7.3/106 votes#1 - Will My Crime Be Solved?
Season 72 Episode 1 - Aired 1/8/2024
Only one in 20 crimes in England and Wales result in someone being charged. More criminals are now getting away with everything from burglary to knife crime. So, is the public being let down by the system? Reporter Bronagh Munro meets the victims left to investigate their own crimes and goes on the trail of the criminals who have escaped justice.
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7.0/105 votes#2 - Britain's Obesity Crisis: Are Weight-Loss Drugs The Answer?
Season 72 Episode 2 - Aired 1/15/2024
A new generation of anti-obesity drugs are being hailed as game changers for the NHS and for millions of patients. So-called 'skinny jabs' like Wegovy have largely been the preserve of celebrities and those with the money to buy them privately, but now the NHS is beginning to roll them out. So will they live up to the hype, how available will they be, and is the NHS ready for a revolution in treating obesity?
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7.4/108 votes#3 - Britain's Crumbling Schools
Season 72 Episode 3 - Aired 1/22/2024
Panorama investigates the state of many of Britain’s school buildings, meeting the headteachers struggling to keep children safe in their classrooms and hearing from children learning in gloves due to extreme cold. Reporter Rahil Sheikh visits schools during the harsh winter months, discovering that recent concerns over crumbling concrete are just the tip of the iceberg. Figures from the National Audit Office show that more than £11 billion is needed for repairs, with 700,000 children currently learning in substandard schools.
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6.8/106 votes#4 - Midwives under Pressure
Season 72 Episode 4 - Aired 1/29/2024
Panorama investigates the crisis in maternity care that is putting women and babies at risk. Whistle-blowers at a trust in Gloucestershire tell reporter Michael Buchanan about the deaths of mothers and babies, the dangers of understaffing and a culture that they say has failed to learn from mistakes. The regulator, the Care Quality Commission, has said that maternity services at the trust are inadequate and Panorama has calculated that maternal deaths there are almost double the national average. The trust says that it's deeply sorry for failings in its care and that it's made improvements to its maternity services.
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NaN/100 votes#5 - Sudden Child Deaths: The Search for Answers
Season 72 Episode 5 - Aired 2/5/2024
It's a parent's nightmare. An apparently healthy child dying without warning, and no explanation of what went wrong. Yet unexplained deaths in children over a year old happen almost once a week in the UK. They sometimes result in parents being falsely accused of harming their child. Reporter Richard Bilton investigates these sudden unexplained deaths in children and looks at the research trying to find out why they happen.
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7.2/105 votes#6 - Alzheimer’s: A Turning Point?
Season 72 Episode 6 - Aired 2/12/2024
Fergus Walsh follows patients with Alzheimer's disease, who have been taking two new drugs that have been shown to slow down its progression. Is this a turning point in its treatment?
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5.9/109 votes#7 - Hamas' Secret Financial Empire
Season 72 Episode 7 - Aired 2/19/2024
Following the attacks of 7 October 2023, Israel has vowed to destroy Hamas. But can it? John Ware investigates Hamas’ network outside Gaza, uncovering a web of financial enablers.
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6.8/109 votes#8 - Royal Mail: Where's My Post?
Season 72 Episode 8 - Aired 2/26/2024
As the Post Office scandal continues to make the headlines, Panorama investigates the UK’s other great postal institution, Royal Mail. Millions of us rely on letters for hospital appointments, tax returns and legal documents, but as reporter Zoe Conway discovers, Royal Mail is not always delivering. Last year, it was fined more than £5 million for missing targets. Panorama hears from whistleblowers and senior management, who believe the postal system must change if Royal Mail is to survive. Is it the last post for the letter?
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6.7/1012 votes#9 - Trump: The Sequel?
Season 72 Episode 9 - Aired 3/4/2024
Justin Webb and Marianna Spring travel from the frozen plains of Iowa to the swing state of Georgia to explore Donald Trump’s enduring appeal and look ahead to an unprecedented American election year.
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6.3/106 votes#10 - The Mobile Home Swindle
Season 72 Episode 10 - Aired 3/11/2024
Hundreds of thousands of people own mobile homes and caravans in the UK, but some discover they don’t have the right to call them home. Reporter Rory Carson meets the caravan park residents who say they have been mis-sold their properties and falsely promised they could stay in them for the rest of their lives. And he investigates the site owners who have been accused of cheating people out of their life savings.
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NaN/100 votes#11 - Paying More for Less: Councils in Crisis
Season 72 Episode 11 - Aired 3/18/2024
Filmed over five months inside a council on the verge of bankruptcy, Panorama explores why many town halls across the UK are in financial crisis. Reporter Alison Holt follows councillors and officials as they make decisions on which services to cut and which to charge more for in Havering, a London borough facing a £50 million deficit.
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7.0/106 votes#12 - Immigration: The UK’s Record Rise
Season 72 Episode 12 - Aired 3/25/2024
Over the past couple of years, net migration to the UK has hit record levels. So how has that happened, when the government promised in the wake of Brexit that immigration would be lower? Ros Atkins crunches the numbers and explores the political choices behind them. He meets the people running businesses who say they need immigration, and those who say the UK can’t sustain the current numbers.
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NaN/100 votes#13 - NHS Patients Going Private: What Are the Risks?
Season 72 Episode 13 - Aired 4/8/2024
Panorama investigates a private hospital chain being used to help clear the NHS waiting list. With more than six million people in England alone waiting for an operation on the NHS, Monika Plaha investigates the safety record of one of the UK's biggest private healthcare providers. Private hospitals can offer a quick and safe solution to patients who may be in pain and facing long NHS waits, but what happens if things go wrong? Most private hospitals lack intensive care facilities and rely on the NHS if patients develop complications. We look at the warnings received by one hospital where two patients died after waiting for transfer, only for a third person to die after a 14-hour wait to get them to NHS emergency facilities just one mile down the road.
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7.3/108 votes#14 - Smart Motorways: When Technology Fails
Season 72 Episode 14 - Aired 4/22/2024
The rollout of smart motorways has been stopped because of safety fears, but there are still 250 miles of the network with no hard shoulder. The government says new technology will make existing stretches of smart motorways safe. But what happens when the technology doesn’t work? Panorama reveals how equipment failure and power cuts can leave motorists in danger if they break down. When the system isn’t working, the cameras won’t see you, the radar won’t find you and you’ll have no idea the motorway isn’t smart anymore. Reporter Richard Bilton meets the people whose lives have been changed by the roads that keep failing.
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NaN/100 votes#15 - Big Brands’ Green Claims Uncovered
Season 72 Episode 15 - Aired 5/2/2024
Many brands say they are doing their bit for the environment, even big polluters like tech, energy, and airlines. Now, Panorama investigates the green projects that say they can help brands cancel out their carbon emissions. But do the claims stack up? The programme visits several environmental projects and uncovers evidence of sexual harassment, raises questions about how money is spent and reveals how part of a protected rainforest is being destroyed by major construction work.
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6.5/109 votes#16 - The Crime Bosses Who Terrorised a City
Season 72 Episode 16 - Aired 5/9/2024
For years, they trafficked huge quantities of drugs and threatened anyone who stood in their way. Now most of the gangsters who ran the Huyton Firm are behind bars after 10,000 of their secret messages were decrypted and used as evidence in court. The messages reveal the brutal reality of organised crime as never before. They show how the Liverpool mobsters ordered shootings and hand grenade attacks, while boasting of their own sickening crimes. Reporter Bronagh Munro investigates the crime bosses who terrorised a city.
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NaN/100 votes#17 - Infected Blood: Time for Answers
Season 72 Episode 17 - Aired 5/13/2024
Between 1970 and the early 1990s more than 30,000 people in the UK were infected with HIV and Hepatitis C through contaminated blood products and transfusions. It has been described as the worst treatment disaster in NHS history. Since then, around 3,000 of those infected have died, but many of their relatives have yet to receive any compensation. A public inquiry opened in 2018 to discover what really happened, and in May it will deliver its final report. Reporter Jim Reed meets the families of some of the 380 children with bleeding disorders who were infected with HIV and talks to them about what they have lost, their campaign for justice, and what they hope for from the inquiry.
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NaN/100 votes#18 - Undercover: Can Probation Keep Us Safe?
Season 72 Episode 18 - Aired 5/23/2024
Panorama goes undercover in the Probation Service and reveals how easy it is for convicted criminals to go on the run, that drug tests are not being carried out because they are too expensive, and that staff are failing to carry out regular room searches. The Probation Service is supposed to help keep the public safe and reduce reoffending when criminals are released from prison, but Panorama reveals a system described by staff as broken. The programme hears from families whose loved ones have been murdered by offenders on probation and reveals new figures for serious crimes, including rape and murder, committed by those on probation.
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6.0/101 votes#19 - The Missing Cryptoqueen: Dead or Alive?
Season 72 Episode 19 - Aired 6/3/2024
Ruja Ignatova, the flamboyant founder of fake cryptocurrency OneCoin, is the world's most wanted woman. Dubbed the 'Missing Cryptoqueen', she's on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list after defrauding investors of USD4.5 billion and then vanishing. Panorama investigates her close ties to a suspected Bulgarian organised crime boss and allegations that she was brutally murdered. The programme has exclusive access to the US special agent in charged of tracking Ignatova down and follows a brave Bulgarian journalist who has faced death treats, trying to get to the truth. Did the 'Missing Cryptoqueen' run with the money, or was she killed by the very people that were supposed to protect her?
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NaN/100 votes#20 - Undercover School: Cruelty in the Classroom
Season 72 Episode 20 - Aired 6/17/2024
Panorama investigates a school for children with special educational needs. Places at LIFE school in the Wirral cost the local authority £50,000 or more a year per pupil, but reporter Sasha Hinde sees little teaching going on. Instead, pupils are mocked, bullied and physically abused. Undercover filming reveals how children with ADHD, autism and complex needs are placed in headlocks or wrestled to the ground by staff and described as 'thick' and 'retards'. The school says it has an excellent academic record, takes any allegation of misconduct or inappropriate behaviour extremely seriously and that some members of staff have been suspended. Parents tell Panorama they feel let down and believe the school should be closed.
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NaN/100 votes#21 - Britain's Child Health Crisis
Season 72 Episode 21 - Aired 7/15/2024
From tooth decay to obesity, our children’s health is in decline, and it’s storing up trouble for the future. Keir Starmer has promised his new government will tackle it, but that won’t be easy or cheap. Reporter Rahil Sheikh goes back to Sheffield, the city where he was born, to discover what’s causing the crisis and what can be done to fix it.
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6.7/109 votes#22 - Labour in Power: Inside the New Government
Season 72 Episode 22 - Aired 7/22/2024
Labour is back in power with a big majority and some big promises. The new government says it will fix the NHS, grow the economy and build thousands of new homes, but right now money is tight. There are also challenges abroad as war continues in Ukraine and the Middle East. With behind-the-scenes access to the new chancellor Rachel Reeves and key cabinet players, Laura Kuenssberg follows Labour’s first days in office. They say the country is broken, so can they fix it?
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7.3/106 votes#23 - The Nottingham Attacks: A Search for Answers
Season 72 Episode 23 - Aired 8/12/2024
In June 2023, Barnaby Webber, Grace O'Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates were stabbed to death by Valdo Calocane. Reporter Navtej Johal investigates his history of mental ill health, the care he received in the three years before the Nottingham attacks and asks what lessons can be learned. Speaking for the first time to BBC Panorama, members of the Calocane family help to shed light on the missed opportunities in his care.
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6.3/107 votes#24 - The Riots That Shocked the Country
Season 72 Episode 24 - Aired 8/19/2024
A knife attack on a Taylor Swift dance workshop in Southport left three children dead and eight others seriously injured. The killings then sparked the worst rioting on our streets for more than a decade. Police, mosques and hotels housing asylum seekers were targeted. Terrified residents were barricaded in their homes. The violence was stoked by far-right activists and fuelled by lies and disinformation online. Darragh MacIntyre reports from some of the worst affected towns and cities and asks what can be done to prevent such violence from happening again.
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5.9/107 votes#25 - Can We Live Without Our Phones?
Season 72 Episode 25 - Aired 9/2/2024
What happens when smartphones are taken away from kids for a week? With the help of two families and lots of remote cameras, Panorama finds out. Do they talk to their parents more, sleep better, or miss out on vital conversations with friends and the chance to discover something new? With calls for smartphones to be banned for children, Marianna Spring speaks to parents, teenagers and social media company insiders to investigate whether the content pushed to their feeds is harming them.
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The Best Episodes of Panorama Season 72
Every episode of Panorama Season 72 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Panorama Season 72!
Current affairs programme, featuring interviews and investigative reports on a wide variety of subjects.
Genres:DocumentaryNews
Network:BBC One
Season 72 Ratings Summary
"Will My Crime Be Solved?" is the best rated episode of "Panorama" season 72. It scored 7.3/10 based on 6 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/8/2024. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Britain's Obesity Crisis: Are Weight-Loss Drugs The Answer?".