Panorama — 2014

Jan 2014

Panorama reporter John Sweeney investigates the secretive world of the family courts and asks whether some parents may have unfairly lost their children forever.

Jan 2014

Reporter Alistair Jackson investigates the tactics of the country's police firearms units, and officers who have killed break their silence to speak out to Panorama.

Jan 2014

Panorama investigates claims that lucrative contracts for the Winter Olympics have been handed to President Putin's friends, and that billions have been embezzled by fraudsters.

Feb 2014

Reporter Chris Rogers travels to North Korea, where a university paid for by the west is attempting to open the minds of the secretive state's future elite.

Feb 2014

Reporter Richard Watson goes undercover to expose Britain's multimillion-pound trade in immigration visas and the frauds that allow bogus foreign students to remain in the UK.

Feb 2014

As Britain is battered yet again by extreme weather, reporter Richard Bilton investigates the causes of the flooding that has devastated so much of the country.

Feb 2014

Panorama investigates the disappearance in Dubai of a British businessman, as the UK government stands accused of ignoring warnings that their actions posed a risk to his life.

Mar 2014

With hundreds of thousands of people across the country now getting free handouts of food, reporter Darragh MacIntyre investigates the dramatic rise in the number of food banks.

Mar 2014

As Russia and the West square up to each other over Ukraine, Paul Kenyon reports from inside the flashpoint military bases of Crimea as they are surrounded by Russian troops.

Mar 2014

Vivian White spends a week in a hospital in Stockton, hearing from doctors and nurses about the relentless pressure of working to strict government waiting time targets.

Mar 2014

Panorama investigates fraud in the National Health Service. With the NHS under financial pressure, Fiona Walker hears claims that it is losing billions each year to fraudsters.

Mar 2014

John Ware reports on the system of directly-elected mayors, focussing on Tower Hamlets in London. Has it led to too much power being concentrated into the hands of one politician?

Apr 2014

On the eve of the Queen's historic trip to the Vatican, Jane Corbin examines Pope Francis' shake-up of the Catholic Church. Are his reforms more about style than substance?

Apr 2014

Panorama goes undercover to expose the bailiffs who seize cars and demand huge fees in what has become a multimillion-pound business: chasing unpaid parking tickets.

Apr 2014

As the government's benefits changes begin to bite, Panorama gains exclusive access to one of London's worst-hit boroughs and follows the personal stories of those most affected.

Apr 2014

With the NHS drug bill topping £10 billion in 2013, this investigation examines the tactics employed by drug companies to tap into that lucrative market.

Apr 2014

Panorama's Darragh Macintyre investigates the truth about F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone, and asks why he is still in charge after two courts say he paid a 44 million dollar bribe.

Apr 2014

Panorama investigates what life can be like inside the world of elderly care with the aid of undercover filming, and asks if parts of the system are letting down a generation.

May 2014

The current affairs programme investigates the radicalisation of some Muslims within the prison system, as Raphael Rowe interviews extremists about their experiences inside.

May 2014

Paul Kenyon follows the men who have become some of the most powerful in the Ukraine conflict, including a former history teacher and a former businessman who now leads an army.

Jun 2014

Shelley Jofre investigates why Jimmy Savile was given access to vulnerable patients at Broadmoor Hospital and asks how the DJ got so close to the heart of Britain's establishment.

Jun 2014

Brazil is hosting the 2014 World Cup, but the build-up has been overshadowed by violent protests against the spiralling cost of staging the tournament.

Jun 2014

An investigation by Panorama discovers experts in handwriting, CCTV analysis and animal behaviour prepared to help clients hide the truth in breach of professional obligations.

Jun 2014

Richard Bilton meets families forced out by private landlords and asks whether the government's increasing reliance on the private rental sector is placing the vulnerable at risk.

Jun 2014

Panorama Special in which Robert Peston investigates the questions behind the phone hacking trial which saw David Cameron's former spokesman, Andy Coulson, convicted.

Jul 2014

With access to two US jails, reporter Hilary Andersson finds that American prisons are having to accommodate vast numbers of inmates with serious mental health problems.

Jul 2014

An investigation into Isis and how it is ripping Iraq apart. Paul Wood speaks to members of the terror group and sees the fighting in Iraq first-hand. Will British recruits bring the terror home?

Jul 2014

Every day five people die on Britain's roads - but they seldom make headlines. Is this complacency leading to a lack of justice for victims and their families?

Aug 2014

The story of one school's groundbreaking battle to save problem pupils from the scrap heap and bring exam success.

Sept 2014

Alison Holt investigates the grooming and sexual exploitation of children which has devastated lives in the South Yorkshire town of Rotherham for more than twenty years.

Sept 2014

Vladimir Putin stands accused of launching an undeclared war against Ukraine. As fears of a wider war grow, John Sweeney challenges the Russian strongman on the killing in Ukraine.

Sept 2014

In the week Scotland goes to the ballot box, reporter Allan Little explores what has happened in the past four decades to transform the question of Scottish independence and how it has come to dominate British politics.

Sept 2014

In the aftermath of Scotland's referendum, Panorama follows the lives of ordinary voters who took part in the momentous decision.

Sept 2014

Jane Corbin investigates the conflict involving Israel and Gaza and goes deep into the tunnels where battles have been fought.

Sept 2014

Every year in the UK, over 3,000 babies are stillborn. Panorama's Paul Kenyon meets the clinicians who say they could save hundreds of babies' lives a year.

Oct 2014

Millions of British workers are being paid too little to live on and some are on such low wages they cannot afford to eat properly. Richard Bilton meets workers on the breadline.

Oct 2014

UKIP and its people's army have shaken the political establishment by attracting voters and defecting Tory MPs. Reporter Darragh MacIntyre investigates.

Oct 2014

On the eve of the withdrawal from Afghanistan of most American, British and other NATO forces, Panorama has gained unique access inside a Taliban stronghold.

Oct 2014

In a world exclusive, Panorama tells the story of a paralysed man who is able to walk again after a pioneering transplant using the regenerative cells that repair and renew our sense of smell.

Nov 2014

An undercover investigation which calls into question the integrity of greyhound racing and the reliability of the sport's self-regulatory status. Daniel Foggo reports.

Nov 2014

Eleven years on from the disappearance of Blackpool schoolgirl Charlene Downes, Shelley Jofre investigates why nobody has been brought to justice for her murder.

Nov 2014

Panorama's John Sweeney investigates claims that journalist Mazher Mahmood, known as the Fake Sheikh, created crimes and fabricated evidence.

Nov 2014

Panorama spent a month in Sierra Leone with British-born Dr Javid Abdelmoneim, filming his every moment working at an Ebola treatment centre run by the charity MSF.

Nov 2014

Andrew Verity meets the entrepreneurs who say their businesses have been unfairly shut down because of the actions of the bailed-out banks.

Dec 2014

Panorama reveals harrowing footage and other evidence of domestic violence incidents, and hears from wives, mothers and children who have also endured non-violent domestic abuse.

Dec 2014

Scots nurse Colin Norris is serving a minimum of 30 years for the murder of four elderly patients. Mark Daly reveals new evidence that casts doubt on his convictions.

Dec 2014

Richard Bilton takes an undercover look at what life is like for the workers making the iPhone 6 in China and the children working in dangerous tin mines in Indonesia.