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Classroom Warriors - join in the debate

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Eamonn Walsh|15:06 UK time, Monday, 28 February 2011

Panorama goes back to school to examine Government plans to send in the troops to Britain's troubled classrooms. Can they help restore discipline, leadership and respect?

It's an idea born in the USA where around 15,000 ex-military personnel have become teachers and done their bit in some of America's toughest inner-city schools.

Vivian White reports on the military manoeuvres claimed to be building David Cameron's so-called "Big Society".

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How to Blow a Fortune - join in the debate

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Eamonn Walsh|15:45 UK time, Monday, 21 February 2011

Will the death of Ireland's boom-time economy spell big trouble for the UK?

Fergal Keane returns home to find out why Ireland went from being one of the richest countries in the world to the brink of bankruptcy.

Bailing%20out%20Ireland has put Britain on the hook for billions, but will it be enough to save one of our most important business partners?

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WikiLeaks: the Secret Story - join in the debate

As the extradition hearing to decide whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange must return to Sweden to face a rape allegation reaches its judgement, Panorama talks to his former right hand man who walked out last year.

Assessing what WikiLeaks and its exposing of sensitive official material has achieved, the film examines claims that the organisation famous for leaking government secrets was paranoid about leaks from within and that it has failed to live up to its own ideals on openness.

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Forgotten Heroes - join in the debate

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Eamonn Walsh|16:35 UK time, Wednesday, 9 February 2011

Colonel Tim Collins - whose eve of battle speech before the invasion of Iraq brought him international fame - meets the soldiers who return home only to find that their service for Queen and country counts for little on civvy street.

In a Panorama Special, Collins meets veterans who struggle to find work and housing.

He sleeps rough on the streets of Brighton with a former soldier who's spent much of the past six years either on the streets or in jail.

He meets veterans who fear for their sanity as they suffer flashbacks, night terrors and violent outbursts and talks to families who struggle to cope with the husbands and fathers who went to war, only to come home as strangers.

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The Battle for Egypt - join in the debate

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Eamonn Walsh|17:02 UK time, Monday, 7 February 2011

For 14 days, the world has watched as hundreds of thousands of Egyptians have thronged the streets to protest - and then battle it out - in a popular uprising against the 30 year-old regime of President Mubarak.

Panorama's Jane Corbin has been filming inside these extraordinary scenes - in the main squares with the protest organisers and in the mean back streets where vigilantes and undercover police fight for control in a tense and terrifying struggle for power.

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