Dispatches - 1989
Browse all 39 episodes in this season, including available images, air dates, runtimes, ratings and episode summaries from TMDB.
Episodes
Episode 1
Return to Year Zero?
Documentary report on the risks to the area if the Khmer Rouge regains power in Kampuchea.
Episode 2
Gorbachev's Asylums
Documentary report about the changes in the Soviet Union's psychiatric system caused by Gorbachev's policy of "glasnost".
Episode 3
Cooking the Books
Investigation of Thatcher government's alleged misuse of official statistics.
Episode 4
The Spy Who Broke the Code
Documentary examining the continued significance for the USA and her allies, of John Walker, a US Navy Chief Warrant Officer and Soviet Spy.
Episode 5
Buckets of Money
Documentary investigation into high pressure shares salesmen. Exposes the 'bucket shops' where share dealers are cheating the small investor.
Episode 6
The Copper Seven Story
Documentary report abut the legal wrangle in Los Angeles involving G.D. Searle, manufacturers of a contraceptive coil which it was forced to withdraw from the American market.
Episode 7
Afghan
A four month Afghan report from the eyes and mouth of Jeff Harmon and Alexander Lindsay.
Episode 8
The Toxic Trail
Documentary on the legal debate surrounding a mother's wish to have sterilized her 35-year old daughter, who has a mental age of four.
Episode 9
The Case of 'F'
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Episode 10
The Return of the Death Squads
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Episode 11
Burma - Dying for Democracy
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Episode 12
Voices From Long Larten
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Episode 13
Young, Homeless and Broke
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Episode 14
Chico
A documentary about the Brazilian Chico Mendes, filmed over several years by Adrian Cowell, about the Brazilian campaigner against deforestation of the Amazon rainforest.
Episode 15
Carry on Flying
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Episode 16
The Most Neglected Crime
Four out of ten women had received an unwanted obscene phone call, but a police superintendent could not recall one individual being prosecuted for that offence in 23 years.
Episode 17
Dispatches (26/04/1989)
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Episode 18
A Suitable Case for Treatment
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Episode 19
The Sins of the Fathers
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Episode 20
Not What the Doctor Ordered
Featuring David Willetts of the Centre for Policy Studies, and a new White Paper on health
Episode 21
Warlord of Kayan
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Episode 22
The Ultimate Blasphemy
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Episode 23
Fit as a Fiddle
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Episode 24
Empire of the Sun
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Episode 25
Year of the Locust
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Episode 26
A State of Decay
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Episode 27
Terror Island
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Episode 28
The Spanish Connection
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Episode 29
The Day of the Technopath
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Episode 30
No, Prime Minister
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Episode 31
The Undoing of Edwina
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Episode 32
Mission Impossible
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Episode 33
In the Coal Hole
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Episode 34
The False Confession File
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Episode 35
Hungarians Not Comrades
Documentary profile of the people of Hungary, whose country has been the centre of world attention in 1989 with the return of democratic elections.
Episode 36
Twelve Days in November
Documentary report from Czechoslovakia on the recent political upheavals over the twelve days since Friday 17th November.
Episode 37
Licence to Kill
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Episode 38
Privatising Poland
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Episode 39
Road to Damascus
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