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 (12)
1. Strippers, Spies & Russian Money
Aired 12 February 2023 • 47 min
The extraordinary story of Russia's covert efforts to corrupt British democracy and politics in the years before invading Ukraine. MI5 declined to comment on the programme for operational reasons.
2. Undercover Ambulance: NHS Chaos
Aired 9 March 2023 • 47 min
Secret footage filmed over the winter reveals ambulance workers battling the odds and A&E departments overwhelmed as patients suffer needless harm and death.
3. Locked Away: Our Autism Scandal
Aired 24 March 2023 • 26 min
Autistic patients trapped in mental health units tell their stories, revealing a system of poor treatment, abuse and long stretches inside with their symptoms only getting worse.
4. Britain's Forgotten Pensioners
Aired 7 June 2023 • 47 min
More than two million pensioners are living in poverty in the UK. Dispatches follows four older people through the winter as they struggle to make ends meet.
5. Boris, the Lord & the Russian Spy
Aired 27 June 2023 • 48 min
The full story of Boris Johnson's friendship with press baron Evgeny Lebedev and his dad Alexander, an ex-KGB spy, revealing the secret fears of security services
6. Sri Lanka's Easter Bombings
Aired 5 September 2023 • 47 min
A Dispatches special reveals shocking new evidence on Sri Lanka's deadly Easter bombings of 2019. High-placed whistle blowers allege top-level complicity by officials inside the Sri Lankan government.
7. Russell Brand: In Plain Sight
Aired 16 September 2023 • 78 min
Dispatches investigates Russell Brand's treatment of women. The British comedian, television personality and radio talker Russell Brand is accused of abusing women close to him for several years. An investigation by Channel4.
8. Hunting Russia's Lost Boys
Aired 12 November 2023 • 60 min
The intimate, emotional story of the Russian women taking huge risks fighting for the truth about their sons, husbands and brothers missing in Ukraine.
9. Hunt for Ukraine's Stolen Children
Aired 13 November 2023
Along the dangerous borderlands of war-torn Ukraine, Dispatches follows investigators searching for evidence of the abduction and deportation of thousands of Ukrainian kids.
10. Secrets & Power: China in the UK
Aired 29 November 2023
Dispatches investigates Chinese state interference with UK institutions and repression of dissidents on UK soil. Undercover filming reveals a suspected Chinese spy engaging with a UK-based activist.
11. How Safe Is Your Turkey?
Aired 8 December 2023
In the run-up to Christmas, nine million turkeys will be sold across Britain. Dispatches investigates food safety concerns at one producer.
12. Less for More: The Truth About Food Prices
Aired 12 December 2023
Harry Wallop investigates Britain's soaring food prices, and how some supermarkets have reacted to protect profits. He discovers how some products have secretly been reformulated, with cheaper ingredients replacing more expensive items.