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Panorama

Panorama Season 36

1988·40 episodes

Current affairs programme, featuring interviews and investigative reports on a wide variety of subjects.

Episodes

  1. Episode 1 · 4 Jan 1988Thatcher's 3,000 DaysMrs. Thatcher has now been in office for 3,167 days - overtaking Asquith as longest serving Prime Minister this century.
  2. Episode 2 · 11 Jan 1988Arthur Scargill Evermore?Later this month Britain's 100,000 miners will vote on future direction of their leadership and in particular on Arthur Scargill.
  3. Episode 3 · 18 Jan 1988Rajiv Gandhi - India's Pilot Prime MinisterAs an airline pilot, Rajiv Gandhi would press a button, pull a lever and get results.
  4. Episode 4 · 25 Jan 1988The Margaret Thatcher InterviewThe Prime Minister, Right Hon Margaret Thatcher, MP, in a live interview with David Dimbleby.
  5. Episode 5 · 1 Feb 1988NHS - A Terminal Case?Forty years after its birth, National Health Service is in grip of continued crisis.
  6. Episode 6 · 8 Feb 1988The Two Billion Pound Rip-OffThe Two Billion Pound Rip-Off With few effective controls and checks EEC's Common Agricultural Policy has been described as 'greatest incentive to crime in Western Europe'.
  7. Episode 7 · 15 Feb 1988Violence on TelevisionViolence on Television since Hungerford massacre violence on television has become a hot political issue.
  8. Episode 8 · 22 Feb 1988Is There No Alternative?No synopsis yet.
  9. Episode 9 · 58m · 29 Feb 1988The IRA: The Long WarA history of the Provisional IRA political and military campaign.
  10. Episode 10 · 7 Mar 1988A Hard Act to FollowVice President George Bush and Senator Bob Dole are battling for Republican Presidential nomination.
  11. Episode 11 · 14 Mar 1988The Underclass of 88The Underclass of 88 In tomorrow's Budget Chancellor is widely expected to announce further tax cuts for better off.
  12. Episode 12 · 21 Mar 1988Electricity - A Shock in StoreDisturbing new evidence of a connection between electricity and small but significant increases in childhood and adult cancers are mystifying scientists.
  13. Episode 13 · 28 Mar 1988Church of England - One Foundation?In Church of England recent passionate arguments about ordination to priesthood of women or of practising homosexuals are symptoms of a much wider debate.
  14. Episode 14 · 11 Apr 1988Charles, Prince of ConscienceCharles, Prince of Conscience Is Prince of Wales sharpening an impression that he is increasingly out of tune with Thatcherit.
  15. Episode 15 · 18 Apr 1988Child Abuse: Battering the SystemClare is 4, and her mother fears she has been sexually abused by her father. She's just 30,000 children on local authority 'at risk' register.
  16. Episode 16 · 25 Apr 1988Israel at 40Next week, as Israel celebrates 40 years of statehood, Panorama reports on growing-problems of troubled nation.
  17. Episode 17 · 9 May 1988In the Shadow of the Killing FieldsTen years after Pol Pot 's reign of terror, Cambodians fear horror of killing fields may return.
  18. Episode 18 · 16 May 1988Replacing the Hidden BombFew people know Britain has a class of nuclear bombs other than those carried in Polaris submarines.
  19. Episode 19 · 23 May 1988A Revolution Without ShotsMikhail Gorbachev has called his attempt to reform Soviet Union 'a revolution without shots'.
  20. Episode 20 · 6 Jun 1988Selling the Nuclear DreamWhen Government privatises electricity industry, everyone in Britain will have chance to buy a stake in nuclear power.
  21. Episode 21 · 13 Jun 1988Northern Ireland: The Long PeaceAfter 20 years of unrest, there are first signs of a wind of political change in Northern Ireland.
  22. Episode 22 · 20 Jun 1988In Wealth We TrustIn his last Budget, Chancellor Lawson gave to those who already had. He cut tax for well-off.
  23. Episode 23 · 27 Jun 1988The Price of Success?Britain's South East is beginning to boom. In a crescent around London, new business parks and housing estates are fast expanding.
  24. Episode 24 · 4 Jul 1988Can We Afford the Doctor?The death of hole-in-the-heart baby, Matthew Collier has provoked most fundamental review of National Health Service for 40 years.
  25. Episode 25 · 11 Jul 1988Who Is This Man Dukakis?As son of Greek immigrants is about to be sent forth as Democratic Party's challenger to recapture American Presidency, Panorama examines credentials of Michael Dukakis.
  26. Episode 26 · 18 Jul 1988Hot PropertyIt involves estate agents, valuers and solicitors as well as purchasers, and it's happening both because mortgages are so easily available and because bodies set up to monitor house sales seem unable to cope with buying market.
  27. Episode 27 · 5 Sept 1988Labour's Agonising ReappraisalAt a time when Opposition should have been making capital of Government's difficulties.
  28. Episode 28 · 12 Sept 1988Jam Today, Jam Tomorrow?By year 2000, there will be up to 30 per cent more cars on road. Peter Taylor examines ways of getting out of jam and interviews Secretary of State The Rt Hon Paul Channon.
  29. Episode 29 · 19 Sept 1988Piper Alpha: The Human Price of OilIn July, 167 men were killed in world's worst ever oil disaster. Jane Corbin talks to crucial eyewitnesses aboard Piper Alpha that nigbt.
  30. Episode 30 · 26 Sept 1988A Class ApartOne-hundred-and-eighty children have just begun term at most controversial school in Britain, brand new City Technology College in Solihull.
  31. Episode 31 · 3 Oct 1988Inundation of a NationNo synopsis yet.
  32. Episode 32 · 10 Oct 1988Violent Britain - The Hurd InstinctOn eve of Conservative Party Conference, Home Secretary Rt Hon Douglas Hurd MP is preparing for his toughest challenges of year.
  33. Episode 33 · 17 Oct 1988The SASAn investigation into the role of the SAS in Northern Ireland.
  34. Episode 34 · 24 Oct 1988Choosing the Future - The Genetic RevolutionUsing latest DNA technology, scientists are identifying genes which help to determine kind of people we are.
  35. Episode 35 · 31 Oct 1988Pakistan: Paying for a Holy WarPakistan has been chief backer of Afghan guerrillas in their Holy War against Soviet army.
  36. Episode 36 · 7 Nov 1988The Tories: Friends of the Earth?Mrs Thatcher claims Conservatives are green at heart. The local authorities monitoring Britain's booming waste industry have yet to be convinced.
  37. Episode 37 · 21 Nov 1988Adios General Pinochet?After 15 years, people of Chile have voted to get rid of General Pinochet. But his dictatorship continues for next year-and-a-half as a nation, divided by hatred, tries to move towards democracy.
  38. Episode 38 · 28 Nov 1988Europe: My Way or Theirs?On eve of Summit of Common Market Leaders, Fred Emery reports on battle for future of Europe after 1992.
  39. Episode 39 · 5 Dec 1988Council Housing: The Last FrontierCouncil estates are Conservatives' next political battlefield. Once, council housing, subsidised and secure, symbolised Welfare State.
  40. Episode 40 · 12 Dec 1988The Shadow of the SwastikaHalf a century after war, hunting down of old Nazis has never been more intense. In America, Canada and Israel, Nazis and their collaborators are facing trial.