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The Best Episodes of Panorama Season 29

Every episode of Panorama Season 29 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Panorama Season 29!

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    Panorama Season 29 Episode 1 - Whatever Happened To Afghanistan?
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    #1 - Whatever Happened To Afghanistan?

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    A year ago rumble of Russian tanks invading Afghanistan was met by a chorus of condemnation from around world.

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  2. Panorama Season 29 Episode 2 - Italy's Other Earthquake
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    #2 - Italy's Other Earthquake

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    Money is now pouring in to rebuild lives and homes of survivors of Italy's earthquake.

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  3. Panorama Season 29 Episode 3 - How the Left Won
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    #3 - How the Left Won

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    This week, at a special conference at Wembley, Labour Party will decide how to choose its leader.

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  4. Panorama Season 29 Episode 4 - Episode 4
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    #4 - Episode 4

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  5. Panorama Season 29 Episode 5 - The Politics of Hunger
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    #5 - The Politics of Hunger

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    Before the year 2000, the world is likely to face famine on a scale hitherto unknown. Today .more than half the African countries still face severe food shortages, despite the millions of pounds of western aid which have been poured in to rural development schemes. But will increasing overseas aid, as the Brandt Commission recommends, really lead to less hunger? Or are African governments forced by their very poverty to pursue policies which actively discourage the production of more food?

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  6. Panorama Season 29 Episode 6 - Episode 6
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    #6 - Episode 6

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  7. Panorama Season 29 Episode 7 - Who's Afraid of Rupert Murdoch?
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    #7 - Who's Afraid of Rupert Murdoch?

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    At 49, the Australian millionaire is set to become one of the world s most powerful press tycoons. His critics say he makes and breaks politicians, he fires editors who don't fit, and relies on sex and scandal to sell some of his newspapers. He is derided as ' the Dirty Digger' as a result of his page three nudes in The Sun, yet hailed as the brilliant saviour of our ailing press. In Britain his controversial bid for The Times, its supplements and The Sunday Times, have led to unprecedented legal safeguards for editorial freedom. Elwyn Parry-Jones accompanies Rupert Murdoch on a visit to his Australian newspapers, talks to his critics and supporters and from New York reports on a bitter newspaper war prompted by Murdoch's brash tactics.

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  8. Panorama Season 29 Episode 8 - Episode 8
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    #8 - Episode 8

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  9. Panorama Season 29 Episode 9 - The Right to Privacy - The Need to Know
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    #9 - The Right to Privacy - The Need to Know

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    How far should the state look into our lives, and what should be done with the information that is collected? Computers now contain millions of records and intelligence files; the police and security services have a formidable range of surveillance devices, from simple phone-tapping equipment to advanced laser-bugs. Tom Mangold continues his report on security by examining the state's intrusion into the lives of British citizens, and asks if better safeguards are needed against the services who carry it out.

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  10. Panorama Season 29 Episode 10 - Has the Lady Turned?
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    #10 - Has the Lady Turned?

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    After two years in pursuit of a radical economic experiment, has the Government now decided to change course? The capitulation to the miners, the massive injections of cash into British Steel and British Leyland, all suggest that the former rhetoric of the Government is at odds with its present actions. David Dimbleby looks at the difficulties this Government has faced, the unexpected pressures it encountered, and the reasons why some plans may now be abandoned.

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  11. Panorama Season 29 Episode 11 - The Last of the Big Spenders?
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    #11 - The Last of the Big Spenders?

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    The Conservative Government has told local authorities to cut back and spend less. The highest-spending council in Britain is Camden in London. It is now in a financial crisis. The Labour councillors there face the prospect of being made personally bankrupt., of putting the rates up by something like 50 per cent, and of cutting services. Reporter Philip Tibenham has been following the arguments, demonstrations, open rows and disruptions from the inside, as the councillors struggled to come to terms with being the 'Last of the Big Spenders'.

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  12. Panorama Season 29 Episode 12 - Episode 12
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    #12 - Episode 12

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  13. Panorama Season 29 Episode 13 - Episode 13
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    #13 - Episode 13

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  14. Panorama Season 29 Episode 14 - Gold and Diamonds - The Kremlin Connection
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    #14 - Gold and Diamonds - The Kremlin Connection

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    'You can carry enough diamonds on your naked body to set you up for life,' said Ian Fleming. Diamonds and gold - the most precious substances known to man - excite the imagination. But by geological accident, in the real world the two biggest producers of gold and diamonds are bitter political enemies - Communist Russia and white-ruled South Africa. Both countries vehemently deny that there are any contacts at all between them. But a top executive of South Africa's leading gold and diamond mining corporation was spotted recently at the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow. What was he doing there? And was his visit part of an unthinkable secret partnership? Michael Cockerell investigates the secret world of gold and diamonds and the strange bedfellows it makes.

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  15. Panorama Season 29 Episode 15 - Episode 15
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    #15 - Episode 15

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  16. Panorama Season 29 Episode 16 - France's Seven-Year Itch
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    #16 - France's Seven-Year Itch

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    For seven years Giscard d'Estaing has been the dominant force in French politics, and French prosperity has been the envy of Europe. But his critics say he has become arrogant and autocratic, more a king than a Republican President. They blame him for not preventing rising unemployment and inflation in France. On the day following the first round of the Presidential Election, David Dimbleby reports on the state of France after seven years of Giscard's rule, and on how the French people are making up their minds about who should be their President for the next seven years.

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  17. Panorama Season 29 Episode 17 - Episode 17
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    #17 - Episode 17

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  18. Panorama Season 29 Episode 18 - The Re-arming of America
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    #18 - The Re-arming of America

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    The United States, in keeping with President Reagan's election promise, has just begun the largest and most expensive peace-time military build-up in its history. The Pentagon is embarking on a one and a half trillion dollar spending spree over the next five years. Ageing battleships are being taken out of mothballs to be re-equipped with the very latest weapons. There will be new nuclear missiles, and a ' gunboat diplomacy' force of paratroopers ready to fight at a moment's notice, if necessary, in the deserts of the Gulf. But what lies behind these military developments? Tom Mangold looks at the new weapons, at the men trained to use them and their leaders

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  19. Panorama Season 29 Episode 19 - Episode 19
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    #19 - Episode 19

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  20. Panorama Season 29 Episode 20 - The DPP
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    #20 - The DPP

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    Sir Thomas Hetherington is the Director of Public Prosecutions, the man who has to decide whether to prosecute in important or difficult cases, which charges to lay and whether it is in the 'public interest' to do so. He makes crucial decisions in the areas of obscenity, race relations and criminal justice. Robin Day talks to the DPP about accountability, his professional role and some of the hotly-debated decisions he has made.

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  21. Panorama Season 29 Episode 21 - South Africa: To the Last Drop of Blood
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    #21 - South Africa: To the Last Drop of Blood

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    Peter Taylor reports from within South Africa on the black opposition - an opposition which is becoming increasingly frustrated and violent. The thousands of Soweto youths who left the country after the riots in the black township five years ago are now returning secretly, fully trained, with arms and explosives. Every week the list of sabotage and machine-gun attacks grows rapidly. The white South African government is now facing an increasingly successful, but as yet unreported, guerrilla war. For the first time the people who are at war inside South Africa talk to Panorama. Do they have any chance of defeating the most powerful military machine in Africa? What will be the political consequences of a war which both whites and blacks swear they will fight ' to the last drop of blood '.

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  22. Panorama Season 29 Episode 22 - Episode 22
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    #22 - Episode 22

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  23. Panorama Season 29 Episode 23 - The PLO - The Road to Respectability
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    #23 - The PLO - The Road to Respectability

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    The Palestinian Liberation Organisation, responsible for some of the world's worst acts of terrorism, has found a new respectability. Less than a decade after the slaying of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics, while they are still mounting rocket and guerrilla attacks on Israel, European foreign ministers now acknowledge that the PLO must be involved in the Middle East peace process-a move which a few years ago would have been deemed unthinkable. Tonight John Stapleton examines how, through a well financed and highly organised diplomatic and propaganda offensive, the PLO has achieved its new status.

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  24. Panorama Season 29 Episode 24 - Crash - Whatever Happened To Flight 1008?
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    #24 - Crash - Whatever Happened To Flight 1008?

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    In April 1980, Dan Air Flight 1008 crashed en-route from Manchester to Tenerife, claiming 146 lives. The programme covers the disaster from as many angles as possible, interviewing experts and investigators and drawing on eye witness accounts and crash footage. Consideration is given to the lessons which can be drawn from these events in order to make air travel safer.

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  25. Panorama Season 29 Episode 25 - Episode 25
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    #25 - Episode 25

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Season 29 Ratings Summary

"Whatever Happened To Afghanistan?" is the best rated episode of "Panorama" season 29. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/5/1981. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Italy's Other Earthquake".