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NEXT PANORAMA -  SMUGGLERS' TALES - MONDAY 8.30PM ON BBC ONE
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SMUGGLERS' TALES

It is a game of cat and mouse - prisoners determined to get their next fix and prison guards trying to stop them. With exclusive access to a Category A prison, reporter Raphael Rowe investigates how drugs are getting into our
prisons.

For the first time we show footage of visitors caught handing drugs to prisoners and hear compelling first hand accounts from inmates, officers, smugglers and their mules as well as a corrupt prison officer just out of jail.

There is a preview of tonight's programme on the Panorama website:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/panorama/hi/front_page/newsid_8179000/8179102.stm

There you can also read an interview with a former prisoner who became hooked on heroin in jail:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/panorama/hi/front_page/newsid_8174000/8174870.stm

You can find out more about Raphael Rowe's work with Panorama by watching his reporter profile:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/panorama/hi/the_team/newsid_7748000/7748539.stm

Panorama: Smugglers' Tales is on BBC One, Monday 3 August at 8.30pm.

THE TRAUMA INDUSTRY

The BBC's veteran war reporter Allan Little revisited his own experience of seeing a colleague killed while on assignment in a war zone for Monday's programme.

The Trauma Industry took a look at how Post Traumatic Stress Disorder has become embroiled in the compensation industry. Once associated with the battlefield of Vietnam, PTSD is today being seen more and more in personal injury claims ranging from car accidents to work place bullying. But is this diagnosis helpful for the people pursuing compensation as they try to overcome their personal trauma?

Following the programme, two organisations representing sufferers of fibromyalgia syndrome objected to how it was represented in the programme.

You can read Panorama's full response to their objections on the website:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/panorama/hi/front_page/newsid_8174000/8174823.stm

ASSISTED SUICIDE UPDATE

Last week the Law Lords ruled that the husband of multiple sclerosis sufferer Debbie Purdy would not face prosecution if he helped her travel abroad to die.  

The news was welcomed by one of Scotland's most popular figures, MSP Margo MacDonald. She suffers from Parkinson's disease and last year made a very personal film for Panorama meeting people with similar illnesses who wanted the right to choose the time of their death.

Speaking to Panorama after the ruling she said, "I am ever so pleased for Diane and her husband. This is good. It will give them more good quality time together."

You can read more about her response to the ruling on the Panorama website:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/panorama/hi/front_page/newsid_8176000/8176819.stm

If you missed Panorama's I'll Die When I Choose you can watch it online:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_7800000/newsid_7807800/7807806.stm

That's all from us for this week but you can keep up to date with Panorama on our website:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/panorama/hi/default.stm

And remember you can e-mail us anytime at panorama@bbc....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/pn/-/1/hi/programmes/panorama/default.stm
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