their lives. The losers in this extraordinary educational lottery are often the locals - locked out of the best schools by people playing the system. Panorama goes to Havering to follow the council's campaign to clamp down on abuse of the system and follows the fortunes of parents who've applied for places in one of the most over-subscribed boroughs for primary school places in the country.
#17 - The VW Emissions Scandal
Season 2015 - Episode 45 - Aired 11/23/2015
Richard Westcott investigates how Volkswagen used clever computer software to rig emissions tests, hiding how polluting their cars really are. Owners are left driving tainted cars and our cities clouded by an invisible killer.
#18 - The Taliban Hunters
Season 2015 - Episode 48 - Aired 12/14/2015
The Pakistan city of Karachi is one of the biggest in the world - and now one of the most dangerous. For more than two years, it's seen an onslaught of kidnappings, bombings and targeted assassinations by Taliban militants. The police are now fighting back, but they're understaffed, under-resourced and up against a deadly enemy. More than 160 police officers have been killed in the line of duty in just 12 months. Mobeen Azhar joins Police Superintendent Ijaz and his team of Taliban Hunters as they try to regain control of the city.
#19 - The Train that Divides Jerusalem
Season 2015 - Episode 27 - Aired 7/20/2015
On the anniversary of last summer's brutal conflict in Gaza, film-maker Adam Wishart visits Jerusalem and rides the city's controversial new train. Only nine miles from start to finish, some hoped it could help heal divisions between Israelis and Palestinians, but as Wishart discovers, it has only deepened the sense of resentment on both sides. Travelling through the old city, he comes face to face with the battle over one of the world's holiest sites and asks, could it be the flashpoint for the start of another war?
#20 - Hooked on Painkillers
Season 2015 - Episode 42 - Aired 11/2/2015
Doctors in the UK are prescribing record doses of highly addictive painkillers. Around four million people are now taking opioids - drugs that are closely related to heroin. Reporter Declan Lawn meets patients who have been hooked on painkillers for years and he goes inside the NHS clinic helping them kick the prescription habit.
#21 - Trouble at Tesco
Season 2015 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/19/2015
Tesco is losing customers, its share price is down and its profits have taken a tumble. As it faces a criminal investigation over its accounting practices, Kamal Ahmed investigates what's really gone wrong inside Tesco.
#22 - The VIP Paedophile Ring: What's the Truth?
Season 2015 - Episode 38 - Aired 10/6/2015
Panorama investigates sensational allegations of historical child abuse and murder by some of the most prominent people in Britain: a paedophile ring at the heart of the Establishment. Why were the allegations described by police as "credible and true" with no hard evidence or corroboration? What role have senior politicians and the media played in promoting this story around the world? And what price will genuine victims of child abuse pay if it turns out not to be true?
#23 - Greece: Euro or Bust?
Season 2015 - Episode 25 - Aired 7/6/2015
In a week of high political drama in Athens and Brussels, Richard Bilton investigates what the crisis means to the people of Greece. Filming in Athens and Rhodes, he discovers families whose lives have been shattered by economic collapse and political chaos. And as the nation gears up for its all-important referendum, he meets those who passionately support their government's stand-off against austerity cuts - and those who fear the consequences of an exit from the Euro.
#24 - Panorama Live
Season 2015 - Episode 16 - Aired 5/11/2015
Following one of the most closely fought general election battles in decades, Jeremy Vine hosts a special live edition of Panorama from the heart of Westminster. He will be joined by leading politicians, analysts and voters for an in-depth look at what the results could mean for all of us. Our team of correspondents will also be reporting from around the country.
#25 - The Most Dangerous Woman in Britain?
Season 2015 - Episode 19 - Aired 6/1/2015
She's been called 'The Most Dangerous Woman in Britain'. Nicola Sturgeon's party is riding high in Scotland, sending a tartan army of MPs to Westminster, but what will the SNP's electoral success mean for the rest of the UK? Panorama goes behind the scenes with Scotland's first minister to investigate the rise to power of the woman who holds the future of the union in her hands.