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Panorama : Season 51
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Air date: 26 Jan '03 - 34 episodesLong-running factual programme reporting on all aspects of life in Britain.
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List of Episodes (34)
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1. Survivors
26 Jan '03Sarah Barclay reports on two disabled 11 year old girls, Emmy Myerson and Asia Riley, and the battle fought by their parents to get help in a country where children can be kept alive by modern medicine but then largely ignored by the state.
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2. Tackling Saddam
02 Feb '03An opportunity for viewers to quiz BBC correspondents John Simpson, Andrew Marr and Matt Frei on the subject of Iraq and Saddam Hussein.
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3. Chasing Saddam's Weapons
09 Feb '03While the US and Britain seek to justify war, Jane Corbin has spent the past three months with the United Nations's weapons inspectors in Iraq. Her report offers an insight into a nation on the brink of war and invasion.
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4. Promises, Promises
16 Feb '03Following the devastating snowfall two weeks ago, reporter John Ware asks what became of Labour's vision of a transport system to rival Europe's best.
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5. The Golden Hour
17 Feb '03As part of the BBC's season on domestic violence, Sarah Spiller reports on new police procedures designed to convict more perpetrators of such assaults.
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6. Bush v Saddam
02 Mar '03With President Bush moving closer by the day to a war to topple Saddam, Panorama links up audiences in America and the Middle East, to debate how to tackle Saddam, and the consequences of getting it wrong.
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7. Ready, Steady, Trade
09 Mar '03For Comic Relief, Panorama sets celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson a challenge: to create a world-class meal from ingredients that reporter Steve Bradshaw has bought from some of the world's poorest farmers.
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8. Frontline Britain
16 Mar '03A look at how British intelligence agencies have conducted a secret war against al-Qaeda since 9/11. And, as the UK faces the possibility of a terrorist attack, reporter Andy Davies questions whether the emergency services are
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9. Blair's Road to War
18 Mar '03Tony Blair is facing one of the toughest days of his political career as the Commons debates the war on Iraq. David Dimbleby and a panel of politicians and writers, will discuss the key questions surrounding the debate.
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10. Blair's War
23 Mar '03Could Tony Blair lose his job over the Iraq crisis? For two months Panorama has been following the opposition to him, in the anti-war movement, in the Labour Party, and in Parliament.
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11. Questions from a Divided World
30 Mar '03The coalition forces are inside Iraq but is the world still divided on the merits of the conflict? In a special programme, Panorama gives a voice to people around the world as it gauges opinion about the war.
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12. The Race to Baghdad
06 Apr '03The coalition plan for the invasion of Iraq was built on a campaign to remove Saddam Hussein and to be welcomed as liberators. John Ware investigates how the British and American war strategy has been tested in the heat of battle.
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13. After Saddam
13 Apr '03What will be the consequences of the war in the Gulf for Iraq and the rest of the world? Viewers are given the chance to send their questions by email and text message to BBC correspondents in London, Washington and the war zone itself.
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14. The Battle for Basra
27 Apr '03Jane Corbin reports of the struggle of Iraqi citizens and the military battle by British forces to take control of a city which the coalition never expected to have to have to fight for.
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15. Seroxat: E-mails from the Edge
11 May '03Last October Panorama revealed the dark and shocking side of Seroxat, one of the world's favourite anti-depressants. The feedback to that film was unprecedented with thousands of people contacting the programme.
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16. The War Party
18 May '03They brought us war against Iraq - what do the hawks in Washington have in store for us now? Panorama investigates the "neo-conservatives", the small and unelected group of right-wingers, who critics claim have hijacked the White House.
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17. The Chicken Run
22 May '03Panorama investigates a major food scandal. How the frozen chicken industry in Holland which ships over a thousand tonnes of chicken into the UK each week routinely pumps the meat full of water to make it weigh more thus swelling profits.
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18. Euro Visions
08 Jun '03On the eve of the Government's decision on whether Britain should join the euro, Gavin Esler debates the issues with politicians and journalists.
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19. Five Days In May
15 Jun '03While Zimbabwe's cricket team played at Lord's last month, Panorama witnessed a country brought to the brink of collapse by tyranny. Fergal Keane asks whether the final push to remove President Mugabe has begun.
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20. Gangsters at War
22 Jun '03Kevin Magee explores the power struggles behind gangland violence involving crime godfathers such as "Mad Dog" and "the Egyptian" - bloody feuds which have spread beyond Belfast and into Scotland and England.
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21. Fiddling the Figures
29 Jun '03Panorama uncovers disturbing evidence about what some hospitals are doing to achieve the government's National Health Service (NHS) targets.
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22. The Baby Business
06 Jul '03Making babies is big business. And the body that's supposed to regulate treatment - the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) - is struggling to keep up to date with what's going on inside Britain's fertility clinics.
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23. What Happened Next?
13 Jul '03Over the past year, Panorama carried out a number of major investigations - but what was their final outcome? Tonight's edition features updates of some of those reports.
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24. Asylum
23 Jul '03Over the last six months, reporter Claudia Murg conducted an undercover investigation into Britain's asylum system, during which she encountered gangs who flouted the rules and genuine claimants who have been kept in limbo for months.
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25. The Price of Victory
28 Sep '03For three long, hot and increasingly violent months, Panorama filmed US troops in Baghdad who came to rebuild Iraq but were sucked into an urban guerrilla war.
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