Dispatches
Overview
An in-depth look at news stories. Documentaries that take you behind the scenes giving an insight into people's lives or institutions.
Episodes
1. The Plutonium Black Market
Investigating the black market in weapons grade uranium operated from Khartoum.
2. In The Red
Investigation of the alleged misuse of funds at three Labour Party Social Clubs in Dundee.
3. AIDS - The Unheard Voices
The program challenges the theory that AIDS is caused by the H.I.V. virus and discusses the social pressures on those diagnosed as H.I.V. positive.
4. Divided by Law
Explains how new D.N.A. testing techniques could help to re-unite divided immigrant families and looks at claims that the government has delayed progress pending on legislation.
5. Selling the Tunnel
TVS's Business Unit tells the inside story of the Eurotunnel Management Team's battle to persuade the City and the public to back the issue of shares and raise capital.
6. Gunning for Government
The undercover world of arms dealing is revealed by a defector (Frank Turner) who reveals his involvement with the CIA and British Ministry of Defence.
7. Kimberly Carlile - Falling Through the Net
4 1/2 year old Kimberley was starved, dehydrated and beaten and weighed 24Ibs-small for a normal child her age. Her stepfather Nigel Hall was jailed for life for her murder, the mother Pauline Carlile was jailed 12 years for cruelty.
8. Korea: Poverty Prohibited
In the run-up to the Olympics, the Seoul urban poor are forced from their homes to make way for the developers.