The WORST episodes of Panorama
Every episode of Panorama ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Panorama!
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#1 - Our Dirty Nation
Season 2013 - Episode 36 - Aired 10/28/2013
Cleaning up Britain's rubbish costs more than a billion pounds each year. Journalist and Labour peer Joan Bakewell argues that we all need to take more pride in our surroundings.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - Terror in Nairobi
Season 2013 - Episode 31 - Aired 9/30/2013
Panorama investigates the network al-Shabab uses to cross the Somali-Kenyan border at will and this terror group's appeal to radicalised Muslim youths in Britain and beyond.
#7 - Malala: Shot for Going to School
Season 2013 - Episode 33 - Aired 10/7/2013
One year ago, Malala Yousafzai was shot by the Taliban on her school bus. In this Panorama special, she talks exclusively to Mishal Husain about her remarkable journey.
#8 - Britain's New Banking Scandal
Season 2013 - Episode 34 - Aired 10/14/2013
Panorama reporter Adam Shaw lifts the lid on what could be Britain's biggest financial mis-selling scandal - the hard sell of so-called interest rate swaps.
#9 - Murder in the Alps
Season 2013 - Episode 35 - Aired 10/21/2013
With exclusive access to eyewitnesses and investigators, Panorama reveals how and asks why a British family and a French cyclist were brutally murdered by a hitman.
#10 - 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.
#11 - After Savile: No More Secrets?
Season 2013 - Episode 37 - Aired 11/4/2013
Why was it so easy for paedophiles like Jimmy Savile to get away with abusing children? In other countries evidence of abuse must be reported to the authorities. But here, turning a blind eye to child abuse in a school, or a hospital, or a church is not a crime. Reporter Sanchia Berg talks to victims, police and senior figures who are now calling for Britain to change the law and uncovers secret files which show that the government knew for decades that children's homes and schools covered up abuse. Head teachers and governors routinely moved abusers, sending them on with a good reference, rather than call the police. Even today, some head teachers still fail to act on reports and complaints.
#12 - The Great House Price Bubble?
Season 2013 - Episode 38 - Aired 11/11/2013
With house prices hitting record highs at the same time as living standards continue to be squeezed, Adam Shaw goes in search of affordable homes for ordinary working families.
#13 - F Troop, Treatment and the Half-way Line
Season 1977 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/14/1977
As football hooliganism continued to grow in the 1970s, seemingly unchecked, Panorama immersed itself in this shady world, getting close to some of Millwall's notorious hooligan fans.
#14 - Energy Bills: Power Failure?
Season 2013 - Episode 42 - Aired 12/9/2013
Energy bills have gone up by around a quarter in the past four years and politicians from all sides say they are determined to bring them down. Can they deliver?
#15 - All in a Good Cause
Season 2013 - Episode 43 - Aired 12/10/2013
Do we really know about the charities we support? Declan Lawn hears from donors and charity workers who believe the quest for money is undermining the mission.
#16 - The Romanians are Coming?
Season 2013 - Episode 44 - Aired 12/16/2013
We're told there could be a crime wave and even riots on the streets when Romania and Bulgaria gain full employment rights in the UK next year. But how many will really come, and what's at the root of our fear? Paul Kenyon travels to a Romanian village where most of the men have already left to pursue work in the black markets of London. He joins British police in an unprecedented operation to stem the flow. With Romanians and Bulgarians set to be given full access to work, benefits, the NHS and schooling, many worry that this latest piece of European integration is a step too far.
#17 - Woolwich: The Untold Story
Season 2013 - Episode 45 - Aired 12/19/2013
With two British Muslim converts found guilty of the murder of 25 year-old soldier, Drummer Lee Rigby, this Panorama special reveals the story the jury never heard. Featuring interviews with Lee's parents and his former comrades in the Royal Fusiliers, Peter Taylor asks if the security services among others missed opportunities to stop Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebolawe and prevent Lee's death.
#18 - 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.
#19 - 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?
#20 - 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?
#21 - 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.
#22 - 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?
#23 - 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.
#24 - 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.
#25 - 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.