Panorama

2003

34 episodes · Jan 26, 2003

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  • S51E1

    Survivors

    Jan 26, 2003

    Sarah Barclay reports on two disabled 11 year old girls, Emmy Myerson and Asia Riley, and the battle fought by their parents to get help in a country where children can be kept alive by modern medicine but then largely ignored by the state.

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  • S51E2

    Tackling Saddam

    Feb 2, 2003

    An opportunity for viewers to quiz BBC correspondents John Simpson, Andrew Marr and Matt Frei on the subject of Iraq and Saddam Hussein.

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  • S51E3

    Chasing Saddam's Weapons

    Feb 9, 2003

    While the US and Britain seek to justify war, Jane Corbin has spent the past three months with the United Nations's weapons inspectors in Iraq. Her report offers an insight into a nation on the brink of war and invasion.

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  • S51E4

    Promises, Promises

    Feb 16, 2003

    Following the devastating snowfall two weeks ago, reporter John Ware asks what became of Labour's vision of a transport system to rival Europe's best.

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  • S51E5

    The Golden Hour

    Feb 17, 2003

    As part of the BBC's season on domestic violence, Sarah Spiller reports on new police procedures designed to convict more perpetrators of such assaults.

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  • S51E6

    Bush v Saddam

    Mar 2, 2003

    With President Bush moving closer by the day to a war to topple Saddam, Panorama links up audiences in America and the Middle East, to debate how to tackle Saddam, and the consequences of getting it wrong.

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  • S51E7

    Ready, Steady, Trade

    Mar 9, 2003

    For Comic Relief, Panorama sets celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson a challenge: to create a world-class meal from ingredients that reporter Steve Bradshaw has bought from some of the world's poorest farmers.

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  • S51E8

    Frontline Britain

    Mar 16, 2003

    A look at how British intelligence agencies have conducted a secret war against al-Qaeda since 9/11. And, as the UK faces the possibility of a terrorist attack, reporter Andy Davies questions whether the emergency services are

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  • S51E9

    Blair's Road to War

    Mar 18, 2003

    Tony Blair is facing one of the toughest days of his political career as the Commons debates the war on Iraq. David Dimbleby and a panel of politicians and writers, will discuss the key questions surrounding the debate.

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  • S51E10

    Blair's War

    Mar 23, 2003

    Could Tony Blair lose his job over the Iraq crisis? For two months Panorama has been following the opposition to him, in the anti-war movement, in the Labour Party, and in Parliament.

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  • S51E11

    Questions from a Divided World

    Mar 30, 2003

    The coalition forces are inside Iraq but is the world still divided on the merits of the conflict? In a special programme, Panorama gives a voice to people around the world as it gauges opinion about the war.

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  • S51E12

    The Race to Baghdad

    Apr 6, 2003

    The coalition plan for the invasion of Iraq was built on a campaign to remove Saddam Hussein and to be welcomed as liberators. John Ware investigates how the British and American war strategy has been tested in the heat of battle.

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  • S51E13

    After Saddam

    Apr 13, 2003

    What will be the consequences of the war in the Gulf for Iraq and the rest of the world? Viewers are given the chance to send their questions by email and text message to BBC correspondents in London, Washington and the war zone itself.

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  • S51E14

    The Battle for Basra

    Apr 27, 2003

    Jane Corbin reports of the struggle of Iraqi citizens and the military battle by British forces to take control of a city which the coalition never expected to have to have to fight for.

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  • S51E15

    Seroxat: E-mails from the Edge

    May 11, 2003

    Last October Panorama revealed the dark and shocking side of Seroxat, one of the world's favourite anti-depressants. The feedback to that film was unprecedented with thousands of people contacting the programme.

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  • S51E16

    The War Party

    May 18, 2003

    They brought us war against Iraq - what do the hawks in Washington have in store for us now? Panorama investigates the "neo-conservatives", the small and unelected group of right-wingers, who critics claim have hijacked the White House.

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  • S51E17

    The Chicken Run

    May 22, 2003

    Panorama investigates a major food scandal. How the frozen chicken industry in Holland which ships over a thousand tonnes of chicken into the UK each week routinely pumps the meat full of water to make it weigh more thus swelling profits.

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  • S51E18

    Euro Visions

    Jun 8, 2003

    On the eve of the Government's decision on whether Britain should join the euro, Gavin Esler debates the issues with politicians and journalists.

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  • S51E19

    Five Days In May

    Jun 15, 2003

    While Zimbabwe's cricket team played at Lord's last month, Panorama witnessed a country brought to the brink of collapse by tyranny. Fergal Keane asks whether the final push to remove President Mugabe has begun.

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  • S51E20

    Gangsters at War

    Jun 22, 2003

    Kevin Magee explores the power struggles behind gangland violence involving crime godfathers such as "Mad Dog" and "the Egyptian" - bloody feuds which have spread beyond Belfast and into Scotland and England.

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  • S51E21

    Fiddling the Figures

    Jun 29, 2003

    Panorama uncovers disturbing evidence about what some hospitals are doing to achieve the government's National Health Service (NHS) targets.

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  • S51E22

    The Baby Business

    Jul 6, 2003

    Making babies is big business. And the body that's supposed to regulate treatment - the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) - is struggling to keep up to date with what's going on inside Britain's fertility clinics.

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  • S51E23

    What Happened Next?

    Jul 13, 2003

    Over the past year, Panorama carried out a number of major investigations - but what was their final outcome? Tonight's edition features updates of some of those reports.

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  • S51E24

    Asylum

    Jul 23, 2003

    Over the last six months, reporter Claudia Murg conducted an undercover investigation into Britain's asylum system, during which she encountered gangs who flouted the rules and genuine claimants who have been kept in limbo for months.

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  • S51E25

    The Price of Victory

    Sep 28, 2003

    For three long, hot and increasingly violent months, Panorama filmed US troops in Baghdad who came to rebuild Iraq but were sucked into an urban guerrilla war.

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  • S51E26

    Inside Guantanamo

    Oct 5, 2003

    Panorama uncovers the true picture of this new system of arrest, detention, interrogation and trial by military commission at the infamous camp.

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  • S51E27

    Sex and the Holy City

    Oct 12, 2003

    Pope John Paul's reign is widely celebrated, yet millions of women around the world may feel they have reason to regret his long rule - and the global battles he has waged against contraception, abortion and condoms.

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  • S51E28

    Blair's University Challenge

    Oct 19, 2003

    With a nod to the famous quiz show from a campus location, in the presence of Education Secretary Charles Clarke , Gavin Esler hosts a debate on the Government's top-up fees policy.

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  • S51E29

    Crack UK

    Oct 26, 2003

    Facing stiff competition and falling prices, crack dealers are moving out of their traditional haunts - the inner cities - and, like businessmen, opening up new markets that target affluent towns. Shelley Jofre reports.

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  • S51E30

    Fair Cop?

    Nov 2, 2003

    While murderers have gone free, innocent people have been jailed. Phil Parry investigates a police force with a record of fabricating evidence in high-profile cases.

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  • S51E31

    In the Line of Fire

    Nov 9, 2003

    In April 2003, Panorama producer Tom Giles and BBC World Affairs editor John Simpson were caught in a friendly fire incident in Iraq. This is the story of that incident in which our translator was killed.

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  • S51E32

    A Carer's Story

    Nov 16, 2003

    Is the system of caring for the elderly at home delivering the choices the Government promised? Fran Baker goes undercover to investigate.

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  • S51E33

    Still Chasing Saddam's Weapons

    Nov 23, 2003

    How much of a threat did Saddam Hussein really pose to the West? Jane Corbin profiles the secret and controversial work of the Iraq Survey group as they hunt for the weapons of mass destruction that politicians insisted were there.

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  • S51E34

    Spend It Like Beckham

    Nov 30, 2003

    Britain has caught luxury fever, and lenders are falling over themselves to give us credit. How long can Britain continue to spend and is payback around the corner?

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