Dispatches

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

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S3 • E1
Return to Year Zero?
Documentary report on the risks to the area if the Khmer Rouge regains power in Kampuchea.
1989-01-04
S3 • E2
Gorbachev's Asylums
Documentary report about the changes in the Soviet Union's psychiatric system caused by Gorbachev's policy of "glasnost".
1989-01-11
S3 • E3
Cooking the Books
Investigation of Thatcher government's alleged misuse of official statistics.
1989-01-18
S3 • E4
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.
1989-01-25
S3 • E5
Buckets of Money
Documentary investigation into high pressure shares salesmen. Exposes the 'bucket shops' where share dealers are cheating the small investor.
1989-02-01
S3 • E6
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.
1989-02-08
S3 • E7
Afghan
A four month Afghan report from the eyes and mouth of Jeff Harmon and Alexander Lindsay.
1989-02-15
S3 • E8
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.
1989-02-22
S3 • E9
The Case of 'F'
1989-03-01
S3 • E10
The Return of the Death Squads
1989-03-08
S3 • E11
Burma - Dying for Democracy
1989-03-15
S3 • E12
Voices From Long Larten
1989-03-22
S3 • E13
Young, Homeless and Broke
1989-03-29
S3 • E14
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.
1989-04-05
S3 • E15
Carry on Flying
1989-04-12
S3 • E16
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.
1989-04-19
S3 • E17
Dispatches (26/04/1989)
1989-04-26
S3 • E18
A Suitable Case for Treatment
1989-05-03
S3 • E19
The Sins of the Fathers
1989-05-10
S3 • E20
Not What the Doctor Ordered
Featuring David Willetts of the Centre for Policy Studies, and a new White Paper on health
1989-05-17
S3 • E21
Warlord of Kayan
1989-05-24
S3 • E22
The Ultimate Blasphemy
1989-05-31
S3 • E23
Fit as a Fiddle
1989-06-07
S3 • E24
Empire of the Sun
1989-06-14
S3 • E25
Year of the Locust
1989-06-21
S3 • E26
A State of Decay
1989-06-28
S3 • E27
Terror Island
1989-07-05
S3 • E28
The Spanish Connection
1989-10-04
S3 • E29
The Day of the Technopath
1989-10-11
S3 • E30
No, Prime Minister
1989-10-18
S3 • E31
The Undoing of Edwina
1989-10-25
S3 • E32
Mission Impossible
1989-11-01
S3 • E33
In the Coal Hole
1989-11-08
S3 • E34
The False Confession File
1989-11-15
S3 • E35
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.
1989-11-22
S3 • E36
Twelve Days in November
Documentary report from Czechoslovakia on the recent political upheavals over the twelve days since Friday 17th November.
1989-11-29
S3 • E37
Licence to Kill
1989-12-06
S3 • E38
Privatising Poland
1989-12-13
S3 • E39
Road to Damascus
1989-12-20