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Dispatches - 2009 (2009)

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2009 Episodes

1. Britain's Challenging Children

January 5th, 2009

2. Mum, Dad, Alzheimer's & Me

January 12th, 2009

Journalist Fiona Phillips tells the very personal story of her father's developing Alzheimer's disease, and how it affects him and the family as a whole.

3. The True Cost of Cheap Food

January 22nd, 2009

After looking at rising prices in The Truth About Food Prices, Rayner now looks at the other end of the scale - the new cheap food ranges and whether they have a true higher cost ... our health.

4. Unseen Gaza

January 22nd, 2009

Jon Snow explores the difficulties faced by news organisations around the world in reporting the conflict in Gaza. Who is getting the true picture of events as they happen?

5. Congo's Forgotten Children

February 2nd, 2009

6. Too Old to Work

February 9th, 2009

With the number of unemployed in the UK nudging two million, Dispatches reveals the ageism rife amongst employers and recruitment agencies.

7. The Problem Princes

February 13th, 2009

8. The Big Job Hunt

February 16th, 2009

An investigation into rising unemployment in the UK and what steps the government are taking to alleviate it.

9. How They Squander Our Billions

March 9th, 2009

10. Pakistan's Taliban Generation

March 16th, 2009

11. Confessions of a Nurse

March 23rd, 2009

Following a YouGov report Dispatches takes a candid look at the NHS nursing system - with interviews from nurses and undercover footage.

12. The Trouble with Boris

March 30th, 2009

13. Afghanistan: Mission Impossible?

April 6th, 2009

14. The Westminster Gravy Train

April 19th, 2009

15. Crash: How the Banks Went Bust!

April 20th, 2009

16. Crash: How Long Will It Last?

April 27th, 2009

17. Lost in Care

May 11th, 2009

18. Britain's Bankers: Still Cashing In

May 18th, 2009

19. Orphans of Burma's Cyclone

June 1st, 2009

20. Crash Gordon

June 8th, 2009

21. Afghanistan's Dirty War

June 15th, 2009

22. Rape in the City

June 22nd, 2009

After two recent, high-profile cases in which young women have been attacked and raped by groups of men; Journalist Sorious Samura investigates gang rape in the UK.

25. Terror in Mumbai

June 30th, 2009

26. The Children Britain Betrayed

July 13th, 2009

27. Undercover Debt Collector

July 20th, 2009

28. Bankrolling Mugabe

July 27th, 2009

29. The War Against Street Weapons

August 3rd, 2009

30. Battle Scarred

September 7th, 2009

Follows the stories of four soldiers returning from the combat zones in the middle-east and the impact it has had on their lives and the people around them.

31. Middle Class and Jobless

September 14th, 2009

Examining middle-class unemployment in Britain.

32. Cops on the Cheap?

September 21st, 2009

A look at Police Community Support Officers who patrol the streets and cost the taxpayers millions. This documentary questions if they are good value.

33. MPs, Planes and Gravy Trains

September 28th, 2009

34. Who Took Your Pension?

October 5th, 2009

35. Ready for a Riot

October 19th, 2009

36. What's in Your Breakfast?

October 26th, 2009

37. Inside Britain's Israel Lobby

November 16th, 2009

38. Return to Africa's Witch Children

November 23rd, 2009

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