
Rip Off Britain (2009)
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Carla-Maria Lawson — Executive Producer
Episodes 152
Personal Finance
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Jennie Bond expose rip offs that are costing British consumers. The team investigates the personal finance and banking industry.
Read MoreEpisode 1
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Jennie Bond tackle the sharp practices making viewers hot under the collar. The mail bags are full to the brim with consumer complaints, prompting the team to travel the length and breadth of the country to investigate concerns both big and small.
Read MoreEpisode 2
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Jennie Bond tackle the sharp practices making viewers hot under the collar. The mail bags are full to the brim with consumer complaints, prompting the team to travel the length and breadth of the country to investigate concerns both big and small.
Read MoreEpisode 3
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Jennie Bond tackle the sharp practices making viewers hot under the collar. The mail bags are full to the brim with consumer complaints, prompting the team to travel the length and breadth of the country to investigate concerns both big and small.
Read MoreEpisode 4
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Jennie Bond tackle the sharp practices making viewers hot under the collar. The mail bags are full to the brim with consumer complaints, prompting the team to travel the length and breadth of the country to investigate concerns both big and small.
Read MoreEpisode 5
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Jennie Bond tackle the sharp practices making viewers hot under the collar. The mail bags are full to the brim with consumer complaints, prompting the team to travel the length and breadth of the country to investigate concerns both big and small.
Read MoreEpisode 6
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Jennie Bond tackle the sharp practices making viewers hot under the collar. The mail bags are full to the brim with consumer complaints, prompting the team to travel the length and breadth of the country to investigate concerns both big and small.
Read MoreEpisode 7
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Jennie Bond tackle the sharp practices making viewers hot under the collar. The mail bags are full to the brim with consumer complaints, prompting the team to travel the length and breadth of the country to investigate concerns both big and small.
Read MoreEpisode 8
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Jennie Bond tackle the sharp practices making viewers hot under the collar. The mail bags are full to the brim with consumer complaints, prompting the team to travel the length and breadth of the country to investigate concerns both big and small.
Read MoreEpisode 9
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Jennie Bond tackle the sharp practices making viewers hot under the collar. The mail bags are full to the brim with consumer complaints, prompting the team to travel the length and breadth of the country to investigate concerns both big and small.
Read MoreEpisode 10
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Jennie Bond tackle the sharp practices making viewers hot under the collar. The mail bags are full to the brim with consumer complaints, prompting the team to travel the length and breadth of the country to investigate concerns both big and small.
Read MoreEpisode 11
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Jennie Bond tackle the sharp practices making viewers hot under the collar. The mail bags are full to the brim with consumer complaints, prompting the team to travel the length and breadth of the country to investigate concerns both big and small.
Read MoreEpisode 12
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Jennie Bond tackle the sharp practices making viewers hot under the collar. The mail bags are full to the brim with consumer complaints, prompting the team to travel the length and breadth of the country to investigate concerns both big and small.
Read MoreEpisode 13
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Jennie Bond tackle the sharp practices making viewers hot under the collar. The mail bags are full to the brim with consumer complaints, prompting the team to travel the length and breadth of the country to investigate concerns both big and small.
Read MoreEpisode 14
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Jennie Bond tackle the sharp practices making viewers hot under the collar. The mail bags are full to the brim with consumer complaints, prompting the team to travel the length and breadth of the country to investigate concerns both big and small.
Read MoreEpisode 15
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Jennie Bond tackle the sharp practices making viewers hot under the collar. The mail bags are full to the brim with consumer complaints, prompting the team to travel the length and breadth of the country to investigate concerns both big and small.
Read MoreEpisode 16
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Jennie Bond tackle the sharp practices making viewers hot under the collar. The mail bags are full to the brim with consumer complaints, prompting the team to travel the length and breadth of the country to investigate concerns both big and small.
Read MoreEpisode 17
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Jennie Bond tackle the sharp practices making viewers hot under the collar. The mail bags are full to the brim with consumer complaints, prompting the team to travel the length and breadth of the country to investigate concerns both big and small.
Read MoreEpisode 19
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Jennie Bond tackle the sharp practices making viewers hot under the collar. The mail bags are full to the brim with consumer complaints, prompting the team to travel the length and breadth of the country to investigate concerns both big and small.
Read MoreEpisode 18
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Jennie Bond tackle the sharp practices making viewers hot under the collar. The mail bags are full to the brim with consumer complaints, prompting the team to travel the length and breadth of the country to investigate concerns both big and small.
Read MoreEpisode 20
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Jennie Bond tackle the sharp practices making viewers hot under the collar. The mail bags are full to the brim with consumer complaints, prompting the team to travel the length and breadth of the country to investigate concerns both big and small.
Read MoreEpisode 1 (Evening)
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Jennie Bond tackle the sharp practices making viewers hot under the collar. The mail bags are full to the brim with consumer complaints, prompting the team to travel the length and breadth of the country to investigate concerns both big and small.
Read MoreEpisode 2 (Evening)
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Jennie Bond tackle the sharp practices making viewers hot under the collar. The mail bags are full to the brim with consumer complaints, prompting the team to travel the length and breadth of the country to investigate concerns both big and small.
Read MoreEpisode 3 (Evening)
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Jennie Bond tackle the sharp practices making viewers hot under the collar. The mail bags are full to the brim with consumer complaints, prompting the team to travel the length and breadth of the country to investigate concerns both big and small.
Read MoreEpisode 4 (Evening)
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Jennie Bond tackle the sharp practices making viewers hot under the collar. The mail bags are full to the brim with consumer complaints, prompting the team to travel the length and breadth of the country to investigate concerns both big and small.
Read MoreEpisode 5 (Evening)
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Jennie Bond tackle the sharp practices making viewers hot under the collar. The mail bags are full to the brim with consumer complaints, prompting the team to travel the length and breadth of the country to investigate concerns both big and small.
Read MoreEpisode 6 (Evening)
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Jennie Bond tackle the sharp practices making viewers hot under the collar. The mail bags are full to the brim with consumer complaints, prompting the team to travel the length and breadth of the country to investigate concerns both big and small.
Read MoreEpisode 7 (Evening)
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Jennie Bond tackle the sharp practices making viewers hot under the collar. The mail bags are full to the brim with consumer complaints, prompting the team to travel the length and breadth of the country to investigate concerns both big and small.
Read MoreEpisode 8 (Evening)
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Jennie Bond tackle the sharp practices making viewers hot under the collar. The mail bags are full to the brim with consumer complaints, prompting the team to travel the length and breadth of the country to investigate concerns both big and small.
Read MoreEpisode 9 (Evening)
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Jennie Bond tackle the sharp practices making viewers hot under the collar. The mail bags are full to the brim with consumer complaints, prompting the team to travel the length and breadth of the country to investigate concerns both big and small.
Read MoreEpisode 10 (Evening)
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Jennie Bond travel the country tackling sharp practices affecting consumers and investigating rip-offs and concerns both big and small.
Read MoreEpisode 11 (Evening)
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Jennie Bond travel the country tackling sharp practices affecting consumers and investigating rip-offs and concerns both big and small.
Read MoreEpisode 10
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville travel the country tackling the rip-offs affecting consumers and investigating concerns both big and small.
Read MoreEpisode 11
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville travel the country tackling the rip-offs affecting consumers and investigating concerns both big and small.
Read MoreEpisode 12
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville travel the country tackling the rip-offs affecting consumers and investigating concerns both big and small.
Read MoreEpisode 13
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville travel the country tackling the rip-offs affecting consumers and investigating concerns both big and small.
Read MoreEpisode 14
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville travel the country tackling the rip-offs affecting consumers and investigating concerns both big and small.
Read MoreEpisode 15
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville travel the country tackling the rip-offs affecting consumers and investigating concerns both big and small.
Read MoreEpisode 16
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville battle on behalf of viewers who feel they've been ripped off or had a raw deal and try to get their problems resolved.
Read MoreEpisode 17
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville battle on behalf of viewers who feel they've been ripped off or had a raw deal and try to get their problems resolved.
Read MoreEpisode 18
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville battle on behalf of viewers who feel they've been ripped off or had a raw deal and try to get their problems resolved.
Read MoreEpisode 19
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville battle on behalf of viewers who feel they've been ripped off or had a raw deal and try to get their problems resolved.
Read MoreEpisode 20
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville battle on behalf of viewers who feel they've been ripped off or had a raw deal and try to get their problems resolved.
Read MoreEpisode 1 (Evening)
Consumer show. The team investigates whether energy bills are not just too high, but also too complicated; plus a look at a home insulation that went disastrously wrong.
Read MoreEpisode 2 (Evening)
Consumer show. The team investigates how mistakes made by energy companies can result in bills demanding tens of thousands of pounds. Plus, a boiler breakdown annoying customers.
Read MoreEpisode 3 (Evening)
Consumer show. The team investigate cases where consumers have been forced to pay over the odds for goods or services, including a man charged 14,000 pounds to unblock a drain.
Read MoreEpisode 4 (Evening)
Consumer show. The team investigate companies cashing in on a mis-selling scandal with a service you can get for free, and meet the young drivers priced off the road by insurance.
Read MoreEpisode 5 (Evening)
Consumer show. The team tests whether Chip and PIN is as secure as the banks claim, meeting a woman who lost 16,000 pounds. Plus the pricing antics of Britain's best-loved comic.
Read MoreEpisode 6 (Evening)
Consumer show. The team investigates what's being done to tackle the property investment schemes that have cost some their entire life savings. Plus, a home infested with rats.
Read MoreEpisode 7 (Evening)
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville tackle sharp practices affecting consumers. They ask why people in slow broadband areas pay the same as everyone else.
Read MoreEpisode 8 (Evening)
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville tackle sharp practices and investigate rip-offs. They meet residents hit with thousands of pounds' worth of parking tickets.
Read MoreEpisode 7
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Episode 10
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville meet a meet a football fan who never received his paid-for tickets. And the company taking advantage of people's dreams.
Read MoreEpisode 11
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate complaints about the banks. And more consumer issues are resolved at the Pop-Up Shop.
Read MoreEpisode 12
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville look into the companies dealing with mis-sold PPI payments, and reveal how a company was taped lying to prospective customers.
Read MoreEpisode 13
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate energy companies, meeting a man who was sent a £7,000 electricity bill for the year. Plus, how to lower bills.
Read MoreEpisode 14
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville help a woman forced to pay someone else's loan and explore problems with websites offering bargain deals.
Read MoreEpisode 15
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville meet a couple who were bitterly disappointed by a luxury holiday experience. Plus the true value of one store's gift vouchers.
Read MoreEpisode 16
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville visit a housing estate where a problem has dragged on for years, and look at the rising cost of parking at train stations.
Read MoreEpisode 17
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville ask if online comparison sites really do offer the best deals and investigate the price of being loyal to big companies.
Read MoreEpisode 18
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville expose rip-offs, raw deals and poor service.
Read MoreEpisode 19
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville reveal how confusion over road signs in a single spot has earned one council hundreds of thousands of pounds.
Read MoreEpisode 20
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville meet the woman who learned that she owes her bank more than six times the amount she thought she had borrowed.
Read MoreEpisode 1 (Evening)
Consumer show. The team ask who will end up paying the price for the recent floods, and help a couple whose insurance company refuse to pay out following a fire.
Read MoreEpisode 2 (Evening)
The team investigate complaints about the banks, meeting a woman angry no-one can tell her what has happened to the £25,000 she left in her account.
Read MoreEpisode 3 (Evening)
Consumer show. The team meet the families who were promised cheaper electricity, but who instead have been hit with bills four times higher than they should have been.
Read MoreEpisode 4 (Evening)
Consumer show. The team investigate the companies who have taken hundreds, or even thousands, of pounds from customers but provided absolutely nothing in return.
Read MoreEpisode 5 (Evening)
Consumer show. The team want answers from a company taking hundreds of pounds for flight tickets they haven't supplied, and meet a woman who's ended up losing her identity.
Read MoreEpisode 6 (Evening)
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville meet the woman conned out of her bank details. Plus the companies taking advantage of an easy way to make payments.
Read MoreEpisode 7 (Evening)
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville test the claims of a cash-for-gold company - how much will they really pay out for unwanted jewellery?
Read MoreEpisode 8 (Evening)
A look at the care home contracts that come with a costly sting in the tail, and how buying a second hand car led to one woman being woken in the middle of the night.
Read MoreEpisode 10
The team meets a family who face losing their home because of a mistake that has meant for six years they have been pursued for somebody else's debt.
Read MoreEpisode 11
The team take a look at the banks' approach to victims of fraud, and try to help viewers who have been stung get their money back. Plus an online shopping scam.
Read MoreEpisode 12
Angela Rippon investigates why homeowners promised cheaper energy have instead been hit with sky-high bills, forcing them to choose between eating or keeping warm.
Read MoreEpisode 13
The team investigates customer service, and puts to the test one of the biggest consumer bugbears of all: how long it takes for big companies to answer a call.
Read MoreEpisode 14
Stories in this episode include a couple whose worldly goods have entirely disappeared after they paid a shipping company to transport them home.
Read MoreEpisode 15
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville look at why it is perfectly legal for a company that owes you money to shut down and reopen under a new name.
Read MoreEpisode 16
Julia Somerville, Angela Rippon and Gloria Hunniford meet the people being pursued by one of the biggest names in the business for debts they never took out.
Read MoreEpisode 17
The team meet people who have lost a lot of money thanks to someone else's mistake, including a woman who cannot retrieve cash transferred into the wrong account.
Read MoreEpisode 18
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville investigate why cold calling remains one of consumers' biggest bugbears, and reveal a cold calling scam.
Read MoreEpisode 19
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville investigate situations where viewers have ended up thousands of pounds out of pocket - in some cases thanks to their own bank.
Read MoreEpisode 20
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate problems viewers have had with insurance, including a look at the rising cost of pet insurance.
Read MoreEpisode 10
The team investigate more situations where viewers have had a raw deal. Including a couple's travel insurance claim that was turned down for an astonishing reason.
Read MoreEpisode 11
The team reveal how to become more online-savvy and avoid being stung by internet fraudsters or companies that are not what they seem.
Read MoreEpisode 12
The team investigate situations where viewers claim they have been treated unfairly or fallen foul of rules they did not even know were in place.
Read MoreEpisode 13
The team investigate cases where people end up paying over the odds - sometimes by thousands of pounds.
Read MoreEpisode 14
The team investigate extraordinary stories to do with money, including the couple who lost hundreds of pounds thanks to simple errors with a bank transfer.
Read MoreEpisode 15
The team meet viewers who handed over hundreds of pounds to people who seemed to be experts in their field but did not get quite what they expected.
Read MoreEpisode 16
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville investigate stories to do with health. Why are patients at GP surgeries having to call a premium rate number?
Read MoreEpisode 17
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon, and Julia Somerville expose disastrous problems with brand new properties, including a grand design that has gone terribly wrong.
Read MoreEpisode 18
The team investigate mysterious flooding that is seriously damaging a home, and a church whose solar panels fail to generate a profit.
Read MoreEpisode 19
The team explore unsound investment opportunities. An investor in an apparently star-studded blockbuster wonders whether the movie will ever actually be produced.
Read MoreEpisode 20
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville investigate why the terms and conditions we sign up to every day are so long-winded and complicated.
Read MoreEpisode 10
Julia Somerville, Gloria Hunniford and Angela Rippon investigate how thoroughly builder-vetting websites check the tradespeople they list.
Read MoreEpisode 11
The shocking tale of the hackers intercepting customer accounts with fast-food businesses and leaving them to foot the bill. And how companies are failing victims of identity fraud.
Read MoreEpisode 12
Angela joins a stake out with a man whose confrontational approach to taking on the fly tippers has to be seen to be believed. Plus, top-notch consumer advice is handed out at the annual pop up shop.
Read MoreEpisode 13
How the scramble for a hot tub has left people hundreds of pounds down. Plus, how criminals posing as key workers have played on the people’s fears to extract yet more money from their victims.
Read MoreEpisode 14
Angela meets the fed-up pedestrians who want to bring an end to motorists parking on the pavement. They say it’s dangerous and inconsiderate- drivers say they have no choice.
Read MoreEpisode 15
How one of the biggest online shopping companies in the world has left its customers wishing they’d taken their business elsewhere.
Read MoreEpisode 16
Gloria Hunniford, Julia Somerville and Angela Rippon reveal how banks are leaving some victims of fraud high and dry, despite new protections having been introduced.
Read MoreEpisode 17
How married couples hoping for a tax break have been left with much less than they expected, and the vulnerable people left forking out for warranties that are close to worthless.
Read MoreEpisode 18
How some bank customers have been left with no access to their cash after being frozen out of their accounts, and parents facing huge phone bills run up by their unsuspecting children.
Read MoreEpisode 19
The team meet electric bike owners who say they have lost out after their prized possessions were stolen and their insurers wouldn’t pay out.
Read MoreEpisode 20
Gloria Hunniford pays a visit to the residents of one Kent town that is slowly sliding into the sea, finding out just how they are coping with their perilous situation.
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