Ken Loach
Director
Dispatches (1987)
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.
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
S39E1 - Skinny Jab Scandal
Undercover 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.
March 4, 2025, midnight
S39E2 - Delivered to a Predator: Al Fayed's Fixer
Reporter 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.
April 3, 2025, midnight
S39E7 - 999 Undercover: NHS in Crisis
A Dispatches reporter goes undercover inside a 999 control room to reveal the truth about our overstretched ambulance services.
Oct. 13, 2025, 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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