The BEST episodes of Panorama season 2022
Every episode of Panorama season 2022, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Panorama season 2022!
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 - 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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#2 - 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.
#3 - Anti-Social Behaviour: Afraid in My Own Home
Season 2022 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/24/2022
Rory Carson investigates how anti-social behaviour blights communities across Britain and discovers how hard it can be to get help.
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#4 - Maternity Scandal: Fighting for the Truth
Season 2022 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/23/2022
Michael Buchanan reports on repeated failures in maternity care at hospitals in Shropshire. Many babies died whilst others were left with life-changing injuries.
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#5 - Why is Food So Expensive?
Season 2022 - Episode 44 - Aired 11/14/2022
Food prices are rising at their fastest rate in more than 40 years. As the cost-of-living crisis continues to squeeze household budgets, Panorama explores why food prices are so high and looks at the impact food inflation is having on our pockets and on our health. Reporter Kate Quilton asks whether supermarkets, food producers and the government are doing enough to help shoppers. And what can people do to help make food bills more affordable?
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#6 - SAS Death Squads Exposed: A British War Crime?
Season 2022 - Episode 26 - Aired 7/12/2022
British special forces killed hundreds of people on night raids in Afghanistan. The SAS say they were insurgents who were posing an imminent threat. But were some of the shootings executions? Panorama investigates a series of raids where people were shot dead after they surrendered to British troops. Reporter Richard Bilton uncovers new evidence and tracks down eyewitnesses who say they saw unarmed Afghans being killed in cold blood.
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#7 - The Downfall of Boris Johnson
Season 2022 - Episode 27 - Aired 7/13/2022
As Boris Johnson is forced from office, for Panorama Laura Kuenssberg follows the dramatic events of the last seven days in Westminster. She looks back at the scandals that defined his premiership and ultimately led to his downfall. She hears from the insiders who tried to persuade him to go, the candidates vying to replace him and the colleagues who warned it was always going to end like this.
#8 - Channel Crisis - Can People Smugglers Be Stopped?
Season 2022 - Episode 34 - Aired 9/26/2022
Sending asylum seekers to Rwanda is part of a government plan intended to help cut the number of small boats crossing the Channel and force people smugglers out of business. But will it really deter migrants trying to come to the UK? Reporter Jane Corbin investigates the smugglers who get people into Britain and finds out what the government's plan means for those attempting the potentially deadly journey.
#9 - Undercover Hospital: Patients at Risk
Season 2022 - Episode 35 - Aired 9/28/2022
A Panorama undercover investigation has found evidence that a secure NHS psychiatric hospital is failing to protect some of its vulnerable patients. Secret filming reveals evidence of a toxic staff culture, patients being taunted and bullied, inappropriate use of restraint and falsification of important medical paperwork. Experts who have reviewed the findings have questioned the hospital’s safety, saying the evidence suggests its core therapeutic mission is being corrupted.
#10 - The Champions League Final: What Went Wrong?
Season 2022 - Episode 39 - Aired 10/17/2022
It was supposed to be a joyous end to an unforgettable season, but it quickly turned into a nightmare. Journalist Layla Wright investigates events as they unfolded at the 2022 UEFA Champions League final in Paris between Liverpool and Real Madrid.
#11 - Disaster Deniers: Hunting the Trolls
Season 2022 - Episode 40 - Aired 10/31/2022
Panorama investigates how survivors of major terror attacks are hounded and abused by conspiracy theorists who claim they are ‘crisis actors.’ US conspiracist Alex Jones has just been ordered to pay nearly $1bn to families of the Sandy Hook school shooting after claiming the attack was a hoax. Now the BBC’s disinformation correspondent Marianna Spring hunts the disaster trolls who target survivors of terror attacks in the UK and reveals new research about the popularity of these beliefs.
#12 - Trump: The Return?
Season 2022 - Episode 42 - Aired 11/7/2022
Will Donald Trump run for president again? On the eve of the US midterm elections, reporter Hilary Andersson visits Selma, North Carolina, to find out whether voters want him back. Trump’s final days in office saw his supporters attack the US Capitol, bringing the country to the brink. The country has remained dangerously divided. As many Republican candidates line up to support Trump’s claim that the 2020 election was stolen, Panorama asks whether American democracy can withstand the destructive forces now converging upon it.
#13 - The Post Office Scandal
Season 2022 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/25/2022
The story of the most widespread miscarriage of justice in British legal history and those whose lives were devastated by it.
#14 - The Secret World of Trading Nudes
Season 2022 - Episode 31 - Aired 8/22/2022
Panorama investigates the disturbing online trade in sexually explicit images and video of women, often taken and posted online without their consent. Reporter Monika Plaha meets women whose lives were ruined when intimate pictures of them were put on social media. She asks whether some tech companies are doing enough to combat this illicit trade, and she tracks down one man responsible for running an online community awash with explicit material.
#15 - The Energy Crisis: Who's Cashing In?
Season 2022 - Episode 32 - Aired 9/5/2022
It is being described as a national emergency. Energy bills are soaring and families across the UK are struggling to cope. Millions are falling into fuel poverty and are wondering how they will heat their homes in winter. But not everyone is suffering from the energy crisis. Reporter Bronagh Munro investigates the big companies that are profiting from rising bills and asks whether some are cashing in at our expense.
#16 - Britain's Killer Roads
Season 2022 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/17/2022
Richard Bilton investigates the increased risks we face when we get behind the wheel of a car and asks whether weaker policing could be to blame.
#17 - Afghanistan: A Country at Breaking Point
Season 2022 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/7/2022
John Simpson goes back to Afghanistan to explore the shocking unravelling of a country he has been reporting on for more than 40 years.
#18 - Surviving the Cost of Living Crisis
Season 2022 - Episode 15 - Aired 4/11/2022
Panorama follows three families, as they try to cope with what is predicted to be the biggest fall in living standards since the 1950s.
#19 - Partygate: Inside the Storm
Season 2022 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/24/2022
Ahead of Sue Gray's report into parties in government buildings, Laura Kuenssberg investigates what went on under Boris Johnson's roof during lockdown.
#20 - Airport Chaos: What's Gone Wrong?
Season 2022 - Episode 28 - Aired 7/18/2022
Strikes, delays, cancellations. With the peak summer holiday season almost here, many of the UK's airports and airlines are struggling to cope. Rachel Burden investigates the aviation industry at home and across Europe. She hears from holidaymakers fighting to get compensation and reveals the best and worst performing airlines. She also gets tips on the key consumer advice you need to know before you try to get on a flight this summer.
#21 - Mental Health: Young Lives in Crisis
Season 2022 - Episode 33 - Aired 9/20/2022
With unique access to the biggest mental health service in the UK and some of its young patients, Panorama reveals the challenges faced daily by clinicians as demand for services reaches unprecedented levels in the wake of the pandemic. In 2017 it was estimated that one in nine young people had a diagnosable mental health condition. Now it's thought to be one in six.
#22 - Road Rage: Cars vs. Bikes
Season 2022 - Episode 41 - Aired 11/2/2022
There are more cyclists on our roads than at any time in the last 50 years, and the government is spending billions trying to encourage even more people to get on their bikes. So why are there so many incidents of road rage and injury? Research suggests most people think the UK’s roads are too dangerous to cycle on. Filmed confrontations with motorists are now commonplace. Reporter Richard Bilton hits the road to investigate what’s going on between drivers and cyclists.
#23 - The Green Energy Scandal Exposed
Season 2022 - Episode 37 - Aired 10/3/2022
The wood-burning Drax power station in Yorkshire provides 12 per cent of the UK's renewable energy. It has already received £6 billion in green energy subsidies from the government. But are the wood pellets the power station burns really as sustainable as the company claims? Reporter Joe Crowley investigates where the wood comes from and uncovers an environmental scandal. He reveals how Drax is chopping down trees and taking logs from some of the world's most precious forests.
#24 - Boris Johnson on the Brink
Season 2022 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/31/2022
Downing Street parties have led to the greatest crisis of Boris Johnson’s career. Tracing other recent scandals, John Ware asks what 'partygate' says about the prime minister’s character.
#25 - Recycling: Where Does My Rubbish Go?
Season 2022 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/30/2022
Mobeen Azhar investigates TerraCycle's green credentials and its relationship with major brands.