Dispatches
1989
198939 episodes
Episodes
- E1
Return to Year Zero?
1989-01-04 · 45m
Documentary report on the risks to the area if the Khmer Rouge regains power in Kampuchea.
- E2
Gorbachev's Asylums
1989-01-11 · 45m
Documentary report about the changes in the Soviet Union's psychiatric system caused by Gorbachev's policy of "glasnost".
- E3
Cooking the Books
1989-01-18 · 45m
Investigation of Thatcher government's alleged misuse of official statistics.
- E4
The Spy Who Broke the Code
1989-01-25 · 45m
Documentary examining the continued significance for the USA and her allies, of John Walker, a US Navy Chief Warrant Officer and Soviet Spy.
- E5
Buckets of Money
1989-02-01 · 45m
Documentary investigation into high pressure shares salesmen. Exposes the 'bucket shops' where share dealers are cheating the small investor.
- E6
The Copper Seven Story
1989-02-08 · 45m
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.
- E7
Afghan
1989-02-15 · 45m
A four month Afghan report from the eyes and mouth of Jeff Harmon and Alexander Lindsay.
- E8
The Toxic Trail
1989-02-22 · 45m
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.
- E9
The Case of 'F'
1989-03-01 · 45m
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E10
The Return of the Death Squads
1989-03-08 · 45m
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E11
Burma - Dying for Democracy
1989-03-15 · 45m
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E12
Voices From Long Larten
1989-03-22 · 45m
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E13
Young, Homeless and Broke
1989-03-29 · 45m
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E14
Chico
1989-04-05 · 45m
A documentary about the Brazilian Chico Mendes, filmed over several years by Adrian Cowell, about the Brazilian campaigner against deforestation of the Amazon rainforest.
- E15
Carry on Flying
1989-04-12 · 45m
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E16
The Most Neglected Crime
1989-04-19 · 45m
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.
- E17
Dispatches (26/04/1989)
1989-04-26 · 45m
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E18
A Suitable Case for Treatment
1989-05-03 · 45m
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E19
The Sins of the Fathers
1989-05-10 · 45m
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E20
Not What the Doctor Ordered
1989-05-17 · 45m
Featuring David Willetts of the Centre for Policy Studies, and a new White Paper on health
- E21
Warlord of Kayan
1989-05-24 · 45m
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E22
The Ultimate Blasphemy
1989-05-31 · 45m
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E23
Fit as a Fiddle
1989-06-07 · 45m
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E24
Empire of the Sun
1989-06-14 · 45m
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E25
Year of the Locust
1989-06-21 · 45m
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E26
A State of Decay
1989-06-28 · 45m
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E27
Terror Island
1989-07-05 · 45m
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E28
The Spanish Connection
1989-10-04 · 45m
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E29
The Day of the Technopath
1989-10-11 · 45m
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E30
No, Prime Minister
1989-10-18 · 45m
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E31
The Undoing of Edwina
1989-10-25 · 45m
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E32
Mission Impossible
1989-11-01 · 45m
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E33
In the Coal Hole
1989-11-08 · 45m
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E34
The False Confession File
1989-11-15 · 45m
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E35
Hungarians Not Comrades
1989-11-22 · 45m
Documentary profile of the people of Hungary, whose country has been the centre of world attention in 1989 with the return of democratic elections.
- E36
Twelve Days in November
1989-11-29 · 45m
Documentary report from Czechoslovakia on the recent political upheavals over the twelve days since Friday 17th November.
- E37
Licence to Kill
1989-12-06 · 45m
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E38
Privatising Poland
1989-12-13 · 45m
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E39
Road to Damascus
1989-12-20 · 45m
No episode synopsis available yet.