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Robert Peston's revelations that ; that the Bank of England and that for up to two years caused a huge stir in the press and online ahead of last night's programme which almost 3 million of you watched.

Here's a couple of reviews of from and .

We've received lots of comments from people eager to hear more from Robert Peston's interviews on Britain's banking crisis.

So if you click on the following names you'll be able to access Robert's full interview transcripts as pdfs:

The Chancellor of the Exchequer,
The deputy governor of the Bank of England,
The chief executive of the Financial Services Authority,
The chief executive of Barclays,

Monday night's Panorama will be the last programme of the year and focuses on the biggest story of 2008 - the dramatic global economic downturn.

With in America, household names like going under in the UK and recession hitting powerful economies like , credit and the lack of it have dominated headlines worldwide.

In Britain, one man has been the source of all the latest information on the economy. Via his blog and reports on TV and radio Robert Peston has delivered a series of major scoops, starting with need for emergency Government funding earlier this year.

You may also remember that following a dramatic week in October which saw the government announce a £400bn rescue package for the UK's banking system, Robert took part in a Panorama live special, Britain in the Red: Your Questionbillion-dollar bail outs in America, household names like Woolworths going under in the UK and recession hitting powerful economies like Germany, credit and the lack of it have dominated headlines worldwide.

In Britain, one man has been the source of all the latest information on the economy. Via his blog and reports on TV and radio Robert Peston has delivered a series of major scoops, starting with Northern Rock's need for emergency Government funding earlier this year.

You may also remember that following a dramatic week in October which saw the government announce a for the UK's banking system, Robert took part in a Panorama live special, .

In that hour alone he received over 2000 emails and asking for his thoughts on the credit crisis. If you missed it, you can still and the answers to some of your questions via our website.

Now Peston's also been too for becoming part of the story and having a potentially dangerous impact on the economy as well.

We'll look into all of that on, Monday at 8.30 pm on ´óÏó´«Ã½ One.
Expect exclusive interviews with and leading regulators as well as some revealing insights about Peston himself.

of the conviction of former defence official Theoneste Bagosora for instigating Rwanda's 1994 genocide, will be welcomed by many people in the region, where the horrific events of those three months in 1994 still cast a long shadow.

To coincide with the 50th anniversary of the signing at the United Nations of the Panorama investigated why the international community stood by and watched the genocide happen in its 1998 film . In the US it was renamed .

I had a minor part in the making of that as a film researcher and some of the footage featured, even while heavily sanitised, still remains some of the most harrowing I have seen. Given the horrific events which unfolded with such speed - how could they not be?

The accusation was that Western governments were slow to react to the events unfolding in Rwanda. US State Department spokesperson Christine Shelley was in a press conference on 10 June 1994 about the US administration's refusal to even call the events 'genocide'. It took until March 1998 for to apologise for the international community's inaction over Rwanda.

Panorama made several films about the genocide in Rwanda; but only one was made while the killings raged; Fergal Keane's film which first aired in late June 1994.

aired on the 10th anniversary in 2004.

That many of the culprits remain at large - and are some of recent atrocities in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo - remains a stain on the conscience but today's news is a step towards reconciliation.

Shortly will be publishing its annual assessments of children's services in 150 local authorities online.

Last year no councils were found to be inadequate overall and four were marked as inadequate at keeping children safe.

But in the wake of the Baby P case, the inspection system has been .

Last month, that a senior social worker in Haringey and police did not want Baby P returned home. And you can still watch on our website.

Derren
Multiplatform Editor

If you'd like to know more about this week's Panorama, this is the start of my blog post on the Editor's blog about Britain's Terror Heartland:

It's never easy to make documentaries in Pakistan - especially for journalists who, like those on Panorama, aren't based there.

Given the startling access Jane Corbin and her cameraman/producer Nikki Millard got - not only to the troubled areas around Peshawar, but also to the Pakistan army's battles with militants linked to al-Qaeda and the Taleban in the tribal areas - the new civilian government at least appears serious about showing (some) of what it's up to...

The full post is on The Editors Blog.

Just wanted to say that they'll be more content (video and blogs) connected to last night's film on the Panorama website over the next couple of days.

Where possible we'll always try and delve deeper into subjects online.

Derren
Multiplatform Editor

Hello I'm Tom Giles and I'm a Deputy Editor of Panorama - having previously worked as a producer-director on, among other things, Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain, This World, Horizon, Newsnight and, well, Panorama.

Exposure to the dynamic, fiery political blogosphere of the recent US Elections made me think it might be time for a Panorama editorial blog - primed to cover all things (vaguely) associated with the show - not least the decisions we make.

There is, of course, a potential downside, this sort of .

I should be so lucky...

Hello, my name is Verity and I am the senior web producer at Panorama. It's my job to keep you up to date with everything that is happening here at the programme and point you towards interesting articles and info on the issues we cover.

As part of the web team I have of course been involved in the redesign of our site. One of my tasks has been overhauling our profile pages - updating our reporters' biographies and ensuring that their photographs, while flattering, are not so out of date that you have trouble matching them up with their on-screen presence.

In doing so, I have been struck by the number of ex-teachers and wannabe educators in our midst. Both Peter Taylor and Vivian White began their careers in the classroom (as incidentally did I, introducing Japanese high school students to the delights of Hangman and Pictionary in the 90s), and John Sweeney says that if he hadn't been a journalist he would have wanted to be a teacher, because explaining to people why events and issues are important "would be a wonderful thing to do".

Of course in a way that is exactly what John, Peter, Vivian et al actually do - they bring important, but sometimes hidden, information to public attention and point out why you should care.

But the key difference between teachers (at least in my day) and the Panorama team is that you can answer us back - in fact we positively encourage it. Central to our blog is the conversation between us and you, so please do send us your comments, ask us questions, pass on information and if you feel the need harangue and pester us (I may live to regret that last bit) - that way you can help us ensure that you the audience remain at the heart of what we do.

The sheer scale of the Panorama television archive is staggering. Trust me, I work with it every day. Perhaps more staggering, several years into web 2.0, is just how little of the footage is actually available to view online.

We already have information on Panorama from 2000 onwards on the website archive. We also have an easily searchable site (there's more info about that on the ).

Panorama is fortunate in that most programmes can be viewed on the website for a full year after transmission. But that is of course the proverbial drop in the ocean when you consider a programme that has been running since 1953.

But little by little, this is something we hope to change.

To whet the appetite, we've made a trying to highlight some of the ground Panorama has covered in its first 50 years.

How to cover 50 years of such diverse television in an 11 minute film presented its own challenges. How do you decide between a fascinating sequence of reporter Robin Day peering over the Berlin Wall in 1961 or Millwall football hooligans love of a ruck from 1977? In the end neither of them made the final cut.

Problems like this were too big to overcome to be honest. So we didn't really try. What we did do is give a flavour of how Panorama has changed over the years and indeed in many ways how it has stayed the same.

L.P. Hartley's novel The Go-Between famously opens with the line 'the past is a foreign country; they do things differently there' and always struck me as pretty much spot on. But research into Panorama's past in any of the last six decades shows issues like race, immigration, education and health the hot topics they remain today for Panorama's audience.

Where Hartley was correct is mirrored in the way Panorama did things. Certainly in how they spoke to the audience and, in the days before cheap travel and our plethora of news options, what they thought their audience needed to know.

The way the programme has chronicled the changing face of Britain and beyond since 1953 is truly fascinating. Which is ultimately why we'd like to open up the archive and make some of this material available online.

That's why the purpose of my blog is to invite you to discuss Panorama's rich archive and where possible, we'll dig out some classic clips for you. I'll also be trawling the blogosphere to see what Panorama's from the past are being talked about.

And of course if you have a favourite Panorama, a story to tell us about a particular programme, or think you've found something that would interest the team, then please email me at panorama@bbc.co.uk marked 'Archive' in the subject line.

Hallo and welcome to Panorama's new blog, a mix of current affairs musings, clips, pictures and links to the big issues that affect all our lives.

I'm Derren and I run Panorama's online team, some of whom like Verity and Eamonn will be blogging too. Verity will keep you up to date with all the latest news and developments surrounding the programme.

Eamonn's our resident Mr Archive with an encyclopaedic knowledge of Panorama's history. He'll be rummaging around our vaults and dusting off old tapes to bring you those classic moments from Panorama's past that have as much relevance now as they did then. We know that you have your own opinions about Panorama's heritage, so Eamonn will be keeping track of the vintage episodes that you've rated or hated too.
Expect posts from Tom Giles too, a Panorama Deputy Editor, bitten by the blogging bug while covering the US Election for us.

They'll also be regular contributions from Panorama reporters Jane Corbin, Raphael Rowe and John Sweeney.

Jane kicks off first, reflecting on her recent trip to Pakistan and Afghanistan for a forthcoming show on terrorism.

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Derren
Multiplatform Editor, Panorama