Dispatches

Season 2025

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 Dispatches • Season 2025

8 Episodes

  • Skinny Jab Scandal
    E1
    Skinny Jab ScandalUndercover reporting reveals major flaws in how skinny jabs are sold at Boots and finds registered NHS nurses prescribing jabs to patients who aren't overweight.
  • Delivered to a Predator: Al Fayed's Fixer
    E2
    Delivered to a Predator: Al Fayed's FixerReporter Cathy Newman investigates and tracks down the woman who facilitated Mohamed Al Fayed's rape and sexual abuse of women at Harrods for over a decade.
  • Undercover: The Great Tagging Scandal
    E3
    Undercover: The Great Tagging ScandalAs the Government release offenders early to ease prison numbers, Dispatches is undercover with tagging company Serco which is meant to keep the public safe.
  • Britain's Car Theft Gangs Exposed
    E4
    Britain's Car Theft Gangs ExposedEvery eight minutes a car is stolen in Britain. Dispatches goes undercover on the tail of the thieves driving this car-crime epidemic.
  • Will Nigel Farage Be Prime Minister?
    E5
    Will Nigel Farage Be Prime Minister?With Reform UK topping polls and running councils, are we on the verge of a political earthquake? And do Reform UK have what it takes to govern?
  • Trump: Moscow’s Man in the White House?
    E6
    Trump: Moscow’s Man in the White House?What’s the truth about Trump’s relationship with Putin? Insiders share a unique behind-the-scenes view on the greatest political story of the decade.
  • 999 Undercover: NHS in Crisis
    E7
    999 Undercover: NHS in CrisisA Dispatches reporter goes undercover in a 999 control room to reveal the truth about overstretched ambulance services.
  • Will AI Take My Job?
    E8
    Will AI Take My Job?Millions of workers in the UK could lose their jobs because of the artificial intelligence revolution. According to experts the impact on a range of industries could be dramatic, with skilled work particularly affected. As AI develops rapidly, with claims it can outperform humans in most tasks, Dispatches undertakes a bold and unique experiment that pitches human against machine to find out how true that is. Four professionals are invited into a specially-created test centre to compete in a set of identical tasks against their AI counterparts: a GP; a fashion photographer; a trainee solicitor; and a composer. With reputations as well as jobs at stake, who comes out on top - humans or AI?

 

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