Dispatches
Season 2002
TV-PG
Dispatches is the British TV current affairs documentary series on Channel 4, first transmitted in 1987. The programme covers issues about British society, politics, health, religion, international current affairs and the environment, and often features a mole inside organisations under journalistic investigation.
Where to Watch Season 2002
11 Episodes
- Secrets of the Saudi StateE1
Secrets of the Saudi State'Dispatches' reporter Deborah Davies goes undercover in Saudia Arabia, one of the world's most secretive and repressive states. Davies talks to one of the Britons accused of involvement in the illegal alcohol trade and reports on the appalling conditions endured by westerners in Saudi jails. Davies also details how non-Muslim foreign workers are routinely tortured and even executed for minor crimes. - The Colombian ConnectionE3
The Colombian ConnectionDocumentary investigating why three Irishmen with strong IRA links were arrested in the summer of 2001 in an area of Colombia controlled by the narco-terrorist group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Reporter Sandra Jordon looks into the background of the three men, interviews former FARC operatives and learns how FARC appear to have adopted IRA military tactics as evidence of the IRA's involvement in global terrorism grows. - Speed TrapE5
Speed TrapAn investigation into whether speed cameras are making Britain's roads safer. Jonathan Miller travels on some of the country's most dangerous roads and finds evidence that motorists are using various tactics to avoid being caught speeding, and that the Government's policies are failing to cut road death figures. - Sex on the StreetE7
Sex on the StreetIn an unprecedented investigation that took almost a year and involved interviewing over 100 street prostitutes in red light districts in 18 towns and cities, a terrifying pattern of violence emerged - one that, until now, has gone hidden and unreported. Sixty per cent of the sex workers interviewed said that they had been raped or seriously beaten by clients in the previous 12 months. What's more they're being attacked because they are available and vulnerable - and worse - our prostitution laws are making them easy targets. - Young, Nazi and ProudE8
Young, Nazi and ProudAs the British National Party seeks to present itself as a more electable proposition, Dispatches reporter David Modell spends eight months with Mark Collett, leader of the Young BNP, to reveal the future face of the far right in Britain. From the BNP's electoral inroads in this year's local elections to their annual Red, White and Blue festival and confrontations with the Anti-Nazi League, Modell follows Collet into the murky world of right-wing politics and offers a shocking insight into the thoughts and beliefs of the far right's most charismatic youth leader. - Lifting the VeilE9
Lifting the VeilJust over a year after going undercover in Afghanistan to make the award-winning Beneath the Veil , Dispatches returns to the former Taliban-run country to reveal the story behind one of that film's most shocking images. Pictures smuggled out by the opposition group RAWA showed the medieval barbarity of the regime - symbolised by the execution of a woman in the middle of a football pitch. But what had the 35-year-old woman and mother of seven children done to warrant her fate? The Dispatches team track down her children and reveal her harrowing story as well as uncovering shocking evidence that the plight of women in Afghanistan has changed very little since the fall of the Taliban. - Truth and Lies in BaghdadE10
Truth and Lies in BaghdadReporter Sam Kiley goes undercover in Iraq to discover the barbarity that Saddam Hussein and his government want to keep from the outside world. He discovers a people terrorised by its own government and secret police. Civilians are assassinated and subjected to military brutality and women are beheaded in busy streets. - North Korea - Undercover in the Secret StateE11
North Korea - Undercover in the Secret StateNorth Korea is one of the world's most secretive states. It has been controlled in the last 60 years by The Great Leader Kim Il-sung and later his son Kim Jong-il through a tyrannical form of Stalinism. During their regime an estimated 200,000 men, women and children have been imprisoned in political concentration camps. A famine in the 1990s decimated a further two million.