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Series 16: 23. No Win, No Fee Cost Me £27,000
Gloria Hunniford, Julia Somerville and the team hear how the promise of a no win, no fee legal action left a man from Burnley with a £27,000 legal bill after a firm of sol ...
20-11-2024
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Series 16: 22. Floored By Ground Rent Demand
Julia Somerville, Gloria Hunniford and the team hear from residents of a block of flats in Hertfordshire who say they were left shocked when the annual ground rent on their leas ...
19-11-2024
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Series 16: 21. Bank Account Switch Left Me Broke
Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville hear the story of a woman from Bolton who staged a protest at the local branch of her bank after being left penniless and with no access to ...
18-11-2024
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Series 16: 20. Wrong Flight Landed Us In Lithuania!
Julia Somerville and Gloria Hunniford present a sun-drenched holiday edition of Rip Off Britain, featuring the shocking story of the budget airline passengers from south Wales w ...
15-11-2024
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Series 16: 19. Crumbling Concrete Wrecked My Home
Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville get to grips with the lightweight construction material RAAC. Installed decades ago, it’s ended up decimating housing estates across ...
14-11-2024
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Series 16: 18. Help, My £45,000 Pension Is Missing!
With millions of pounds sitting unclaimed in dormant or misplaced accounts, the team sets about helping a former bank worker track down her pension pot, which has been missing s ...
13-11-2024
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Series 16: 17. Out-of-control Bamboo Is Destroying My Driveway
Gloria Hunniford learns how the 1990s fashion for bamboo in our gardens is causing expensive problems for some homeowners 25 years later and what can be done to stop the plant f ...
12-11-2024
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Series 16: 16. No Payout Pet Insurance
Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville are joined by Henry the Blue Peter dog, as they hear about the chihuahua owner from Oldham whose pet insurer refused to pay out. It left he ...
11-11-2024
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Series 15: 36. Has Your Car Been Clocked?
The team meets a man who discovered a hidden clocking device behind the dashboard of his car, which could mean it had covered thousands of miles more than he realised. Could you ...
26-07-2024
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Series 15: 32. Threatened With A Knife By An Airport Parking Firm
The sellers dogged by scammers on one of the biggest social media platforms – is enough being done to stop the fraudsters, and could you spot a real buyer from a fake one? ...
25-07-2024
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Series 15: 29. Sunshine Scams And Cruise Changes
The British tourists conned out of thousands of pounds when scammers struck during a spot of holiday shopping – and how Spanish police busted a crime ring making millions. ...
24-07-2024
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Series 15: 27. David Vs Goliath
The team comes to the aid of customers who feel they are fighting a David and Goliath battle, including one single mum landed with an £86,000 repair bill after a burst pip ...
23-07-2024
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Series 15: 26. Scammers Controlling Your Phone
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville return with a brand new series, today revealing how scammers were able to remotely control one woman’s phone to log in ...
22-07-2024
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Holidays Series 11: Episode 10
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville explore disasters that derailed some holidays before they’d even begun. Including the disruptive passengers whose drun ...
27-06-2024
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Holidays Series 11: Episode 3
Julia Somerville, Angela Rippon and Gloria Hunniford report on the holidaymakers who arrived at their hotels, only to discover they'd been closed for years and their tour operat ...
26-06-2024
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Holidays Series 11: Episode 9
Rip Off Britain: Holidays looks at unexpected problems that threaten to knock your travels off course, including the double-booking nightmare that put a real dampener on the hol ...
25-06-2024
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Series 14: Episode 17
Gloria Hunniford, Julia Somerville and Angela Rippon ask if the banks are acting fast enough when it comes to responding to fraud. The team hear from former Love Island contesta ...
24-06-2024
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Series 14: Episode 12
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville return with more investigations.
19-06-2024
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Holidays Series 10 (shortened Versions): Episode 9
The Rip Off Britain team investigate disastrous holidays and troubles with travel.
18-06-2024
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Series 13 (shortened Versions): Episode 15
Gloria Hunniford, Julia Somerville and Angela Rippon offer advice on consumer rights.
13-06-2024
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Series 13 (shortened Versions): Episode 12
Gloria Hunniford, Julia Somerville and Angela Rippon offer advice on consumer rights.
12-06-2024
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Series 13 (shortened Versions): Episode 9
Gloria Hunniford, Julia Somerville and Angela Rippon offer advice on consumer rights.
11-06-2024
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Series 13 (shortened Versions): Episode 7
Gloria Hunniford, Julia Somerville and Angela Rippon offer advice on consumer rights.
10-06-2024
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Series 16: 15. My Holiday Coach Crash Nightmare
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville are talking holidays. In the spotlight, the tour operator that one couple say really let them down when their coach transfer ...
07-06-2024
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Series 16: 14. £89,000 Down And My Bank Won’t Listen
Life savings gone and no refund – why your choice of bank could make all the difference if you lose out to scammers. Also, fraudsters breaking into your email account. We ...
06-06-2024
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Series 16: 13. Help, I Don’t Owe The Debt You’re Chasing Me For
Angela Rippon, Julia Somerville and Gloria Hunniford continue to fight for your rights when companies get it wrong, including the dogged debt collectors who won’t give up ...
05-06-2024
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Series 16: 12. ‘lose A Stone In A Week’ – The Pamphlet Peddling Porkies
The team tackle more bad practice, including debunking the claims of a slimming pill magazine that says you’ll lose a stone in a week. Also, the big banks making big bucks ...
04-06-2024
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Series 16: 11. I Became A Money Mule By Mistake
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville hear from the young people who thought they were dabbling in investments but instead ended up unwittingly money laundering & ...
03-06-2024
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Series 16: 10. Help, They’ve Hacked My Holiday Hotel
Angela Rippon, Julia Somerville and Gloria Hunniford meet one woman whose husband was taken seriously ill and rushed off their holiday cruise ship – leaving her at his sid ...
31-05-2024
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Series 16: 9. Cut Off From My Landline
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville meet people left completely cut off after their home phones were switched to the new system coming to all landlines soon. Al ...
30-05-2024
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Series 16: 8. The Phone, The Thief And The Worthless Insurance
Julia Somerville, Gloria Hunniford and Angela Rippon investigate how one tech giant’s phone theft cover has a killer exclusion that means it’ll only pay out if the p ...
29-05-2024
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Series 16: 7. Help – My Home’s Infested With Beetles
Julia Somerville, Angela Rippon and Gloria Hunniford meet the new-build homeowners forced out of their dream properties by faults, damp and infestations – and ask if new-b ...
28-05-2024
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Series 16: 6. Energy Special
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville challenge the energy industry and the government over your energy problems, including how one man had to do his energy firm& ...
27-05-2024
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Series 16: 5. My Four-star Holiday Deal Was Anything But
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville are back tackling more holiday horrors. Today, they investigate the bargain breaks on deal websites that turned out to be ve ...
24-05-2024
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Series 16: 4. Paying £1 Per Mile For Car Insurance
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate the pay-as-you-go car insurance designed to make motoring affordable for new drivers but which came with mid-con ...
23-05-2024
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Series 16: 3. Where’s My £300,000 Whisky Gone?
Julia Somerville, Angela Rippon and Gloria Hunniford meet the man worried he may have nothing to show for the £300,000 he invested in rare whisky after the investment firm ...
22-05-2024
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Series 16: 2. Blacklisted Because Of My Surname
Angela Rippon, Julia Somerville and Gloria Hunniford are back fighting your corner. Today, the advice clinic experts help one woman who was told she couldn’t use her real ...
21-05-2024
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Series 16: 1. They Sold Me A Written-off Car
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville meet motorists unwittingly driving around in cars so badly written off they should only have been sold for scrap. As they di ...
20-05-2024
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2023: Episode 11
Gloria Hunniford, Julia Somerville and Angela Rippon investigate an airport meet-and-greet company that ran up thousands of pounds of fines driving a man’s car through cen ...
26-01-2024
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2023: Episode 7
Julia Somerville, Gloria Hunniford and Angela Rippon take up the cases of people locked out of their social media accounts by scammers trying to track down their bank details. T ...
25-01-2024
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2023: Episode 4
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville are back in Rip Off Britain HQ with some of the country’s best consumer experts, on the case for victims of crime who ...
24-01-2024
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2023: Episode 3
Consumer champions Julia Somerville, Gloria Hunniford and Angela Rippon take up the cases for viewers who called for help when things seemed stacked against them. In this editio ...
23-01-2024
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Series 15: 40. My House Is A Building Site
Gloria Hunniford, Julia Somerville and Angela Rippon meet the families who paid tens of thousands of pounds for dream home extensions, only to be left with dangerously bad work ...
22-01-2024
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Series 15: 39. The Holiday Hotel That Looked Like A Building Site
Where do you stand when your holiday hotel is shockingly different in real life to the glossy snaps on the travel agent’s website? Customers of one of the biggest names in ...
19-01-2024
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Series 15: 38. My Solar Panel Misery
Going green, going wrong – a council-backed energy scheme that left homeowners burned. How to avoid that happening to you, so your bid to go green goes great instead. \n\n ...
18-01-2024
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Series 15: 37. Charged Hundreds Of Pounds To Flush The Loo
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville hear from the homeowners fighting a utility company that’s increased its prices almost tenfold in seven years – ...
17-01-2024
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Series 15: 35. Fake Taylor Swift Tickets Cost Me Hundreds
How fraudsters are cashing in on the huge demand for concert tickets by hacking genuine social media accounts to lure in their targets – the team meets people who’ve ...
15-01-2024
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Series 15: 34. I Was Put On A Different Flight From My Kids - Because The Plane Was Too Small
Holiday horrors at the check-in desk when a family of ten are split up, thanks to a plane swap leaving seven of them grounded. The eye-catching £1 holiday deposits that ar ...
12-01-2024
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Series 15: 33. I Bought A House For £28,000 – But I Was Forced To Hand It Back
How one man’s bid to become a property developer left him thousands of pounds out of pocket – we’re probing the auction house selling properties that came with ...
11-01-2024
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Series 15: 31. Our 18-year-old Home Is Crumbling
Julia Somerville, Gloria Hunniford and Angela Rippon hear from the couple facing more than £100,000 in repair bills to fix their family home or run the risk of it collapsi ...
09-01-2024
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Series 15: 30. I Had To Bathe My Disabled Son In The Garage After A Dispute With My Insurer
How one woman's battle with her home insurer left her in tears as she struggled to care for her disabled son. Also, the hire car company that left a family stranded in the count ...
08-01-2024
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Series 15: 28. The 30-minute Phone Call To Cancel Your Broadband
The team investigate the nationwide removals firm that promised professional, trained staff but subcontracted their work to man-and-van teams who caused hundreds of pounds of da ...
04-01-2024
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2023 Live: 10. Side Hustle Scams
The team explores the surge in fraudsters using the cost of living crisis to snare their targets by recruiting them to earn extra cash working from home – but ultimately s ...
20-10-2023
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2023 Live: 9. Bills From Beyond The Grave
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville meet some of the people facing debt collection threats for energy bills they paid long ago to a company that no longer even ...
19-10-2023
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2023 Live: 8. Inflation Or Unfair Price Hikes?
The team asks whether some of the staggering price increases we have experienced could be down to more than just inflation, and has advice for anyone unhappy with a company rais ...
18-10-2023
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2023 Live: 7. How To Take A Break From Big Bills
Rip Off Britain’s week of live Cost of Living specials continues with unmissable advice on how to ease the burden of loan and mortgage payments. Also, the e-bike batteries ...
17-10-2023
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2023 Live: 6. The Energy Companies Who Owe Their Customers Thousands
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville return with a week of live cost of living specials. Today, the team meets one woman who was over-billed more than £6,0 ...
16-10-2023
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Series 15: 25. Scammed By A Fake Holiday Firm
The big name travel firms that have been brazenly copied by fraudsters - Gloria, Angela and Julia are on hand to make sure you know what you’re getting is the real deal. P ...
13-10-2023
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Series 15: 24. My 11-year-old Son Booked A £4,000 Holiday By Accident
Price hikes in car insurance – Gloria, Julia and Angela investigate. The team ask the insurance industry what’s behind them and how you can save money. \n\nAlso, how ...
12-10-2023
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Series 15: 23. Customer Service Meltdown
The customer service meltdown that’s caused chaos for thousands at one of Britain’s most well known companies – Julia, Angela and Gloria investigate. Also, if ...
11-10-2023
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Series 15: 22. Black Market Driving Tests
How delays at the top of the DVSA are fuelling a black market in driving tests. And Angela, Gloria and Julia investigate whether the government’s plans to supercharge the ...
10-10-2023
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Series 15: 21. I Lost £130,000 To A Crypto Scammer
The crypto con which saw one man lose £130,000 to a scammer. And Gloria, Angela and Julia look at the shocking story of how one man’s search for romance left him pen ...
09-10-2023
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Series 15: Episode 20
In this holidays special, Rip Off Britain takes on some of the titans of the travel industry. Gloria, Julia and Angela ask why one couple’s all-inclusive holiday turned ou ...
06-10-2023
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Series 15: Episode 19
Gloria, Angela and Julia try to help a family whose beloved home has suffered six devastating floods in as many years. With the water board, council and local developers all inv ...
05-10-2023
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Series 15: Episode 18
Julia, Angela and Gloria investigate the companies who you say have let you down, including the people who claimed thousands of pounds in tax rebates only to be told they must p ...
04-10-2023
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Series 16: Episode 2
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville are back in Rip Off Britain HQ, and they’re investigating how Britain is fighting back against the fraudsters.\n\nThe ...
03-10-2023
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Series 16: Episode 1
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville kick off the series from their new HQ in Salford.\n\nIn this episode, the baffling bills leaving customers confused and out ...
02-10-2023
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2023: Episode 15
The team explore the online reviews that may not be all they appear to be, and share the very latest advice on how to spot the real from the fake so that you can buy with confid ...
01-09-2023
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2023: Episode 14
The team investigate the contracts you’ve signed up for, but which haven’t delivered what you expected, including home repair policies that didn’t live up to e ...
25-08-2023
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Series 14: Episode 18
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville find out why some no win no fee legal cases might have an expensive sting in the tail. And the big gigs that have left some ...
18-08-2023
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Series 14: Episode 16
Julia Somerville, Angela Rippon and Gloria Hunniford take a look at the big names that are failing to deliver. Including the parcel delivery company that has had a rebrand but w ...
16-08-2023
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Series 14: Episode 11
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville return with more investigations.
14-08-2023
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2023: Episode 13
Some companies offer multiple services in the name of ease and simplicity, but what happens when things go wrong? And firms that could be doing a lot more to make life easier. L ...
13-08-2023
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Holidays Series 11: Episode 8
Julia Somerville, Angela Rippon and Gloria Hunniford are back to help keep your holiday on track. Shrinking cabin luggage - which airlines are being stingiest with their free al ...
11-08-2023
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Holidays Series 11: Episode 2
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville throw the spotlight on big name holiday companies you say are letting you down. The team report on the shocking story of the ...
09-08-2023
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Holidays Series 11: Episode 1
Presenters Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville are based at the Eden Project in Cornwall. In this first episode, they report on the heartbreaking case of the wo ...
07-08-2023
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2023: Episode 12
Angela Rippon, Julia Somerville and Gloria Hunniford are on the trail of QR codes that led people to spend more than they bargained for. Also, the holiday company that appeared ...
07-08-2023
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2023: Episode 10
The team reveal the food delivery giants making customers pay for items that were out of stock and never delivered, and challenge them to change their ways. Also, did you get vo ...
25-07-2023
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2023: Episode 9
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville get to grips with the tricky problem of compostable and biodegradable packaging. Does the labelling really stack up? Angela& ...
18-07-2023
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2023: Episode 8
Angela, Gloria and Julia tackle more complaints on your behalf, including the shocking scourge of appliance cover policies that aren’t worth a penny. And where do you find ...
12-07-2023
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2023: Episode 6
Gloria Hunniford, Julia Somerville and Angela Rippon investigate more of your stories, including the shocking case of a man whose phone was stolen right out of his hands and dis ...
28-06-2023
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2023: Episode 5
Gloria Hunniford, Julia Somerville and Angela Rippon investigate more of the stories you send in to our HQ every week. In today's edition, the case of a family whose once-loved ...
21-06-2023
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2023: Episode 2
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville are back in Rip Off Britain HQ to investigate more of the problems you send in every day. In this edition, there's trouble a ...
31-05-2023
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2023: Episode 1
From a brand new home, Rip Off Britain HQ in Salford, Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville are joined by Britain’s best consumer experts to help solve the ...
24-05-2023
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Holidays Series 11: Episode 7
The Rip Off Britain team are here with more advice to keep the sun shining on your holidays. In this programme: visa chaos – how one switch of the rules left many with the ...
13-04-2023
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Series 14: Episode 13
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville return with more investigations.
11-04-2023
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Series 14: Episode 14
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville take on scammers, including the fraudsters taking out expensive phone contracts and leaving others to foot the bill. And how ...
10-04-2023
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Holidays Series 11: Episode 6
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville are back to help sort out more of your travel traumas.\n\nThey’ve got the scammers in their sights – including t ...
21-03-2023
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Holidays Series 11: Episode 5
From caravans that didn’t live up to the marketing material to world cruises that proved tricky to insure, the team investigate why things went wrong, so you can avoid the ...
16-03-2023
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Holidays Series 11: Episode 4
The Rip Off Britain team go behind the scenes at one of the UK’s biggest airports to find out just how much luggage goes missing. There is expert advice on how to keep tab ...
15-03-2023
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Series 14 (shortened Versions): Episode 9
Consumer champions Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville are back, taking on the companies you say have let you down when you needed them most. Today, the family ...
03-02-2023
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Series 14 (shortened Versions): Episode 4
Julia Somerville, Gloria Hunniford and Angela Rippon go into bat for more people who turned to the Rip Off Britain team for help. Julia meets brides-to-be who all believed they ...
02-02-2023
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Series 14 (shortened Versions): Episode 5
Julia Somerville, Angela Rippon and Gloria Hunniford take on more consumer stories, today tackling the scammers whose techniques to try to trap innocent victims just keep on evo ...
01-02-2023
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Series 14 (shortened Versions): Episode 2
Consumer champions Gloria Hunniford, Julia Somerville and Angela Rippon expose the online sellers passing off high-street bargains as handmade crafts and charging a premium for ...
31-01-2023
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Series 14 (shortened Versions): Episode 1
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville report on the latest scams hitting both the news and our pockets. Gloria hears the shocking story of one woman who lost one ...
30-01-2023
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Holidays Series 10 (shortened Versions): Episode 10
The Rip Off Britain team investigate disastrous holidays and troubles with travel.
27-01-2023
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Holidays Series 10 (shortened Versions): Episode 5
The Rip Off Britain team investigate disastrous holidays and troubles with travel.
26-01-2023
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Holidays Series 10 (shortened Versions): Episode 8
The Rip Off Britain team investigate disastrous holidays and troubles with travel.
25-01-2023
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Holidays Series 10 (shortened Versions): Episode 6
The Rip Off Britain team investigate disastrous holidays and troubles with travel.
24-01-2023
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2023 Live: Episode 5
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville round off the week with a rundown of our greatest tips and the best advice you’ve sent in during the week. They're als ...
20-01-2023
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