Aired: 2/13/2012
A look at who got tickets for the London 2012 Olympic games and whether private companies are profiting.
Aired: 2/23/2012
An investigation into two major 'fan-to-fan' ticket exchange websites to investigate who is selling via their websites and why so many tickets appear at over the face value so soon after the box office sells out.
Aired: 5/14/2012
Revealing how easy it is to buy our most personal and confidential information.
Aired: 5/21/2012
Investigating whether cutting up our credit cards and paying for everything in cash could leave us with more money in our pockets
Aired: 5/28/2012
Investigates the extent of the Assad family's culpability and the chains of command that link the President and select inner circle to the brutal crackdown.
Aired: 6/11/2012
Investigates just how close the Prime Minister got to the Murdoch empire. Did the Tories agree to help the mogul secure a business deal worth £8 billion?
Aired: 6/18/2012
Tony Nicklinson had a catastrophic stroke, which has left him utterly paralyzed. He has what is known as 'locked in syndrome' and cannot move, talk, feed himself or perform even the most basic function without help.
Aired: 6/25/2012
Lifts the lid on the funeral industry.
Aired: 7/2/2012
Reporter Morland Sanders goes in search of the people cashing in on the 2012 London Olympic Games, and questions whether the overall economic benefits of hosting the event have been oversold.
Aired: 7/9/2012
An investigation into tax avoidance.
Aired: 7/16/2012
Dispatches investigates what's happened to the five-a-day campaign, which was designed to get us all eating more fruit and veg. Reporter Jane Moore reveals how this vital health message has been hijacked as a marketing tactic.
Aired: 7/23/2012
Jon Snow travels around the UK, meeting consumers, businesses and bankers, to ask whether we can trust our banks.
Aired: 7/30/2012
Investigates the controversial processes used to assess whether sickness and disability benefit claimants should be declared fit for work.
Aired: 8/6/2012
A look at the rise in high street betting shops and the social effect they have.
Aired: 8/13/2012
Investigates Jobcentre Plus, the organization tasked with getting Britain back to work and cracking down on dole cheats.
Aired: 8/20/2012
Investigates allegations of private landlords, councils, and housing associations overcharging leasehold homeowners for housing works and maintenance.
Aired: 9/10/2012
Tazeen Ahmad examines evidence that strategies to improve the food served in all our schools are fast coming undone.
Aired: 9/17/2012
As other High Street retailers struggle for survival, discount leader Poundland is booming. Its pre-tax profits are up an astonishing 50% in a year. Dispatches' Harry Wallop asks how Poundland sells so cheaply, yet makes so much money.
Aired: 9/24/2012
Investigating the multi-million pound retirement property industry.
Aired: 10/1/2012
Investigate the reality of life below deck for the multi-national workforce who toil behind the scenes of luxurious ocean going holidays.
Aired: 10/8/2012
Follows the former Greggs chief executive Sir Michael Darrington as he launches a campaign to call a halt to corporate greed.
Aired: 10/22/2012
Tina Nash investigates 'Clare's Law', a new pilot scheme in which men and women are warned by the authorities about their partners' history of violence.
Aired: 10/29/2012
Morland Sanders examines whether the rapid handover of services to private contractors is really good for the public purse, and good for patient care.
Aired: 11/5/2012
Provides unprecedented insight into Israel's internal tensions concerning an attack between Israel and Iran which, if escalates, could have major implications for global stability.
Aired: 11/12/2012
A look at the life and death of Neil Percival Heywood and whether he was actually murdered. His death, virtually unnoticed at the time, has gone on to shake China's Communist Party to the core.
Aired: 11/19/2012
Two years after the MPs expenses scandal, Dispatches examines whether our parliamentarians are still abusing the system. The investigation discovers a system still with problems and a lack of transparency.
Aired: 11/26/2012
Jonathan Miller travels to Rwanda - the jewel in the crown of British overseas aid - to investigate what British taxes have paid for, and to ask what our government has achieved with the influence our aid supposedly buys us.
Aired: 12/3/2012
As China continues to flex its financial muscle by buying into British airports, water and breakfast cereals, Dispatches investigates growing Chinese power in the UK.
Aired: 12/10/2012
Reporter Morland Sanders investigates whether security procedures that our banks tell us are impenetrable really are? He meets customers who say they have lost thousands of pounds through chip and pin fraud.
Aired: 12/17/2012
Matt Frei reports from the scene of one of America's worst mass shootings, unravelling the chain of events and asking whether this latest tragedy will lead to a real change in America's attitude to guns.