Panorama Season 42

From babyhood to boardroom, women are now set to out-achieve men. Panorama reveals evidence that the future is female - and the weaker sex is now male. Have women won the war of the sexes? Mike Embley reports.

He was the boy from the other side of the tracks, poor, black, who made it in a white man's world. The trial of 0J Simpson, an American sporting hero, on charges of murdering his wife and her friend has become the story…

Is "the greatest nightmare" of being "old, sick, poor and uncared for" referred to by John Major at the Conservative Party Conference already a reality for thousands of Britain's sick and elderly? Sarah Barclay reports.

On 28 September the ferry Estonia sank in minutes in the Baltic Sea with the loss of 900 lives. It was the second major accident involving roll-on roll-off passenger ferries in seven years. Jane Corbin reports.

In the wake of books, biographies and annus horribili, the monarchy is facing its biggest crisis for half a century. Even establishment circles are now worried that the cracks in the royal facade are beginning to show.

As British Rail is broken up into more than 80 new companies, trains are grinding to a halt with more cancellations and late trains, leaving even more passengers waiting at the station.