Dispatches: 2004
Season 18 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Dispatches Season 17.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 18 Progress Shield
What Hutton Won't Tell You
Apr 5, 2004
As the Hutton report is published, the actions of the government once again come under minute scrutiny.
Third Class Post
Apr 29, 2004
In a special investigation, Dispatches reporter Simon Barnes goes undercover inside the Royal Mail to reveal a damning catalogue of skiving workers, ineffective managers and gangs
Keep Them Out
May 6, 2004
Award-winning Dispatches director David Modell, investigates how public opinion is affecting the Government's policy on asylum by travelling to Lee-on-the-Solent and revealing how
Fit to Eat
May 13, 2004
Dispatches investigates whether out-sourcing hospital meals to cook-chill cook-freeze food suppliers means that patients are not always receiving all the nutrients that they need f