Panorama Season 40

Horse racing in Britain is in crisis. Is it because it's not run in a business-like way or because bookies aren't paying their fair share?

New payments to farmers to produce less food will result in an area of farmland bigger than Devon being released. Will this lead to widespread dereliction? Should the land be used for housing and industry or returned to…

On the eve of the Conservative Party conference, another in-depth investigation and analysis of current events with the Panorama team.

Recent events have shaken the foundations of the EC. As the 12 gather for a summit in Britain this week, Martha Kearney looks at the view from France and Germany and asks whether these nations will create a premier…

This year, hundreds of thousands of people will be smuggled into the west from the former communist states of eastern Europe. Nisha Pillai reports on this crime which is fast becoming a European growth industry.

Bill Clinton has suffered the most sustained attacks on a candidate's character in recent American history, over sex, drugs and the draft. Yet he goes into next week's election with the best prospects a Democrat has had…

The future of some popular BBC tv shows, from Eldorado to the Generation Game, is under scrutiny. Why should viewers pay a licence for the kind of programmes that may be widely available on rival channels in the 90s?

Animal sacrifice, child sexual abuse, cannibalism and murder: crimes committed, claim some, in the name of Satan. According to one estimate, satanic ritual abuse is rife in every town in Britain, but is this myth or…

Crack cocaine is most dangerous illegal drugs ever to reach Britain. The intense pleasure it gives soon leads to addiction, and a deadly spiral of depression and destructiveness.

Under Mrs Thatcher, ministers said they meant to privatise British Rail, but left it in public ownership. Now John Major's government intends to show how radical it is, by de-nationalising the industry.