Episode guide
Dispatches: 1987
8 episodes · premiered Oct 30, 1987
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- Episode 1: The Plutonium Black Market Oct 30, 1987 · 45m Investigating the black market in weapons grade uranium operated from Khartoum.
- Episode 2: In The Red Nov 6, 1987 · 45m Investigation of the alleged misuse of funds at three Labour Party Social Clubs in Dundee.
- Episode 3: AIDS - The Unheard Voices Nov 13, 1987 · 45m The program challenges the theory that AIDS is caused by the H.I.V. virus and discusses the social pressures on those diagnosed as H.I.V. positive.
- Episode 4: Divided by Law Nov 20, 1987 · 45m Explains how new D.N.A. testing techniques could help to re-unite divided immigrant families and looks at claims that the government has delayed progress pending on legislation.
- Episode 5: Selling the Tunnel Nov 27, 1987 · 45m TVS's Business Unit tells the inside story of the Eurotunnel Management Team's battle to persuade the City and the public to back the issue of shares and raise capital.
- Episode 6: Gunning for Government Dec 4, 1987 · 45m The undercover world of arms dealing is revealed by a defector (Frank Turner) who reveals his involvement with the CIA and British Ministry of Defence.
- Episode 7: Kimberly Carlile - Falling Through the Net Dec 11, 1987 · 45m 4 1/2 year old Kimberley was starved, dehydrated and beaten and weighed 24Ibs-small for a normal child her age. Her stepfather Nigel Hall was jailed for life for her murder, the mother…
- Episode 8: Korea: Poverty Prohibited Dec 18, 1987 · 45m In the run-up to the Olympics, the Seoul urban poor are forced from their homes to make way for the developers.