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The Best Episodes of Panorama Season 56

Every episode of Panorama Season 56 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Panorama Season 56!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Panorama Season 56 Episode 41 - Omagh: What the Police Were Never Told
    9.2/10(43 votes)

    S56:E41

    Peter Taylor uncovers the inside story of the operation which thwarted a terrorist plot to cause explosions and led to increased security at British airports.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Panorama Season 56 Episode 7 - Bottled Water - Who Needs It?
    7.0/10(9 votes)

    S56:E7

    Reporter Tom Heap sets out to discover if the popularity of bottled water is merely a triumph of marketing over common sense.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Panorama Season 56 Episode 40 - Terror in the Skies?
    7.0/10(7 votes)

    S56:E40

    Peter Taylor uncovers the inside story of the operation which thwarted a terrorist plot to cause explosions and led to increased security at British airports.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Panorama Season 56 Episode 53 - Comeback Coal
    6.8/10(7 votes)

    S56:E53

    An investigation into the Government's support of a new wave of opencast coal mining, in spite of fierce opposition from local communities.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Panorama Season 56 Episode 4 - Cocaine: Alex James in Colombia
    6.6/10(24 votes)

    S56:E4

    Former cocaine-using Blur bassist Alex James travels to Colombia. He meets the drug farmers, sellers and enforcers, and hears the message that every gram is tainted in blood.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Panorama Season 56 Episode 1 - One Click from Danger
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S56:E1

    An update to our film 'One Click from Danger' about internet paedophiles exploiting vulnerable youngsters online.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Panorama Season 56 Episode 2 - Destination UK
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S56:E2

    Paul Kenyon follows the most dangerous illegal immigration route into Europe, used by tens and thousands of migrants a year seeking a better life, and revisits the survivors whose epic journey ended with them marooned on a tuna net in the middle of the Mediterranean.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Panorama Season 56 Episode 3 - Britain's Protection Racket
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S56:E3

    Panorama goes undercover to expose the flaws in Britain's seven-billion-pound security industry.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Panorama Season 56 Episode 5 - Bursting the House Price Bubble
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S56:E5

    Investigation into sharp practice in the housing market which has kept house prices artificially high and plunged homeowners into negative equity.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Panorama Season 56 Episode 6 - No More Mandelas
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S56:E6

    After witnessing the end of apartheid, Fergal Keane returns to South Africa to find out what happened to the hope from that time.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Panorama Season 56 Episode 8 - On Whose Orders?
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S56:E8

    Jeremy Vine interviews Tony Blair's Attorney General Lord Goldsmith and General Sir Mike Jackson, asking how rules preventing abuse and torture of prisoners in Iraq were overturned, and analysing new claims that could bring disgrace to the Army.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Panorama Season 56 Episode 9 - Taking Back The Streets
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S56:E9

    Richard Bilton examines the dilemma of Garry Newlove, the father beaten to death in the streets. Is a new community action the answer to teenage gangs?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Panorama Season 56 Episode 10 - Shaken Babies?
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S56:E10

    Investigates the row behind shaken-baby syndrome. Last year, childminder Keran Henderson was convicted of shaking an 11-month-old baby to death. Her friends and family say she couldn't have done it, despite medical reports suggesting otherwise.

    Director:Unknown
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  14. Panorama Season 56 Episode 11 - Teenage Sex For Sale
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S56:E11

    Gerry Northam investigates ruthless gangs who are targeting teenage girls and offering drugs and excitement. Within weeks, the children are made to work as prostitutes - having sex with a queue of men. This isn't Eastern European people trafficking but British girls on British streets.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Panorama Season 56 Episode 12 - Jersey - Island of Secrets
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S56:E12

    Current affairs programme with Jeremy Vine. It is six weeks since police started their search of Haut de la Garenne children's home on Jersey. Other homes and careworkers now being named by alleged abuse victims and many believe there has been a deliberate cover up.

    Director:Unknown
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  16. Panorama Season 56 Episode 13 - Divide and Rule
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S56:E13

    Ten years on from the Good Friday Agreement, Panorama examines what power-sharing has done for those living with Northern Ireland's deep sectarian divisions.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Panorama Season 56 Episode 14 - Feeling the Pinch
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S56:E14

    Credit crunch, rising fuel prices and talk of recession - we've been warned of a tough year ahead. But how will we really be affected? Declan Curry discovers if we have what it takes to weather the storm of the global forces buffeting our economy.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Panorama Season 56 Episode 15 - Something in the Air
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S56:E15

    Pilots almost passing out at the controls; passengers who say they've been made ill by toxic fumes. Can polluted air on board planes damage your health? Panorama carries out its own tests to discover just what's in the air we breathe when we fly.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Panorama Season 56 Episode 16 - How Clean is Your Hospital?
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S56:E16

    Sally Magnusson goes inside a trust which lost 90 patients to the superbug c.difficile, which accounts for four times as many deaths as MRSA.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Panorama Season 56 Episode 17 - Mission Impossible
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S56:E17

    The UN polices conflicts around the world, but can it police itself? Raphael Rowe reveals how the organisation is struggling to eradicate the rot at its core.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Panorama Season 56 Episode 18 - Prisons Unlocked
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S56:E18

    Panorama investigates claims that unsuitable and dangerous convicts are being sent to open prisons to help solve the overcrowding crisis.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Panorama Season 56 Episode 19 - Tested to Destruction
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S56:E19

    Current affairs. Are schoolchildren in England given too many exams? Vivian White reports.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Panorama Season 56 Episode 20 - The Challenge of the 60s
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S56:E20

    Experts and diplomats including Lord Hurd, Christopher Mallaby and Bernard Lovell assess the predictions made about the world's future in an edition of Panorama from 1960.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Panorama Season 56 Episode 21 - Britain on the Sick
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S56:E21

    Current affairs programme presented by Jeremy Vine. Shelley Jofre examines the Government's tough new benefit rules.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Panorama Season 56 Episode 22 - One Click from Capture
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S56:E22

    A look at how Panorama's simple experiment of putting a young girl's details onto social networking websites ended with the arrest of an online predator.

    Director:Unknown
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Season 56 Ratings Summary

"Omagh: What the Police Were Never Told" is the best rated episode of "Panorama" season 56. It scored 9.2/10 based on 43 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/15/2008. This episode is rated 2.2 points higher than the second-best, "Bottled Water - Who Needs It?".