Julia Somerville
Self - Presenter
Rip Off Britain (2009)
Series 4
Angela Rippon and the team expose some of the rip offs that are costing British consumers.
Released Nov. 30, 2009
Episode 44 min
None+
Genres: Biography, Crime, Documentary, History, News
Keywords: imdb.consumer-rights, imdb.advice, imdb.female-presenter, imdb.country-name-in-title, imdb.three-word-title, imdb.non-fiction, imdb.yorkshire-england + 9 more, imdb.election, imdb.historical-documentary, imdb.1970s, imdb.bbc, imdb.female-politician, imdb.politics, imdb.political-documentary, imdb.politician, imdb.news-documentary
Network: BBC One
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S4E1 - Episode 1
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville return with the series exposing rip-off raw deals and poor service. They test the claims of a cash for gold company.
Sept. 3, 2012, midnight
S4E2 - Episode 2
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville meet people angry about being left out of pocket, and investigate a big name high street store letting customers down.
Sept. 4, 2012, midnight
S4E3 - Episode 3
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville meet a family devastated by a catch in the small print that could force them out of their home.
Sept. 5, 2012, midnight
S4E4 - Episode 4
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville Gloria investigate problems to do with the home. Plus, a woman who is worried that her boiler may not meet current standards.
Sept. 6, 2012, midnight
S4E5 - Episode 5
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville meet people fighting to get out of contracts they say are expensive or unfair.
Sept. 7, 2012, midnight
S4E6 - Episode 6
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville hear how a heating system in thousands of homes has left some families with unexpectedly high bills.
Sept. 10, 2012, midnight
S4E7 - Episode 7
Sept. 11, 2012, midnight
S4E8 - Episode 8
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville help some residents fighting an annual charge. Plus, the villagers who cannot get a decent broadband connection.
Sept. 12, 2012, midnight
S4E9 - Episode 9
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate how an error has made it almost impossible for one couple to sell their home.
Sept. 13, 2012, midnight
S4E10 - Episode 10
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville meet a meet a football fan who never received his paid-for tickets. And the company taking advantage of people's dreams.
Sept. 14, 2012, midnight
S4E11 - Episode 11
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate complaints about the banks. And more consumer issues are resolved at the Pop-Up Shop.
Sept. 17, 2012, midnight
S4E12 - Episode 12
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville look into the companies dealing with mis-sold PPI payments, and reveal how a company was taped lying to prospective customers.
Sept. 18, 2012, midnight
S4E13 - Episode 13
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate energy companies, meeting a man who was sent a £7,000 electricity bill for the year. Plus, how to lower bills.
Sept. 19, 2012, midnight
S4E14 - Episode 14
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville help a woman forced to pay someone else's loan and explore problems with websites offering bargain deals.
Sept. 20, 2012, midnight
S4E15 - Episode 15
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville meet a couple who were bitterly disappointed by a luxury holiday experience. Plus the true value of one store's gift vouchers.
Sept. 21, 2012, midnight
S4E16 - Episode 16
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville visit a housing estate where a problem has dragged on for years, and look at the rising cost of parking at train stations.
Sept. 24, 2012, midnight
S4E17 - Episode 17
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville ask if online comparison sites really do offer the best deals and investigate the price of being loyal to big companies.
Sept. 25, 2012, midnight
S4E18 - Episode 18
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville expose rip-offs, raw deals and poor service.
Sept. 26, 2012, midnight
S4E19 - Episode 19
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville reveal how confusion over road signs in a single spot has earned one council hundreds of thousands of pounds.
Sept. 27, 2012, midnight
S4E20 - Episode 20
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville meet the woman who learned that she owes her bank more than six times the amount she thought she had borrowed.
Sept. 28, 2012, midnight
S4E21 - Episode 1 (Evening)
Consumer show. The team ask who will end up paying the price for the recent floods, and help a couple whose insurance company refuse to pay out following a fire.
Jan. 7, 2013, midnight
S4E22 - Episode 2 (Evening)
The team investigate complaints about the banks, meeting a woman angry no-one can tell her what has happened to the £25,000 she left in her account.
Jan. 14, 2013, midnight
S4E23 - Episode 3 (Evening)
Consumer show. The team meet the families who were promised cheaper electricity, but who instead have been hit with bills four times higher than they should have been.
March 8, 2013, midnight
S4E24 - Episode 4 (Evening)
Consumer show. The team investigate the companies who have taken hundreds, or even thousands, of pounds from customers but provided absolutely nothing in return.
March 22, 2013, midnight
S4E25 - Episode 5 (Evening)
Consumer show. The team want answers from a company taking hundreds of pounds for flight tickets they haven't supplied, and meet a woman who's ended up losing her identity.
March 25, 2013, midnight
S4E26 - Episode 6 (Evening)
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville meet the woman conned out of her bank details. Plus the companies taking advantage of an easy way to make payments.
May 13, 2013, midnight
S4E27 - Episode 7 (Evening)
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville test the claims of a cash-for-gold company - how much will they really pay out for unwanted jewellery?
June 21, 2013, midnight
S4E28 - Episode 8 (Evening)
A look at the care home contracts that come with a costly sting in the tail, and how buying a second hand car led to one woman being woken in the middle of the night.
Aug. 5, 2013, midnight
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44 min/ep
17248 min
Nov. 30, 2009
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Returning Series
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