Highlights
Panorama

Panorama - 2000 (2000)

Audience Score
100

2000 Episodes

1. Casualties

January 17th, 2000

An investigation into Paramedics. Panorama uncovers evidence of poor training, lack of skills and chaotic organisation, which are costing thousands of lives every year.

2. Back to the Kitchen Sink

January 24th, 2000

New research suggests more and more women who try to combine full-time jobs with bringing up children are giving up the struggle. Sarah Powell reports.

3. Dr. Shipman - The Man Who Played God

January 21st, 2000

On the day Dr. Shipman is convicted of murdering 15, A Panorama special reveals the full extent of his campaign of murder against the elderly women of Hyde.

4. Human Traffic

February 7th, 2000

From April the Government will cut cash benefits to asylum seekers, and it is also launching a programme to relocate refugees from the South East to other parts of the country. The aim is to clamp down on bogus asylum seekers.

5. Speed

February 14th, 2000

Every year around 5,000 children are killed or badly injured on Britain's roads. Government ministers are currently reviewing speed limits for residential streets, but will their recommendations become law?

6. The Lost Children

February 21st, 2000

Tonight's programme investigates the cases of bereaved parents who have been shattered to learn that the hearts and other organs of their dead children have been kept in hospitals without the families' consent.

7. Losing Control

February 28th, 2000

Vivian White looks at the problems facing the government and addresses the questions that remain unanswered about who runs Britain under the Labour Party.

8. The Whole Truth?

March 6th, 2000

Gerry Conlon, who was one of the Guildford Four, speaks out about the growing number of innocent people wrongly accused of serious crimes.

9. Moral Combat - NATO at War

March 6th, 2000

After NATO's bombing campaign, Allan Little takes a challenging look at the reasons for the war in Kosovo, examining why, and how, the West used force to pursue what was outwardly presented as a moral crusade against ethnic cleansing.

10. Spin Doctors

March 13th, 2000

This programme enters the world of Labour's health spin doctors, to unravel the truth from the increasingly powerful government propaganda machine, and asks, will Tony Blair fulfil his pledge to "save the NHS"?

11. Blighted

March 20th, 2000

In Cheshire a toxic dump has poisoned a village. In London and the South East thousands of new homes are being built on polluted land. How safe are we from the legacy of industrial contamination? David Lomax reports.

12. Atomic Alert

March 27th, 2000

Two companies criticised over their safety records are in a consortium chosen by the Government to run the top-secret nuclear weapons site at Aldermaston in Berkshire from 1 April. Gerry Northam reports.

13. Dot Com Fever

April 3rd, 2000

Tom Mangold investigates the internet phenomenon that is becoming Britain's millennium gold rush as investors, hoping to become millionaires, scramble to put money into tiny internet companies.

14. Ivory Wars

April 5th, 2000

Panorama reports on the flourishing illegal trade in ivory spurred on by demand from the far east, which has resulted in elephant orphanages in Kenya.

15. Kids on Pills

April 10th, 2000

Reporting on the concern being expressed, here and in America, that drugs such as Ritalin and Prozac are being prescribed to children to treat recognised behavioural disorders and are therefore being used as a substitute for good parenting

16. The Dying Game

April 17th, 2000

Panorama investigates the AIDS crisis in South Africa and asks what can be done about it. With South Africa expecting one million AIDS orphans in the next five years, it is a question everybody involved with the disease is asking.

17. The Two Billion Pound Ball Game

May 15th, 2000

The impending auction of football TV rights will result in a 2 billion pound bonanza for the domestic game. But critics argue that too much money is going to Britain's handful of super clubs, creating an unbridgeable gulf within the game.

18. The Mortgage Timebomb

May 22nd, 2000

Anxiety is gripping millions of homeowners following the news that endowment-linked mortgages will fall thousands of pounds short when they mature. David Lomax assesses the advice being given by companies that pushed endowments in the past

19. Panorama: Pensions Bubble

June 5th, 2000

An investigation into evidence that changes in the rules on occupational pensions could leave people worse off than expected when they retire.

20. Gangmasters

June 19th, 2000

Paul Kenyon investigates the criminals who exploit illegal immigrants as cheap labour for food companies supplying Britain's biggest supermarket chains.

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21. England's Shame

June 20th, 2000

In a special investigation, Panorama goes undercover with English supporters at Euro 2000 - And takes a revealing look at the men behind the violence of Euro 2000.

22. The Truth About Rubbish

June 26th, 2000

The Government aims to double the amount of recycling in the UK - but will householders ever get used to separating and sorting rubbish? Vivian White reports.

23. The Nail Bomber

June 30th, 2000

Panorama confronts the men it says inspired the London Nail Bomber David Copeland. The programme reveals that Copeland was inspired by known right-wing extremists who fed him a diet of Nazi literature and propaganda.

24. Cyber Attack!

July 3rd, 2000

Following the "love bug" virus which infected millions of computers worldwide, Panorama investigates the vulnerability of personal financial information to attacks from hackers. Jane Corbin reports.

25. Pump Wars

September 25th, 2000

The investigative current affairs series returns with the inside stories of this month's fuel price protests, the biggest popular movement Tony Blair has faced as Prime Minister. Jane Corbin reports.

26. Britain's Secret War on Drugs

October 2nd, 2000

Panorama goes inside the former biological warfare factory that is producing a fungus capable of destroying the world's illicit heroin harvests. And it's being funded by the British taxpayer.

27. Who Bombed Omagh?

October 9th, 2000

Panorama names individuals who have been questioned by police over the Omagh bombing. The atrocity, carried out by The Real IRA, claimed 29 lives on a Saturday afternoon in August 1998 when a car bomb exploded in Omagh town centre.

28. Gap and Nike: No Sweat?

October 15th, 2000

Panorama reveals that Gap and Nike have been using a factory in Cambodia which breaks their own strict codes of conduct and anti-sweatshop rules.

29. Digging the Dirt

October 22nd, 2000

Peter Marshall looks behind the scenes to uncover the tactics used in the race to become President of the United States. Panorama uncovers a ruthless world of negative election campaigning.

30. Young Robbers

October 29th, 2000

Shelley Jofre investigates the growing problem of robbing and mugging between young people. The programme shows how the West Midlands police are trying to tackle the problem.

31. Power to Abuse

November 5th, 2000

Reporter Phil Parry has uncovered disturbing new evidence of how the Roman Catholic Church in Wales behaved as paedophile priests abused children.

32. Life on TV

November 12th, 2000

Mariella Frostrup reports from inside the reality television revolution. It's sometimes cruel, it's voyeuristic and often it's humiliating, and it seems we can't get enough of it.

33. Underwater Britain

November 19th, 2000

The country may be getting back to normal after the floods, but the evidence is that there could be plenty more in store. Panorama investigates whether the last three weeks could just be a taster as the UK's climate changes.

34. In the Name of the Children

November 26th, 2000

For decades, children in care have suffered the horror of sexual abuse. Police investigations to catch sex abusers have spread throughout Britain, with 90 inquiries currently underway, and more than 2,000 care workers under suspicion.

35. The Bent Cop

December 3rd, 2000

Panorama tells the story of a police officer's slide in to corruption and his remarkable change of heart. In the first television interview ever broadcast with an informant, Neil Putnam, recently released from prison, comes out of hiding.

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