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The Best Episodes of Panorama Season 56

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Every episode of Panorama Season 56 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Panorama Season 56!

Current affairs programme, featuring interviews and investigative reports on a wide variety of subjects.
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  • Omagh: What the Police Were Never Told
    9.5/10(42)
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    #1 - Omagh: What the Police Were Never Told

    Season 56 Episode 41

    Aired 9/15/2008

    Peter Taylor uncovers the inside story of the operation which thwarted a terrorist plot to cause explosions and led to increased security at British airports.

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  • Bottled Water - Who Needs It?
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    #2 - Bottled Water - Who Needs It?

    Season 56 Episode 7

    Aired 2/18/2008

    Reporter Tom Heap sets out to discover if the popularity of bottled water is merely a triumph of marketing over common sense.

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  • Cocaine: Alex James in Colombia
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    #3 - Cocaine: Alex James in Colombia

    Season 56 Episode 4

    Aired 1/28/2008

    Former cocaine-using Blur bassist Alex James travels to Colombia. He meets the drug farmers, sellers and enforcers, and hears the message that every gram is tainted in blood.

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  • One Click from Danger
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    #4 - One Click from Danger

    Season 56 Episode 1

    Aired 1/7/2008

    An update to our film 'One Click from Danger' about internet paedophiles exploiting vulnerable youngsters online.

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  • Destination UK
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    #5 - Destination UK

    Season 56 Episode 2

    Aired 1/14/2008

    Paul Kenyon follows the most dangerous illegal immigration route into Europe, used by tens and thousands of migrants a year seeking a better life, and revisits the survivors whose epic journey ended with them marooned on a tuna net in the middle of the Mediterranean.

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  • Britain's Protection Racket
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    #6 - Britain's Protection Racket

    Season 56 Episode 3

    Aired 1/21/2008

    Panorama goes undercover to expose the flaws in Britain's seven-billion-pound security industry.

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  • Bursting the House Price Bubble
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    #7 - Bursting the House Price Bubble

    Season 56 Episode 5

    Aired 2/4/2008

    Investigation into sharp practice in the housing market which has kept house prices artificially high and plunged homeowners into negative equity.

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  • No More Mandelas
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    #8 - No More Mandelas

    Season 56 Episode 6

    Aired 2/11/2008

    After witnessing the end of apartheid, Fergal Keane returns to South Africa to find out what happened to the hope from that time.

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  • On Whose Orders?
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    #9 - On Whose Orders?

    Season 56 Episode 8

    Aired 2/25/2008

    Jeremy Vine interviews Tony Blair's Attorney General Lord Goldsmith and General Sir Mike Jackson, asking how rules preventing abuse and torture of prisoners in Iraq were overturned, and analysing new claims that could bring disgrace to the Army.

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  • Taking Back The Streets
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    #10 - Taking Back The Streets

    Season 56 Episode 9

    Aired 3/3/2008

    Richard Bilton examines the dilemma of Garry Newlove, the father beaten to death in the streets. Is a new community action the answer to teenage gangs?

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  • Shaken Babies?
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    #11 - Shaken Babies?

    Season 56 Episode 10

    Aired 3/10/2008

    Investigates the row behind shaken-baby syndrome. Last year, childminder Keran Henderson was convicted of shaking an 11-month-old baby to death. Her friends and family say she couldn't have done it, despite medical reports suggesting otherwise.

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  • Teenage Sex For Sale
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    #12 - Teenage Sex For Sale

    Season 56 Episode 11

    Aired 3/27/2008

    Gerry Northam investigates ruthless gangs who are targeting teenage girls and offering drugs and excitement. Within weeks, the children are made to work as prostitutes - having sex with a queue of men. This isn't Eastern European people trafficking but British girls on British streets.

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  • Jersey - Island of Secrets
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    #13 - Jersey - Island of Secrets

    Season 56 Episode 12

    Aired 3/31/2008

    Current affairs programme with Jeremy Vine. It is six weeks since police started their search of Haut de la Garenne children's home on Jersey. Other homes and careworkers now being named by alleged abuse victims and many believe there has been a deliberate cover up.

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  • Divide and Rule
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    #14 - Divide and Rule

    Season 56 Episode 13

    Aired 4/7/2008

    Ten years on from the Good Friday Agreement, Panorama examines what power-sharing has done for those living with Northern Ireland's deep sectarian divisions.

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  • Feeling the Pinch
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    #15 - Feeling the Pinch

    Season 56 Episode 14

    Aired 4/14/2008

    Credit crunch, rising fuel prices and talk of recession - we've been warned of a tough year ahead. But how will we really be affected? Declan Curry discovers if we have what it takes to weather the storm of the global forces buffeting our economy.

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  • Something in the Air
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    #16 - Something in the Air

    Season 56 Episode 15

    Aired 4/21/2008

    Pilots almost passing out at the controls; passengers who say they've been made ill by toxic fumes. Can polluted air on board planes damage your health? Panorama carries out its own tests to discover just what's in the air we breathe when we fly.

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  • How Clean is Your Hospital?
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    #17 - How Clean is Your Hospital?

    Season 56 Episode 16

    Aired 4/27/2008

    Sally Magnusson goes inside a trust which lost 90 patients to the superbug c.difficile, which accounts for four times as many deaths as MRSA.

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  • Mission Impossible
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    #18 - Mission Impossible

    Season 56 Episode 17

    Aired 4/28/2008

    The UN polices conflicts around the world, but can it police itself? Raphael Rowe reveals how the organisation is struggling to eradicate the rot at its core.

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  • Prisons Unlocked
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    #19 - Prisons Unlocked

    Season 56 Episode 18

    Aired 5/5/2008

    Panorama investigates claims that unsuitable and dangerous convicts are being sent to open prisons to help solve the overcrowding crisis.

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  • Tested to Destruction
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    #20 - Tested to Destruction

    Season 56 Episode 19

    Aired 5/12/2008

    Current affairs. Are schoolchildren in England given too many exams? Vivian White reports.

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  • The Challenge of the 60s
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    #21 - The Challenge of the 60s

    Season 56 Episode 20

    Aired 5/15/2008

    Experts and diplomats including Lord Hurd, Christopher Mallaby and Bernard Lovell assess the predictions made about the world's future in an edition of Panorama from 1960.

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  • Britain on the Sick
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    #22 - Britain on the Sick

    Season 56 Episode 21

    Aired 5/19/2008

    Current affairs programme presented by Jeremy Vine. Shelley Jofre examines the Government's tough new benefit rules.

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  • One Click from Capture
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    #23 - One Click from Capture

    Season 56 Episode 22

    Aired 5/26/2008

    A look at how Panorama's simple experiment of putting a young girl's details onto social networking websites ended with the arrest of an online predator.

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  • The Property Game
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    #24 - The Property Game

    Season 56 Episode 23

    Aired 6/2/2008

    Vigorous investigation of a topical issue. Richard Bilton meets the winners and losers in the property market. Is the British love affair with home ownership over?

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  • What Happened After Taking On the Taliban?
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    #25 - What Happened After Taking On the Taliban?

    Season 56 Episode 24

    Aired 6/9/2008

    Current affairs. Panorama meets the soldiers featured in last year's Taking On the Taliban special, to find out what they're doing now.

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Season 56 Ratings Summary

"Omagh: What the Police Were Never Told" is the best rated episode of "Panorama" season 56. It scored 9.5/10 based on 42 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/15/2008. This episode is rated 2.5 points higher than the second-best, "Bottled Water - Who Needs It?".