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Unflinching, thought-provoking and compassionate. Stacey Dooley meets people at the heart of challenging situations - from around the world and closer to home.

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Episodes Meet the Shoplifters

Meet the Shoplifters

Spending time with people who regularly steal from shops, Stacey gets to grips with the shoplifting epidemic and what it’s like for the frontline staff trying to prevent thefts.
Duration: 44 mins First broadcast: 13 Mar 2025
Availability: Available for over a year (until 13 Mar 2027)
Episodes Growing Up Gypsy

Growing Up Gypsy

Invited into the traditionally private Gypsy community, Stacey discovers the complex balancing act young women face growing up in one of Britain’s most maligned ethnic minorities.
Duration: 44 mins First broadcast: 13 Mar 2025
Availability: Available for over a year (until 13 Mar 2027)
Episodes Episode 2

Rape on Trial: Episode 2

Facing court delays and the anxiety of preparing for court, Stacey follows the young women, who question if they can continue. Will they get the outcome they are hoping for?
Duration: 49 mins First broadcast: 9:50pm 13 Mar 2025
Availability: Available for over a year (until 13 Mar 2027)
Episodes Episode 1

Rape on Trial: Episode 1

The Crown Prosecution Service has decided to take the women’s rape cases to trial. But with court delays and barrister strikes, will they ever get their day in court?
Duration: 48 mins First broadcast: 9pm 13 Mar 2025
Availability: Available for over a year (until 13 Mar 2027)
Episodes Inside the Undertakers

Stacey Dooley: Inside the Undertakers

Stacey tackles the subject of death by immersing herself in the world of undertaking at a century-old funeral director's.
Duration: 58 mins First broadcast: 9 Nov 2023
Availability: Available for 10 months (until 09 Nov 2026)
Episodes Ready for War?

Ready for War?

Stacey follows three Ukrainian civilians training with British soldiers to fight Russia. In just five weeks, a florist, a welder and a jeweller learn to 'survive and be lethal'.
Duration: 58 mins First broadcast: 9pm 12 Apr 2023
Availability: Available for 3 months (until 12 Apr 2026)
Episodes Two Daughters

Two Daughters

Mina Smallman’s daughters were murdered. As their killer and police who took selfies with the bodies come to trial, she shares her journey of grief, rage and faith.
Duration: 59 mins First broadcast: 9pm 29 May 2022
Availability: Available for 5 months (until 29 May 2026)
Episodes Inside the Convent

Inside the Convent

Stacey Dooley moves into a convent to explore the lives of nuns. Will she cope with the sisters’ strict lifestyle, and what can she learn to make her life more meaningful?
Duration: 58 mins First broadcast: 10:45pm 7 Mar 2022
Availability: Available for over a year (until 07 Mar 2027)
Episodes Episode 2

Stalkers: Episode 2

Stacey embeds with a police unit focused on cases of stalking: an obsessed fan, a man fixated with a girl half his age, and an ex-prisoner sending death threats.
Duration: 47 mins First broadcast: 19 Jan 2022
Availability: Available for 11 days (until 09 Jan 2026)
Episodes Episode 1

Stalkers: Episode 1

Stacey meets victims and perpetrators of the most common type of stalking: a young mum’s ex in court, and a stalker just out of prison.
Duration: 34 mins First broadcast: 19 Jan 2022
Availability: Available for 11 days (until 09 Jan 2026)
Episodes Back on the Psych Ward

Back on the Psych Ward

Stacey Dooley returns to Springfield Hospital to work with the team again, looking after patients over six months as they battle through the pandemic.
Duration: 59 mins First broadcast: 9pm 13 Apr 2021
Availability: Available for 3 months (until 02 Apr 2026)
Episodes Costa del Narcos

Costa del Narcos

Stacey Dooley gains unique access to police, dealers and smugglers in southern Spain, the main gateway for drugs into Europe.
Duration: 59 mins First broadcast: 26 Apr 2020
Availability: Available for over a year (until 19 Oct 2028)
Episodes On the Psych Ward

On the Psych Ward

Stacey experiences the pressure of life on the frontline of mental health services, spending three weeks working alongside staff at Springfield Hospital in London.
Duration: 47 mins First broadcast: 19 Feb 2020
Availability: Available for 1 month (until 01 Feb 2026)
Episodes The Whale Hunters

The Whale Hunters

Investigating the controversial world of whale hunting, Stacey witnesses a commercial whale kill and meets the Faroese who kill for food and the activists trying to stop them.
Duration: 43 mins First broadcast: 22 Jan 2020
Availability: Available for 5 months (until 21 Jun 2026)
Episodes Nigeria's Female Suicide Bombers

Nigeria's Female Suicide Bombers

Stacey Dooley meets young women who were sent on suicide bombing missions by Boko Haram, one of the world's deadliest terrorist groups, but survived to tell the tale.
Duration: 44 mins First broadcast: 14 Aug 2019
Availability: Available for 6 months (until 28 Jul 2026)
Episodes Face to Face with Armageddon

Face to Face with Armageddon

Stacey travels to America to meet people prepping for an uncertain future, all with different concerns - from climate change and natural disasters to civil unrest.
Duration: 39 mins First broadcast: 10:45pm 25 Sep 2018
Availability: Available for 6 months (until 06 Jul 2026)
Episodes Shot by My Neighbour

Shot by My Neighbour

Stacey Dooley meets victims of 'kneecappings', as well as communities who are standing up to the attackers, and tries to speak to some of those behind the attacks.
Duration: 43 mins First broadcast: 10 Sep 2018
Availability: Available for 8 months (until 20 Sep 2026)
Episodes Face to Face with Isis

Face to Face with Isis

Stacey and Shireen, a former ISIS sex slave, seek justice when they confront ISIS in jail.
Duration: 33 mins First broadcast: 7 Feb 2018
Availability: Available for 1 month (until 31 Jan 2026)
Episodes Russia's War on Women

Russia's War on Women

Documentary in which Stacey Dooley travels to Russia to investigate the reasons for and the impact of the law that decriminalised certain forms of domestic violence.
Duration: 52 mins First broadcast: 31 Jan 2018
Availability: Available for 2 months (until 19 Mar 2026)
Episodes Second Chance Sex Offenders

Second Chance Sex Offenders

Stacey travels to Florida where sex offenders are punished for ever. But do sex offenders deserve a second chance, or are their crimes impossible to forgive?
Duration: 57 mins First broadcast: 24 Jan 2018
Availability: Available for 5 months (until 23 Jun 2026)

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