Dispatches - 2009
Browse all 38 episodes in this season, including available images, air dates, runtimes, ratings and episode summaries from TMDB.
Episodes
Episode 1
Britain's Challenging Children
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Episode 2
Mum, Dad, Alzheimer's & Me
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.
Episode 3
The True Cost of Cheap Food
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.
Episode 4
Unseen Gaza
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?
Episode 5
Congo's Forgotten Children
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Episode 6
Too Old to Work
With the number of unemployed in the UK nudging two million, Dispatches reveals the ageism rife amongst employers and recruitment agencies.
Episode 7
The Problem Princes
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Episode 8
The Big Job Hunt
An investigation into rising unemployment in the UK and what steps the government are taking to alleviate it.
Episode 9
How They Squander Our Billions
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Episode 10
Pakistan's Taliban Generation
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Episode 11
Confessions of a Nurse
Following a YouGov report Dispatches takes a candid look at the NHS nursing system - with interviews from nurses and undercover footage.
Episode 12
The Trouble with Boris
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Episode 13
Afghanistan: Mission Impossible?
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Episode 14
The Westminster Gravy Train
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Episode 15
Crash: How the Banks Went Bust!
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Episode 16
Crash: How Long Will It Last?
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Episode 17
Lost in Care
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Episode 18
Britain's Bankers: Still Cashing In
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Episode 19
Orphans of Burma's Cyclone
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Episode 20
Crash Gordon
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Episode 21
Afghanistan's Dirty War
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Episode 22
Rape in the City
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.
Episode 25
Terror in Mumbai
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Episode 26
The Children Britain Betrayed
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Episode 27
Undercover Debt Collector
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Episode 28
Bankrolling Mugabe
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Episode 29
The War Against Street Weapons
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Episode 30
Battle Scarred
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.
Episode 31
Middle Class and Jobless
Examining middle-class unemployment in Britain.
Episode 32
Cops on the Cheap?
A look at Police Community Support Officers who patrol the streets and cost the taxpayers millions. This documentary questions if they are good value.
Episode 33
MPs, Planes and Gravy Trains
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Episode 34
Who Took Your Pension?
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Episode 35
Ready for a Riot
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Episode 36
What's in Your Breakfast?
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Episode 37
Inside Britain's Israel Lobby
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Episode 38
Return to Africa's Witch Children
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Episode 39
Lords, Billionaires and the Russian Connection
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Episode 40
Christmas on Credit
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