Dispatches - Season 30 / Year 2015
Season 30 / Year 2015
Episodes
How to Blow Your Pension
Low Pay Britain
The Great Car Con
Secrets of the Parking Wardens
Politicians for Hire
Dispatches goes undercover to investigate how former cabinet ministers are offering themselves to private companies as Brexit advisers. Antony Barnett discovers how, with Brexit causing ever more confusion and uncertainty, this presents an opportunity for those with the right knowledge to cash in on their experience.
Britain's Benefits Crackdown
Benefits Britain
Britain's Defence Squeeze
How to Buy a Meeting with a Minister
How Safe Are Our Planes?
The Secrets of Sports Direct
Trains: Are You Paying Too Much?
Where to Save Your Money
Exams: Cheating the System?
The Great British Property Divide
Salt: Are You Eating Too Much?
Kids in Crisis
How Councils Blow Your Millions
Pensions and the Price of Growing Old
Escape from Isis
Hunted: Gay and Afraid
Britain's Benefits Experiment
Aldi's Supermarket Secrets
Britain's Nightmare New Homes
White People
The Children Who Beat Ebola
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Irish Blood
Irish Blood focuses on Fiona, whose path in life is earmarked by her father, Declan, who seemingly abandoned her and her mother on her tenth birthday. After years of channelling anger toward him, to the benefit of her litigious clients, a message from her father sends her to Ireland. There she learns key truths about her father as well as a family that doesn't know she exists, and, moreover, that the story of abandonment that has shaped her entire life - was a lie. A lie intended to protect her and her mother from her father's shady business dealings. Fiona resolves to uncover the full truth about her father and reconnect with the parent she only thought she knew.