Dispatches

Crime | Finance | Military/War | Medical | Family | Interview | Politics | Current Events | Lifestyle | Debate

Station:
Channel 4 (UK)

Status:
Running

Start:
1987-10-30

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Dispatches is the British TV current affairs documentary series on Channel 4, first transmitted in 1987. The programme covers issues about British society, politics, health,religion, international current affairs and the environment, and often features a mole inside organisations under journalistic investigation.

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S2024E10 - The King, The Prince & Their Secret Millions

For years, the royals have tried to keep details of some of their wealth secret. Now Dispatches has found what they've not wanted you to know. With exclusive analysis of documents not seen in public before, the programme reveals who is paying them, and for what.

Air Date: 02 Nov 2024 15:10 (CDT)

S2024E11 - Britain's Shoplifting Gangs Exposed

Matt Shea goes undercover to expose the organised criminal networks behind a shoplifting epidemic. The UK's rate of shoplifting is currently at the highest level since records began. Police estimate that a quarter of these incidents are down to organised gangs, who work across the country to steal an unprecedented volume of stock from retailers.

Air Date: 25 Nov 2024 14:00 (CDT)

S2024E12 - Britain's Benefits Scandal

Fraser Nelson investigates the sharp rise in working-age people on sickness benefits, up a million in just five years. Over the course of three months Fraser has been filming with people living on benefits, as well as with top experts and politicians. He finds a broken system that can drive people towards benefits rather than work, with costs that threaten to derail the government's hopes of economic growth.

Air Date: 02 Dec 2024 14:00 (CDT)