Dispatches — 2009
38 episodesFirst aired 5 January 2009
E1Britain's Challenging Children
Jan 2009
- E2
Mum, Dad, Alzheimer's & Me
Jan 2009
Journalist Fiona Phillips tells the very personal story of her father's developing Alzheimer's disease, and how it affects him and the family as a whole.
- E3
The True Cost of Cheap Food
Jan 2009
After looking at rising prices in The Truth About Food Prices, Rayner now looks at the other end of the scale - the new cheap food ranges and whether they have a true higher cost ... our health.
- E4
Unseen Gaza
Jan 2009
Jon Snow explores the difficulties faced by news organisations around the world in reporting the conflict in Gaza. Who is getting the true picture of events as they happen?
- E5
Congo's Forgotten Children
Feb 2009
- E6
Too Old to Work
Feb 2009
With the number of unemployed in the UK nudging two million, Dispatches reveals the ageism rife amongst employers and recruitment agencies.
- E7
The Problem Princes
Feb 2009
- E8
The Big Job Hunt
Feb 2009
An investigation into rising unemployment in the UK and what steps the government are taking to alleviate it.
- E9
How They Squander Our Billions
Mar 2009
- E10
Pakistan's Taliban Generation
Mar 2009
- E11
Confessions of a Nurse
Mar 2009
Following a YouGov report Dispatches takes a candid look at the NHS nursing system - with interviews from nurses and undercover footage.
- E12
The Trouble with Boris
Mar 2009
- E13
Afghanistan: Mission Impossible?
Apr 2009
- E14
The Westminster Gravy Train
Apr 2009
- E15
Crash: How the Banks Went Bust!
Apr 2009
- E16
Crash: How Long Will It Last?
Apr 2009
- E17
Lost in Care
May 2009
- E18
Britain's Bankers: Still Cashing In
May 2009
- E19
Orphans of Burma's Cyclone
Jun 2009
- E20
Crash Gordon
Jun 2009
- E21
Afghanistan's Dirty War
Jun 2009
- E22
Rape in the City
Jun 2009
After two recent, high-profile cases in which young women have been attacked and raped by groups of men; Journalist Sorious Samura investigates gang rape in the UK.
- E25
Terror in Mumbai
Jun 2009
- E26
The Children Britain Betrayed
Jul 2009
- E27
Undercover Debt Collector
Jul 2009
- E28
Bankrolling Mugabe
Jul 2009
- E29
The War Against Street Weapons
Aug 2009
- E30
Battle Scarred
Sept 2009
Follows the stories of four soldiers returning from the combat zones in the middle-east and the impact it has had on their lives and the people around them.
- E31
Middle Class and Jobless
Sept 2009
Examining middle-class unemployment in Britain.
- E32
Cops on the Cheap?
Sept 2009
A look at Police Community Support Officers who patrol the streets and cost the taxpayers millions. This documentary questions if they are good value.
- E33
MPs, Planes and Gravy Trains
Sept 2009
- E34
Who Took Your Pension?
Oct 2009
- E35
Ready for a Riot
Oct 2009
- E36
What's in Your Breakfast?
Oct 2009
- E37
Inside Britain's Israel Lobby
Nov 2009
- E38
Return to Africa's Witch Children
Nov 2009
- E39
Lords, Billionaires and the Russian Connection
Nov 2009
- E40
Christmas on Credit
Dec 2009
