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Dispatches.

Name: Dispatches
Genre: Documentary, News
Released: 1987-10-30
Rating: 6.5

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An in-depth look at news stories. Documentaries that take you behind the scenes giving an insight into people's lives or institutions.

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1987.

The Plutonium Black Market

1987-10-30 · 45m

Investigating the black market in weapons grade uranium operated from Khartoum.

In The Red

1987-11-06 · 45m

Investigation of the alleged misuse of funds at three Labour Party Social Clubs in Dundee.

AIDS - The Unheard Voices

1987-11-13 · 45m

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.

Divided by Law

1987-11-20 · 45m

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.

Selling the Tunnel

1987-11-27 · 45m

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.

Gunning for Government

1987-12-04 · 45m

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.

Kimberly Carlile - Falling Through the Net

1987-12-11 · 45m

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.