The BEST episodes of Panorama season 2023
Every episode of Panorama season 2023, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Panorama season 2023!
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 - Challenging Putin: Moscow and the Mutiny
Season 2023 - Episode 32 - Aired 10/16/2023
Jane Corbin investigates what really happened during the mutiny led by Yevgeny Prigozhin and asks what the long-term consequences might be for Putin's presidency.
#2 - Westminster's Toxic Culture
Season 2023 - Episode 22 - Aired 7/17/2023
Parliament is once again under fire over complaints about sexual harassment and bullying, with MPs suspended from their parties and claims of a toxic workplace culture going unchecked. Reporter Naga Munchetty speaks to staff members and MPs who give their accounts of sexual harassment and bullying. Exactly five years after parliament set up a new system to deal with complaints, many of those campaigning to clean up the House have lost faith in it, saying it is too slow and complex.
#3 - Debt Trap: Who's Cashing In?
Season 2023 - Episode 23 - Aired 7/24/2023
As the cost of living crisis deepens, Panorama investigates the booming debt management industry and the companies signing up people for Individual Voluntary Arrangements.
#4 - The Millionaire Who Cheated a Council
Season 2023 - Episode 24 - Aired 7/31/2023
A series of disastrous investments has left Thurrock Council effectively bankrupt. Services are being cut and council tax raised to try to cover the second biggest deficit ever run up by a local authority. Most of the council's cash was invested in one man's business. Liam Kavanagh promised his solar farms would provide a safe return, but his companies have been wound up and the council faces big losses. Reporter Bronagh Munro reveals how the millionaire businessman spent council cash on himself and left local people to pay the price.
#5 - Beyond Human: Artificial Intelligence and Us
Season 2023 - Episode 25 - Aired 8/14/2023
Reporter Lara Lewington speaks to some of the so-called 'godfathers' of AI about their hopes and fears, and she meets researchers developing technology allowing computers to read emotions and minds.
#6 - Lucy Letby: The Nurse Who Killed
Season 2023 - Episode 26 - Aired 8/18/2023
Lucy Letby has been convicted of murdering and harming babies. So what turned a likeable nurse into a serial killer? For the first time, Panorama hears from a family whose child died, a friend who’s stood by her and a doctor who tried to raise the alarm. Reporter Judith Moritz reveals evidence of a cover-up by hospital bosses and asks whether some babies’ lives could have been saved.
#7 - Teenage Vaping: What's the Harm?
Season 2023 - Episode 27 - Aired 9/4/2023
Vaping among Britain's teenagers is on the rise, and there's growing concern that some companies are targeting underage vapers. So, should we be worried about young people getting addicted? Rachel Burden investigates the youth vaping phenomenon and talks to young people, parents and experts about how to tackle it.
#8 - The Dark Side of Ballet Schools
Season 2023 - Episode 28 - Aired 9/11/2023
Panorama investigates claims of bullying and body shaming at two of the UK's top ballet schools, The Royal Ballet School in London and Elmhurst Ballet School in Birmingham.
#9 - Downfall of the Crypto King
Season 2023 - Episode 29 - Aired 9/25/2023
Panorama explores the breakneck rise and sensational fall of Sam Bankman-Fried, the maths genius who set out to transform the world of crypto but ended up being its biggest loser.
#10 - The Abercrombie Guys: The Dark Side of Cool
Season 2023 - Episode 30 - Aired 10/2/2023
Panorama investigates allegations of exploitation and abuse at the top of one of the biggest fashion brands in the US. Former CEO Mike Jeffries transformed Abercrombie and Fitch from a failing retail chain to a multibillion-dollar empire and the epitome of cool. Now, after months of painstaking investigation, reporter Rianna Croxford speaks to men who say they were recruited into a dark world, created to satisfy the sexual fantasies of Mike Jeffries and his British partner Matthew Smith. Silenced for years by the fear of breaking non-disclosure agreements, these men describe feeling exploited and traumatised by their experience. One high-profile American lawyer has called for prosecutors to investigate
#11 - The Big Mortgage Squeeze
Season 2023 - Episode 31 - Aired 10/9/2023
The BBC’s cost of living correspondent Colletta Smith meets the homeowners feeling the squeeze as they come off cheaper fixed-rate mortgages and adjust to much higher bills.
#12 - Is China Watching You?
Season 2023 - Episode 21 - Aired 6/26/2023
From spy balloons to secret police stations and dissidents on the run, Panorama investigates China’s global surveillance operation.
#13 - At War: Crisis in the Middle East
Season 2023 - Episode 33 - Aired 10/23/2023
Panorama reports on the conflict between Israel and Hamas. Reporter Jane Corbin hears the human stories on both sides and asks what does the escalating crisis mean for the wider region?
#14 - Prime Suspect: Who Took Madeleine McCann?
Season 2023 - Episode 34 - Aired 10/30/2023
It's been 16 years since the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. Richard Bilton travels across Portugal and Germany to find out more about the man suspected of abducting and killing her.
#15 - Boohoo's Broken Promises
Season 2023 - Episode 35 - Aired 11/6/2023
In 2020, fast fashion giant Boohoo faced serious criticism for poor working conditions at its suppliers as the company relentlessly chased profits. Boohoo said it would change. A Panorama investigation reveals renewed pressure to slash costs, suppliers facing shorter deadlines, and price cuts on orders for clothes that have already been made.
#16 - Why are we Still Searching for Fossil Fuels?
Season 2023 - Episode 36 - Aired 11/13/2023
Richard Bilton investigates why oil, coal and gas exploration is booming when almost every country in the world has committed to limit the rise in global warming to 1.5 degrees.
#17 - Putin and Ukraine's Stolen Children
Season 2023 - Episode 37 - Aired 11/23/2023
The Ukrainian government says that thousands of children have been taken unlawfully to Russia. Panorama investigates what happened to more than 40 children taken from a children's home in Kherson.
#18 - My Teacher the Abuser: Fighting for Justice
Season 2023 - Episode 38 - Aired 11/30/2023
Since Nicky Campbell went public about the abuse he experienced at school in the 1970s, he's become the face of a campaign by former pupils. They are determined that one teacher should face justice.
#19 - The Water Pollution Cover-Up
Season 2023 - Episode 39 - Aired 12/4/2023
Water companies are dumping huge quantities of sewage in our rivers every year. So why do some of the worst offenders have such good environmental ratings? Reporter Joe Crowley investigates.
#20 - The Billionaire Bishop and the Global Megachurch
Season 2023 - Episode 40 - Aired 12/11/2023
With more than 30 branches in the UK, the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God claims to transform lives. But Panorama uncovers allegations that members can feel manipulated into handing over money.
#21 - Care Workers Under Pressure
Season 2023 - Episode 41 - Aired 12/18/2023
Reporter Balagopal Balakrishnan investigates one of 15 care homes run by a company in North East England. He finds carers being charged thousands by an unscrupulous recruitment agency and nurses locked into lengthy contracts with financial penalties.
#22 - Surviving the Pay Squeeze
Season 2023 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/20/2023
Millions of people in the UK feel like they've had a pay cut, with wages often not keeping up with the cost of living. As public sector workers continue to take strike action, the BBC's Analysis Editor Ros Atkins asks why so many people are feeling so poor. He returns to Cornwall, where he grew up, to meet families struggling to make ends meet in what has become one of the country's most deprived areas.
#23 - Dogs, Dealers and Organised Crime
Season 2023 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/23/2023
Panorama goes undercover to reveal the increasingly close relationship between organised crime and dog dealing. Reporter Sam Poling infiltrates a network of dealers making millions by breeding dogs to extremes. She exposes how some drugs dealers have switched from dealing narcotics to dealing dogs, and shows how the growing popularity of breeds like American and French bulldogs has led some breeders to resort to cruel and dangerous tactics.
#24 - Forgotten Heroes of the Covid Front Line
Season 2023 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/30/2023
Health workers, hailed as heroes during the pandemic, say they’re being abandoned by the NHS and the government. Some are living with long Covid and say it’s having a devastating impact on both their personal and professional lives. For Panorama, the BBC’s health correspondent, Catherine Burns, meets staff struggling to return to work and reveals how some are now facing financial hardship and the prospect of having to retire early or, worse, being sacked.
#25 - Is the Cloud Damaging the Planet?
Season 2023 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/6/2023
We all love the cloud. It stores our pictures and emails, it powers our internet searches, and it helps us stream movies and box sets. But out of sight, the cloud depends on processing factories - vast data centres that use enormous amounts of power and water. Every time we go online, we increase its carbon footprint. Richard Bilton investigates the growing environmental problem we’re all responsible for.