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Panorama : Season 48
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Air date: 17 Jan '00 - 35 episodesLong-running factual programme reporting on all aspects of life in Britain.
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List of Episodes (35)
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1. Casualties
17 Jan '00An investigation into Paramedics. Panorama uncovers evidence of poor training, lack of skills and chaotic organisation, which are costing thousands of lives every year.
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2. Back to the Kitchen Sink
24 Jan '00New research suggests more and more women who try to combine full-time jobs with bringing up children are giving up the struggle. Sarah Powell reports.
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3. Dr. Shipman - The Man Who Played God
21 Jan '00On the day Dr. Shipman is convicted of murdering 15, A Panorama special reveals the full extent of his campaign of murder against the elderly women of Hyde.
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4. Human Traffic
07 Feb '00From April the Government will cut cash benefits to asylum seekers, and it is also launching a programme to relocate refugees from the South East to other parts of the country. The aim is to clamp down on bogus asylum seekers.
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5. Speed
14 Feb '00Every year around 5,000 children are killed or badly injured on Britain's roads. Government ministers are currently reviewing speed limits for residential streets, but will their recommendations become law?
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6. The Lost Children
21 Feb '00Tonight's programme investigates the cases of bereaved parents who have been shattered to learn that the hearts and other organs of their dead children have been kept in hospitals without the families' consent.
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7. Losing Control
28 Feb '00Vivian White looks at the problems facing the government and addresses the questions that remain unanswered about who runs Britain under the Labour Party.
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8. The Whole Truth?
06 Mar '00Gerry Conlon, who was one of the Guildford Four, speaks out about the growing number of innocent people wrongly accused of serious crimes.
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9. Moral Combat - NATO at War
06 Mar '00After NATO's bombing campaign, Allan Little takes a challenging look at the reasons for the war in Kosovo, examining why, and how, the West used force to pursue what was outwardly presented as a moral crusade against ethnic cleansing.
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10. Spin Doctors
13 Mar '00This programme enters the world of Labour's health spin doctors, to unravel the truth from the increasingly powerful government propaganda machine, and asks, will Tony Blair fulfil his pledge to "save the NHS"?
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11. Blighted
20 Mar '00In Cheshire a toxic dump has poisoned a village. In London and the South East thousands of new homes are being built on polluted land. How safe are we from the legacy of industrial contamination? David Lomax reports.
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12. Atomic Alert
27 Mar '00Two companies criticised over their safety records are in a consortium chosen by the Government to run the top-secret nuclear weapons site at Aldermaston in Berkshire from 1 April. Gerry Northam reports.
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13. Dot Com Fever
03 Apr '00Tom Mangold investigates the internet phenomenon that is becoming Britain's millennium gold rush as investors, hoping to become millionaires, scramble to put money into tiny internet companies.
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14. Ivory Wars
05 Apr '00Panorama reports on the flourishing illegal trade in ivory spurred on by demand from the far east, which has resulted in elephant orphanages in Kenya.
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15. Kids on Pills
10 Apr '00Reporting on the concern being expressed, here and in America, that drugs such as Ritalin and Prozac are being prescribed to children to treat recognised behavioural disorders and are therefore being used as a substitute for good parenting
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16. The Dying Game
17 Apr '00Panorama investigates the AIDS crisis in South Africa and asks what can be done about it. With South Africa expecting one million AIDS orphans in the next five years, it is a question everybody involved with the disease is asking.
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17. The Two Billion Pound Ball Game
15 May '00The impending auction of football TV rights will result in a 2 billion pound bonanza for the domestic game. But critics argue that too much money is going to Britain's handful of super clubs, creating an unbridgeable gulf within the game.
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18. The Mortgage Timebomb
22 May '00Anxiety is gripping millions of homeowners following the news that endowment-linked mortgages will fall thousands of pounds short when they mature. David Lomax assesses the advice being given by companies that pushed endowments in the past
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19. Panorama: Pensions Bubble
05 Jun '00An investigation into evidence that changes in the rules on occupational pensions could leave people worse off than expected when they retire.
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20. Gangmasters
19 Jun '00Paul Kenyon investigates the criminals who exploit illegal immigrants as cheap labour for food companies supplying Britain's biggest supermarket chains.
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21. England's Shame
20 Jun '00In a special investigation, Panorama goes undercover with English supporters at Euro 2000 - And takes a revealing look at the men behind the violence of Euro 2000.
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22. The Truth About Rubbish
26 Jun '00The Government aims to double the amount of recycling in the UK - but will householders ever get used to separating and sorting rubbish? Vivian White reports.
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23. The Nail Bomber
30 Jun '00Panorama confronts the men it says inspired the London Nail Bomber David Copeland. The programme reveals that Copeland was inspired by known right-wing extremists who fed him a diet of Nazi literature and propaganda.
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24. Cyber Attack!
03 Jul '00Following the "love bug" virus which infected millions of computers worldwide, Panorama investigates the vulnerability of personal financial information to attacks from hackers. Jane Corbin reports.
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25. Pump Wars
25 Sep '00The investigative current affairs series returns with the inside stories of this month's fuel price protests, the biggest popular movement Tony Blair has faced as Prime Minister. Jane Corbin reports.
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