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- Season 38
- Episode 13
Britain's Benefits Scandal
Dispatches - S38 - E13
With the recent rise in working-age people on sickness benefits - many of them under 35 - Dispatches asks what's driving the surge?
Dispatches: Season 38 - 13 Episode s
38x1 - Coca-Cola's Dirty Secret
May 16, 2024
What's the environmental impact of the UK's huge soft drink habit? With a thirsty nation getting through two billion plastic bottles a year, and the same for cans, do Coke's recycling claims stand up?
38x2 - The War on Britain's Motorists
May 23, 2024
Potholes everywhere. Controversial Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and electric vehicle confusion too. Car journalist Ginny Buckley asks is this the worst time ever to be a motorist in the UK?
38x3 - Kill Zone : Inside Gaza
May 30, 2024
The story of the Israeli military assault on Gaza. Seen through the eyes of children, journalists and doctors, Dispatches takes an unflinching look at the horrific challenges and heartbreaking loss.
38x4 - The Truth About Temu
May 30, 2024
What's the story behind the runaway success of the addictive Chinese shopping app? With half a billion downloads worldwide, are some of Temu's rock-bottom prices and products too good to be true?
38x5 - Rubbish Tip Britain
June 21, 2024
A look inside the lucrative world of waste crime with video, surveillance footage and interviews from insiders. Exposing how banned waste has been dumped for years in a major landfill site, seemingly unnoticed by the authorities, while posing a risk to human health. This documentary reveals new satellite data suggesting hundreds of unregulated waste dumps are being operated in plain sight and investigates evidence of the growing role of organisations engaging in illegal fly-tipping, with little fear of action against them.
38x6 - Undercover A&E: NHS in Crisis
June 24, 2024
Undercover report filmed over two months at an NHS Accident and Emergency Department, which exposes the suffering and dangers patients face on a daily basis. The programme features footage of seriously ill patients forced to sleep on chairs for up to two days because there are no beds, and a dangerous superbug outbreak linked to overcrowding and falling hygiene standards.
38x7 - Can AI Steal Your Vote?
June 27, 2024
Election campaigners and experts have warned that artificial intelligence tools could risk politically motivated disinformation flooding social media feeds in ways that recently seemed unimaginable. The fear is that deepfakes and other AI-generated material could influence votes. Cathy Newman reports on the issue, illustrating the effect that AI could have on 12 households of undecided voters. The homes are fed AI-generated material advised by political experts, with the residents none the wiser. Will the experiment succeed? If so, what does it say about the power of AI to influence the vote?
38x8 - Britain's Unsolved Crimewave
July 16, 2024
Analysing police data, Dispatches reveals local hotspots where 100% of neighbourhood crimes go unsolved. The team watch a theft in action and go on the trail of the criminals.
38x9 - Barbie's Dirty Secrets
October 11, 2024
With Barbiemania putting toy maker Mattel back in the limelight, Dispatches goes undercover in one of Mattel's factories, exposing the reality for workers making the famous dolls
38x10 - Vinted's Dirty Laundry
October 18, 2024
The online secondhand clothes app Vinted is booming. Is its soar-away success too good to be true? Dispatches uncovers the truth behind some of the products sold on the platform.
38x11 - The King, The Prince & Their Secret Millions
November 2, 2024
For years, the royals kept details of some of their wealth secret. Dispatches reveals what they have kept under wraps - about who is paying them, and for what.
38x12 - Britain's Shoplifting Gangs Exposed
November 25, 2024
In this high-stakes true crime investigation, Dispatches goes undercover to expose the organised criminal networks behind the UK's shoplifting epidemic.
38x13 - Britain's Benefits Scandal
December 2, 2024
With the recent rise in working-age people on sickness benefits - many of them under 35 - Dispatches asks what's driving the surge?
Dispatches: All seasons
S1: 1987
8 Episode s
S2: 1988
34 Episode s
S3: 1989
39 Episode s
S4: 1990
39 Episode s
S5: 1991
35 Episode s
S6: 1992
34 Episode s
S7: 1993
0 Episode
S8: 1994
0 Episode
S9: 1995
0 Episode
S10: 1996
0 Episode
S11: 1997
0 Episode
S12: 1998
1 Episode
S13: 1999
0 Episode
S14: 2000
0 Episode
S15: 2001
0 Episode
S16: 2002
0 Episode
S17: 2003
0 Episode
S18: 2004
0 Episode
S19: 2005
0 Episode
S20: 2006
1 Episode
S21: 2007
1 Episode
S22: 2008
0 Episode
S23: 2009
0 Episode
S24: 2010
2 Episode s
S25: 2011
0 Episode
S26: 2012
1 Episode
S27: 2013
0 Episode
S28: 2014
0 Episode
S29: 2015
23 Episode s
S30: 2016
28 Episode s
S31: 2017
28 Episode s
S32: 2018
26 Episode s
S33: 2019
28 Episode s
S34: 2020
10 Episode s
S35: 2021
1 Episode
S36: 2022
21 Episode s
S37: 2023
8 Episode s
S38: 2024
13 Episode s
S39: 2025
1 Episode