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Panorama : Season 44
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Long-running factual programme reporting on all aspects of life in Britain.
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List of Episodes (38)
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Panorama (1953)
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1. Boozing for Britain
08 Jan '96Alcohol abuse is responsible for up to 40,000 deaths every year in Britain, as well as domestic incidents, absenteeism and crime.
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Panorama (1953)
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2. Episode 2
15 Jan '96
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3. From Cradle to Grave: Paying for the Future
22 Jan '96Tonight, in the first programme of a special two part investigation on the reality of the welfare state, reporter Stephen Bradshaw looks at broken promises. Like families having to sell their parents homes to pay for old age care.
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Panorama (1953)
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4. From Cradle to Grave: Paying for the Future
29 Jan '96The 2nd programme of a two-part investigation into the welfare state. Stephen Bradshaw looks at the implications of the middle classes increasingly looking to private insurance for everything from pensions, schools fees and medical care.
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5. Episode 5
05 Feb '96
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6. Episode 6
12 Feb '96
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7. Did the NHS Fail?
19 Feb '96On 8 December last year, a 10 yr old boy from Stockport, Nicholas Geldard died in a Leeds hospital. In his last hours he was taken to 4 different hospitals; refused an intensive care bed at four others. Did the NHS fail Nicholas Geldard?
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Panorama (1953)
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8. Episode 8
26 Feb '96
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9. Empress on the Rocks
04 Mar '96The stranding of the Sea Empress oil tanker at the mouth of the Cleddau Estuary off Milford Haven in February 1996 resulted in 72,000 tonnes of crude oil and 370 tonnes of heavy fuel oil, escaping into the sea.
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Panorama (1953)
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10. War Crime - Five Days in Hell
11 Mar '96The Bosnian Serb army stand accused of some of the worst war crimes to be committed since the end of the Second World War. Panorama tells the inside story of what really happened when Srebrenica fell in July 1995.
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Panorama (1953)
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11. A Ray Of Hope
18 Mar '96Gerry Northam presents a programme looking at controversy surrounding perceived results of drugs trials on AZT (marketed as Retrovir) since early 1980's, which have been interpreted by drug companies to show benefits of taking drugs early.
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Panorama (1953)
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12. High Society?
25 Mar '96As part of the week-long series Dealing with Drugs, a look at the increasing use of recreational drugs, not just among the young, but among the professional middle-classes. Is society beginning to adjust and even tolerate the drug culture.
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Panorama (1953)
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13. Death of a Principle
01 Apr '96Last year nearly 200 people were publicly beheaded in Saudi Arabia, yet the British Government does not criticise its closest Middle East ally. John Ware reports on Britain's relationship with the regime.
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Panorama (1953)
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14. Episode 14
15 Apr '96
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Panorama (1953)
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15. The X-Ray Files
22 Apr '96
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Panorama (1953)
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16. Battle of the Bonuses
29 Apr '96
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17. A Life in Limbo
13 May '96Thomas Creedon was born severely brain-damaged. Unable to see or hear, he was kept alive only through modern medicine. His parents were prepared to take their case to the high court to fight for the right to let their son die.
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Panorama (1953)
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18. Episode 18
20 May '96
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Panorama (1953)
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19. Hard Lessons
03 Jun '96Are our children being let down by primary school education? New research suggests that over the last 25 years, standards in maths have fallen noticeably. Vivian White reports on what is going wrong in our primary schools.
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Panorama (1953)
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20. Russian Elections
10 Jun '96
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21. Mad Cows and Englishmen - The Making of the Beef Crisis
17 Jun '96So far BSE has meant the deaths of 160,000 cows and may lead to the condition Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease in humans. As the Government's handling of the "mad cow" crisis threatens to split Europe, Gerry Northam reports.
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Panorama (1953)
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22. Animal Transplants
24 Jun '96
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Panorama (1953)
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23. Off the Rails?
01 Jul '96In the brave new world of privatised railways, it's cheaper to send trains by road than by rail. New owners of the track charge operators so much that many prefer to load them onto trailers to be sent down the motorway.
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Panorama (1953)
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24. Scandal at County Hall
08 Jul '96
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Panorama (1953)
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25. The Drugs Olympics
15 Jul '96Swifter, higher, stronger is the Olympic motto but has the athlete's ultimate dream to win gold created a culture of world-class cheats? Tom Mangold talks to Olympic athletes en route to this year's games who admit to having taken drugs.
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