The BEST episodes of Panorama season 2021
Every episode of Panorama season 2021, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Panorama season 2021!
Panorama is a BBC Television current affairs documentary programme. First broadcast in 1953, it is the world's longest-running public affairs television programme.
#1 - Who's Protecting Our Kids?
Season 2021 - Episode 30 - Aired 9/6/2021
Mariella Frostrup meets teenage girls who say they have been abused, assaulted or raped by teenage boys, and asks whether we should be doing more to protect our children. With exclusive new data from police forces, she reveals how reports of abuse have risen sharply in the past four years, despite government promises to tackle the problem. She asks if social media and pornography could be to blame, and if schools could be handling the problem better.
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#2 - Dirty Secrets of the Cigarette Business
Season 2021 - Episode 31 - Aired 9/13/2021
Panorama unveils new revelations about the corrupt practices deployed by one of Britain’s biggest companies. Six years ago, reporter Richard Bilton revealed how British American Tobacco made secret payments to politicians and civil servants in East Africa. Now the programme uncovers evidence of bribery in South Africa and Zimbabwe. It shows how the multi-billion pound British company secretly paid almost 200 informants as part of a covert operation to damage its competitors.
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#3 - Buy Now, Pay Later: The New Debt Crisis?
Season 2021 - Episode 44 - Aired 12/13/2021
The way we shop is changing, and buying now and paying later has never been easier. Purchases made through companies like Klarna and Clearpay have tripled to an estimated £2.7bn. The companies say they are revolutionising credit by helping customers spread purchases over a number of months, but debt charities are becoming increasingly concerned. Reporter Ellie Flynn investigates the Buy Now Pay Later market’s close relationship with retailers and asks is enough being done to protect customers from ending up with big bills they can’t afford.
#4 - Vaccines: The Disinformation War
Season 2021 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/15/2021
With millions now vaccinated, Panorama investigates the scare tactics of anti-vaxxers – who are they, and what are their motives for trying to deter people from getting the jab? Reporter Marianna Spring reveals the scale of a social media blitz that has targeted vulnerable people and is now reaching young generations yet to be called for their vaccination. We witness the reaction of a test group exposed to one anti-vax video, all under the watchful eye of one of the UK’s most respected doctors. Will they be influenced by disinformation, or will their plans to be vaccinated remain unchanged?
#5 - The Jihadis from My Schooldays
Season 2021 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/25/2021
Panorama reporter Olivia Davies went to school and college with three boys who later went to fight in Syria. She investigates why they abandoned the UK and what happened to them when they joined the barbaric Isis regime. Travelling to Syria for the first time, she tries to discover what turned three boys from ordinary families into brutal fanatics of the Islamic State group.
#6 - Hunting the Social Media Fraudsters
Season 2021 - Episode 27 - Aired 8/16/2021
Reporter Kafui Okpattah investigates how cyber scammers use social media to promote fraud, and speaks to victims.
#7 - Crisis in Care: Follow the Money
Season 2021 - Episode 43 - Aired 12/6/2021
Tens of thousands of elderly people live in care homes owned by international investors. Panorama asks how much money is being taken out of the system.
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#8 - Are You Scared Yet, Human?
Season 2021 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/26/2021
As artificial intelligence changes our world, it has sparked a new arms race between China and the US. Experts warn that without urgent regulation, we could lose control of AI.
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#9 - The Electric Car Revolution: Winners and Losers
Season 2021 - Episode 41 - Aired 11/24/2021
Tesla is now worth more than all the other major car makers put together, but how ethical is its supply chain? Darragh MacIntyre meets the African nuns who say Elon Musk's company must do better.
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#10 - Online Pimps Exposed
Season 2021 - Episode 40 - Aired 11/9/2021
The sex industry has been transformed by the internet, and most sex workers now meet their customers through online sites. Bronagh Munro investigates the online pimps who traffic vulnerable women.
#11 - Return of the Taliban
Season 2021 - Episode 28 - Aired 8/23/2021
The speed of Afghanistan's fall to the Taliban has shocked the world, but what sort of country will it become? Panorama asks what is at stake for the Afghans.
#12 - Wild Weather: Our World Under Threat
Season 2021 - Episode 39 - Aired 11/3/2021
Panorama investigates a year of wild weather and hears how freak events are becoming increasingly commonplace, changing life right now for millions. This summer a small town was destroyed by fire after record-breaking high temperatures in the Pacific Northwest and Canada. Floods in Germany swept away entire villages. A plague of mice destroyed livelihoods in Australia's New South Wales. Dust storms from China swept thousands of miles to South Korea and the people of Madagascar are on the brink of the world’s first climate change-induced famine. By interrogating climate science and with exclusive access to new Met Office data, reporter Justin Rowlatt reveals where in the world the climate is changing the fastest and who will be most affected.
#13 - Cameron and the Missing Billions
Season 2021 - Episode 26 - Aired 8/9/2021
David Cameron was paid to promote Greensill Capital’s financial products around the world. Now that Greensill has collapsed, Panorama investigates how much the former prime minister knew about it?
#14 - The Missing Princess
Season 2021 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/16/2021
"I'm a hostage. I am not free... my life is not in my hands… I am worried for my safety." After Princess Latifa was thwarted in an attempt to escape Dubai in 2018, the world was told that she was back in the loving care of her family. But Latifa's friends, Tiina, David and Marcus found a way to get her a secret phone. A few months ago they lost contact. Now they have taken the decision to release some of the video footage and share her account with the world. Panorama tells Latifa's full story.
#15 - Coca-Cola's 100 Billion Bottle Problem
Season 2021 - Episode 38 - Aired 10/25/2021
Coca-Cola sells more than 100 billion throwaway plastic bottles each year. Panorama investigates Coca-Cola's promises to crack down on plastic waste.
#16 - Football's Broken Dreams
Season 2021 - Episode 32 - Aired 9/20/2021
Reporter Rory Carson, himself a former professional player, investigates the system that has produced some of the England team’s brightest stars.
#17 - I Can't Breathe: Black and Dead in Custody
Season 2021 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/18/2021
Panorama investigates why black men in the UK are more likely than white men to have force used on them by police and to die in police custody. Reporter Mark Daly follows the family of Kevin Clarke on their search for justice. Mr Clarke repeatedly said, 'I can’t breathe' as he was restrained by police on the ground for 14 minutes during a mental health crisis. He died soon afterwards, his words mirroring those of George Floyd, whose death in the US triggered a global debate on race and policing. The programme also reveals fresh evidence in Scotland’s most high-profile death in custody. Sheku Bayoh died in 2015 after being restrained by up to six officers.
#18 - The River Pollution Scandal
Season 2021 - Episode 15 - Aired 4/12/2021
Panorama investigates the scandal of our polluted rivers. Reporter Joe Crowley obtains data that reveals how some big water companies have been illegally dumping untreated sewage. He meets local people campaigning for a wholescale clean-up and exposes one company discharging sewage without a permit.
#19 - Hospital Secrets Uncovered
Season 2021 - Episode 19 - Aired 5/19/2021
Panorama investigates what happens when care goes wrong in hospitals and reveals how some NHS trusts keep critical reports hidden from the regulator and the public.
#20 - Delivering Christmas: What's in Store?
Season 2021 - Episode 42 - Aired 12/1/2021
As we gear up for Christmas, Jane Corbin asks if the UK's supply chains will be able to deliver in time.
#21 - Boxing and the Mob
Season 2021 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/1/2021
Darragh MacIntyre investigates the role of the alleged head of one of Europe's biggest drug cartels in the upcoming heavyweight title fight between Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua.
#22 - Salmond v Sturgeon
Season 2021 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/18/2021
The inside story of the most sensational break-up in recent political history. Once close friends and allies, Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon took the SNP from nowhere to government, and Scotland to the brink of independence. Now sworn enemies, former first minister Salmond accuses some of those he once led of plotting to have him imprisoned. Reporter Mark Daly investigates and asks what the split could mean for the future of Scotland and of the United Kingdom.
#23 - The Dark Side of Horse Racing
Season 2021 - Episode 25 - Aired 7/19/2021
Horse racing is an extremely profitable sport, a £5 billion industry in the UK and Ireland followed by millions. Darragh MacIntyre investigates what can happen to racehorses when their careers end.
#24 - 100,000 Deaths
Season 2021 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/26/2021
As the number of people who have died with coronavirus reaches 100,000 in the UK, BBC Panorama tells the stories of some of those who have lost their lives.
#25 - Online Abuse: Why Do You Hate Me?
Season 2021 - Episode 37 - Aired 10/18/2021
Panorama investigates the rise of online abuse against women and asks why the police, the government and social media companies aren’t doing more to stop it. BBC reporter Marianna Spring discovers how social media algorithms are promoting hate and tracks down the trolls who send her abuse daily. She meets global politicians, Love Island contestants and a doctor on the frontline to explore the impact of online hate on women who use social media to do their job.