Panorama (1953)

Will government plans to spend £23 billion on Britain's roads ease traffic jams or encourage more people to take to their cars? Reporter Jo…

Simon Studholme died of leukaemia in 1992. His bedroom was next to electricity meter and outside house stands an electricity substation.

With 1994 designated Year of Family, it is disturbing trends emerging from 1980s show more children than ever will go.

Two thousand people die of asthma each year in Britain. The number of sufferers is growing, and blame is being leveled at air pollution.

Five years ago government created personal pensions industry -and a big problem. The government now promises industry's system of "self-reg…

America began to conduct atomic tests at Yucca Flats in Nevada soon after Second World War, and "down-winders" across border in Utah were r…

The Scott Inquiry into exports to Iraq has put inner workings of government on public display as never.

An investigation into one of the biggest killers of middle-aged women in Britain - breast cancer. The programme reports on how doctors are…

After the success of Vladimir Zhirinovsky in Russia's recent elections, Panorama examines the threat to world peace. The strong feelings of…

In 1987 the BBC's Michael Buerk was refused a renewal of his work permit to report from South Africa - effectively he was expelled, as part…

Government schemes to train long-term unemployed sound like a good idea but this investigation reveals they are often very expensive, ineff…

On the South Seacroft estate in Leeds, syringes lie in gutters and drug dealers cruise the streets in fast cars confident the police won't…

PLO Chairman Arafat "is no Nelson Mandela" according to a Palestinian commentator, but he has agreed to a fundamental change in the way Ara…

Are our dental fillings making us ill? Tom Mangold reports on alarming new evidence about amalgam, the substance metal fillings are made of.

"The police force should not be enticing people to commit crime - And that is what they have been doing," says James Daniels, a small-time…

"If the baby comes out and looks a 'goer', we will try for it" says a doctor to a woman 22 weeks pregnant and starting contractions. Sarah…

The landlord is back. But is he up to the job? In tonight's programme, Mike Embley investigates the rent revolution - millions of people wh…

What is future for Rwandans who survive refugee camps? The United Nations is trying to persuade survivors to return to what is left of thei…

Why should a company director of two years' standing get a "golden handshake" of half-a-million pounds when a middle manager has to work fo…

Tonight Panorama introduces Tony Blair, the man behind the rhetoric and headlines. In the town of Southampton, Blair meets the middle Engla…

Peter Jay, BBC Economics Editor, looks at job insecurity, issue of 90s. With "a job for life" now an outdated concept, parents fear their c…

In wake of IRA ceasefire, Panorama reports on mood of Unionist community. A member of unionist Orange Order alleges Northern Ireland has be…

From babyhood to boardroom, women are now set to out-achieve men. Panorama reveals evidence that the future is female - and the weaker sex…

He was the boy from the other side of the tracks, poor, black, who made it in a white man's world. The trial of 0J Simpson, an American spo…

Is "the greatest nightmare" of being "old, sick, poor and uncared for" referred to by John Major at the Conservative Party Conference alrea…

On 28 September the ferry Estonia sank in minutes in the Baltic Sea with the loss of 900 lives. It was the second major accident involving…

In the wake of books, biographies and annus horribili, the monarchy is facing its biggest crisis for half a century. Even establishment cir…

As British Rail is broken up into more than 80 new companies, trains are grinding to a halt with more cancellations and late trains, leavin…