The BEST episodes of Panorama season 2022
Every episode of Panorama season 2022, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Panorama season 2022!
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 - Obesity: Who Cares If I'm Bigger?
Season 2022 - Episode 16 - Aired 4/20/2022
Eighteen months after the prime minister launched his strategy to help the nation lose weight, EastEnders actress Clair Norris, who is overweight herself, wants to know if it is working.
#2 - Ukraine's Resistance: Standing Up to Putin
Season 2022 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/21/2022
For almost a month, Ukraine has fought off one of the world's super-powers. Can it repel Putin’s forces? Panorama's Paul Kenyon reports from the frontline in southern Ukraine.
#3 - Anti-Social Behaviour: Afraid in My Own Home
Season 2022 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/24/2022
Rory Carson investigates how anti-social behaviour blights communities across Britain and discovers how hard it can be to get help.
#4 - Maternity Scandal: Fighting for the Truth
Season 2022 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/23/2022
Michael Buchanan reports on repeated failures in maternity care at hospitals in Shropshire. Many babies died whilst others were left with life-changing injuries.
#5 - Roman Abramovich's Dirty Money
Season 2022 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/14/2022
Chelsea-owner, Roman Abramovich, has been sanctioned by the UK government for his ties to Vladimir Putin. But where did the Russian billionaire's money come from? Panorama reporter Richard Bilton travels to Siberia to investigate the corrupt deals that made his fortune. He uncovers new details about Mr Abramovich's murky past and his relationship with the Kremlin.
#6 - Beyond Reasonable Doubt: Britain's Rape Crisis
Season 2022 - Episode 13 - Aired 3/28/2022
Panorama is on the frontline with Derbyshire Police to investigate why only one per cent of reported rapes in England and Wales results in a conviction. For more than 18 months, the film follows five people who have reported rape and the detectives investigating their cases as they journey through the criminal justice system. They include 'Sam', who says she was raped by a stranger after a night out, and two sisters who say they were repeatedly raped by their father as children and whose case has already been turned down by the Crown Prosecution Service.
#7 - Fixing Unfair Britain: Can Levelling Up Deliver?
Season 2022 - Episode 14 - Aired 4/6/2022
Levelling up is one of Boris Johnson's flagship policies. It's intended to improve the quality of life for millions of people who live outside London and the south east by investing in local communities and infrastructure. Billions of pounds have been allocated for high streets, transport links and skills. The BBC's new political editor Chris Mason returns to his home county of Yorkshire to find out what the residents of Barnsley think of the policy
#8 - Manchester Arena Bombing: Saffie's Story
Season 2022 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/7/2022
Panorama follows the parents of the youngest victim of the Manchester Arena bombing as they navigate the public inquiry into the attack. As the fifth anniversary approaches, they ask could the bomber have been stopped and could their daughter have survived her injuries?
#9 - Undercover Hospital: Patients at Risk
Season 2022 - Episode 35 - Aired 9/28/2022
A Panorama undercover investigation has found evidence that a secure NHS psychiatric hospital is failing to protect some of its vulnerable patients. Secret filming reveals evidence of a toxic staff culture, patients being taunted and bullied, inappropriate use of restraint and falsification of important medical paperwork. Experts who have reviewed the findings have questioned the hospital’s safety, saying the evidence suggests its core therapeutic mission is being corrupted.
#10 - The Champions League Final: What Went Wrong?
Season 2022 - Episode 39 - Aired 10/17/2022
It was supposed to be a joyous end to an unforgettable season, but it quickly turned into a nightmare. Journalist Layla Wright investigates events as they unfolded at the 2022 UEFA Champions League final in Paris between Liverpool and Real Madrid.
#11 - Channel Crisis - Can People Smugglers Be Stopped?
Season 2022 - Episode 34 - Aired 9/26/2022
Sending asylum seekers to Rwanda is part of a government plan intended to help cut the number of small boats crossing the Channel and force people smugglers out of business. But will it really deter migrants trying to come to the UK? Reporter Jane Corbin investigates the smugglers who get people into Britain and finds out what the government's plan means for those attempting the potentially deadly journey.
#12 - The Downfall of Boris Johnson
Season 2022 - Episode 27 - Aired 7/13/2022
As Boris Johnson is forced from office, for Panorama Laura Kuenssberg follows the dramatic events of the last seven days in Westminster. She looks back at the scandals that defined his premiership and ultimately led to his downfall. She hears from the insiders who tried to persuade him to go, the candidates vying to replace him and the colleagues who warned it was always going to end like this.
#13 - A Social Media Murder: Olly's Story
Season 2022 - Episode 23 - Aired 6/20/2022
Thirteen-year-old Olly Stephens left home for the final time on a Sunday afternoon in January 2021, telling his parents he was meeting a friend nearby. Fifteen minutes later, he had been murdered. Lured out by a teenage girl and stabbed to death by two teenage boys she had met online, the entire attack was planned on social media and triggered by a dispute on a chat group. With exclusive access to Olly's parents Amanda and Stuart, Panorama reporter Marianna Spring investigates the violent and disturbing world their son had been exposed to online and follows their campaign for tighter regulations on harmful content.
#14 - A Cow's Life: The True Cost of Milk?
Season 2022 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/14/2022
Most of us drink cow’s milk, but are we paying enough for it? Panorama investigates the dairy industry to find out whether animal welfare is being compromised in the drive to keep milk prices low. The film features disturbing undercover footage of farmworkers abusing cows, while reporter Daniel Foggo speaks to farmers and vets about the lives most dairy herds can expect to lead.
#15 - Disaster Deniers: Hunting the Trolls
Season 2022 - Episode 40 - Aired 10/31/2022
Panorama investigates how survivors of major terror attacks are hounded and abused by conspiracy theorists who claim they are ‘crisis actors.’ US conspiracist Alex Jones has just been ordered to pay nearly $1bn to families of the Sandy Hook school shooting after claiming the attack was a hoax. Now the BBC’s disinformation correspondent Marianna Spring hunts the disaster trolls who target survivors of terror attacks in the UK and reveals new research about the popularity of these beliefs.
#16 - The Post Office Scandal
Season 2022 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/25/2022
The story of the most widespread miscarriage of justice in British legal history and those whose lives were devastated by it.
#17 - Road Rage: Cars v Bikes
Season 2022 - Episode 41 - Aired 11/2/2022
There are more cyclists on our roads than at any time in the last 50 years, and the government is spending billions trying to encourage even more people to get on their bikes. So why are there so many incidents of road rage and injury? Research suggests most people think the UK’s roads are too dangerous to cycle on. Filmed confrontations with motorists are now commonplace. Reporter Richard Bilton hits the road to investigate what’s going on between drivers and cyclists.
#18 - Will the NHS Care for Me?
Season 2022 - Episode 38 - Aired 10/10/2022
Line of Duty actor and campaigner Tommy Jessop investigates why people with a learning disability are more than twice as likely to die from avoidable causes than the rest of the population.
#19 - Mental Health: Young Lives in Crisis
Season 2022 - Episode 33 - Aired 9/20/2022
With unique access to the biggest mental health service in the UK and some of its young patients, Panorama reveals the challenges faced daily by clinicians as demand for services reaches unprecedented levels in the wake of the pandemic. In 2017 it was estimated that one in nine young people had a diagnosable mental health condition. Now it's thought to be one in six.
#20 - Airport Chaos: What's Gone Wrong?
Season 2022 - Episode 28 - Aired 7/18/2022
Strikes, delays, cancellations. With the peak summer holiday season almost here, many of the UK's airports and airlines are struggling to cope. Rachel Burden investigates the aviation industry at home and across Europe. She hears from holidaymakers fighting to get compensation and reveals the best and worst performing airlines. She also gets tips on the key consumer advice you need to know before you try to get on a flight this summer.
#21 - The Housing Benefit Millionaire
Season 2022 - Episode 29 - Aired 8/15/2022
Thousands of vulnerable people are housed and supported by not-for-profit social housing providers, many of them charities. Panorama investigates one charity and its links to a millionaire developer who has turned taxpayer-funded housing benefit into a personal fortune through the supply of properties. Reporter Rory Carson speaks to tenants who feel they’ve been let down by the charity, former employees who say serious problems of anti-social behaviour were sparked by the charity's focus on expansion and hears calls for better regulation of social housing to protect both tenants and the taxpayer.
#22 - Hong Kong: Life Under the Crackdown
Season 2022 - Episode 24 - Aired 6/28/2022
Panorama has spent the last year with young journalists and protestors as they live through the most turbulent period in Hong Kong's recent history. When the British government transferred sovereignty back to China 25 years ago, it promised to protect freedom of speech, but new laws have effectively silenced all criticism. Street protests have all but stopped, pro-democracy lawmakers have been replaced by Beijing loyalists and Hong Kong's new chief executive is its former security chief, who led the crackdown. Reporter Danny Vincent has been following those who've lived through the street protest movement, both as activists and reporters, many of whom are now in prison.
#23 - Hunting Putin's War Criminals
Season 2022 - Episode 19 - Aired 5/23/2022
As Ukrainians return to areas once under Russian control, they are uncovering evidence of war crimes. Panorama's Paul Kenyon travels to Kyiv to investigate the elite Russian units he encountered on the first day of the war. He hears allegations of looting and murder and speaks to witnesses who lived through the occupation. Tracking the soldiers east he visits a frontline town from where Ukrainian forces are launching counterattacks against troops who had previously occupied the suburbs of Kyiv.
#24 - Protecting Our Children: A Balancing Act
Season 2022 - Episode 18 - Aired 5/16/2022
With more children in care in England than ever before, and the government about to publish a report on the deaths of two toddlers at the hands of their parent’s new partners, Panorama investigates how social workers make critical decisions about children’s lives. Granted rare, exclusive permission from the family courts, reporter Louise Tickle hears from families who have been damaged by decisions made by one local authority. With the government pushing social workers to step in earlier than ever, what happens if they go too far, too fast?
#25 - Surviving The Cost of Living Crisis
Season 2022 - Episode 15 - Aired 4/11/2022
Panorama follows three families, as they try to cope with what is predicted to be the biggest fall in living standards since the 1950s.