About this season
Long-running Channel 4 documentary series covering issues about British society, politics, health, religion, international current affairs and the environment. Known for featuring a mole inside organisations under journalistic investigation.
Episodes (30)
1. Estate of Terror
Aired 10 January 1996
Every year up to two hundred and forty thousand old people suffer form crimes committed by children. Overwhelmingly these crimes take the form of harassment. The elderly are verbally abused, stoned in the street and have their windows smashed. Sometimes the harassment escalates into burglary or even murder. At least 12 old people have been killed by juveniles in the last 4 years. Dispatches contacted all of the main national agencies who care for the elderly and without exception they were all unaware of the extent of the problem. Old people all over Britain are suffering in silence afraid to leave their houses whilst children control the streets.
2. The Veal Trail
Aired 17 January 1996
3. Citizen Maxwell
Aired 24 January 1996
4. Operation Lottery
Aired 31 January 1996
5. Scott on Scott
Aired 7 February 1996
6. The Power Connection
Aired 14 February 1996
7. Jessica: A Saudi Slave
Aired 21 February 1996
8. Checking the Post
Aired 28 February 1996
9. Back on the Torture Trail
Aired 13 March 1996
10. The Safety Barrier
Aired 20 March 1996
11. The Lost Children
Aired 27 March 1996
12. Acid Test
Aired 3 April 1996
13. Murder in St. James's
Aired 10 April 1996
14. The Khartoum Connection
Aired 17 April 1996
15. The Peace Prize
Aired 24 April 1996
16. Second Class Return
Aired 1 May 1996
17. Banking on the Disabled
Aired 8 May 1996
18. Class Wars
Aired 15 May 1996
19. The Mahogany Trail
Aired 22 May 1996
20. A Bosnian Betrayal
Aired 29 May 1996
The program explores the extent to which United Nations officials and commanders in Bosnia put the safety of their troops ahead of their responsibility to the civilians in Srebrenica. Although Srebrenica was designated as a United Nations safe haven, the Serbian forces apparently massacred Bosnian Muslims after they captured the city in July, 1995.
21. Purdey's Proof
Aired 12 June 1996
22. The Liquidation Game
Aired 19 June 1996
23. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Aired 17 October 1996
24. Arming the Admirals
Aired 24 October 1996
25. Secrets of Big Tobacco
Aired 31 October 1996
26. The Truth of CS
Aired 7 November 1996
27. An Ambulance in Time
Aired 14 November 1996
28. Brown Land
Aired 21 November 1996
29. Making a Killing
Aired 5 December 1996
30. The Portman Group
Aired 12 December 1996