The WORST episodes of Panorama

#1 - The Trouble With Trump

Season 2013 - Episode 22 - Aired 7/8/2013

Panorama investigates the true personal cost of the war in Afghanistan on British troops, going beyond the limits of the Ministry of Defence's statistics on suicide.

#2 - Wild Weather: Our World Under Threat

Season 2021 - Episode 39 - Aired 11/3/2021

Panorama investigates a year of wild weather and hears how freak events are becoming increasingly commonplace, changing life right now for millions. This summer a small town was destroyed by fire after record-breaking high temperatures in the Pacific Northwest and Canada. Floods in Germany swept away entire villages. A plague of mice destroyed livelihoods in Australia's New South Wales. Dust storms from China swept thousands of miles to South Korea and the people of Madagascar are on the brink of the world’s first climate change-induced famine. By interrogating climate science and with exclusive access to new Met Office data, reporter Justin Rowlatt reveals where in the world the climate is changing the fastest and who will be most affected.

#3 - Blacklist Britain

Season 2013 - Episode 17 - Aired 6/10/2013

For years some of the biggest names in British business subscribed to a secret blacklist containing thousands of names with the power to deny work and destroy livelihoods. From the Millennium Dome to the iconic Olympic Park, some construction firms paid for information on workers they feared could delay work and cost them money. Reporter Richard Bilton does the first television interview with the bookkeeper for the organisation which ran the list. And he discovers that even though the list has now been closed down, blacklisting still appears to be alive and well in Britain.

#4 - Serpell Report

Season 1983 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/24/1983

Vincent Hanna reports on future options for British Rail in light of the Serpell Report followed by a studio interview with transport secretary David Howell.

#5 - Beeching

Season 1965 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/8/1965

Richard Dimbleby discusses the future of public transport with Dr Richard Beeching in the wake of his second report into railway provision.

#6 - Traffic Fines - Highway Robbery?

Season 2013 - Episode 18 - Aired 6/12/2013

When a CCTV camera snaps your car and you get a ticket in the post, how annoyed do you get? More motorists face this frustration as councils are now fining drivers in ever-greater numbers after capturing them on CCTV. They claim they do it to keep the traffic flowing smoother. But private emails obtained by Panorama reveal a different story, with officials congratulating each other on the number of tickets issued: 'Another record month, guys. Well done,' says one. The programme visits the box junction where the council fines so many drivers - 29,000 last year alone - that it's known as the 'Money Box', and tries to find new ways to cut down the mountain of traffic tickets now issued every year.

#7 - Elderly Care: Condition Critical?

Season 2013 - Episode 19 - Aired 6/17/2013

Using secret filming and exclusive research into the mortality rates of care and nursing homes for the elderly in England, Panorama exposes the pain of poor care and neglect.

#8 - Kids Lost in Care

Season 2013 - Episode 20 - Aired 6/24/2013

Panorama investigates the standard of residential care for vulnerable children. In homes where care is not up to scratch, some young people run away into risky situations.

#9 - The Truth about Pills and Pregnancy

Season 2013 - Episode 21 - Aired 7/1/2013

Current affairs. Many women have to take medicines while pregnant. But could they be risking the health of their unborn child? Reporter Shelley Jofre investigates.

#10 - Cash for Questions Undercover

Season 2013 - Episode 16 - Aired 6/6/2013

Three years ago, David Cameron declared that lobbying was the 'next big scandal waiting to happen'. Now this Panorama special goes undercover to reveal lobbying practices which raise serious questions about standards in our political life. The programme's allegations have already contributed to a series of high-profile resignations and suspensions in Westminster.

#11 - Broken By Battle

Season 2013 - Episode 23 - Aired 7/15/2013

An investigation of the true personal cost of the war in Afghanistan on British troops, going beyond the limits of the Ministry of Defence's statistics on suicide.

#12 - Jungle Outlaws: The Chainsaw Trail

Season 2013 - Episode 24 - Aired 7/25/2013

Panorama investigates illegal logging in the rainforest and the timber trail from Africa to West Europe. Raphael Rowe spent six months tracking logs from Congo's jungle.

#13 - Tainted Love: Secrets of the Dating Game

Season 2013 - Episode 25 - Aired 7/29/2013

Panorama exposes the tricks of the UK's online dating industry, worth millions of pounds a year. Reporter Fiona Walker investigates how some unscrupulous dating websites are preying on those looking for love and searching for their perfect partner.

#14 - The Brothers Who Bombed Boston

Season 2013 - Episode 26 - Aired 8/5/2013

Panorama explores how the two suspected Boston Marathon bombers - brothers raised and educated in the US - became radicalised, and asks if America's war on terror has come home.

#15 - Locked Up For Being Ill?

Season 2013 - Episode 27 - Aired 9/9/2013

Current affairs. With police estimating that dealing with mental health patients takes up 25 percent of their time, Paul Kenyon discovers a world of self-harm and suicide attempts.

#16 - Tax, Lies and Videotape

Season 2013 - Episode 28 - Aired 9/16/2013

The government says it is cracking down on tax avoidance and evasion, but does the tough talk really stand up to scrutiny? Panorama goes undercover in the City to investigate the truth about UK tax policy. The programme discovers how London is still home to the tax avoidance industry and how new laws could allow big companies to avoid billions in tax.

#17 - The Honeymoon Murder: Who Killed Anni?

Season 2013 - Episode 29 - Aired 9/19/2013

With access to secret police files, Jeremy Vine looks at the case against the Bristol businessman accused of killing his young bride on honeymoon in South Africa in 2010.

#18 - Dying for a Bargain

Season 2013 - Episode 30 - Aired 9/23/2013

Panorama investigates how our clothes - including those of some big high street brands - are really made, finding evidence of an industry that still puts profit before safety.

#19 - Cancer: Hope for Sale?

Season 2013 - Episode 15 - Aired 6/3/2013

A controversial American doctor claims he can cure cancer. Celebrities have helped raise hundreds of thousands of pounds to send British patients to his clinic. But Dr Burzynski's treatment has been dismissed by mainstream medicine and the US authorities have tried to close him down. So why has he been allowed to sell an unproven and experimental treatment for 30 years?

#20 - Hillsborough - How They Buried the Truth

Season 2013 - Episode 14 - Aired 5/20/2013

A Panorama investigation reveals how police, politicians, lawyers and judges all played a part in burying the truth about Britain's worst football disaster. Never-before-broadcast footage of the FA Cup semi-final in which 96 Liverpool fans died reveals a catastrophic failure by the emergency services, how lives might have been saved and how subsequent inquiries were misled. And a former home secretary and former police chiefs are put on the spot about why a succession of official investigations left the truth hidden for a generation.

#21 - Jobs for the Boys?

Season 2013 - Episode 13 - Aired 5/13/2013

Former England and Arsenal footballer Sol Campbell investigates why the unemployment rate for young black British men is roughly double that of their white counterparts. He follows four under-25-year-olds in their search for that all-important first job, and asks: are employers to blame, or do young black men need to work harder at finding work?

#22 - The Russians Are Coming

Season 2013 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/29/2013

Russian money has poured into London, but is organised crime coming with it? Reporter Darragh MacIntyre investigates a death in a Russian prison that has brought the threat of violence to the UK. Could a whistleblower found dead on the streets of Surrey be the latest victim of the Russian crime wars?

#23 - Secrets of Britain's Sharia Councils

Season 2013 - Episode 11 - Aired 4/22/2013

Reporter Jane Corbin goes undercover to investigate what is really happening in Britain's Sharia Councils - Islamic religious courts.

#24 - O Come All Ye Faithful?

Season 1984 - Episode 39 - Aired 12/17/1984

#25 - To the bitter end?

Season 1984 - Episode 38 - Aired 12/10/1984

With the winter of 1984 biting, and a solution to the Miners' Strike no nearer, Panorama spends 10 days filming exclusively with the police and the striking miners themselves in South Yorkshire.