Episode guide
Dispatches: 2024
13 episodes · premiered May 16, 2024
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- Episode 1: Coca-Cola's Dirty Secret May 16, 2024 · 26m What's the environmental impact of the UK's huge soft drink habit? With a thirsty nation getting through two billion plastic bottles a year, and the same for cans, do Coke's recycling…
- Episode 2: The War on Britain's Motorists May 23, 2024 · 26m Potholes everywhere. Controversial Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and electric vehicle confusion too. Car journalist Ginny Buckley asks is this the worst time ever to be a motorist in the UK?
- Episode 3: Kill Zone: Inside Gaza May 30, 2024 · 26m The story of the Israeli military assault on Gaza. Seen through the eyes of children, journalists and doctors, Dispatches takes an unflinching look at the horrific challenges and…
- Episode 4: The Truth About Temu May 30, 2024 · 26m What's the story behind the runaway success of the addictive Chinese shopping app? With half a billion downloads worldwide, are some of Temu's rock-bottom prices and products too good to…
- Episode 5: Rubbish Tip Britain Jun 21, 2024 · 46m A look inside the lucrative world of waste crime with video, surveillance footage and interviews from insiders. Exposing how banned waste has been dumped for years in a major landfill…
- Episode 6: Undercover A&E: NHS in Crisis Jun 24, 2024 · 1h Undercover report filmed over two months at an NHS Accident and Emergency Department, which exposes the suffering and dangers patients face on a daily basis. The programme features footage…
- Episode 7: Can AI Steal Your Vote? Jun 27, 2024 · 1h Election campaigners and experts have warned that artificial intelligence tools could risk politically motivated disinformation flooding social media feeds in ways that recently seemed…
- Episode 8: Britain's Unsolved Crimewave Jul 16, 2024 · 47m Analysing police data, Dispatches reveals local hotspots where 100% of neighbourhood crimes go unsolved. The team watch a theft in action and go on the trail of the criminals.
- Episode 9: Barbie's Dirty Secrets Oct 11, 2024 · 1h With Barbiemania putting toy maker Mattel back in the limelight, Dispatches goes undercover in one of Mattel's factories, exposing the reality for workers making the famous dolls
- Episode 10: Vinted's Dirty Laundry Oct 18, 2024 · 30m The online secondhand clothes app Vinted is booming. Is its soar-away success too good to be true? Dispatches uncovers the truth behind some of the products sold on the platform.
- Episode 11: The King, The Prince & Their Secret Millions Nov 2, 2024 · 48m For years, the royals kept details of some of their wealth secret. Dispatches reveals what they have kept under wraps - about who is paying them, and for what.
- Episode 12: Britain's Shoplifting Gangs Exposed Nov 25, 2024 · 47m In this high-stakes true crime investigation, Dispatches goes undercover to expose the organised criminal networks behind the UK's shoplifting epidemic.
- Episode 13: Britain's Benefits Scandal Dec 2, 2024 · 1h With the recent rise in working-age people on sickness benefits - many of them under 35 - Dispatches asks what's driving the surge?