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 (38)
1. Britain's Challenging Children
Aired 5 January 2009
2. Mum, Dad, Alzheimer's & Me
Aired 12 January 2009
Journalist Fiona Phillips tells the very personal story of her father's developing Alzheimer's disease, and how it affects him and the family as a whole.
3. The True Cost of Cheap Food
Aired 22 January 2009
After looking at rising prices in The Truth About Food Prices, Rayner now looks at the other end of the scale - the new cheap food ranges and whether they have a true higher cost ... our health.
4. Unseen Gaza
Aired 22 January 2009
Jon Snow explores the difficulties faced by news organisations around the world in reporting the conflict in Gaza. Who is getting the true picture of events as they happen?
5. Congo's Forgotten Children
Aired 2 February 2009
6. Too Old to Work
Aired 9 February 2009
With the number of unemployed in the UK nudging two million, Dispatches reveals the ageism rife amongst employers and recruitment agencies.
7. The Problem Princes
Aired 13 February 2009
8. The Big Job Hunt
Aired 16 February 2009
An investigation into rising unemployment in the UK and what steps the government are taking to alleviate it.
9. How They Squander Our Billions
Aired 9 March 2009
10. Pakistan's Taliban Generation
Aired 16 March 2009
11. Confessions of a Nurse
Aired 23 March 2009
Following a YouGov report Dispatches takes a candid look at the NHS nursing system - with interviews from nurses and undercover footage.
12. The Trouble with Boris
Aired 30 March 2009
13. Afghanistan: Mission Impossible?
Aired 6 April 2009
14. The Westminster Gravy Train
Aired 19 April 2009
15. Crash: How the Banks Went Bust!
Aired 20 April 2009
16. Crash: How Long Will It Last?
Aired 27 April 2009
17. Lost in Care
Aired 11 May 2009
18. Britain's Bankers: Still Cashing In
Aired 18 May 2009
19. Orphans of Burma's Cyclone
Aired 1 June 2009
20. Crash Gordon
Aired 8 June 2009
21. Afghanistan's Dirty War
Aired 15 June 2009
22. Rape in the City
Aired 22 June 2009
After two recent, high-profile cases in which young women have been attacked and raped by groups of men; Journalist Sorious Samura investigates gang rape in the UK.
25. Terror in Mumbai
Aired 30 June 2009
26. The Children Britain Betrayed
Aired 13 July 2009
27. Undercover Debt Collector
Aired 20 July 2009
28. Bankrolling Mugabe
Aired 27 July 2009
29. The War Against Street Weapons
Aired 3 August 2009
30. Battle Scarred
Aired 7 September 2009
Follows the stories of four soldiers returning from the combat zones in the middle-east and the impact it has had on their lives and the people around them.
31. Middle Class and Jobless
Aired 14 September 2009
Examining middle-class unemployment in Britain.
32. Cops on the Cheap?
Aired 21 September 2009
A look at Police Community Support Officers who patrol the streets and cost the taxpayers millions. This documentary questions if they are good value.
33. MPs, Planes and Gravy Trains
Aired 28 September 2009
34. Who Took Your Pension?
Aired 5 October 2009
35. Ready for a Riot
Aired 19 October 2009
36. What's in Your Breakfast?
Aired 26 October 2009
37. Inside Britain's Israel Lobby
Aired 16 November 2009
38. Return to Africa's Witch Children
Aired 23 November 2009
39. Lords, Billionaires and the Russian Connection
Aired 30 November 2009
40. Christmas on Credit
Aired 7 December 2009