Panorama · SEASON 37
The Tender Trap
Episode 8 · 1989-02-27

- Documentary
- News
Episode overview
By August, every council in England and Wales will have to start putting six essential services out to tender. Will the home owner get better value for money or will the quality of services decline?
Season 37 episodes
1. How Free Is Britain?1989-01-09
2. President Bush - Challenging the Future1989-01-16
3. Children in Need1989-01-23
4. The Killer Inside1989-01-30
5. Factory Fresh: The Food Revolution1989-02-06
6. Inside the Ayatollah's Iran1989-02-13
7. Will You Still Feed Me?1989-02-20
8. The Tender Trap1989-02-27
9. Death in the Rainforest1989-03-06
10. NHS Plc? - What's in It for Patients?1989-03-13
11. Sent from Heaven - Sold on Earth1989-03-20
12. Disarming the Alliance: The Soviet Peace Offensive1989-04-03
13. The Condor Conspiracy1989-04-10
14. Whose Law Is It Anyway?1989-04-17
15. No Spring in Prague1989-04-24
16. Ten Years' Hard Labour1989-05-08
17. Football - Safe in Their Hands?1989-05-15
18. Punching Judy1989-05-22
19. University Challenge1989-06-05
20. Alaska: Oil on the Rocks1989-06-19
21. Built in Britain, Made Abroad1989-06-26
22. Lady Porter - The Pursuit of Power1989-07-19
23. Getting the Message Across1989-09-04
24. Solidarity - Taking the Reins of Power1989-09-11
25. Happy Families1989-09-18
26. Lockerbie: An Avoidable Tragedy1989-09-25
27. Afghanistan: The Squandered Victory1989-10-02
28. Follow My Leader1989-10-09
29. British Rail: The Ultimate Sell-Off1989-10-16
30. Crack Crisis - Is Britain Next?1989-10-23
31. Gorbachev: Reaping the Whirlwind - The Poisoned Land1989-10-30
32. Gorbachev: Reaping the Whirlwind - Bloody Sunday1989-11-06
33. The Boys on B Wing1989-11-20
34. What Future for Thatcherism?1989-11-27
35. Allies in Arms1989-12-11