The BEST episodes of Panorama season 2024
Every episode of Panorama season 2024, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Panorama season 2024!
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 - The Riots That Shocked the Country
Season 2024 - Episode 24 - Aired 8/19/2024
Darragh MacIntyre reports from some of the towns and cities most affected by the recent riots in the UK and asks what can be done to prevent such violence from happening again.
Watch Now:Amazon#2 - Can We Live Without Our Phones?
Season 2024 - Episode 25 - Aired 9/2/2024
What happens when smartphones are taken away from kids for a week? With the help of two families and lots of remote cameras, Panorama finds out.
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#3 - The Menopause Industry
Season 2024 - Episode 29 - Aired 9/30/2024
Kirsty Wark investigates the multi-billion-pound global menopause industry promising women relief from often debilitating symptoms if they buy specially branded supplements, teas and even pyjamas.
Watch Now:Amazon#4 - Britain’s Newest Bank: How Safe Is Your Money?
Season 2024 - Episode 31 - Aired 10/14/2024
Reporter Catrin Nye investigates the stories of Revolut customers who say scammers took tens of thousands of pounds from their accounts, and that Revolut failed to protect them.
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#5 - Alzheimer’s: A Turning Point?
Season 2024 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/12/2024
Fergus Walsh follows patients with Alzheimer's disease, who have been taking two new drugs that have been shown to slow down its progression. Is this a turning point in its treatment?
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#6 - NHS Patients Going Private: What Are the Risks?
Season 2024 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/8/2024
With more than six million people in England alone waiting for an operation on the NHS, Monika Plaha investigates the safety record of one of the UK's biggest private healthcare providers.
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#7 - October 7th: One Year On
Season 2024 - Episode 30 - Aired 10/7/2024
Jane Corbin has been following four families, two in Israel and two in Gaza, whose lives have been changed forever by the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
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#8 - Smart Motorways: When Technology Fails
Season 2024 - Episode 14 - Aired 4/22/2024
The rollout of smart motorways has been stopped because of safety fears, but there are still 250 miles of the network with no hard shoulder. The government says new technology will make existing stretches of smart motorways safe. But what happens when the technology doesn’t work? Panorama reveals how equipment failure and power cuts can leave motorists in danger if they break down. When the system isn’t working, the cameras won’t see you, the radar won’t find you and you’ll have no idea the motorway isn’t smart anymore. Reporter Richard Bilton meets the people whose lives have been changed by the roads that keep failing.
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#9 - What's on Your Supermarket Shelves? The Dark Side of the Tomato Trade
Season 2024 - Episode 38 - Aired 12/2/2024
Runako Celina investigates whether products made using forced Uyghur labour in the Chinese province of Xinjiang could be ending up on the shelves of some of the UK’s biggest supermarkets.
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#10 - The Mobile Home Swindle
Season 2024 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/11/2024
Reporter Rory Carson meets the caravan park residents who say they have been mis-sold their properties and falsely promised they could stay in them for the rest of their lives.
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#11 - Undercover School Cruelty in the Classroom
Season 2024 - Episode 20 - Aired 6/17/2024
Panorama investigates a school for children with special educational needs. Places at LIFE school in the Wirral cost the local authority £50,000 or more a year per pupil, but reporter Sasha Hinde sees little teaching going on. Instead, pupils are mocked, bullied and physically abused.
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#12 - Immigration: The UK’s Record Rise
Season 2024 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/25/2024
Ros Atkins explores how net migration to the UK has hit record levels, when the government promised in the wake of Brexit that immigration would be lower.
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#13 - The Water Company’s Murky Business
Season 2024 - Episode 39 - Aired 12/9/2024
Reporter Joe Crowley investigates how Severn Trent hits environmental targets while dumping large quantities of sewage and asks whether there is more to the company’s finances than meets the eye.
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#14 - The Crime Bosses who Terrorised a City
Season 2024 - Episode 16 - Aired 5/9/2024
Bronagh Munro investigates the crime bosses who ran the Huyton Firm, who terrorised Liverpool. They are now behind bars after 10,000 of their secret messages were decrypted.
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#15 - The Missing Cryptoqueen: Dead or Alive?
Season 2024 - Episode 19 - Aired 6/3/2024
Ruja Ignatova, the flamboyant founder of fake cryptocurrency OneCoin, is the world's most wanted woman. Dubbed the 'Missing Cryptoqueen', she's on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list after defrauding investors of USD4.5 billion and then vanishing. Did the 'Missing Cryptoqueen' run with the money, or was she killed by the very people that were supposed to protect her?
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Season 2024 - Episode 21 - Aired 7/15/2024
Rahil Sheikh tries to discover what’s causing Britain's child health crisis and what can be done to fix it. Keir Starmer has promised his new government will tackle it, but it won’t be easy or cheap.
#17 - Can Scientists Save the World?
Season 2024 - Episode 36 - Aired 11/18/2024
Richard Bilton meets the scientists trying to save the world from the consequences of climate change and investigates whether they can really make a difference.
#18 - Binge Drinking and Me
Season 2024 - Episode 37 - Aired 11/25/2024
BBC journalist Hazel Martin goes on a personal journey to find out why alcohol-related deaths from liver disease among women under 40 have risen sharply over the last decade.
#19 - Trump: A Second Chance?
Season 2024 - Episode 33 - Aired 10/28/2024
For the past two years, Panorama has been following some of Donald Trump’s most ardent supporters. They tell Panorama why they want him to get a second chance in the White House.
#20 - HS2: The Railway that Blew Billions
Season 2024 - Episode 27 - Aired 9/16/2024
HS2 was meant to be the railway of the future, an epic piece of engineering which would get Britain moving and help level up. But more than a decade on, the costs have rocketed, key sections of the line have been scrapped, and the project is mired in uncertainty. Richard Bilton investigates what went wrong, talking to politicians, whistle-blowers and people living along the route, to discover how billions of pounds of taxpayers' money was blown.
#21 - Britain's Crumbling Schools
Season 2024 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/22/2024
An investigation into the state of British school buildings where headteachers are struggling to keep their students safe and children are learning in gloves due to extreme cold.
#22 - Andrew Tate: Accused
Season 2024 - Episode 26 - Aired 9/9/2024
Oana Marocico returns to her home country to investigate Andrew and Tristan Tate's Romanian webcam business and speaks to women who claim they’ve been abused by the brothers.
#23 - Midwives Under Pressure
Season 2024 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/29/2024
Investigating the crisis in maternity care that is putting women and babies at risk. Whistle-blowers at a trust in Gloucestershire tell reporter Michael Buchanan about deaths, understaffing and a culture they say has failed to learn from mistakes.
#24 - Can Probation Keep Us Safe?
Season 2024 - Episode 18 - Aired 5/23/2024
When dangerous criminals leave prison, the Probation Service should monitor them and keep the public safe. But is it up to the job?
#25 - Britain’s Obesity Crisis: Are Weight-Loss Drugs the Answer?
Season 2024 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/15/2024
A new generation of anti-obesity drugs are being hailed as game changers for the NHS and for millions of patients. So-called 'skinny jabs' like Wegovy have largely been the preserve of celebrities and those with the money to buy them privately, but now the NHS is beginning to roll them out. So will they live up to the hype, how available will they be, and is the NHS ready for a revolution in treating obesity?