Dispatches — 1989
39 episodesFirst aired 4 January 1989
E1Return to Year Zero?
Jan 198945m
Documentary report on the risks to the area if the Khmer Rouge regains power in Kampuchea.
- E2
Gorbachev's Asylums
Jan 198945m
Documentary report about the changes in the Soviet Union's psychiatric system caused by Gorbachev's policy of "glasnost".
- E3
Cooking the Books
Jan 198945m
Investigation of Thatcher government's alleged misuse of official statistics.
- E4
The Spy Who Broke the Code
Jan 198945m
Documentary examining the continued significance for the USA and her allies, of John Walker, a US Navy Chief Warrant Officer and Soviet Spy.
- E5
Buckets of Money
Feb 198945m
Documentary investigation into high pressure shares salesmen. Exposes the 'bucket shops' where share dealers are cheating the small investor.
- E6
The Copper Seven Story
Feb 198945m
Documentary report abut the legal wrangle in Los Angeles involving G.D. Searle, manufacturers of a contraceptive coil which it was forced to withdraw from the American market.
- E7
Afghan
Feb 198945m
A four month Afghan report from the eyes and mouth of Jeff Harmon and Alexander Lindsay.
- E8
The Toxic Trail
Feb 198945m
Documentary on the legal debate surrounding a mother's wish to have sterilized her 35-year old daughter, who has a mental age of four.
- E9
The Case of 'F'
Mar 198945m
- E10
The Return of the Death Squads
Mar 198945m
- E11
Burma - Dying for Democracy
Mar 198945m
- E12
Voices From Long Larten
Mar 198945m
- E13
Young, Homeless and Broke
Mar 198945m
- E14
Chico
Apr 198945m
A documentary about the Brazilian Chico Mendes, filmed over several years by Adrian Cowell, about the Brazilian campaigner against deforestation of the Amazon rainforest.
- E15
Carry on Flying
Apr 198945m
- E16
The Most Neglected Crime
Apr 198945m
Four out of ten women had received an unwanted obscene phone call, but a police superintendent could not recall one individual being prosecuted for that offence in 23 years.
- E17
Dispatches (26/04/1989)
Apr 198945m
- E18
A Suitable Case for Treatment
May 198945m
- E19
The Sins of the Fathers
May 198945m
- E20
Not What the Doctor Ordered
May 198945m
Featuring David Willetts of the Centre for Policy Studies, and a new White Paper on health
- E21
Warlord of Kayan
May 198945m
- E22
The Ultimate Blasphemy
May 198945m
- E23
Fit as a Fiddle
Jun 198945m
- E24
Empire of the Sun
Jun 198945m
- E25
Year of the Locust
Jun 198945m
- E26
A State of Decay
Jun 198945m
- E27
Terror Island
Jul 198945m
- E28
The Spanish Connection
Oct 198945m
- E29
The Day of the Technopath
Oct 198945m
- E30
No, Prime Minister
Oct 198945m
- E31
The Undoing of Edwina
Oct 198945m
- E32
Mission Impossible
Nov 198945m
- E33
In the Coal Hole
Nov 198945m
- E34
The False Confession File
Nov 198945m
- E35
Hungarians Not Comrades
Nov 198945m
Documentary profile of the people of Hungary, whose country has been the centre of world attention in 1989 with the return of democratic elections.
- E36
Twelve Days in November
Nov 198945m
Documentary report from Czechoslovakia on the recent political upheavals over the twelve days since Friday 17th November.
- E37
Licence to Kill
Dec 198945m
- E38
Privatising Poland
Dec 198945m
- E39
Road to Damascus
Dec 198945m
