
About this season
Compelling current affairs stories that get to the heart of what matters most to viewers.
Episodes (40)
1. Has Cash Been Cancelled?
Aired 7 January 2021 • 30 min
2. Vaccine: When Will I Get It?
Aired 14 January 2021 • 30 min
3. Care Homes: The Long Year Alone
Aired 21 January 2021 • 30 min
4. Going Green: Save Money?
Aired 28 January 2021 • 30 min
5. Covid Testing: What's The Truth
Aired 4 February 2021 • 30 min
6. On the Breadline: Foodbank Brittain?
Aired 11 February 2021 • 30 min
7. Cars: The Endof Petrol & Diesel?
Aired 18 February 2021 • 30 min
8. Antisocial Britain: Trouble on the Streets?
Aired 25 February 2021 • 30 min
9. UK: The End of the Union
Aired 4 March 2021 • 30 min
10. How to Age Well
Aired 11 March 2021 • 30 min
11. Spend or Save: Making your Money Work
Aired 18 March 2021 • 30 min
12. Women: How Safe Are We?
Aired 8 April 2021 • 30 min
13. Summer Holidays: What's the Truth?
Aired 15 April 2021 • 30 min
14. Can Your Town Centre Survive?
Aired 22 April 2021 • 30 min
15. Giving Up Sugar: For Good? Part 1
Aired 29 April 2021 • 30 min
16. Giving Up Sugar: For Good? Part 2
Aired 30 April 2021 • 30 min
17. Cheats, Fiddles and Scams: Protecting Your Family - Part 1
Aired 6 May 2021 • 30 min
18. Cheats, Fiddles and Scams: Protecting Your Family - Part 2
Aired 7 May 2021 • 30 min
19. Britain's Filthy Streets
Aired 13 May 2021 • 30 min
Fiona Foster speaks to the councils battling to keep the streets clean, the communities taking action, and the innovators tackling littering in new ways.
20. E-Scooters: Britain's New Road Rage?
Aired 20 May 2021 • 30 min
ITV's Consumer Editor Chris Choi reveals the extent of injuries, collisions and anti-social behaviour associated with e-scooters.
21. Keep, Chuck or Clean? the Big Clearout
Aired 27 May 2021 • 30 min
For many of us, months of lockdown has meant tackling the clutter in our homes. But what do we do with all of our unwanted stuff? Angellica Bell investigates.
22. Britain After Brexit: Winners and Losers?
Aired 10 June 2021 • 30 min
Six months after the UK left Europe, where do we stand today? From immigration and the NHS, to jobs, imports and exports - what's happened to those big issues that drove the vote?
23. Home Makeovers: The True Cost?
Aired 22 July 2021 • 30 min
Sprucing up your garden? Dreaming of a house makeover after spending more time at home during the pandemic? Jonathan Maitland looks at the rising costs of home improvements.
24. Are You Drinking Too Much?
Aired 29 July 2021 • 30 min
How much alcohol is too much, and how can we reduce the harm alcohol causes? Toby Winson explores what's led to a stark rise in problem drinking.
25. Hidden Disabilities: What's the Truth?
Aired 5 August 2021 • 30 min
About one in five of us has a disability. Some with hidden disabilities battle even to be believed. Saima Mohsin goes on a very personal journey.
26. Staycations: The True Cost
Aired 12 August 2021 • 30 min
The summer holiday season is here, but it's another year where nothing is quite back to normal and for many people this means a summer break right here in the UK. However, this might mean that Britain is already fully booked, and people could need to blow the budget for a British break this year. The summer holiday season is here, but it's another year where nothing is quite back to normal and for many people this means a summer break right here in the UK. However, this might mean that Britain is already fully booked, and people could need to blow the budget for a British break this year.
27. The Return of the Taliban
Aired 19 August 2021 • 30 min
Twenty years after they were driven out in the so called 'War on Terror', the Taliban has seized power in Afghanistan again. Amid scenes of chaos and recriminations Britain and its allies have been carrying out a mass evacuation of foreign citizens and some Afghans who helped them. But what does the future hold for ordinary Afghan citizens - and for the rest of us? Adnan Sarwar investigates.
28. NHS: The Longest Wait?
Aired 26 August 2021 • 30 min
For 18 months it's been all hands-on deck in the NHS as it grapples with the most deadly pandemic in a century. The knock-on effect has been enormous too, with warnings that mounting delays to cancer treatment and other life-threatening illnesses could create their own shocking death toll. As a new SOS is sounded over the longest waiting lists since records began, Romilly Weeks meets doctors, patients and families and asks what can be done to clear the backlog?
29. What's Really in Our Food?
Aired 23 September 2021 • 30 min
Last year, customers spent more than one hundred billion pounds on food in the UK. But do we really know what we're putting on our plates? The horse meat scandal eight years ago exposed serious gaps in how standards were policed. Now, with growing pressure on council investigators, food fraud is said to be on the increase. Helen Skelton reports.
30. Energy Bills: Cutting the Cost?
Aired 30 September 2021 • 30 min
The UK's wholesale energy markets have reached record highs over the past few weeks - meaning consumers are facing some of the most expensive winter energy bills in years. Reports suggest half a million people could be plunged into fuel poverty, Jonathan Maitland investigates the energy-saving tips to keep costs down.
31. How Green is Your Supermarket?
Aired 7 October 2021 • 30 min
With food thought to account for at least 20 per cent of the UK's greenhouse gas emissions, our grocery basket can have a big impact on our environment. Greenpeace say British supermarkets are producing about 900,000 tons of plastic packaging every year. That means if they go 'green', so do we. Jonathan Maitland examines the Green credentials of Britain's biggest supermarkets, and asks what we can do as consumers to play our part?
32. Repair or Replace? Britain in a fix
Aired 14 October 2021 • 30 min
The UK's electronic waste mountain is the second largest in the world. On average each person throws away 24kg of electrical items, fuelling climate change. Chris Choi meets repairers who want to give our electronic goods a second lease of life, and asks whether existing laws giving us the right to repair go far enough.
33. Britain's Hidden Killer
Aired 15 October 2021 • 30 min
Paul Kennedy passed away from pancreatic cancer just three months after he was diagnosed. Treated during the pandemic, Paul allowed his son Daniel to film brief precious moments on his final journey. Daniel shines a spotlight on the deadliest common cancer, and investigates whether enough is being done to get patients diagnosed early.
34. Air Pollution: What you need to know
Aired 21 October 2021 • 30 min
Since 2010 we have failed to meet national legal limits of air pollution in the UK. Joe Crowley investigates what is being done to tackle the problem and assesses the health implications it may have for us all.
35. Shortage UK: Is Brittain Working
Aired 22 October 2021 • 30 min
The last few months have revealed we need more workers across key sectors - haulage, agriculture, food-processing, care, and hospitality - and the lack of personnel to fill these jobs is beginning to have serious impacts on day-to-day life. Julie Etchingham investigates a possible supply chain crisis.
36. What's in Our Water?
Aired 28 October 2021 • 30 min
Joe Crowley investigates how waste water is contributing to the crisis in our rivers and examines the impact of water companies dumping raw sewage into rivers and coastal waters.
37. Saving the Planet: Saving Money?
Aired 2 November 2021 • 30 min
With climate change top of the agenda, are we ready to ditch fossil fuels? Scientist and weather presenter Laura Tobin explores what a carbon-zero Britain will look like.
38. Searching for Patient Zero: Britain's Aids Tragedy
Aired 11 November 2021 • 30 min
Paul Brand traces the first case of AIDS - along with others who lived, loved and lost to a disease that, worldwide, has now claimed 36 million lives.
39. Social Care: The True Cost?
Aired 18 November 2021 • 30 min
Reporter Fiona Foster looks at whether the government's plans to reform social care can address the challenges facing the sector - or does the system need a complete overhaul?
40. How to Complain and Win!
Aired 2 December 2021 • 30 min
For some Brits, complaining is an uncomfortable concept. But how do you get your money back if you do not air your grievances effectively? Reporter Adam Shaw investigates.