The first in a new investigative series asks, who's checking your surgeon is up to the job? Reporter Lucy Adams reports on a top NHS brain and spine surgeon in Tayside who stands accused of harming dozens of his patients. The programme hears compelling accounts from people whose operations went wrong - or were never carried out at all - and asks why the surgeon wasn't stopped earlier.
Investigative journalist Samantha Poling takes a journey into the controversial world of live animal exports. She uncovers some shocking truths about what happens to the male calves the Scottish dairy industry has no use for. And she goes on the trail of a live cattle shipment across Europe to see for herself the long journeys they endure.
Mark Daly investigates allegations of sexual and physical abuse across four decades at a Christian children's home in Argyll. He hears the untold stories of former residents who say they were systematically raped and abused throughout their childhoods by adults who were meant to care for them. Daly challenges the Sailors' Society charity that ran the home on whether it has done enough for those who continue to suffer through the legacy of abuse.
More and more patients are enduring long waits for operations and treatment on the NHS. Some Scottish government waiting time targets have never been met. Lisa Summers meets the people behind the statistics, struggling as they wait for joint replacements, counselling and cancer treatment. The programme investigates why waiting-time targets are missed and asks whether it is time to do away with them altogether.
Three decades on from the UK's worst terrorist atrocity, residents of Lockerbie reveal untold stories of how they have been affected by the downing of Pan Am flight 103. Piecing together rare archive with personal testimony of those who were there on the night and in the months after, the film charts how the quiet Dumfriesshire market town has been forever changed.
The death of Sheku Bayoh following his arrest in Fife three years ago remains one of the most controversial moments in Police Scotland's short history. Following the decision not to prosecute the officers who restrained him, Mr Bayoh's family claim there has been a cover-up, and say they have been denied justice. Mark Daly investigates the circumstances surrounding the death, using previously unseen material. The film poses fresh questions about the police response and asks if racism could have played a part.
What's behind Scotland's rising toll of drugs deaths? Reporter Chris Clements pieces together heartbreaking stories from one rural community where lives have been devastated by the growing abuse of prescription pills. The investigation reveals an illicit online trade in pills driven by social media.
Samantha Poling investigates the high-profile unsolved murder of Emma Caldwell, who was found strangled 14 years ago in remote Scottish countryside.
Follows two Scottish mums smuggling prescription cannabis into the country to give to their seriously ill sons.
Fiona Stalker travels around Scotland to investigate the spread of Lyme disease. One tiny tick under the skin can cause chronic illness but GPs are often slow to diagnose and to give treatment.
Game is a multi-million pound global industry selling men pick-up techniques to get women from the street into bed as quickly as possible. Myles Bonnar goes undercover at a seduction ‘bootcamp'.
It’s been the longest and most expensive equal pay battle in the country. The headlines would have you believe that the women won. Reporter Samantha Poling discovers that is far from the case.
Suicide in Scotland is at a five-year high. Reporter Chris Clements returns to his home town of Wishaw to ask why young men there are killing themselves.
With growing numbers opting for cosmetic surgery through high street clinics, what happens when things go wrong?
Investigation into allegations that the North Sea oil industry is complicit in exploiting workers in India.
Investigation into the rise in so-called 'rough sex'. As our understanding of consent is blurred by ever more violent porn, the results can sometimes be fatal.
Following workers on the frontline as they care for Scotland's sick and vulnerable, while trying to keep themselves safe. Samantha Poling investigates how well protected health and social care workers are and meets the people who've been forgotten in this crisis.
Investigation into government handling of the Covid 19 pandemic. Reporter Mark Daly investigates the decisions made and asks whether Scotland could or should have locked down sooner. Disclosure speaks to scientists desperate to keep us safe and meets the families hardest hit by the virus.
Lisa Summers examines claims that design flaws at Glasgow's state-of-the-art hospital have helped cause infection to spread there. Are hard-working NHS staff at QEUH being let down and vulnerable patients being put at risk?
Reporter Mark Daly investigates the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on our care homes. With more than 2,000 deaths in homes linked to Covid-19 since the start of the outbreak, the Disclosure team examines what was done to protect the elderly and asks whether the right decisions were made at the right time to look after care staff and residents. Apart from candid interviews with some of those most affected by the virus, Disclosure also hears calls for a radical rethink of social care.
Investigating the impact of the pandemic on Scotland's hardest hit area, Inverclyde. Sam Poling explores why this part of the west of Scotland has had the highest rate of virus deaths in the country.
Investigation into life for people with disabilities in the pandemic and the challenges they face as lockdown eases.
In an investigation into the spread of Covid-19 on Scotland’s college and university campuses, Chris Clements asks whether profit was put before safety when students were allowed back to halls of residence during the pandemic. What lessons can be learned from the rapid spread of the infection? And is enough being done now to protect students’ health and their education?
Documentary investigating one of the biggest peacetime disasters in modern Scotland.
Thousands of Scots have lost their jobs in the pandemic. As businesses struggle to survive under ongoing restrictions, Myles Bonnar investigates the far-reaching impact on the people left behind. He meets those without work or financial support and asks whether more should have been done to help those falling through the gaps. Fifty years ago, a crush on stairway 13 at Ibrox football stadium resulted in the deaths of 66 Rangers supporters. One of the biggest peacetime disasters in modern Scotland, it left a further 145 injured. Andrew Picken investigates how it happened and speaks to survivors and those who lost loved ones about the day and the shadow it has cast on their lives. subs
Jax Sinclair has found the very personal choice of coming out as a young trans person tricky to navigate. Jax meets other young trans people and asks whether there’s any need to tell someone you’re trans before you get intimate. What’s your business and what’s theirs? And what could be the consequences of not being upfront?
Donald Matheson is Scottish, but as a young man who is mixed race, do others view him as Scott(ish)? In this personal journey, Donald explores the ‘ish’. What does it mean to grow up both black and white in Scotland? And how hard is it to find a true sense of identity?
Ellis Horne loves Instagram but worries about its effect on her own body image. Ellis meets young people who feel their mental health has been negatively impacted by constant exposure to the perfect lives of others. She explores the role that influencers play in creating enviable lifestyles that are unobtainable to most, and asks the experts how to have a healthier relationship with the social media platform
No women of colour have ever been elected to Scotland’s parliament in its 22-year-history. It was designed to be modern and inclusive and to represent all Scots, so what’s holding back black, Asian and minority ethnic women from becoming MSPs? As campaigning for the Holyrood election gets underway, Disclosure hears from five women hoping to break the mould of Scottish politics.
How You Can Stop Climate Change. What Scots really think about the change to the climate
Scotland is in the grip of a crisis of addiction, homelessness and poverty – a country where the poorest can expect to die around a decade younger than the most affluent. Disclosure goes behind the statistics to meet those living on the edge and battling to get help and support. In a unique collaboration, BBC Scotland joins with investigative website The Ferret to work with citizen journalists who themselves have experiences with addiction, and asks what can be done to bring people back in from the margins
Sam Poling meets men and women who fled to Scotland to escape danger.
Following complaints of sexual violence on campus, is this Scotland’s #MeToo moment?
Young disabled people want better support from social care, health and employment services
Chris Clements investigates what has been called a housing emergency, with many young and less affluent people priced out of whole parts of the country
Social media companies collect huge amounts of personal data from children in order to target content at them. Reporter Emily Brown investigates how this is affecting their lives. She looks at the rise of 'kidfluencers', the children who can make millions talking to other children online. The programme also examines whether regulators should be doing more to control the booming ad tech market.
What’s behind the growing mountain of illegally dumped waste that’s blighting Scotland? Samantha Poling reveals how organised crime gangs are making millions while the environment is trashed.
Scotland often prides itself on being a welcoming, open and tolerant country when it comes to racism. Jean Johansson meets the men, women and children telling a different story. She revisits her own experiences growing up in Scotland in the 1980s and looks at what has changed in 2022, hearing some uncomfortable truths and shocking realities.
Peter Antonelli was jailed for eight years in December 2021 after a distinguished 40-year career in music education and amateur dramatics. Former pupils and staff describe how their warnings were ignored and he was allowed to continue to abuse for decades. The programme speaks to the survivors who finally brought him to justice and reveals current loopholes in the regulation of children’s performing arts in Scotland
Kirsty Craib believes she has ADHD and has spent the last eight years trying to get assessed, without success. Many young women report experiencing the same struggles getting support for neurodiverse conditions. On a journey towards trying to have her condition recognised, Kirsty meets others whose delayed diagnosis has impacted their lives, and asks whether social media, while contributing to more awareness, is also making it more difficult to get help.
Kim Drummond investigates the poor living conditions which some tenants say are making them sick.
Reporter Lucy Adams investigates why four young men have been locked in secure hospitals for years despite committing no crime. She meets the families struggling to get their loved ones home and hears the stories of those with autism and learning disabilities desperate to get out of a system they don't understand.
Seven years on from the award of a £97 million contract to build two new ferries on the Clyde, they are still not finished, but the bill to the taxpayer stands at a quarter of a billion and rising.
Should anti-abortion activists be prevented from making their presence felt outside Scotland's sexual health clinics? Against a rising number of protests and vigils, MSPs will consider creating buffer zones to prevent anyone from gathering outside places where women access abortion services.
Electric cars are key to winning the fight against climate change. By 2030, there will be up to a million of them on Scotland's roads - but can the current infrastructure cope with the demand?
Sheku Bayoh died after being restrained by police officers in Fife in 2015. A public inquiry is underway to establish exactly how the 31-year-old black man died. In a landmark first for Scotland, the inquiry is also setting out to discover if the police's handling of the incident was affected by Bayoh's race.
Reporter Sam Poling goes undercover to investigate the ruthless world of organised crime's latest commodity: dogs.
After a senior Scottish lawyer is convicted on historic child abuse charges, BBC Disclosure speaks to his victims and explores how he hid his crimes for decades. Reporter Myles Bonnar also revisits a 30-year-old scandal that rocked the legal establishment. For the first time on camera, members of the police, press and judiciary look back on the so-called 'Magic Circle Affair' and its major players. We ask whether there was a dark circle of criminality operating beneath this scandal.
Following the shock resignation of Scotland’s first minister, reporter Mark Daly examines what pressures led Nicola Sturgeon to stand down. While she remains the most popular party leader in Scotland, Ms Sturgeon has come under fire for her stance on gender reform and her strategy to lead Scotland to independence. The country’s longest serving first minister leaves her party and the independence cause at a critical moment. Can they survive without her?
As Scotland emerges from one of the most challenging winters in NHS history, Mark Daly finds patients borrowing cash and dipping into savings to go private, and even travelling abroad for vital surgery. Healthcare is meant to be free for all of us at the point of use, but growing numbers of patients face long waits to access the care they need. NHS staff tell their stories from the frontline and explain why many medics are breaking down under the strain of the current crisis.
Does men’s football have a problem with homophobia? It was only last year that Zander Murray became the first senior male footballer in Scotland to publicly come out as gay. While his decision has drawn praise from all corners of the game, it comes after years of struggling with his mental health as he kept his sexuality secret. Zander explores what is being done to tackle homophobia in football and Disclosure follows him as he discovers how the sport can be made more inclusive.
Reporter Samantha Poling lifts the lid on the multi-million pound trade in debt management and reveals the often unscrupulous tactics being used to target the vulnerable.
Anton Ferrie investigates the impact of antidepressants on the minds and bodies of the thousands of young people who take them.
Katie McEvinney investigates the growing trend in social media influencers pushing women towards natural birth control methods.
Ian Hamilton hears from those trapped in a rental market where demand outstrips supply. He finds tenants being forced to choose between massive rent increases or being evicted from their homes.
An undercover exposé of the weight loss profiteers who are risking lives by cashing in on our desperation to shed the pounds.
With Scotland’s prisoner numbers approaching a record high, Lucy Adams investigates the impact of overcrowding, drugs and suicides on inmates and staff.
An investigation into how the Post Office scandal ruined lives in Scotland. For more than a decade, Scottish prosecutors took dozens of former postmasters to court based on potentially flawed computer data. Reporter Mark Daly investigates how the Post Office and Scottish justice system got it so badly wrong in what’s been described as the widest miscarriage of justice in history. Daly meets Scots who were wrongly convicted, lost their livelihoods or were forced into confessing to crimes despite not stealing a penny; while the Post Office, a trusted and treasured national institution, covered up the truth.
Through home footage and candid testimony, seven women tell their stories of surviving domestic abuse. With incident rates rising over the past decade, is the justice system helping victims, or is it part of the problem? Disclosure follows the women over the course of a year as they try to escape violence and seek justice against the men who abused them.
A missing man, a hunt across the US and the untold story of an eccentric Inverness street trader who became an international fugitive. Did Kim Avis really drown in the waters off California’s infamous 'Mortuary Beach'? Dead Man Running is the extraordinary story of how the darkest of crimes were hidden in plain sight for decades.
A three-year investigation by Disclosure uncovers allegations of modern slavery aboard UK fishing vessels. Reporter Chris Clements hears the stories of migrant workers who came to these shores in search of a better life, only to find hardship and misery. And he explores a world-wide web of exploitation which puts profit before people.
Should we all have the right to choose when we die? Reporter Alex Lichtenauer explores the assisted dying debate and asks what impact legalisation would have in the UK.
Abbie Freeman struggled with dyslexia through her school years. Now she’s meeting people like her and asking what needs to change for young people who are struggling to read and write.
Why is it that women are most likely to take their own lives in their early 50s? Evie Kelsall goes on an emotional journey to understand her own mum’s suicide at the age of 53.
What do you do when you think you’ve found the perfect guy online, but all isn’t as it seems? Disclosure exposes the crimes of prolific romance fraudster Christopher Harkins.
