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 - Roman Abramovich's Dirty Money
Season 2022 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/14/2022
Chelsea-owner, Roman Abramovich, has been sanctioned by the UK government for his ties to Vladimir Putin. But where did the Russian billionaire's money come from? Panorama reporter Richard Bilton travels to Siberia to investigate the corrupt deals that made his fortune. He uncovers new details about Mr Abramovich's murky past and his relationship with the Kremlin.
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#6 - Beyond Reasonable Doubt: Britain's Rape Crisis
Season 2022 - Episode 13 - Aired 3/28/2022
Panorama is on the frontline with Derbyshire Police to investigate why only one per cent of reported rapes in England and Wales results in a conviction. For more than 18 months, the film follows five people who have reported rape and the detectives investigating their cases as they journey through the criminal justice system. They include 'Sam', who says she was raped by a stranger after a night out, and two sisters who say they were repeatedly raped by their father as children and whose case has already been turned down by the Crown Prosecution Service.
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#7 - Fixing Unfair Britain: Can Levelling Up Deliver?
Season 2022 - Episode 14 - Aired 4/6/2022
Levelling up is one of Boris Johnson's flagship policies. It's intended to improve the quality of life for millions of people who live outside London and the south east by investing in local communities and infrastructure. Billions of pounds have been allocated for high streets, transport links and skills. The BBC's new political editor Chris Mason returns to his home county of Yorkshire to find out what the residents of Barnsley think of the policy
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#8 - 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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#9 - Manchester Arena Bombing: Saffie's Story
Season 2022 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/7/2022
Panorama follows the parents of the youngest victim of the Manchester Arena bombing as they navigate the public inquiry into the attack. As the fifth anniversary approaches, they ask could the bomber have been stopped and could their daughter have survived her injuries?
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - 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.
#14 - 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.
#15 - A Social Media Murder: Olly's Story
Season 2022 - Episode 23 - Aired 6/20/2022
Thirteen-year-old Olly Stephens left home for the final time on a Sunday afternoon in January 2021, telling his parents he was meeting a friend nearby. Fifteen minutes later, he had been murdered. Lured out by a teenage girl and stabbed to death by two teenage boys she had met online, the entire attack was planned on social media and triggered by a dispute on a chat group. With exclusive access to Olly's parents Amanda and Stuart, Panorama reporter Marianna Spring investigates the violent and disturbing world their son had been exposed to online and follows their campaign for tighter regulations on harmful content.
#16 - A Cow's Life: The True Cost of Milk?
Season 2022 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/14/2022
Most of us drink cow’s milk, but are we paying enough for it? Panorama investigates the dairy industry to find out whether animal welfare is being compromised in the drive to keep milk prices low. The film features disturbing undercover footage of farmworkers abusing cows, while reporter Daniel Foggo speaks to farmers and vets about the lives most dairy herds can expect to lead.
#17 - 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.
#18 - 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.
#19 - 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.
#20 - 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.
#21 - 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.
#22 - 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.
#23 - 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.
#24 - Will the NHS Care for Me?
Season 2022 - Episode 38 - Aired 10/10/2022
Line of Duty actor and campaigner Tommy Jessop investigates why people with a learning disability are more than twice as likely to die from avoidable causes than the rest of the population.
#25 - 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.