Ken Loach
Director
Dispatches (1987)
2023
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.
Released Oct. 30, 1987
Episode 44 min
10+
Genres: Documentary, News
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Production Companies: ITN Productions, Bigger Bang, Hardcash Productions
Network: Channel 4
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S37E1 - Strippers, Spies & Russian Money
The extraordinary story of Russia's covert efforts to corrupt British democracy and politics in the years before invading Ukraine. MI5 declined to comment on the programme for operational reasons.
Feb. 12, 2023, midnight
S37E2 - Undercover Ambulance: NHS Chaos
Secret footage filmed over the winter reveals ambulance workers battling the odds and A&E departments overwhelmed as patients suffer needless harm and death.
March 9, 2023, midnight
S37E3 - Locked Away: Our Autism Scandal
Autistic patients trapped in mental health units tell their stories, revealing a system of poor treatment, abuse and long stretches inside with their symptoms only getting worse.
March 24, 2023, midnight
S37E4 - Britain's Forgotten Pensioners
More than two million pensioners are living in poverty in the UK. Dispatches follows four older people through the winter as they struggle to make ends meet.
June 7, 2023, midnight
S37E5 - Boris, the Lord & the Russian Spy
The full story of Boris Johnson's friendship with press baron Evgeny Lebedev and his dad Alexander, an ex-KGB spy, revealing the secret fears of security services
June 27, 2023, midnight
S37E6 - Sri Lanka's Easter Bombings
Sept. 5, 2023, midnight
S37E7 - Russell Brand: In Plain Sight
Sept. 16, 2023, midnight
S37E8 - Hunting Russia's Lost Boys
Nov. 12, 2023, midnight
Network: Channel 4
Episode Runtime: 44 min.
Season Runtime: 16796 min.
Released: Oct. 30, 1987
Last Air Date: Oct. 13, 2025, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: TV-PG / 10+
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