Dispatches - Season 30 / Year 2015

Season 30 / Year 2015

Episodes

How to Blow Your Pension

Low Pay Britain

The Great Car Con

Secrets of the Parking Wardens

Politicians for Hire
Dispatches goes undercover to investigate how former cabinet ministers are offering themselves to private companies as Brexit advisers. Antony Barnett discovers how, with Brexit causing ever more confusion and uncertainty, this presents an opportunity for those with the right knowledge to cash in on their experience.

Britain's Benefits Crackdown

Benefits Britain

Britain's Defence Squeeze

How to Buy a Meeting with a Minister

How Safe Are Our Planes?

The Secrets of Sports Direct

Trains: Are You Paying Too Much?

Where to Save Your Money

Exams: Cheating the System?

The Great British Property Divide

Salt: Are You Eating Too Much?

Kids in Crisis

How Councils Blow Your Millions

Pensions and the Price of Growing Old

Escape from Isis

Hunted: Gay and Afraid

Britain's Benefits Experiment

Aldi's Supermarket Secrets

Britain's Nightmare New Homes

White People

The Children Who Beat Ebola
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