Dispatches Season 3, Episode 11: Burma - Dying for Democracy

Return to Year Zero?

Documentary report on the risks to the area if the Khmer Rouge regains power in Kampuchea.

45 min

Gorbachev's Asylums

Documentary report about the changes in the Soviet Union's psychiatric system caused by Gorbachev's policy of "glasnost".

45 min

Cooking the Books

Investigation of Thatcher government's alleged misuse of official statistics.

45 min

The Spy Who Broke the Code

Documentary examining the continued significance for the USA and her allies, of John Walker, a US Navy Chief Warrant Officer and Soviet Spy.

45 min

Buckets of Money

Documentary investigation into high pressure shares salesmen. Exposes the 'bucket shops' where share dealers are cheating the small investor.

45 min

The Copper Seven Story

Documentary report abut the legal wrangle in Los Angeles involving G.D. Searle, manufacturers of a contraceptive coil which it was forced to withdraw from the American market.

45 min

Afghan

A four month Afghan report from the eyes and mouth of Jeff Harmon and Alexander Lindsay.

45 min

The Toxic Trail

Documentary on the legal debate surrounding a mother's wish to have sterilized her 35-year old daughter, who has a mental age of four.

45 min

The Case of 'F'

45 min

The Return of the Death Squads

45 min

Voices From Long Larten

45 min

Young, Homeless and Broke

45 min

Chico

A documentary about the Brazilian Chico Mendes, filmed over several years by Adrian Cowell, about the Brazilian campaigner against deforestation of the Amazon rainforest.

45 min

Carry on Flying

45 min

The Most Neglected Crime

Four out of ten women had received an unwanted obscene phone call, but a police superintendent could not recall one individual being prosecuted for that offence in 23 years.

45 min

Dispatches (26/04/1989)

45 min

A Suitable Case for Treatment

45 min

The Sins of the Fathers

45 min

Not What the Doctor Ordered

Featuring David Willetts of the Centre for Policy Studies, and a new White Paper on health

45 min

Warlord of Kayan

45 min

The Ultimate Blasphemy

45 min

Fit as a Fiddle

45 min

Empire of the Sun

45 min

Year of the Locust

45 min

A State of Decay

45 min

Terror Island

45 min

The Spanish Connection

45 min

The Day of the Technopath

45 min

No, Prime Minister

45 min

The Undoing of Edwina

45 min

Mission Impossible

45 min

In the Coal Hole

45 min

The False Confession File

45 min

Hungarians Not Comrades

Documentary profile of the people of Hungary, whose country has been the centre of world attention in 1989 with the return of democratic elections.

45 min

Twelve Days in November

Documentary report from Czechoslovakia on the recent political upheavals over the twelve days since Friday 17th November.

45 min

Licence to Kill

45 min

Privatising Poland

45 min

Road to Damascus

45 min