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The Best Episodes of Panorama Season 44

Every episode of Panorama Season 44 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Panorama Season 44!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Panorama Season 44 Episode 1 - Boozing for Britain
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    #1 - Boozing for Britain

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    Alcohol abuse is responsible for up to 40,000 deaths every year in Britain, as well as domestic incidents, absenteeism and crime.

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  2. Panorama Season 44 Episode 2 - Episode 2
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    #2 - Episode 2

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  3. Panorama Season 44 Episode 3 - From Cradle to Grave: Paying for the Future
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    #3 - From Cradle to Grave: Paying for the Future

    S44:E3

    Tonight, in the first programme of a special two part investigation on the reality of the welfare state, reporter Stephen Bradshaw looks at broken promises. Like families having to sell their parents homes to pay for old age care.

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  4. Panorama Season 44 Episode 4 - From Cradle to Grave: Paying for the Future
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    #4 - From Cradle to Grave: Paying for the Future

    S44:E4

    The 2nd programme of a two-part investigation into the welfare state. Stephen Bradshaw looks at the implications of the middle classes increasingly looking to private insurance for everything from pensions, schools fees and medical care.

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  5. Panorama Season 44 Episode 5 - Episode 5
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    #5 - Episode 5

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  6. Panorama Season 44 Episode 6 - Episode 6
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    #6 - Episode 6

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  7. Panorama Season 44 Episode 7 - Did the NHS Fail?
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    #7 - Did the NHS Fail?

    S44:E7

    On 8 December last year, a 10 yr old boy from Stockport, Nicholas Geldard died in a Leeds hospital. In his last hours he was taken to 4 different hospitals; refused an intensive care bed at four others. Did the NHS fail Nicholas Geldard?

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  8. Panorama Season 44 Episode 8 - Episode 8
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  9. Panorama Season 44 Episode 9 - Empress on the Rocks
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    #9 - Empress on the Rocks

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    The stranding of the Sea Empress oil tanker at the mouth of the Cleddau Estuary off Milford Haven in February 1996 resulted in 72,000 tonnes of crude oil and 370 tonnes of heavy fuel oil, escaping into the sea.

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  10. Panorama Season 44 Episode 10 - War Crime - Five Days in Hell
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    #10 - War Crime - Five Days in Hell

    S44:E10

    The Bosnian Serb army stand accused of some of the worst war crimes to be committed since the end of the Second World War. Panorama tells the inside story of what really happened when Srebrenica fell in July 1995.

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  11. Panorama Season 44 Episode 11 - A Ray Of Hope
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    #11 - A Ray Of Hope

    S44:E11

    Gerry Northam presents a programme looking at controversy surrounding perceived results of drugs trials on AZT (marketed as Retrovir) since early 1980's, which have been interpreted by drug companies to show benefits of taking drugs early.

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  12. Panorama Season 44 Episode 12 - High Society?
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    #12 - High Society?

    S44:E12

    As part of the week-long series Dealing with Drugs, a look at the increasing use of recreational drugs, not just among the young, but among the professional middle-classes. Is society beginning to adjust and even tolerate the drug culture.

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  13. Panorama Season 44 Episode 13 - Death of a Principle
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    #13 - Death of a Principle

    S44:E13

    Last year nearly 200 people were publicly beheaded in Saudi Arabia, yet the British Government does not criticise its closest Middle East ally. John Ware reports on Britain's relationship with the regime.

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  14. Panorama Season 44 Episode 14 - Episode 14
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    #14 - Episode 14

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  15. Panorama Season 44 Episode 15 - The X-Ray Files
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    #15 - The X-Ray Files

    S44:E15

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  16. Panorama Season 44 Episode 16 - Battle of the Bonuses
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    #16 - Battle of the Bonuses

    S44:E16

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  17. Panorama Season 44 Episode 17 - A Life in Limbo
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    #17 - A Life in Limbo

    S44:E17

    Thomas Creedon was born severely brain-damaged. Unable to see or hear, he was kept alive only through modern medicine. His parents were prepared to take their case to the high court to fight for the right to let their son die.

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  18. Panorama Season 44 Episode 18 - Episode 18
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    #18 - Episode 18

    S44:E18

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  19. Panorama Season 44 Episode 19 - Hard Lessons
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    #19 - Hard Lessons

    S44:E19

    Are our children being let down by primary school education? New research suggests that over the last 25 years, standards in maths have fallen noticeably. Vivian White reports on what is going wrong in our primary schools.

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  20. Panorama Season 44 Episode 20 - Russian Elections
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    #20 - Russian Elections

    S44:E20

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  21. Panorama Season 44 Episode 21 - Mad Cows and Englishmen - The Making of the Beef Crisis
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    #21 - Mad Cows and Englishmen - The Making of the Beef Crisis

    S44:E21

    So far BSE has meant the deaths of 160,000 cows and may lead to the condition Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease in humans. As the Government's handling of the "mad cow" crisis threatens to split Europe, Gerry Northam reports.

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  22. Panorama Season 44 Episode 22 - Animal Transplants
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    #22 - Animal Transplants

    S44:E22

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  23. Panorama Season 44 Episode 23 - Off the Rails?
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    #23 - Off the Rails?

    S44:E23

    In the brave new world of privatised railways, it's cheaper to send trains by road than by rail. New owners of the track charge operators so much that many prefer to load them onto trailers to be sent down the motorway.

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  24. Panorama Season 44 Episode 24 - Scandal at County Hall
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    #24 - Scandal at County Hall

    S44:E24

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  25. Panorama Season 44 Episode 25 - The Drugs Olympics
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    #25 - The Drugs Olympics

    S44:E25

    Swifter, higher, stronger is the Olympic motto but has the athlete's ultimate dream to win gold created a culture of world-class cheats? Tom Mangold talks to Olympic athletes en route to this year's games who admit to having taken drugs.

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Season 44 Ratings Summary

"Boozing for Britain" is the best rated episode of "Panorama" season 44. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/8/1996. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Episode 2".