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The Best Episodes of Panorama Season 61

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Every episode of Panorama Season 61 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Panorama Season 61!

Current affairs programme, featuring interviews and investigative reports on a wide variety of subjects.
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  • Cancer: Hope for Sale?
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    #1 - Cancer: Hope for Sale?

    Season 61 Episode 15

    Aired 6/3/2013

    Richard Bilton investigates a controversial American doctor who claims he can cure cancer. Why has he been allowed to sell an unproven and experimental treatment for 30 years?

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  • The Spies Who Fooled the World
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    #2 - The Spies Who Fooled the World

    Season 61 Episode 8

    Aired 3/18/2013

    On the eve of the tenth anniversary of the Iraq War, Panorama reveals how key aspects of the secret intelligence used to justify the invasion were based on fabrication and lies.

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  • Where's Our Aid Money Gone?
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    #3 - Where's Our Aid Money Gone?

    Season 61 Episode 41

    Aired 12/2/2013

    Current affairs. With the Global Fund's inspector general sacked for 'unsatisfactory' performance after exposing corruption, Richard Bilton challenges those responsible.

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  • Terror in Nairobi
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    #4 - Terror in Nairobi

    Season 61 Episode 31

    Aired 9/30/2013

    Panorama investigates the network al-Shabab uses to cross the Somali-Kenyan border at will and this terror group's appeal to radicalised Muslim youths in Britain and beyond.

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  • Secrets of Britain's Sharia Councils
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    #5 - Secrets of Britain's Sharia Councils

    Season 61 Episode 11

    Aired 4/22/2013

    Panorama reporter Jane Corbin goes undercover to investigate what is really happening in Britain's Sharia Councils - Islamic religious courts.

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  • After Savile: No More Secrets?
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    #6 - After Savile: No More Secrets?

    Season 61 Episode 37

    Aired 11/4/2013

    In Britain, turning a blind eye to child abuse in a school, hospital or a church is not a crime; Panorama talks to victims, police and senior figures calling for the law to change.

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  • Energy Bills: Power Failure?
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    #7 - Energy Bills: Power Failure?

    Season 61 Episode 42

    Aired 12/9/2013

    Current affairs. Energy bills have gone up by around a quarter in the past four years and politicians from all sides say they are determined to bring them down. Can they deliver?

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  • Immigration Undercover
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    #8 - Immigration Undercover

    Season 61 Episode 1

    Aired 1/21/2013

    Reporter Paul Kenyon goes undercover with the new type of gang smuggling illegal immigrants out of the UK as well as in, right under the nose of the British authorities.

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  • The Great Disability Scam?
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    #9 - The Great Disability Scam?

    Season 61 Episode 2

    Aired 1/28/2013

    Only half of people with a disability are in work. Panorama investigates if one of the government's most ambitious welfare reforms can solve the problem of disability unemployment.

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  • The Great Abortion Divide
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    #10 - The Great Abortion Divide

    Season 61 Episode 3

    Aired 2/4/2013

    Victoria Derbyshire investigates the great abortion divide between Northern Ireland and most of the United Kingdom, and asks if it is time to change the law.

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  • Inside Barclays: Banking on Bonuses
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    #11 - Inside Barclays: Banking on Bonuses

    Season 61 Episode 4

    Aired 2/11/2013

    After a series of controversies, bosses at Barclays say they're changing the culture of the bank. But what went wrong? Reporter Richard Bilton investigates the bonus culture that drove one of our biggest banks.

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  • What's Really in our Food?
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    #12 - What's Really in our Food?

    Season 61 Episode 5

    Aired 2/18/2013

    Panorama investigates the horse meat scandal and reveals more concerns about what is really in our food. Richard Bilton questions the 'light touch' regulation of the food industry.

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  • Mission Accomplished? Secrets of Helmand
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    #13 - Mission Accomplished? Secrets of Helmand

    Season 61 Episode 6

    Aired 2/25/2013

    Reporter Ben Anderson joins Allied troops preparing to hand over to Afghan forces next year, finding the Afghan army and police to be poorly trained and lacking resources.

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  • America's Gun Addiction
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    #14 - America's Gun Addiction

    Season 61 Episode 7

    Aired 3/11/2013

    Following the Newtown massacre, Panorama meets the teachers who want to use guns to protect their schools and reveals America's national crisis in mental healthcare.

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  • The Derby Fire: Secrets and Lies
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    #15 - The Derby Fire: Secrets and Lies

    Season 61 Episode 9

    Aired 4/2/2013

    The Derby fire, in which six children died, was an attack on a family that shocked the country. Panorama asks were warnings missed?

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    #16 - North Korea Undercover

    Season 61 Episode 10

    Aired 4/15/2013

    Panorama reporter John Sweeney spends eight days undercover inside North Korea, the most rigidly-controlled nation on Earth.

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  • The Russians Are Coming
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    #17 - The Russians Are Coming

    Season 61 Episode 12

    Aired 4/29/2013

    Reporter Darragh MacIntyre investigates a death in a Russian prison that has brought the threat of violence to the UK, and the death of a whistleblower found in Surrey.

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  • Jobs for the Boys?
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    #18 - Jobs for the Boys?

    Season 61 Episode 13

    Aired 5/13/2013

    Former England and Arsenal footballer Sol Campbell investigates why the unemployment rate for young black British men is roughly double that of their white counterparts.

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  • Hillsborough - How They Buried the Truth
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    #19 - Hillsborough - How They Buried the Truth

    Season 61 Episode 14

    Aired 5/20/2013

    A Panorama investigation reveals how police, politicians, lawyers and judges all played a part in burying the truth about Britain's worst football disaster.

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  • Cash for Questions Undercover
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    #20 - Cash for Questions Undercover

    Season 61 Episode 16

    Aired 6/6/2013

    A Panorama special going undercover to reveal lobbying practices which raise serious questions about standards in political life.

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    #21 - Blacklist Britain

    Season 61 Episode 17

    Aired 6/10/2013

    Richard Bilton does the first TV interview with the bookkeeper for the organisation which ran a secret blacklist subscribed to by some of the biggest names in British business.

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  • Traffic Fines - Highway Robbery?
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    #22 - Traffic Fines - Highway Robbery?

    Season 61 Episode 18

    Aired 6/12/2013

    With councils fining drivers in ever-greater numbers after capturing them on CCTV, Panorama tries to find new ways to cut down on the mountain of traffic tickets issued each year.

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  • Elderly Care: Condition Critical?
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    #23 - Elderly Care: Condition Critical?

    Season 61 Episode 19

    Aired 6/17/2013

    Using secret filming and exclusive research into the mortality rates of care and nursing homes for the elderly in England, Panorama exposes the pain of poor care and neglect.

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  • Kids Lost in Care
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    #24 - Kids Lost in Care

    Season 61 Episode 20

    Aired 6/24/2013

    Panorama investigates the standard of residential care for vulnerable children. In homes where care is not up to scratch, some young people run away into risky situations.

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  • The Truth about Pills and Pregnancy
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    #25 - The Truth about Pills and Pregnancy

    Season 61 Episode 21

    Aired 7/1/2013

    Current affairs. Many women have to take medicines while pregnant. But could they be risking the health of their unborn child? Reporter Shelley Jofre investigates.

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Season 61 Ratings Summary

"Cancer: Hope for Sale?" is the best rated episode of "Panorama" season 61. It scored 8.8/10 based on 7 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 6/3/2013. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "The Spies Who Fooled the World".