The BEST episodes of Panorama season 2014
Every episode of Panorama season 2014, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Panorama season 2014!
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 - Drivers Who Kill
Season 2014 - Episode 28 - Aired 7/21/2014
Every day five people die on Britain's roads - but they seldom make headlines. Is this complacency leading to a lack of justice for victims and their families? Tonight's Panorama investigates whether a change to the driving laws has seen our justice system go soft on dangerous driving and questions whether in car technology is driving us to distraction behind the wheel.
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#2 - Ebola Frontline
Season 2014 - Episode 43 - Aired 11/17/2014
NHS doctors and nurses have been working on the front line against Ebola in clinics in West Africa. Panorama spent a month in Sierra Leone with British-born Dr Javid Abdelmoneim filming his every moment working at a treatment centre run by the charity MSF. Using specially adapted cameras, Dr Javid records the physical and emotional impact of this deadly virus on whole families and on the medical staff treating them. Even in these desperately difficult circumstances there are moments of euphoria as patients who have been cured leave the centre.
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#3 - Educating North Korea
Season 2014 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/3/2014
It's one of the most closed and repressive societies on earth. Its ruthless young leader Kim Jong-un has threatened nuclear war against America and recently executed his own uncle. Yet in the heart of North Korea's absolute dictatorship, a remarkable university - paid for by the west - is attempting to open the minds of the secretive state's future elite. Panorama has gained unprecedented access to this most unusual of academic institutions - which is educating the sons of the brutal regime. Reporter Chris Rogers lives with them on campus and asks: can the class of 2014 help to bring the hermit nation in from the cold?
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#4 - Bernie Ecclestone: Lies, Bribes and Formula One
Season 2014 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/28/2014
Bernie Ecclestone has dominated Formula One motor racing for forty years and made billions from the sport. But two courts say he paid a $44m bribe, a judge recently concluded that it was 'impossible to regard him as a reliable or truthful witness', and he may have avoided a billion pounds of UK tax. Panorama's Darragh Macintyre investigates the truth about the boss of F1, Bernie Ecclestone, and asks why he is still in charge.
#5 - The Fake Sheikh Exposed
Season 2014 - Episode 42 - Aired 11/12/2014
For decades, Mazher Mahmood exposed various personalities in the News of the World whilst posing as a fake sheikh. But after the collapse of the drugs trial of pop star Tulisa Contostavlos, a judge accused Mahmood of lying. Now, Panorama's John Sweeney speaks to some of his highest profile targets and the men who helped him expose them. They allege that the Fake Sheikh was the real crook, using sophisticated entrapment and even creating crimes and fabricating evidence.
#6 - Stolen Childhoods: The Grooming Scandal
Season 2014 - Episode 30 - Aired 9/1/2014
For more than twenty years the grooming and sexual exploitation of children devastated lives in the South Yorkshire town of Rotherham. Panorama investigates why the police and council ignored warnings about the abuse that affected more than 14 hundred children. Reporter Alison Holt speaks to those who repeatedly tried to raise the alarm and hears from young people and their families, demanding to know why they weren't protected.
#7 - Drugs and Money: Dog Racing Undercover
Season 2014 - Episode 40 - Aired 11/3/2014
The integrity of greyhound racing has been called into question by a Panorama investigation which has exposed blatant cheating and the drugging of dogs at the heart of the sport. The undercover investigation caught a trainer revealing how he dopes greyhounds in order to effect betting coups - some of which he claims to have paid out up to £150,000. The programme's findings have prompted animal welfare campaigners to call for the government to reconsider the sport's self-regulatory status.
#8 - Scotland's Decision
Season 2014 - Episode 32 - Aired 9/15/2014
In the week Scotland goes to the ballot box, reporter Allan Little explores what has happened in the past four decades to transform the question of Scottish independence and how it has come to dominate British politics.
#9 - Brazil: In the Shadow of the Stadiums
Season 2014 - Episode 22 - Aired 6/4/2014
Next week, the 'beautiful game' is coming home. Brazil, the most successful nation in football history, is hosting the 2014 World Cup. But the build-up has been overshadowed by violent protests against the spiralling cost of staging the tournament. In a country where a quarter of the population live in extreme poverty, there's widespread anger at what's perceived as the increasing divide between the rich and poor. The multi-million pound new stadiums sit alongside an epidemic of drug addiction and child prostitution. Tonight Panorama reveals the shame of a country where children as young as 12 sell their bodies for the price of a soft drink, where drug cartels control whole swathes of city centres and where the poor are feeling more dispossessed than ever before.
#10 - The War of the Tunnels
Season 2014 - Episode 34 - Aired 9/23/2014
For seven weeks Hamas rockets roared over the border into Israel while Israeli bombs pounded Gaza. Panorama's Jane Corbin goes deep into the underground tunnels where battles have been fought to investigate the war that has devastated Gaza. What has each side really gained in this war and can there be a solution to the conflict which is fuelling hatred and fear all over the world?
#11 - Putin's Gamble
Season 2014 - Episode 31 - Aired 9/8/2014
Vladimir Putin stands accused of launching an undeclared war against Ukraine. He has wrong-footed NATO and western diplomats. His rebel allies may well have the blood of the 298 passengers of flight MH17 on their hands but Putin has gambled boldly, playing on Europe's divisions. As fears of a wider war grow, reporter John Sweeney challenges the Russian strongman on the killing in Ukraine.
#12 - Last Chance Academy
Season 2014 - Episode 29 - Aired 8/27/2014
The story of one school's groundbreaking battle to save problem pupils from the scrap heap and bring exam success. Baverstock Academy is opposed to permanently excluding disruptive kids and will go to almost any lengths to keep them in mainstream education. This Panorama Special follows the students in the run-up to exams to see if the school can honour its pledge to keep disruptive pupils in school as well as get them five GCSEs. In 2013, 146,000 kids were excluded from classrooms, 3,900 on a permanent basis. Most excluded kids end up in pupil referral units, where less than two per cent get five GCSEs at grade C. Baverstock Academy hopes its exam success will change the way the education system treats disruptive pupils and set the pattern for how these children are treated in the future.
#13 - Bedlam Behind Bars
Season 2014 - Episode 26 - Aired 7/7/2014
There is a crisis today in America's prison system which has little to do with crime. It contributes to the abuse and even the deaths of some prisoners at the hands of those paid to take care of them. With access to two US jails, reporter Hilary Andersson finds America's prisons are now having to accommodate vast numbers of inmates with serious mental health problems. The programme reveals that more than a million mentally troubled Americans are imprisoned and may be chained to beds, sprayed with pepper spray and kept in isolation indefinitely.
#14 - Isis: Terror in Iraq
Season 2014 - Episode 27 - Aired 7/14/2014
An investigation into Isis and how it is ripping Iraq apart. Paul Wood speaks to members of the terror group and sees the fighting in Iraq first-hand. Will British recruits bring the terror home?
#15 - Hacking: Power, Corruption and Lies
Season 2014 - Episode 25 - Aired 6/25/2014
In a Panorama Special, Robert Peston investigates the questions behind the phone hacking trial which saw David Cameron's former spokesman, Andy Coulson, convicted and three other News of the World News editors plead guilty. Did politicians of all parties and police help to cover-up the hacking scandal for years because of their own close relationships with Rupert Murdoch's News International?
#16 - Britain's Homeless Families
Season 2014 - Episode 24 - Aired 6/23/2014
The number of people made homeless by private landlords has tripled in the last four years. It's now the single biggest cause of homelessness in England. Reporter Richard Bilton meets the homeless families forced out by private landlords and asks whether the government's increasing reliance on the private rental sector is placing the vulnerable at risk.
#17 - Apple's Broken Promises
Season 2014 - Episode 47 - Aired 12/18/2014
Apple is the most valuable brand on the planet, making products that everyone wants - but how are its workers treated when the world isn't looking? Panorama goes undercover in China to show what life is like for the workers making the iPhone 6. And it's not just the factories. Reporter Richard Bilton travels to Indonesia to find children working in some of the most dangerous mines in the world. But is the tin they dig out by hand finding its way into Apple's products?
#18 - Scotland: The People's Voice
Season 2014 - Episode 33 - Aired 9/22/2014
In the aftermath of Scotland's referendum, Panorama follows the lives of ordinary voters who took part in the momentous decision.
#19 - Born Asleep
Season 2014 - Episode 35 - Aired 9/29/2014
Every year in the UK, four thousand babies are stillborn. It's one of the worst rates in the developed world. Panorama's Paul Kenyon meets the clinicians who say they could save hundreds of babies' lives a year, with cheap and simple interventions that the medical establishment appears slow to accept.
#20 - Workers on the Breadline
Season 2014 - Episode 36 - Aired 10/6/2014
Millions of British workers are being paid too little to live on - and some are on such low wages they can't afford to eat properly. Reporter Richard Bilton meets workers on the breadline who only get by because of big handouts from the government. These benefits for the low paid are now costing taxpayers £28 billion a year, so why do so many British workers find it impossible to pay their own way?
#21 - The Farage Factor
Season 2014 - Episode 37 - Aired 10/13/2014
Ukip and its people's army have shaken the political establishment by attracting voters and defecting Tory MPs. It has been an extraordinary year for the once-fringe party. Reporter Darragh MacIntyre has been on the trail of the charismatic and controversial leader who claims he's revolutionising British politics, but is Nigel Farage really any different from the politicians he criticises?
#22 - Inside the Taliban
Season 2014 - Episode 38 - Aired 10/20/2014
On the eve of the withdrawal from Afghanistan of most American, British and other NATO forces, Panorama has gained unique access inside a Taliban stronghold just 60 miles from the capital Kabul. Nagieb Khaja, who has reported from Afghanistan for ten years, makes a journey behind the Taliban front lines to reveal a hidden and dangerous world, where once again the writ of the Taliban runs enforcing strict sharia law and education for boys only. It is from here the Taliban are now targeting the capital itself.
#23 - To Walk Again
Season 2014 - Episode 39 - Aired 10/21/2014
In a world exclusive, Panorama tells the story of a paralysed man who is able to walk again after a pioneering transplant using the regenerative cells that repair and renew our sense of smell.
#24 - The Girl Who Vanished
Season 2014 - Episode 41 - Aired 11/10/2014
Eleven years on from the disappearance of Blackpool schoolgirl Charlene Downes, Panorama investigates why nobody has been brought to justice for her murder. Reporter Shelley Jofre unravels a story of serious failings in the police investigation and asks should more be done to protect vulnerable girls from grooming and sexual exploitation.
#25 - Did the Bank Wreck My Business?
Season 2014 - Episode 44 - Aired 11/24/2014
The banks we bailed out are supposed to be supporting British business, but RBS and Lloyds have been accused of wrecking good companies. Reporter Andrew Verity meets the entrepreneurs who say their businesses have been unfairly shut down. He also hears new revelations from a former Government insider on the power and influence of Britain's biggest banks.