Panorama (1953)

Alcohol abuse is responsible for up to 40,000 deaths every year in Britain, as well as domestic incidents, absenteeism and crime.

Tonight, in the first programme of a special two part investigation on the reality of the welfare state, reporter Stephen Bradshaw looks at…

The 2nd programme of a two-part investigation into the welfare state. Stephen Bradshaw looks at the implications of the middle classes incr…

On 8 December last year, a 10 yr old boy from Stockport, Nicholas Geldard died in a Leeds hospital. In his last hours he was taken to 4 dif…

The stranding of the Sea Empress oil tanker at the mouth of the Cleddau Estuary off Milford Haven in February 1996 resulted in 72,000 tonne…

The Bosnian Serb army stand accused of some of the worst war crimes to be committed since the end of the Second World War. Panorama tells t…

Gerry Northam presents a programme looking at controversy surrounding perceived results of drugs trials on AZT (marketed as Retrovir) since…

As part of the week-long series Dealing with Drugs, a look at the increasing use of recreational drugs, not just among the young, but among…

Last year nearly 200 people were publicly beheaded in Saudi Arabia, yet the British Government does not criticise its closest Middle East a…

Thomas Creedon was born severely brain-damaged. Unable to see or hear, he was kept alive only through modern medicine. His parents were pre…

Are our children being let down by primary school education? New research suggests that over the last 25 years, standards in maths have fal…

So far BSE has meant the deaths of 160,000 cows and may lead to the condition Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease in humans. As the Government's hand…

In the brave new world of privatised railways, it's cheaper to send trains by road than by rail. New owners of the track charge operators s…

Swifter, higher, stronger is the Olympic motto but has the athlete's ultimate dream to win gold created a culture of world-class cheats? To…

Panorama begins with this report on the aftermath of the massacre when Thomas Hamilton killed 16 children and their teacher at Dunblane Pri…

The spin doctors politicians rely upon to influence the news have been called "the men in the dark" . Do they help politicians float storie…

Sir James Goldsmith is a billionaire at the gate of British politics - a financier who intends spending huge amounts of money promoting the…

As America prepares to vote for its next President and the candidates' election campaigns roll towards their conclusion, Edward Stourton jo…

Statistics show that British women are committing more and more violent crimes. Panorama investigates the shift in the traditional role of…

Martin Bashir reports on what seems to be a widescale ignorance of the easily-treatable Kawasaki disease, the biggest cause of heart diseas…

Tonight, Peter Jay contrasts political rhetoric of last 20 years with realities of tax burden, to discover if anything has changed.

With Christmas imminent. Panorama investigates allegations that the prices of hi-fi's, televisions and fridges are being kept artificially…