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The Best Episodes of Panorama Season 64

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Panorama Season 64 Episode 16 - Living with Dementia: Chris's Story
    8.0/10(14 votes)

    S64:E16

    In a powerful, multi-textured documentary filmed over almost two years, one family living with dementia reveals what life is really like behind closed doors. Using CCTV cameras, video diaries and a small, immersive film crew, the programme follows 55-year-old Chris Roberts from north Wales as he, his wife Jayne and his youngest daughter Kate come to terms with his Alzheimer's diagnosis. From making the decision to choose his own care home to writing a living will, getting lost in his own house and not recognising his family, Chris chronicles his changing life as his independence slips away. Once a businessman and a keen biker, he now struggles to walk and talk - his life is beset by frustration, yet his remarkable insight allows us into his world.

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  2. Panorama Season 64 Episode 14 - Britain's Puppy Dealers Exposed
    7.6/10(7 votes)

    S64:E14

    Panorama investigates the ruthless world of the dog trade. Using secret filming, reporter Sam Poling tracks the supply chain of the country's favourite pet, and uncovers some shocking truths about where and how these animals are being bred.

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  3. Panorama Season 64 Episode 30 - Aleppo: Life Under Siege
    7.4/10(8 votes)

    S64:E30

    The battle for Aleppo, Syria's largest city and once home to over two million people, is in its fourth year. Divided between opposition-held east and government-controlled west, ordinary civilians are suffering on both sides. The east has been relentlessly bombed by the Russian military-backed forces of President Bashar al-Assad, and for the last month five citizen journalists in East Aleppo, commissioned by Panorama, have been documenting life under siege. The film is an intimate portrait of ordinary people struggling to stay alive, including a civil-defence volunteer who risks death to save his fellow citizens. The film goes behind the headlines into the backstreets of East Aleppo to show the horror, chaos and fear of the daily bombings, but also the surprising humanity, resilience and hope of the people who remain.

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  4. Panorama Season 64 Episode 11 - Tax Havens of the Rich and Powerful Exposed
    7.2/10(9 votes)

    S64:E11

    The rich and powerful have hidden billions of dollars in tax havens. They thought their financial secrets were safe, but now a huge leak of documents has revealed a world of secrecy, lies and crimes. Reporter Richard Bilton exposes tax avoiders, criminals and world leaders who have been hiding their money and their secrets offshore.

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  5. Panorama Season 64 Episode 25 - Inside North Korea
    7.2/10(18 votes)

    S64:E25

    BBC reporter Rupert Wingfield-Hayes was expelled from North Korea for showing disrespect and `distorting facts'. He now tells the full story of his visit to the country and explores what his detention and interrogation by senior Korean officials say about this secretive state. He investigates the apparent upturn in the North Korean economy and asks if the signs of improvement in the capital Pyongyang are real.

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  6. Panorama Season 64 Episode 35 - How Rolls-Royce Bribed Its Way Around the World
    7.2/10(7 votes)

    S64:E35

    Rolls-Royce has grown dramatically in the past 20 years and has won business in some of the most corrupt countries on the planet. But has some of the company's spectacular success been built on bribery? Reporter Richard Bilton investigates the secret network of shady middlemen who helped sell Rolls-Royce products overseas, and he uncovers evidence that suggests Britain's most prestigious company has bribed its way around the world.

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  7. Panorama Season 64 Episode 3 - Putin's Secret Riches
    7.1/10(134 votes)

    S64:E3

    Vladimir Putin has been accused of corruption on a breathtaking scale. His critics say he's used his power to amass a secret fortune, so is the Russian president really one of the richest people in the world? Reporter Richard Bilton meets former Kremlin insiders who say they know how Putin's riches are hidden.

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  8. Panorama Season 64 Episode 19 - The Orlando Nightclub Massacre
    7.1/10(8 votes)

    S64:E19

    It's America's worst nightmare: an armed gunman on the rampage. But what is it like to be caught up in the carnage of a mass shooting? Panorama tells the story of the Orlando massacre from the people who were there.

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  9. Panorama Season 64 Episode 20 - Iraq: The Final Judgement
    7.0/10(6 votes)

    S64:E20

    As the country awaits next week's verdict from the long-delayed Iraq Inquiry into why we went to war and what the lessons should be, Jane Corbin returns to southern Iraq. With her are parents who lost a son, a soldier, there and the general who led British troops into battle. Why did it all go so wrong?

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  10. Panorama Season 64 Episode 31 - Diabetes The Hidden Killer
    7.0/10(6 votes)

    S64:E31

    Britain is in the grip of a health epidemic that's threatening to overwhelm the NHS. More and more of us are being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. It's a hidden killer which can lead to heart failure, blindness, kidney disease and leg amputations. Now even children are being diagnosed with the condition. Filming over six months, Panorama reports from the frontline of the epidemic - in Birmingham, where almost one in ten people has the disease. In this film, type 1 diabetes was referred to as 'the sort you're born with'. We acknowledge this is not medically accurate. Type 1 often develops in childhood to genetically predisposed individuals, but it can develop at any age, resulting from immune mediated injury to the pancreas.

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  11. Panorama Season 64 Episode 10 - Too Poor to Stay Warm
    6.4/10(9 votes)

    S64:E10

    Sixteen years ago, the government promised to protect people from the cold. It vowed to end fuel poverty by 2016, but the deadline has passed and millions of people still can't afford to keep their homes warm. Reporter Datshiane Navanayagam joins some of those struggling this winter and asks why thousands still die each year simply because their homes are too cold.

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  12. Panorama Season 64 Episode 33 - Paxman on Trump v Clinton: Divided America
    6.2/10(16 votes)

    S64:E33

    Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are two of the most hated and distrusted presidential candidates ever. As the election approaches, Jeremy Paxman travels to Washington and beyond to understand how America's great democracy has come to face such an unpopular choice. From a life-size naked effigy of Donald Trump, to the stage of Avenue Q and the corridors of power, Jeremy meets political insiders and voters on both sides of the gaping political divide, and casts his unsparing eye over a nation preparing for a historic election.

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  13. Panorama Season 64 Episode 21 - Why We Voted to Leave: Britain Speaks
    5.9/10(8 votes)

    S64:E21

    Adrian Chiles goes home to the West Midlands to meet Leave voters from both sides of the political divide and find out why Britain voted for Brexit. He discovers an unlikely alliance of young and old, wealthy and non-wealthy, white and non-white, who all share a belief that their views have not so far been listened to by mainstream politicians. Adrian learns about their lives and their concerns about immigration, jobs and feeling excluded from the benefits of an increasingly globalised world. He also meets Remain voters who blame the Breixters for pushing Britain into crisis. As the nation reels from the fallout of the Referendum result, Adrian's journey across the region shows just how divided Britain has become.

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  14. Panorama Season 64 Episode 5 - The Secret Letters of Pope John Paul II
    5.7/10(9 votes)

    S64:E5

    Pope John Paul II ruled the Catholic Church for 27 years until 2005. He was one of the most influential figures of the twentieth century, revered by millions and made a saint in record time. Now reporter Edward Stourton can offer a new perspective on the emotional life of this very public figure.

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  15. Panorama Season 64 Episode 28 - Why are Gambling Machines Addictive?
    5.2/10(6 votes)

    S64:E28

    Wendy Bendel's partner killed himself after struggling with a 20-year gambling addiction. In a confession he wrote for Wendy, he singled out the high-stakes, high-frequency fixed-odds betting terminals (FOBTs) found in bookmakers across the UK. Wendy embarks on a journey to find out what it is about the design of the machines that makes them so addictive and sees evidence that they can affect the brains of long-term gamblers. She discovers the billions they generate has divided the industry, with former insiders now accusing the bookies of putting profits before people.

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  16. Panorama Season 64 Episode 23 - Trump's Angry America
    4.8/10(15 votes)

    S64:E23

    With Donald Trump poised to become the official Republican candidate for America's presidency, Panorama visits the racially divided town of Bakersfield in California. Reporter Hilary Andersson meets the Trump supporters who back his calls to oust 11 million illegal immigrants and ban Muslims from travelling to America. She talks to those who fear what a Trump White House would mean for them and asks why America is so angry.

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  17. Panorama Season 64 Episode 37 - Trump's New America
    4.6/10(13 votes)

    S64:E37

    America's 2016 election season has been the most bitter and ugly in living memory. Hilary Andersson meets angry Americans on both sides of the electoral race who feel disillusioned and disenfranchised by the electoral process. Panorama asks, can America's new president quell the voices of radicalism and unite America again?

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  18. Panorama Season 64 Episode 1 - Teenage Prison Abuse Exposed
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S64:E1

    BBC Panorama goes undercover to expose harrowing evidence of children and young people being hurt and threatened by custody officers who are supposed to protect them. Secret filming at a privately run youth prison, paid more than £10m in 2015 by the government to provide high-quality education and to rehabilitate some of the most vulnerable youngsters in the prison system, reveals some officers mistreating their charges and many more tolerating the behaviour or even helping to cover it up.

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  19. Panorama Season 64 Episode 2 - Can You Stop My Multiple Sclerosis?
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S64:E2

    100,000 people in the UK have multiple sclerosis - an incurable condition that can result in permanent disability. Panorama has exclusive access to patients pioneering a crossover cancer treatment that has enabled some MS sufferers with paralysis to regain their movement.

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  20. Panorama Season 64 Episode 4 - Gangs, Guns and the Police
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S64:E4

    When a seven-year-old boy and his mother were targeted and shot on their doorstep, it became clear that a gang war in Salford had reached a shocking low. That came after the assassination of a mayoral candidate, as well as machete, grenade and chainsaw attacks. Panorama asks if the police have lost control of the streets and examines how a community can beat the cycle of guns and gangs.

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  21. Panorama Season 64 Episode 6 - Cops, Criminals, Corruption: The Inside Story
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S64:E6

    Organised crime is the single biggest threat to the integrity of the police. With exclusive interviews and never-before-seen footage, Panorama has the inside story of how an organised crime syndicate arranged a hit on three police officers. Also speaking publicly for the first time are the law enforcement officials who tapped the phones of drug dealers, only to find themselves hearing corrupt police on the line. The programme reveals how Scotland Yard woke up to the extent of corruption and the extraordinary lengths that the criminals would go to in order to undermine the police's ability to catch them.

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  22. Panorama Season 64 Episode 7 - The Zika Baby Crisis
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S64:E7

    Panorama travels to Brazil to investigate the mystery of the Zika virus. The city of Recife is at the centre of an epidemic of cases of microcephaly - babies born with abnormally small heads who suffer from brain and limb deformities. Reporter Jane Corbin meets the families living with this tragedy and hears from doctors and scientists working to solve the riddle of the Zika virus and trying to eradicate the mosquito which carries it.

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  23. Panorama Season 64 Episode 8 - Shaken Babies: What's the Truth?
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S64:E8

    The episode will explore the truth behind shaken babies. Parents will face jail or lose their children, if courts find them guilty of harming their children by shaking them. One doctor who regularly appears as an expert witness for the defence is now on trial accused by the General Medical Council of giving unreliable evidence in shaken baby cases. Alison Holt has access to the neuropathologist at the centre of a fight about the diagnosis of shaking. She will meet families where it has been proven they've shaken their children and where convicted parents continue to protest their innocence.

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  24. Panorama Season 64 Episode 9 - Inside Europe's Terror Attacks
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S64:E9

    Examining how the so-called Islamic State's terror network has been operating secretly in Europe, and Western intelligence agencies' battle to stop it, from highly organised cells, like the one that killed 130 people in Paris, to lone attackers within communities.

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  25. Panorama Season 64 Episode 12 - I'm Broken Inside: Sara's Story
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S64:E12

    Sara Green was a teenager betrayed by a mental health system designed to protect her. Using Sara's own words taken from her diary, Panorama reveals the failings of a Priory hospital where she was an inpatient and where she took her own life in a misjudged cry for help. Peter Marshall asks what lessons can be drawn from Sara's story and what can be done to fix the country's broken child and adolescent mental health system.

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Season 64 Ratings Summary

"Living with Dementia: Chris's Story" is the best rated episode of "Panorama" season 64. It scored 8/10 based on 14 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 6/2/2016. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Britain's Puppy Dealers Exposed".