Dispatches: 2016
Season 30 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 29.
- 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 30 Progress Shield
Where's My Missing Mail?
Feb 1, 2016 · 45 min
Morland Sanders presents an undercover report into parcel delivery companies where missing items, broken gifts and late deliveries are all becoming a growing problem.
How the Rich Avoid Tax
Feb 8, 2016 · 45 min
Actor Greg Wise secretly records his meetings with tax planners, who reveal to him a range of legal tax avoidance schemes that are available to the rich and famous.
999: Where's My Ambulance?
Feb 15, 2016 · 45 min
Demand for ambulance services are at an all-time high and many trusts are struggling to meet response time targets. Morland Sanders investigates why there is such a demand and what
Dirty Secrets: What's Really in Our Air?
Feb 22, 2016 · 45 min
People are breathing in more harmful pollutants than official figures suggest. Morland Sanders uses high-tech monitoring equipment to identify hidden pollution hot-spots and talks
How To Be A Council House Millionaire
Mar 7, 2016 · 45 min
The Government plans to extend the right-to-buy scheme to housing association tenants, Antony Barnett looks at who will be the winners and losers. Includes undercover filming at on
Housing Benefit Millionaires
Mar 14, 2016 · 45 min
Antony Barnett reports on the rogue private landlords who are exploiting the housing benefit system by renting out sub-standard accommodation to tenants in receipt of the benefit,
Secrets of Cadbury
Mar 21, 2016 · 45 min
6 years ago British confectioner Cadbury was taken over by the U.S. food giant Kraft in one of the most talked about takeovers of recent years. Harry Wallop reports on the controve
Britain's Pensioner Care Scandal
Apr 4, 2016 · 45 min
Dispatches goes undercover to examine the level of care that some of Britain's most vulnerable pensioners receive from a home care industry under pressure from rising costs and cut
The Great Benefits Row
Apr 11, 2016 · 45 min
Former Paralympian Ade Adepitan reports on the row over welfare cuts that has rocked the Government and prompted Iain Duncan Smith to resign as Secretary of State for Work and Pens
Isis and the Missing Treasures
Apr 18, 2016 · 45 min
Simon Cox investigates the UK trade in antiquities that have been looted from areas under the control of ISIS, examining this lucrative business and testing the laws designed to re
The Truth About Cheap Flights
Apr 25, 2016 · 45 min
Harry Wallop presents an undercover report revealing the secrets of one of the major players in the travel industry. Dispatches asks if really low fares are all that they seem and
Undercover: Inside Britain's Children's Services
May 26, 2016 · 45 min
Dispatches goes undercover inside Birmingham City Council's Children's Services Department, Britain's largest, which was described in 2013 by Ofsted's Chief Inspector as a national
Are You Owed a Pay Rise?
Jul 4, 2016 · 45 min
Morland Sanders investigates the new National Living Wage. Despite only being introduced in April 2016 it has already caused controversy amid reports that employers are cutting oth
Racist Britain
Jul 11, 2016 · 45 min
Seyi Rhodes investigates the alarming rise in the number of hate crimes being reported in the wake of Britain's vote to leave the European Union, containing shocking footage of abu
Is Your Pension Safe?
Jul 18, 2016 · 45 min
Reporter Shaunagh Connaire investigates the increasing pressures on the UK pension industry post-Brexit and asks if more companies will find themselves struggling to meet their pen
How School Bosses Spend Your Millions
Jul 25, 2016 · 45 min
Antony Barnett investigates the Government push to massively expand the academy school system, discovering the large salaries and extremely generous expenses and perks some staff r
How Safe Is Your Car?
Aug 1, 2016 · 45 min
Morland Sanders investigates whether manufacturers and testers can be trusted over car safety and examines if more could be done to protect drivers and passengers.
Brexit: Who'll Do Your Job Now?
Aug 1, 2016 · 45 min
Morland Sanders asks who will take Britain's low-skilled jobs - picking food, cleaning toilets and packing parcels if EU workers are no longer plentiful and looks into reports of a
The Great Housing Scandal
Aug 15, 2016 · 45 min
Harry Wallop investigates the housing shortage in Britain and in particular the Government sell-off of state-owned land to build housing on. He discovers that the land was undersol
The Battle for the Labour Party
Sep 19, 2016 · 45 min
Antony Barnett investigates the current state of the Labour Party in the run-up to the result of the leadership contest. He also investigates Momentum and those seeking to influenc
Undercover: Britain's Abortion Extremists
Oct 5, 2016 · 45 min
Dispatches investigates the anti-abortion movement in the UK
Britain's Wealth Gap
Oct 10, 2016 · 45 min
The increasing wealth gap between the young and the old has become one of the defining features of our times. Fraser Nelson, editor of The Spectator magazine, reveals the extent of
Living With Nightmare Neighbours
Oct 17, 2016 · 45 min
The Government promised to fix so-called "Neighbours From Hell" with it's new Troubled Families Programme. Morland Sanders investigates if the scheme has really worked, meeting fam
Addicted to Spending
Oct 24, 2016 · 45 min
From online shopping to contactless payment, it has never been easier to spend money. Reporter Morland Sanders meets those struggling to control their spending habits and the compa
The Secret Plan to Save Fat Britain
Oct 31, 2016 · 45 min
British men are the fattest in Europe, British women the second fattest and our children are getting fatter, younger. Antony Barnett investigates why the Government's plans to tack
Britain's Homebuilding Scandal
Nov 7, 2016 · 45 min
A shortage of housing in Britain has left many struggling to get onto the property ladder. Councils have granted planning permission to big building companies, so why are so few ne
The World According to President Trump
Nov 14, 2016 · 45 min
Channel 4 Dispatches Editor George Waldrum has commissioned a Dispatches special from ITN Productions in response to the results of the US General Election - The World According to