Synopsis
Richard Bilton investigates the problems Margaret Thatcher's right-to-buy policy is causing 40 years later, including the return of slum landlords.
- Programme: Panorama
- Episode: What's Gone Wrong with Our Housing?
- Channel: BBC One
- Broadcast year: 2023
- Geography
Licence: ERA Licence required
Free to watch for UK schools, colleges and universities with an ERA Licence
UK only
Staff and students of licensed education establishments only
Cannot be adapted
Add Notes
More clips from Panorama
A restorative justice example | Panorama
A restorative justice example | Panorama
Watch the process of restorative justice and how it impacts the victim and offender of the burglary.
Addicted to Gambling | Panorama
Addicted to Gambling | Panorama
The amount we lose to the betting companies has almost doubled in a decade, but are the bookies doing enough to protect problem gamblers?
Africa's Billion Pound Migrant Trail | Panorama
Africa's Billion Pound Migrant Trail | Panorama
Benjamin Zand investigates the African migrant trade and reveals the extraordinary scale of people-smuggling across sub-Sahar...
Aftershock: The Turkey-Syria Earthquake | Panorama
Aftershock: The Turkey-Syria Earthquake | Panorama
More than 30,000 people are known to have been killed in the earthquake that devastated Turkey and Syria. Panorama asks if...
All Work and Low Pay | Panorama
All Work and Low Pay | Panorama
Panorama goes undercover to reveal how some employers exploit loopholes or get round the rules so that their workers are paid below the Natio...
Am I British? | Panorama
Am I British? | Panorama
Reporter Greg McKenzie meets young people born or brought up in the UK who say Home Office immigration policy treats them as second-class citizens.
Antisemitism: Why British Jews Are Afraid | Panorama
Antisemitism: Why British Jews Are Afraid | Panorama
Judith Moritz examines how abuse, intimidation and violence aimed at Jewish communities has become more widespread, leav...
Apollo 11: The Impact on Earth | Panorama
Apollo 11: The Impact on Earth | Panorama
Robin Day hosts this special edition of the current-affairs programme, marking man's first steps on the surface of the moon. Julian...
Apple's Broken Promises | Panorama
Apple's Broken Promises | Panorama
Richard Bilton takes an undercover look at what life is like for the workers making the iPhone 6 in China and the children working in dang...
Are You Scared Yet, Human? | Panorama
Are You Scared Yet, Human? | Panorama
As artificial intelligence changes our world, it has sparked a new arms race between China and the US. Experts warn that without urgent...
At War: Crisis in the Middle East | Panorama
At War: Crisis in the Middle East | Panorama
Panorama reports on the conflict between Israel and Hamas. Reporter Jane Corbin hears the human stories on both sides and asks w...
Australia Burning | Panorama
Australia Burning | Panorama
Panorama hears from the people living in the path of last year's bush fires in Australia, and asks whether such events are to become normal.
Baghdad | Panorama
Baghdad | Panorama
Including a report by Adrian Crawley from Baghdad, Edward Ward speaking from the Hungarian Frontier, an interview by Christopher Chataway of an Australian...
Berlin: Life Before the Wall | Panorama
Berlin: Life Before the Wall | Panorama
It's with surprising ease that Robert Kee steps across the border from East to West Berlin as, before the erection of the wall, the d...
Beyond Human: Artificial Intelligence and Us | Panorama
Beyond Human: Artificial Intelligence and Us | Panorama
Reporter Lara Lewington speaks to some of the so-called 'godfathers' of AI about their hopes and fears, and she meets...
Beyond Reasonable Doubt: Britain's Rape Crisis | Panorama
Beyond Reasonable Doubt: Britain's Rape Crisis | Panorama
Panorama is on the frontline with Derbyshire Police to investigate why only one per cent of reported rapes in Engla...
Big Brands' Green Claims Uncovered | Panorama
Big Brands' Green Claims Uncovered | Panorama
Panorama investigates the green projects that say they can help brands cancel out their carbon emissions. But do the claims sta...
Boohoo's Broken Promises | Panorama
Boohoo's Broken Promises | Panorama
Fast fashion giant Boohoo faced serious criticism in 2020 for poor working conditions at its suppliers. A Panorama investigation reveals ...
Borneo | Panorama
Borneo | Panorama
Coca-Cola sells more than 100 billion throwaway plastic bottles each year. Panorama investigates Coca-Cola's promises to crack down on plastic waste.
BP - In Deep Water | Panorama
BP - In Deep Water | Panorama
Hilary Andersson examines the full consequences of the explosion on BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, asking what went wron...
More resources about Urban issues in the UK
01: 24 Hour Britain | Britain from Above
01: 24 Hour Britain | Britain from Above
Andrew Marr goes on a journey through a day in the life of Britain as seen from the skies.
02: The Last Stand at Stratford | Building the Olympic Dream
02: The Last Stand at Stratford | Building the Olympic Dream
The ambition and scale of the project is huge. Resistance to the plans comes from unexpected quarters.
Students in Suburbia - Newcastle | We Are England
Students in Suburbia - Newcastle | We Are England
Once a quiet residential suburb on the outskirts of Newcastle, Jesmond is being taken over by students and anti-social beha...
S03E01E1 | A House Through Time
S03E01E1 | A House Through Time
David Olusoga investigates the residents of an 18th-century house in Bristol, uncovering stories of piracy, an abandoned baby, a notorious po...
Episode 1 | The Mighty Redcar
Episode 1 | The Mighty Redcar
Real-life soap opera, filmed over a year in North Yorkshire. Mum and daughter Kat and Kaitlyn have had a tough time over the last few years but...
Episode 2 | The Mighty Redcar
Episode 2 | The Mighty Redcar
Kaitlyn is about to get her GCSE results whilst also facing the prospect of her and her mum having to move house again.
S01E02 | A House Through Time
S01E02 | A House Through Time
The story of those who lived in one house, from the time it was built until now. David Olusoga follows the residents of the house in Liverpool ...
S02E01 | A House Through Time
S02E01 | A House Through Time
David Olusoga pays his first visit to Ravensworth Terrace and investigates a vengeful lawyer, a scientist faced with financial ruin and a docto...
01: The Rioters | The Riots: In Their Own Words
01: The Rioters | The Riots: In Their Own Words
The story of the riots of 2011, using accounts from the rioters themselves as well as previously unseen footage to tell the s...
02: The Police | The Riots: In Their Own Words
02: The Police | The Riots: In Their Own Words
The story of the riots of 2011, told through first-hand accounts from both the police on the frontline and in the control room...
Episode 3 | The Mighty Redcar
Episode 3 | The Mighty Redcar
As Jess's apprenticeship draws to a close, she needs to find a new job or risk not being able to do what she loves.
Episode 4 | The Mighty Redcar
Episode 4 | The Mighty Redcar
Billy is about to make a tough decision - does he start a career at 16 or go to college?
S01E01: Urban Heart Surgery | The 15 Billion Pound Railway
S01E01: Urban Heart Surgery | The 15 Billion Pound Railway
Documentary series following a team of engineers and construction workers as they build London's Crossrail - tryin...
S01E02: Tunnels Under the Thames | The 15 Billion Pound Railway
S01E02: Tunnels Under the Thames | The 15 Billion Pound Railway
This episode follows engineers building London's brand new underground railway, Crossrail, as they rebuild a ...
S01E03 | A House Through Time
S01E03 | A House Through Time
The story of those who lived in one house, from the time it was built until now. David Olusoga follows the story from 1891 to 1945, through two...
S01E03: Platforms and Plague Pits | The 15 Billion Pound Railway
S01E03: Platforms and Plague Pits | The 15 Billion Pound Railway
Following the engineers building London's brand new underground railway, Crossrail, as they race to build te...
S01E04 | A House Through Time
S01E04 | A House Through Time
The story of those who lived in one house, from the time it was built until now. David Olusoga traces the history of the house in Liverpool fro...
S02E02 | A House Through Time
S02E02 | A House Through Time
Tracing the residents from the 1880s to 1900s, David discovers a family torn apart by catastrophe. The house becomes a refuge for destitute str...
S02E03 | A House Through Time
S02E03 | A House Through Time
Tracking the house's occupants in the early 20th century, David finds a boarding house landlady whose family is threatened by war and a young c...
S02E04 | A House Through Time
S02E04 | A House Through Time
David Olusoga uncovers infidelity and divorce, traces a WWII prisoner to Ravensworth Terrace, and sees the house fall into disrepair before it ...