The BEST episodes of Panorama season 2013
Every episode of Panorama season 2013, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Panorama season 2013!
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 - North Korea Undercover
Season 2013 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/15/2013
While North Korea's 'Supreme Commander' Kim Jong-Un has been threatening thermo-nuclear war against the United States, Panorama reporter John Sweeney spent eight days undercover inside the most rigidly-controlled nation on Earth. Travelling from the capital Pyongyang to the countryside beyond and to the de-Militarised Zone on the border with South Korea, Sweeney witnesses a landscape bleak beyond words, a people brainwashed for three generations and a regime happy to give the impression of marching towards Armageddon.
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#2 - America's Gun Addiction
Season 2013 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/11/2013
The Newtown massacre, in which 20 primary schoolchildren died, has been hailed as a turning point on gun control in America. President Obama wants to ban assault weapons, but his opponents say more guns are the answer, not fewer. At a gun range, Panorama meets the teachers who want to take guns into their classrooms to protect their pupils. With many of America's mass killers having both mental health issues and easy access to guns, Panorama reveals the national crisis in mental healthcare which has left 4.5 million severely mentally ill Americans untreated. And reporter Hilary Andersson goes undercover to show how easy it is in Texas to buy the type of assault weapon used at Newtown, even if you are mentally unstable. Will Newtown finally change things, or will the mass killings continue?
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#3 - Saving Syria's Children
Season 2013 - Episode 32 - Aired 9/30/2013
In a special edition, Panorama travels with British doctors inside Syria to exclusively reveal the devastating impact of the war on children caught in the conflict.
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#4 - Britain's Secret Terror Force
Season 2013 - Episode 39 - Aired 11/21/2013
Reporter John Ware interviews former members of a secret undercover unit run by the British Army in the early 1970s as they reveal how they took the war to the IRA.
#5 - Amazon: The Truth Behind the Click
Season 2013 - Episode 40 - Aired 11/25/2013
How well does online retailer Amazon treat its workers? Conditions in the company's giant warehouses have been condemned by unions as among the worst in Britain.
#6 - Where's Our Aid Money Gone?
Season 2013 - Episode 41 - Aired 12/2/2013
With the Global Fund's inspector general sacked for 'unsatisfactory' performance after exposing corruption, Richard Bilton challenges those responsible.
#7 - Broken By Battle
Season 2013 - Episode 23 - Aired 7/15/2013
An investigation of the true personal cost of the war in Afghanistan on British troops, going beyond the limits of the Ministry of Defence's statistics on suicide.
#8 - Woolwich: The Untold Story
Season 2013 - Episode 45 - Aired 12/19/2013
With two British Muslim converts found guilty of the murder of 25 year-old soldier, Drummer Lee Rigby, this Panorama special reveals the story the jury never heard. Featuring interviews with Lee's parents and his former comrades in the Royal Fusiliers, Peter Taylor asks if the security services among others missed opportunities to stop Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebolawe and prevent Lee's death.
#9 - Jungle Outlaws: The Chainsaw Trail
Season 2013 - Episode 24 - Aired 7/25/2013
Panorama investigates illegal logging in the rainforest and the timber trail from Africa to West Europe. Raphael Rowe spent six months tracking logs from Congo's jungle.
#10 - Tainted Love: Secrets of the Dating Game
Season 2013 - Episode 25 - Aired 7/29/2013
Panorama exposes the tricks of the UK's online dating industry, worth millions of pounds a year. Reporter Fiona Walker investigates how some unscrupulous dating websites are preying on those looking for love and searching for their perfect partner.
#11 - The Brothers Who Bombed Boston
Season 2013 - Episode 26 - Aired 8/5/2013
Panorama explores how the two suspected Boston Marathon bombers - brothers raised and educated in the US - became radicalised, and asks if America's war on terror has come home.
#12 - Locked Up For Being Ill?
Season 2013 - Episode 27 - Aired 9/9/2013
Current affairs. With police estimating that dealing with mental health patients takes up 25 percent of their time, Paul Kenyon discovers a world of self-harm and suicide attempts.
#13 - Tax, Lies and Videotape
Season 2013 - Episode 28 - Aired 9/16/2013
The government says it is cracking down on tax avoidance and evasion, but does the tough talk really stand up to scrutiny? Panorama goes undercover in the City to investigate the truth about UK tax policy. The programme discovers how London is still home to the tax avoidance industry and how new laws could allow big companies to avoid billions in tax.
#14 - The Honeymoon Murder: Who Killed Anni?
Season 2013 - Episode 29 - Aired 9/19/2013
With access to secret police files, Jeremy Vine looks at the case against the Bristol businessman accused of killing his young bride on honeymoon in South Africa in 2010.
#15 - Dying for a Bargain
Season 2013 - Episode 30 - Aired 9/23/2013
Panorama investigates how our clothes - including those of some big high street brands - are really made, finding evidence of an industry that still puts profit before safety.
#16 - Terror in Nairobi
Season 2013 - Episode 31 - Aired 9/30/2013
Panorama investigates the network al-Shabab uses to cross the Somali-Kenyan border at will and this terror group's appeal to radicalised Muslim youths in Britain and beyond.
#17 - Malala: Shot for Going to School
Season 2013 - Episode 33 - Aired 10/7/2013
One year ago, Malala Yousafzai was shot by the Taliban on her school bus. In this Panorama special, she talks exclusively to Mishal Husain about her remarkable journey.
#18 - Britain's New Banking Scandal
Season 2013 - Episode 34 - Aired 10/14/2013
Panorama reporter Adam Shaw lifts the lid on what could be Britain's biggest financial mis-selling scandal - the hard sell of so-called interest rate swaps.
#19 - Murder in the Alps
Season 2013 - Episode 35 - Aired 10/21/2013
With exclusive access to eyewitnesses and investigators, Panorama reveals how and asks why a British family and a French cyclist were brutally murdered by a hitman.
#20 - Our Dirty Nation
Season 2013 - Episode 36 - Aired 10/28/2013
Cleaning up Britain's rubbish costs more than a billion pounds each year. Journalist and Labour peer Joan Bakewell argues that we all need to take more pride in our surroundings.
#21 - After Savile: No More Secrets?
Season 2013 - Episode 37 - Aired 11/4/2013
Why was it so easy for paedophiles like Jimmy Savile to get away with abusing children? In other countries evidence of abuse must be reported to the authorities. But here, turning a blind eye to child abuse in a school, or a hospital, or a church is not a crime. Reporter Sanchia Berg talks to victims, police and senior figures who are now calling for Britain to change the law and uncovers secret files which show that the government knew for decades that children's homes and schools covered up abuse. Head teachers and governors routinely moved abusers, sending them on with a good reference, rather than call the police. Even today, some head teachers still fail to act on reports and complaints.
#22 - The Great House Price Bubble?
Season 2013 - Episode 38 - Aired 11/11/2013
With house prices hitting record highs at the same time as living standards continue to be squeezed, Adam Shaw goes in search of affordable homes for ordinary working families.
#23 - Energy Bills: Power Failure?
Season 2013 - Episode 42 - Aired 12/9/2013
Energy bills have gone up by around a quarter in the past four years and politicians from all sides say they are determined to bring them down. Can they deliver?
#24 - All in a Good Cause
Season 2013 - Episode 43 - Aired 12/10/2013
Do we really know about the charities we support? Declan Lawn hears from donors and charity workers who believe the quest for money is undermining the mission.
#25 - The Romanians are Coming?
Season 2013 - Episode 44 - Aired 12/16/2013
We're told there could be a crime wave and even riots on the streets when Romania and Bulgaria gain full employment rights in the UK next year. But how many will really come, and what's at the root of our fear? Paul Kenyon travels to a Romanian village where most of the men have already left to pursue work in the black markets of London. He joins British police in an unprecedented operation to stem the flow. With Romanians and Bulgarians set to be given full access to work, benefits, the NHS and schooling, many worry that this latest piece of European integration is a step too far.