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 - Aftershock: The Turkey-Syria Earthquake
Season 2023 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/13/2023
More than 30,000 people are known to have been killed in the earthquake that devastated Turkey and Syria last week, and the death toll is expected to increase. With the help of teams from BBC Turkish and BBC Arabic, Panorama follows survivors and rescue workers from both sides of the border, and asks if more could have been done to save lives.
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#2 - The Drug Wars That Killed Olivia
Season 2023 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/3/2023
When Olivia Pratt-Korbel was shot dead in her home, the nine-year-old became the youngest victim of Liverpool's drug wars. There have been dozens of deaths in the city as rival gangs fight for control of the lucrative drug trade. Reporter Bronagh Munro investigates how the city came to dominate the UK drug market and how organised crime brought death to Olivia’s door.
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#3 - What's Gone Wrong with Our Housing?
Season 2023 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/27/2023
Millions of council houses were built after the war to help protect people from slum landlords. They used to be home to around a third of the UK population. Margaret Thatcher’s flagship right-to-buy policy boosted home ownership, but the council house sell-off is causing major problems 40 years on. Many former council properties are now in the hands of private landlords. In some parts of the country, rents are going through the roof, and slum landlords are back. Reporter Richard Bilton investigates what’s been happening, by telling the story of one housing estate in London.
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#4 - Cops, Cash and Fraudsters
Season 2023 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/13/2023
Every year, scammers steal billions from the public, and fraud now represents around 40 per cent of all reported crime in the UK. Over the last year, Panorama has had exclusive access to Kent Police as their detectives try to catch the fraudsters. With more than 10,000 reports of fraud in the county last year, they estimate that only around 20 cases were solved. The programme explores why so few cases are prosecuted and shows how fraudsters target the vulnerable, often using sophisticated techniques to dupe victims into handing over their cash.
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#5 - 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.
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#6 - Sex for Work: The True Cost of Our Tea
Season 2023 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/20/2023
PG Tips and Lipton are world-famous tea brands. Now, an undercover investigation for Panorama reveals that women working on plantations producing their tea are being pressured to have sex with their bosses in return for work. The investigation focuses on plantations that have been owned for years by two British companies – Unilever and James Finlay & Co – who between them have produced half the tea drunk in the UK. Reporter Tom Odula has spoken to dozens of women who say they have been sexually assaulted or harassed, while undercover footage reveals how one young woman was targeted for sex at a job interview.
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#7 - Elon Musk's Twitter Storm
Season 2023 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/6/2023
Elon Musk made billions from electric vehicles and space travel, but when he bought Twitter last year its users were quick to predict its demise. Though reports of the social media site’s death appear to have been exaggerated, Musk’s takeover has seen thousands of company staff sacked and the reinstatement of users previously banned for breaking Twitter’s rules. Marianna Spring reports on the changes at the influential platform, speaking to insiders both in the UK and at Twitter headquarters in San Francisco, and investigates claims that Musk has created a culture in which hate and misogyny are allowed to thrive.
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#8 - 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.
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#9 - Private ADHD Clinics Exposed
Season 2023 - Episode 16 - Aired 5/15/2023
There has been a sharp increase in the number of adults who think they have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The NHS has been overwhelmed by the number of patients looking for a diagnosis. Now thousands of people are turning to private clinics for assessment instead.
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#10 - 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.
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#11 - 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.
#12 - The NHS Crisis: Can It Be Fixed?
Season 2023 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/16/2023
The NHS is in a critical condition. As hospitals struggle with soaring demand, increasing waiting times and their biggest ever workforce crisis, Panorama investigates what can be done to fix the health and care system. We’re an ageing population, living with more long-term health conditions. After years of underfunding, the Covid pandemic has exposed the scale of the crisis. The BBC’s social affairs editor, Alison Holt, assesses the innovation and new ways of working that might offer the NHS the lifeline it needs. She also meets patients getting hospital treatment at home, and the doctors, nurses and care staff desperate for change.
#13 - Ultra-Processed Food: A Recipe for Ill Health?
Season 2023 - Episode 18 - Aired 6/5/2023
The UK is facing a chronic illness epidemic, with diabetes rates at record levels and cancers in young people rising steeply. Now, there’s growing evidence suggesting this could be linked to the food we eat. Ultra-processed convenience foods contain chemicals that UK regulators say are safe, but Panorama investigates emerging scientific evidence of a link between some of these chemicals and cancer, diabetes and strokes.
#14 - 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.
#15 - 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.
#16 - 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.
#17 - 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.
#18 - 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
#19 - 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.
#20 - 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.
#21 - Crisis Pregnancy Centres Uncovered
Season 2023 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/27/2023
Crisis pregnancy advice centres are supposed to help women with unplanned pregnancies. But a Panorama investigation reveals evidence that some clinics operating outside the NHS are giving misleading information, and offering counselling that could persuade women not to have abortions. Reporter Divya Talwar also uncovers links between some UK centres and the anti-abortion movement in America.
#22 - Electric Cars: Is It Time to Buy?
Season 2023 - Episode 19 - Aired 6/12/2023
With the sale of new petrol and diesel cars to be banned, everyone is supposed to be going electric. But so far fewer than one in thirty vehicles on Britain's roads are battery-powered. Reporter Richard Bilton takes a trip to find out what the electric vehicle revolution feels like and whether the UK is ready.
#23 - Landfill: Britain’s Toxic Secrets
Season 2023 - Episode 17 - Aired 5/22/2023
Every year, millions of tonnes of waste are dumped in landfill sites, but how safe are they? Reporter Amber Haque investigates a Staffordshire landfill which residents claim has affected their health and examines the potentially toxic legacy of historic landfill sites.
#24 - Road Wars: Neighbourhood Traffic Chaos
Season 2023 - Episode 14 - Aired 4/17/2023
Government plans to reduce traffic are turning neighbour against neighbour. Costing millions, Low Traffic Neighbourhoods largely aim to persuade drivers to ditch their vehicles for short journeys and walk, cycle, or take the bus instead. Reporting for Panorama, Justin Rowlatt finds some drivers pitted against supporters of Low Traffic Networks in what has become a battle between those who believe the schemes will reduce congestion and pollution, and those who want the freedom to drive wherever they want
#25 - Will King Charles Change the Monarchy?
Season 2023 - Episode 15 - Aired 4/24/2023
As the nation prepares for the coronation of King Charles III, Panorama asks if the new king will adapt the monarchy to suit modern times. In recent months, the royal family has come under unprecedented attack from Prince Harry and there has been discussion of a slimmed-down, more transparent, more inclusive monarchy. Jane Corbin drills down into the sometimes opaque structures and finances that surround the monarchy. And with an exclusive opinion poll, Jane asks both supporters and critics what change might be possible and if it is on the cards.