Dispatches — 2023

Feb 202347m

The extraordinary story of Russia's covert efforts to corrupt British democracy and politics in the years before invading Ukraine. MI5 declined to comment on the programme for operational reasons.

Mar 202347m

Secret footage filmed over the winter reveals ambulance workers battling the odds and A&E departments overwhelmed as patients suffer needless harm and death.

Mar 202326m

Autistic patients trapped in mental health units tell their stories, revealing a system of poor treatment, abuse and long stretches inside with their symptoms only getting worse.

Jun 202347m

More than two million pensioners are living in poverty in the UK. Dispatches follows four older people through the winter as they struggle to make ends meet.

Jun 202348m

The full story of Boris Johnson's friendship with press baron Evgeny Lebedev and his dad Alexander, an ex-KGB spy, revealing the secret fears of security services

Sept 202347m

A Dispatches special reveals shocking new evidence on Sri Lanka's deadly Easter bombings of 2019. High-placed whistle blowers allege top-level complicity by officials inside the Sri Lankan government.

Sept 20231h 18m

Dispatches investigates Russell Brand's treatment of women. The British comedian, television personality and radio talker Russell Brand is accused of abusing women close to him for several years. An investigation by Channel4.

Nov 20231h

The intimate, emotional story of the Russian women taking huge risks fighting for the truth about their sons, husbands and brothers missing in Ukraine.

Nov 2023

Along the dangerous borderlands of war-torn Ukraine, Dispatches follows investigators searching for evidence of the abduction and deportation of thousands of Ukrainian kids.

Nov 2023

Dispatches investigates Chinese state interference with UK institutions and repression of dissidents on UK soil. Undercover filming reveals a suspected Chinese spy engaging with a UK-based activist.

Dec 2023

In the run-up to Christmas, nine million turkeys will be sold across Britain. Dispatches investigates food safety concerns at one producer.

Dec 2023

Harry Wallop investigates Britain's soaring food prices, and how some supermarkets have reacted to protect profits. He discovers how some products have secretly been reformulated, with cheaper ingredients replacing more expensive items.