Dispatches

Episode 1

Return to Year Zero?

Documentary report on the risks to the area if the Khmer Rouge regains power in Kampuchea.

Episode 2

Gorbachev's Asylums

Documentary report about the changes in the Soviet Union's psychiatric system caused by Gorbachev's policy of "glasnost".

Episode 3

Cooking the Books

Investigation of Thatcher government's alleged misuse of official statistics.

Episode 4

The Spy Who Broke the Code

Documentary examining the continued significance for the USA and her allies, of John Walker, a US Navy Chief Warrant Officer and Soviet Spy.

Episode 5

Buckets of Money

Documentary investigation into high pressure shares salesmen. Exposes the 'bucket shops' where share dealers are cheating the small investor.

Episode 6

The Copper Seven Story

Documentary report abut the legal wrangle in Los Angeles involving G.D. Searle, manufacturers of a contraceptive coil which it was forced to withdraw from the American market.

Episode 7

Afghan

A four month Afghan report from the eyes and mouth of Jeff Harmon and Alexander Lindsay.

Episode 8

The Toxic Trail

Documentary on the legal debate surrounding a mother's wish to have sterilized her 35-year old daughter, who has a mental age of four.

Episode 9

The Case of 'F'

Episode 10

The Return of the Death Squads

Episode 11

Burma - Dying for Democracy

Episode 12

Voices From Long Larten

Episode 13

Young, Homeless and Broke

Episode 14

Chico

A documentary about the Brazilian Chico Mendes, filmed over several years by Adrian Cowell, about the Brazilian campaigner against deforestation of the Amazon rainforest.

Episode 15

Carry on Flying

Episode 16

The Most Neglected Crime

Four out of ten women had received an unwanted obscene phone call, but a police superintendent could not recall one individual being prosecuted for that offence in 23 years.

Episode 17

Dispatches (26/04/1989)

Episode 18

A Suitable Case for Treatment

Episode 19

The Sins of the Fathers

Episode 20

Not What the Doctor Ordered

Featuring David Willetts of the Centre for Policy Studies, and a new White Paper on health

Episode 21

Warlord of Kayan

Episode 22

The Ultimate Blasphemy

Episode 23

Fit as a Fiddle

Episode 24

Empire of the Sun

Episode 25

Year of the Locust

Episode 26

A State of Decay

Episode 27

Terror Island

Episode 28

The Spanish Connection

Episode 29

The Day of the Technopath

Episode 30

No, Prime Minister

Episode 31

The Undoing of Edwina

Episode 32

Mission Impossible

Episode 33

In the Coal Hole

Episode 34

The False Confession File

Episode 35

Hungarians Not Comrades

Documentary profile of the people of Hungary, whose country has been the centre of world attention in 1989 with the return of democratic elections.

Episode 36

Twelve Days in November

Documentary report from Czechoslovakia on the recent political upheavals over the twelve days since Friday 17th November.

Episode 37

Licence to Kill

Episode 38

Privatising Poland

Episode 39

Road to Damascus