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| 2370 :56x02 - Destination UK (Jan/14/2008) | | Paul Kenyon takes a look at the illegal immigration route into Europe taken by those who hope for a better standard of life. | |
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| 2371 :56x03 - Britain's Protection Racket (Jan/21/2008) | | The show takes a look at the country's security industry and discovers that some of it is still illegal. It takes a look at whether the unit set up to clean up the industry is actually working. | |
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| 2372 :56x04 - Cocaine Problems (Jan/28/2008) | | Whilst being a member of the popular band Blur, Alex James admits to spending a million pounds on champagne and cocaine. Alex travels to Colombia at the invitation of its government where he meets people who cultivate cocaine. | |
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| 2374 :56x06 - No More Mandelas (Feb/11/2008) | | After having seen the the end of apartheid in South Africa, Fergal Keane returns to the country to find out what happened in the years since then. | |
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| 2376 :56x08 - On Whose Orders? (Feb/25/2008) | | Jeremy Vine talks toLord Goldsmith and General Sir Mike Jackson about how the torture of torture of prisoners in Iraq was allowed to happen. | |
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| 2377 :56x09 - Taking Back The Streets (Mar/03/2008) | | The series talks to different families who have been the victims of teenage street gangs and looks at what measures can be taken to try and reinstall law and order. | |
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| 2381 :56x13 - Divide and Rule (Apr/07/2008) | | The series takes a look what has happened in the ten years since the Good Friday Agreement was signed in Northern Ireland. | |
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| 2385 :56x17 - Prisons Unlocked (May/05/2008) | | The series takes a look at claims that dangerous convicts are being sent to open prisons to help deal with overcrowding problems at regular prisons. | |
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| 2388 :56x20 - One Click from Capture (May/26/2008) | | The series tries an experiment by putting a young girl's details onto social networking websites. The experiment leads to the arrest and prosecution of an online predator. | |
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| 2395 :56x27 - Friends in High Places (Jul/21/2008) | | The series looks at how the British Government has double standards whilst wanting a third runway at Heathrow and on the other hand expecting the public to go green. | |
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| 2398 :56x30 - Beijing Olympics (Aug/04/2008) | | With the Beijing Olympic Games just around the corner, John Sweeney makes the journey across China to find out if the Communist Party has kept its promise to allow overseas journalists to report openly in the run-up to the games. | |
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| 2401 :56x33 - True Brits (Aug/25/2008) | | The series takes a look at how factors such as mass immigration and devolution are differing the idea of what it means to British. | |
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| 2403 :56x35 - Can Money Grow on Trees? (Sep/08/2008) | | With the Amazon rainforest becoming more and more destroyed, the series looks at how money markets can achieve what law enforcement have failed to do and stop the destruction of trees. | |
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| 2413 :56x45 - What Happened to Baby P? (Nov/17/2008) | | Following an extensive investigation the show reveals the errors by doctors and social workers that led to the death of a 17 month old boy known as Baby P. | |
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| 2414 :56x46 - Addicted to Aid (Nov/24/2008) | | Sorious Samura travels to Uganda and Sierra Leone and discovers how aid money is lost, stolen and wasted. | |
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| 2415 :56x47 - Comeback Coal (Dec/01/2008) | | The series examines if using coal again is the answer to finding the country's future energy supply. The show looks at what the cost will be to the countryside and what increase there will be to carbon emissions. | |
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| 2416 :56x48 - I'll Die When I Choose (Dec/08/2008) | | The cameras follow Margo MacDonald who is suffering from Parkinson's disease. Margo learns the true facts about assisted dying and talks to some people desperate to be allowed to die. She looks at how British law could be helped to change to help those that are suffering. She also looks at how veterinary drugs are being used illegally to help those that are currently suffering. | |
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| 2417 :56x49 - Britain's Terror Heartland (Dec/15/2008) | | Jane Corbin travels into the mountains along the Pakistan-Afghan border. Whilst she is there she speaks to soldiers from opposing sides of the war and to would-be suicide bombers. | |
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