Disclosure Season 5

Does men’s football have a problem with homophobia? It was only last year that Zander Murray became the first senior male footballer in Scotland to publicly come out as gay. While his decision has drawn praise from all corners of the game, it comes after years of struggling with his mental health as he kept his sexuality secret. Zander explores what is being done to tackle homophobia in football and Disclosure follows him as he discovers how the sport can be made more inclusive.

As Scotland emerges from one of the most challenging winters in NHS history, Mark Daly finds patients borrowing cash and dipping into savings to go private, and even travelling abroad for vital surgery. Healthcare is meant to be free for all of us at the point of use, but growing numbers of patients face long waits to access the care they need. NHS staff tell their stories from the frontline and explain why many medics are breaking down under the strain of the current crisis.

Following the shock resignation of Scotland’s first minister, reporter Mark Daly examines what pressures led Nicola Sturgeon to stand down. While she remains the most popular party leader in Scotland, Ms Sturgeon has come under fire for her stance on gender reform and her strategy to lead Scotland to independence. The country’s longest serving first minister leaves her party and the independence cause at a critical moment. Can they survive without her?

After a senior Scottish lawyer is convicted on historic child abuse charges, BBC Disclosure speaks to his victims and explores how he hid his crimes for decades. Reporter Myles Bonnar also revisits a 30-year-old scandal that rocked the legal establishment. For the first time on camera, members of the police, press and judiciary look back on the so-called 'Magic Circle Affair' and its major players. We ask whether there was a dark circle of criminality operating beneath this scandal.

Reporter Sam Poling goes undercover to investigate the ruthless world of organised crime’s latest commodity: dogs. Poling infiltrates a network of dealers who are making millions by breeding dogs to extremes. She secretly films those at the heart of the trade, from illegal dog breeders to county lines drug dealers, and captures on camera the barbaric practices helping line criminal pockets, with animal cruelty front and centre.

Sheku Bayoh died after being restrained by police officers in Fife in 2015. A public inquiry is underway to establish exactly how the 31-year-old black man died. In a landmark first for Scotland, the inquiry is also setting out to discover if the police’s handling of the incident was affected by Bayoh’s race. As the next session of inquiry evidence begins in Edinburgh, reporter Mark Daly takes an in-depth look at what has emerged so far. Analysing the testimony of the officers involved in the restraint, who have publicly given their accounts for the first time, BBC Disclosure pieces together the final moments of the life of Sheku Bayoh and hears from those closest to him who are still searching for answers.

Electric cars are key to winning the fight against climate change. By 2030, there will be up to a million of them on Scotland’s roads - but can the current infrastructure cope with the demand? Kevin Keane speaks to drivers across Scotland, struggling with an often broken and ageing system, and travels to Norway to speak to Morten Harket of A-ha to talk about how acts of civil disobedience led to Norway becoming the world leader in electric cars.

Should anti-abortion activists be prevented from making their presence felt outside Scotland’s sexual health clinics? Against a rising number of protests and vigils, MSPs will consider creating buffer zones to prevent anyone from gathering outside places where women access abortion services. For some, this is needed to protect women’s rights and prevent intimidation. For others, it’s an assault on free speech and religious expression. Lynsey Bews investigates the battle taking place on Scotland’s abortion front line.

Mark Daly reveals the inside story of the ferry fiasco which has gripped Scotland. Seven years on from the award of a £97 million contract to build two new ferries on the Clyde, they are still not finished, but the bill to the taxpayer stands at a quarter of a billion and rising. Mark Daly investigates what went wrong at the Ferguson’s shipyard, and raises questions about the tender process that saw the contract awarded in 2015. Meeting with workers, experts and the islanders whose lifeline ferry services have been affected, Daly reveals the inside story of the ferry fiasco which has gripped Scotland.

Reporter Lucy Adams investigates why four young men have been locked in secure hospitals for years despite committing no crime. She meets the families struggling to get their loved ones home and hears the stories of those with autism and learning disabilities desperate to get out of a system they don't understand. More than 20 years after it was agreed no one should be living in hospital, she looks at why hundreds of people are still stuck behind locked doors, sometimes for decades. Ministers have promised to get most people home by March 2024, but is that going to happen?