The BEST episodes of Panorama season 2024
Every episode of Panorama season 2024, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Panorama season 2024!
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 - Smart Motorways: When Technology Fails
Season 2024 - Episode 14 - Aired 4/22/2024
The rollout of smart motorways has been stopped because of safety fears, but there are still 250 miles of the network with no hard shoulder. The government says new technology will make existing stretches of smart motorways safe. But what happens when the technology doesn’t work? Panorama reveals how equipment failure and power cuts can leave motorists in danger if they break down. When the system isn’t working, the cameras won’t see you, the radar won’t find you and you’ll have no idea the motorway isn’t smart anymore. Reporter Richard Bilton meets the people whose lives have been changed by the roads that keep failing.
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#2 - Britain's Crumbling Schools
Season 2024 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/22/2024
An investigation into the state of British school buildings where headteachers are struggling to keep their students safe and children are learning in gloves due to extreme cold.
#3 - Midwives Under Pressure
Season 2024 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/29/2024
Investigating the crisis in maternity care that is putting women and babies at risk. Whistle-blowers at a trust in Gloucestershire tell reporter Michael Buchanan about deaths, understaffing and a culture they say has failed to learn from mistakes.
#4 - Immigration: The UK’s Record Rise
Season 2024 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/25/2024
Ros Atkins explores how net migration to the UK has hit record levels, when the government promised in the wake of Brexit that immigration would be lower.
#5 - Britain’s Obesity Crisis: Are Weight-Loss Drugs the Answer?
Season 2024 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/15/2024
A new generation of anti-obesity drugs are being hailed as game changers for the NHS and for millions of patients. So-called 'skinny jabs' like Wegovy have largely been the preserve of celebrities and those with the money to buy them privately, but now the NHS is beginning to roll them out. So will they live up to the hype, how available will they be, and is the NHS ready for a revolution in treating obesity?
#6 - Will My Crime Be Solved?
Season 2024 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/8/2024
Only one in 20 crimes in England and Wales result in someone being charged. More criminals are now getting away with everything from burglary to knife crime. So, is the public being let down by the system?
#7 - The Mobile Home Swindle
Season 2024 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/11/2024
Reporter Rory Carson meets the caravan park residents who say they have been mis-sold their properties and falsely promised they could stay in them for the rest of their lives.
#8 - Hamas' Secret Financial Empire
Season 2024 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/19/2024
Following the attacks of 7 October 2023, Israel has vowed to destroy Hamas. But can it? John Ware investigates Hamas’ network outside Gaza, uncovering a web of financial enablers.
#9 - Sudden Child Deaths: The Search for Answers
Season 2024 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/5/2024
It's a parent's nightmare. An apparently healthy child dying without warning, and no explanation of what went wrong. Yet unexplained deaths in children over a year old happen almost once a week in the UK. They sometimes result in parents being falsely accused of harming their child. Reporter Richard Bilton investigates these sudden unexplained deaths in children and looks at the research trying to find out why they happen.
#10 - Royal Mail: Where's My Post?
Season 2024 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/26/2024
Panorama investigates Royal Mail, hearing from whistleblowers and the service's senior management who believe the postal system must change if Royal Mail is to survive.
#11 - Trump: The Sequel?
Season 2024 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/4/2024
Donald Trump is back and heading for an epic election rematch with Joe Biden in November. So how is a man facing 91 charges and four different criminal trials managing to defy the laws of political gravity? Is he on course to retake the White House, or could judges or swing voters stop him? In a Panorama collaboration with the Americast podcast on BBC Sounds, Justin Webb and Marianna Spring travel from the frozen plains of Iowa to the crucial swing state of Georgia to explore Donald Trump’s enduring appeal and look ahead to an unprecedented American election year.
#12 - Alzheimer’s: A Turning Point?
Season 2024 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/12/2024
Fergus Walsh follows patients with Alzheimer's disease, who have been taking two new drugs that have been shown to slow down its progression. Is this a turning point in its treatment?
#13 - Paying More for Less: Councils in Crisis
Season 2024 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/18/2024
Alison Holt reports on how spiralling care costs for children, the elderly and homeless people are threatening to push the councils across the UK into the red.
#14 - NHS Patients Going Private: What Are the Risks?
Season 2024 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/8/2024
With more than six million people in England alone waiting for an operation on the NHS, Monika Plaha investigates the safety record of one of the UK's biggest private healthcare providers.