Dispatches (1987)
Dispatches is the British TV current affairs documentary series on Channel 4, first transmitted in 1987. The programme covers issues about British society, politics, health, religion, international current affairs and the environment, and often features a mole inside organisations under journalistic investigation.
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Episode 1 - Strippers, Spies & Russian Money
Release Date: 2023-02-12The 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.
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Episode 2 - Undercover Ambulance: NHS Chaos
Release Date: 2023-03-09Secret footage filmed over the winter reveals ambulance workers battling the odds and A&E departments overwhelmed as patients suffer needless harm and death.
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Episode 3 - Locked Away: Our Autism Scandal
Release Date: 2023-03-24Autistic 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.
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Episode 4 - Britain's Forgotten Pensioners
Release Date: 2023-06-07More 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.
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Episode 5 - Boris, the Lord & the Russian Spy
Release Date: 2023-06-27The 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
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Episode 6 - Sri Lanka's Easter Bombings
Release Date: 2023-09-05 -
Episode 7 - Russell Brand: In Plain Sight
Release Date: 2023-09-16 -
Episode 8 - Hunting Russia's Lost Boys
Release Date: 2023-11-12