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Dispatches Season 3, Episode 25: Year of the Locust

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Episodes

39 episodes
1

Return to Year Zero?

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

45 min
2

Gorbachev's Asylums

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

45 min
3

Cooking the Books

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

45 min
4

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
5

Buckets of Money

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

45 min
6

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
7

Afghan

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

45 min
8

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
9

The Case of 'F'

45 min
10

The Return of the Death Squads

45 min
11

Burma - Dying for Democracy

45 min
12

Voices From Long Larten

45 min
13

Young, Homeless and Broke

45 min
14

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
15

Carry on Flying

45 min
16

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
17

Dispatches (26/04/1989)

45 min
18

A Suitable Case for Treatment

45 min
19

The Sins of the Fathers

45 min
20

Not What the Doctor Ordered

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

45 min
21

Warlord of Kayan

45 min
22

The Ultimate Blasphemy

45 min
23

Fit as a Fiddle

45 min
24

Empire of the Sun

45 min
25

Year of the Locust

45 min
26

A State of Decay

45 min
27

Terror Island

45 min
28

The Spanish Connection

45 min
29

The Day of the Technopath

45 min
30

No, Prime Minister

45 min
31

The Undoing of Edwina

45 min
32

Mission Impossible

45 min
33

In the Coal Hole

45 min
34

The False Confession File

45 min
35

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
36

Twelve Days in November

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

45 min
37

Licence to Kill

45 min
38

Privatising Poland

45 min
39

Road to Damascus

45 min