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Dispatches

6.7(12 votes)
40 Seasons
1026 Episodes
October 30, 1987
DocumentaryNews

Overview

Long-running Channel 4 documentary series covering issues about British society, politics, health, religion, international current affairs and the environment. Known for featuring a mole inside organisations under journalistic investigation.

Status

Returning Series

Network

Channel 4

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Seasons & Episodes

1987

October 30, 1987
Episodes

Episodes

Episode 1
The Plutonium Black Market
October 30, 198745m

Investigating the black market in weapons grade uranium operated from Khartoum.

Episode 2
In The Red
November 6, 198745m

Investigation of the alleged misuse of funds at three Labour Party Social Clubs in Dundee.

Episode 3
AIDS - The Unheard Voices
November 13, 198745m

The program challenges the theory that AIDS is caused by the H.I.V. virus and discusses the social pressures on those diagnosed as H.I.V. positive.

Episode 4
Divided by Law
November 20, 198745m

Explains how new D.N.A. testing techniques could help to re-unite divided immigrant families and looks at claims that the government has delayed progress pending on legislation.

Episode 5
Selling the Tunnel
November 27, 198745m

TVS's Business Unit tells the inside story of the Eurotunnel Management Team's battle to persuade the City and the public to back the issue of shares and raise capital.

Episode 6
Gunning for Government
December 4, 198745m

The undercover world of arms dealing is revealed by a defector (Frank Turner) who reveals his involvement with the CIA and British Ministry of Defence.

Episode 7
Kimberly Carlile - Falling Through the Net
December 11, 198745m

4 1/2 year old Kimberley was starved, dehydrated and beaten and weighed 24Ibs-small for a normal child her age. Her stepfather Nigel Hall was jailed for life for her murder, the mother Pauline Carlile was jailed 12 years for cruelty.

Episode 8
Korea: Poverty Prohibited
December 18, 198745m

In the run-up to the Olympics, the Seoul urban poor are forced from their homes to make way for the developers.

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