Dispatches

Dispatches

1987
Dispatches
Dispatches

Dispatches

6.5 | TV-PG | en | Documentary

Dispatches is the British TV current affairs documentary series on Channel 4, first transmitted in 1987. The programme covers issues about British society, politics, health, religion, international current affairs and the environment, and often features a mole inside organisations under journalistic investigation.

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EP8  Hunting Russia's Lost Boys
Nov. 12,2023
Hunting Russia's Lost Boys

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EP7  Russell Brand: In Plain Sight
Sep. 16,2023
Russell Brand: In Plain Sight

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EP6  Sri Lanka's Easter Bombings
Sep. 05,2023
Sri Lanka's Easter Bombings

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EP5  Boris, the Lord & the Russian Spy
Jun. 27,2023
Boris, the Lord & the Russian Spy

The full story of Boris Johnson's friendship with press baron Evgeny Lebedev and his dad Alexander, an ex-KGB spy, revealing the secret fears of security services

EP4  Britain's Forgotten Pensioners
Jun. 07,2023
Britain's Forgotten Pensioners

More than two million pensioners are living in poverty in the UK. Dispatches follows four older people through the winter as they struggle to make ends meet.

EP3  Locked Away: Our Autism Scandal
Mar. 24,2023
Locked Away: Our Autism Scandal

Autistic patients trapped in mental health units tell their stories, revealing a system of poor treatment, abuse and long stretches inside with their symptoms only getting worse.

EP2  Undercover Ambulance: NHS Chaos
Mar. 09,2023
Undercover Ambulance: NHS Chaos

Secret footage filmed over the winter reveals ambulance workers battling the odds and A&E departments overwhelmed as patients suffer needless harm and death.

EP1  Strippers, Spies & Russian Money
Feb. 12,2023
Strippers, Spies & Russian Money

The extraordinary story of Russia's covert efforts to corrupt British democracy and politics in the years before invading Ukraine. MI5 declined to comment on the programme for operational reasons.

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6.5 | TV-PG | en | Documentary , News | More Info
Released: 1987-10-30 | Released Producted By: ITN Productions , Bigger Bang Country: United Kingdom Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches
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Dispatches is the British TV current affairs documentary series on Channel 4, first transmitted in 1987. The programme covers issues about British society, politics, health, religion, international current affairs and the environment, and often features a mole inside organisations under journalistic investigation.

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Ersbel Oraph The cheap and petty in television. Shallow drama for rising emotion and not much reason beyond attracting views. In the end each episode seems to border some conspiracy.Contact me with Questions, Comments or Suggestions ryitfork @ bitmail.ch
ix-viii-ix Dispatches is a highly acclaimed British documentary series, shown by Channel 4, that probes some of the defining issues of our time. It essentially takes you behind some of the stories you see on the news to establish "what's really going on". Along with the excellent "Unreported World" series it is some of the best investigative reporting and aggressive documentary making currently produced on British TV, no small feat considering the prestige and reputation for thoroughness internationally of British documentaries as a field.Recently the show has slipped into less intellectual territory to pursue sensationalist, attention-grabbing headlines. The show "Mark Thomas on Coca-Cola" typifies this for me, purporting to show the link between Coca-Cola and various human-rights abuses it is responsible for. While the show has always had a left-leaning slant it is usually more balanced and I doubt there is anyone in the Western world who hasn't seen at least one corporation dragged through the headlines for the sake of public disapproval. This doesn't mean the show lacks an edgy, gritty feel, but nowadays it seems more interested in publicity then the cutting-edge of world affairs, which make some of its themes and arguments a bit dated (but does spice things up a bit in a "Michael Moore" sort of way!), and, if you are unfamiliar with the series, unapologetically anti-American. The story (referring to the "Coca-Cola" program) about Coca-Cola's marketing to the Third Riech was all well and good, but I'd heard it all before, along with IBM's (much more thought-provoking) alleged culpability in the Holocaust, and I can remember thinking how earnestly the link was made between the marketing of a soft drink and Adolf Hitler's plans for world domination! The above paragraph is my own personal grumble at the series, and you can only really pick apart a show when it has totally involved you in it's themes, so please don't let it detract from your enjoyment of what is still an excellent and influential documentary series.