Our World (2007)

Épisode 1 - 16/06/2007

16 juin 2007

As Darcey Bussell takes her final curtain call, she reflects on nearly 20 years as principal dancer of the Royal Ballet in London. Bussell talks to Louise Minchin and explains why she is retiring at the peak of her powers

Épisode 2 - Hunters of the Twilight

30 juin 2007

As scientists warn that global warming could threaten the future of animals and people in the Arctic, Fergal Keane reports on the unique world of the Inuits of Canada's high Arctic. He joins the hunters fighting to preserve an ancient way of life.

Épisode 3 - Turkish Journey

14 juin 2007

Ahead of the July 22nd parliamentary elections, BBC's Ben Hammersley travels across Turkey examining tensions between Ataturk's secular legacy and Islam.

Épisode 4 - Our World: Taking on the Taleban

21 juin 2007

BBC Correspondent Alastair Leithead spent three weeks with British troops and aid workers in southern Afghanistan. British forces are fighting a guerrilla war with the Taleban on a mission to help the Afghan government control lawless Helmand province.

Épisode 5 - 28/07/2007

28 juillet 2007

It's only 40 years since the United States overturned the ban on interracial marriage. Sean Fletcher goes on a very personal journey to America, to look at that historic Supreme Court ruling, and the mixed race couple who fought to change history.

Épisode 6 - Scouting: Prepare for the future

4 août 2007

The Scouts are celebrating their 100th anniversary. Robert Hall reports from South Africa and the UK on how the biggest youth organisation in the world is facing up to the challenges of the 21st century.

Épisode 7 - Afghanistan...A Country on the Edge

11 août 2007

Hostage-taking and bus bombs on the streets, insurgency and foreign troops struggling to keep the peace. John Simpson travels across Afghanistan to find out whether the country is on the brink of becoming another Iraq.

Épisode 8 - 18/08/2007

18 août 2007

Austria is waging a war on waste. Nearly 60 per cent of all rubbish there is recycled compared to seven per cent in Britain. Euro 2008 is set to be the greenest tournament ever. Liz McKean journeyed across Austria to find that everyone is doing their bit.

Épisode 9 - A Growing Problem

25 août 2007

Two-and-a-half million children in Britain are overweight or obese. The government aims to halt the rise in childhood obesity by 2010. Jackie Long has been following a group of families on a programme devised by the Institute of Child Health. Has it worked?

Épisode 10 - Drugs or Democracy?

1 septembre 2007

Ninety per cent of the world's illegal opium production now comes from one country, Afghanistan. David Loyn sets out to discover whether the thriving illegal drug trade was an inevitable transition in the country's development, or something more sinister.

Épisode 11 - The Longest Journey

8 septembre 2007

Duncan Kennedy travels with illegal migrants to see first hand the incredible risks they take for a new life in the USA.

Épisode 12 - Zimbabwe's Slow Death

15 septembre 2007

A report on the state of Zimbabwe. The BBC's Sue Lloyd-Roberts ventures into the country undercover, and finds a nation on the brink of catastrophe, with thousands of people dying each week from malnutrition

Épisode 13 - Basra Diary

22 septembre 2007

Amateur film-maker Josh Fortune gives a vivid insight into life on the frontline during his six months in Basra with the Territorial Army Parachute Regiment.

Épisode 14 - A Country Practice

29 septembre 2007

A doctor, his wife and their four children swapped the comforts of their UK home for the wilderness of north eastern Afghanistan. They're working to improve the health of some of the poorest people on Earth. Alastair Leithead went to meet the remarkable family.

Épisode 15 - A Country Practice

6 octobre 2007

It is estimated that unpaid carers save the economy 87 billion pounds a year. Many make extraordinary sacrifices to look after their friends and family. These are the moving stories of three members of Britain's caring society.

Épisode 16 - Sporting Chance

13 octobre 2007

Dominic Cotton travels to Namibia with young people from deprived parts of England. Visiting their international counterparts, they share ideas about how sport can be used to enhance communities. They leave determined to use their experiences back home.

Épisode 17 - White Horse Village

20 octobre 2007

Villagers in White Horse Village in China are being moved from their homes as part of government plans to move 500 million people out of rural areas and into high rise blocks in the cities. In this film Carrie Gracie returns to see how they are faring.

Épisode 18 - The Prying Game

27 octobre 2007

Britain has more video surveillance cameras than any other country. Since 9/11 the government has brought in new gadgets that let them track us more easily. So what technology will be around in the near future, how will it be used, and do we really mind?

Épisode 19 - End Game?

3 novembre 2007

The battle against insurgents in Iraq. Paul Wood travelled from the US to Iraq with a squad of the 101st Airborne. This special report assesses the chances for victory over the insurgents and a successful handover by the Americans to Iraqi government forces.

Épisode 20 - A Journey Through the North West Passage

10 novembre 2007

Record melting caused by global warming cleared a direct route through the Arctic for the first time this summer. David Shukman joins a Canadian icebreaker as it makes a 600 mile journey of scientific discovery.

Épisode 21 - Red Line Roulette

1 décembre 2007

Nine years after Britain and other powers intervened against Serbia in Kosovo, the status of the Balkan province remains undecided. Humphrey Hawksley reports.

Épisode 22 - Last Post in Arabia

8 décembre 2007

After a violent insurgency forty years ago, British troops were finally pushed out of Aden, the last British colony in the Middle East. Brian Barron watched the British leave and now returns to examine the fate of Aden and its people.

Épisode 23 - Iraq Surge

15 décembre 2007

It's a violent world for US troops operating in Iraq. But is it getting any easier for them? Mark Urban travels to Iraq to talk to US soldiers.

Épisode 24 - Adventure Capitalist

22 décembre 2007

One of Britain's top executives shocked the City this year by giving up his job to help the less well off in Africa. Hugh Pym travelled to Kenya to find out how Richard Harvey is getting on, and to see what drove him to such a dramatic career change.

Épisode 25 - Darcey's Swansong

23 décembre 2007

This year Britain's best know ballerina, Darcey Bussell, took her final curtain call. Here's another chance to see Louise Minchin's revealing film, as Darcey reflects on nearly two decades as principal dancer of the Royal Ballet in London.

Épisode 26 - Covering Iraq

24 décembre 2007

BBC correspondent Andrew North has been reporting from Iraq since the invasion in 2003. He looks back on his time there and examines key events, such as the recent 'surge' of US troops and the British redeployment out of central Basra.

Épisode 27 - Passage to Pakistan

22 décembre 2007

The BBC's Mishal Hussein looks at the changes in Pakistan since the partition of India in 1947.

Épisode 28 - 07/07/2007

7 juillet 2007

A BBC team joins the first research mission to a vast new feature of the Arctic map. For 3,000 years the ice was attached to the Canadian coast, but it's now broken free in what scientists say is one of the most alarming signs of global warming.

Épisode 29 - Tour of Duty

23 juin 2007

Royal Marine Rich Robertson has just returned from a 6 month tour of duty in Afghanistan. BBC News gave him a camera to capture his experiences, and his footage provides a unique insight into life on the frontline for British troops fighting the Taliban.

Épisode 30 - 23/06/2007

23 juin 2007

Royal Marine Rich Robertson has returned from Afghanistan. BBC News gave him a camera to capture his experiences on the frontline. Claire Marshall reports on Rich's first mission, as he prepared to leave his family and friends for Afghanistan.

Épisode 31 - 09/06/2007

9 juin 2007

In the Six Day War in June 1967, Israel smashed the armed forces of Egypt, Jordan and Syria, deepening the Arab Israeli conflict. Forty years later its legacy still dominates the Middle East, as Jeremy Bowen reports.

Épisode 32 - 02/06/2007

2 juin 2007

The scramble for energy supplies and worries about global warming have led to a big come-back for the nuclear industry, with dozens of new power stations due to be built in coming years. But who will control it?

Épisode 33 - Congo: The Mountains of Fear

26 mai 2007

In the mountains of eastern Congo a warlord's army has driven tens of thousands from their homes. His soldiers, accused of mass rape and murder, act under the noses of a United Nations peacekeeping force. Fergal Keane investigates whether the UN is unable or unwilling to defend the very people its mandate is supposed to protect.

Épisode 34 - 28/04/2007

28 avril 2007

Thirteen year-old Ashok Kumar has been a 'debt slave' since he was nine - defined by the UN as modern day slavery and against Indian and international law. Damian Grammaticas' investigation freed Ashok but there may be millions of others unable to escape slavery.

Épisode 35 - 07/04/2007

7 avril 2007

West Africa produces more than half the world's cocoa that goes into making chocolate. While our demand for chocolate is increasing, cocoa farmers are getting poorer. Humphrey Hawksley investigates the dark underbelly of one of our best-loved luxuries.

Épisode 36 - 06/04/2007

6 avril 2007

Hundreds of people became refugees after an island vanished beneath the waves. Sea level rise and climate change take part of the blame. Roger Harrabin travels to the Bay of Bengal to find out how climate change could put millions at risk.

Épisode 1 - Laptops for Africa

12 janvier 2008

The One Laptop Per Child project is committed to providing computer technology to children in developing countries. Rory Cellan Jones has been to Nigeria, where a pilot of the scheme is up and running.

Épisode 2 - Terrorist 007

19 janvier 2008

The story of a young extremist who used the internet to spread hatred and the efforts of those trying to track him down. Calling himself 'terrorist 007,' he built links to alleged terror groups in North America, Bosnia and Scandinavia.

Épisode 3 - Zimbabwe Undercover

20 janvier 2008

President Mugabe, whose regime has brought Zimbabwe to the verge of collapse, is now likely to face a challenge for power from within his own Zanu-PF party. After a week's secret filming in the capital Harare, defying a ban on the BBC, World Affairs Editor John Simpson reveals the condition of Zimbabwe's people.

Épisode 4 - A Trucker's View

2 février 2008

The United States' faltering economy has emerged as the main concern of voters ahead of this year's presidential election. Matthew Price hitched a ride on a freight truck across six states, to gauge the views of ordinary Americans.

Épisode 5 - The Danish Nazi

2 février 2008

Épisode 6 - Innocent Behind Bars

16 février 2008

In Mexico they're developing a progressive policy which allows children born in jail to stay with their mothers until six years old. Duncan Kennedy has exclusive access to one of Mexico's toughest women's prisons to see how the new policy is working.

Épisode 7 - King Tide Rising

23 février 2008

Tuvalu, one of the smallest and most remote nations on Earth, faces the real danger of disappearing under water within 50 years because of rising sea levels caused by climate change. David Shukman assesses the risks and the future of the islanders.

Épisode 8 - Generation Me Grows Up

8 mars 2008

China's first generation of cars and home owners are growing up. They are independent and successful, but what more do they want? Quentin Sommerville meets four young people in Shanghai who are discovering there is more to life than getting rich.

Épisode 9 - Surviving Childhood

15 mars 2008

Sierra Leone and Sweden represent the worst and the best that life has to offer children. The BBC's medical correspondent Fergus Walsh visits both countries and examines the differences in their maternity and child care.

Épisode 10 - Super Size Superpower

22 mars 2008

The United States tops the scales when it comes to obesity - and nowhere is bigger than Mississippi. The BBC's Media Correspondent Fergus Walsh investigates a crisis that could bankrupt the state's healthcare budget.

Épisode 11 - Zimbabwe End Days

29 mars 2008

This weekend millions of Zimbabweans are going to the polls. In the highly charged race for the presidency, Robert Mugabe is being challenged from inside his own party, as well as by the opposition's Morgan Tsvangirai. How will Zimbabweans vote? The BBC is banned from reporting inside Zimbabwe, but in the run up to the election, the BBC accompanied RTE's Richard Downes to try to assess the state of the country.

Épisode 12 - Jonah and the Whalers

5 avril 2008

Jonah Fisher spent six weeks on a Greenpeace ship tracking the Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean. What happened when they finally caught up with the fleet?

Épisode 13 - Danger - Democracy at Work

12 avril 2008

Is fostering Western style government in poorer countries the best way to bring peace and raise living standards? Humphrey Hawksley travelled from war torn Iraq, through the monarchies of the Middle East, to the economic tigers of East Asia, to find out.

Épisode 14 - The New Battle of Midway

19 avril 2008

Épisode 15 - Nation Building in Iraq

26 avril 2008

Épisode 16 - Frontline Afghanistan

3 mai 2008

BBC Correspondent Mark Urban has been embedded with British troops around Musa Qala in Afghanistan. Joining the soldiers on operations as they come across people hostile to their mission, he talks frankly to them about the campaign ahead.

Épisode 17 - Jaffa Stories

10 mai 2008

Israel turns 60 in May, with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict rarely out of the news. But beyond the headlines of violence there is an untold story in Jaffa. Adam LeBor visits this ancient port where Palestinians and Jews live together.

Épisode 18 - The Birth of Israel

17 mai 2008

Sixty years ago Israel established itself in the wake of the British Mandate of Palestine. For the Palestinians, expelled from their homes in the process, the Israeli War of Independence is still known as The Catastrophe (al-Nakba). Jeremy Bowen, the BBC's Middle East editor examines the events leading up to the conflict, the war itself and the lasting legacy for the Middle East.

Épisode 19 - TB Timebomb

24 mai 2008

Tuberculosis is an ancient killer which has staged an alarming resurgence. It kills more people each year than any infectious disease apart from HIV/AIDS. Fergus Walsh reports from South Africa - which has one of the world's highest rates of TB.

Épisode 20 - Korea: Out of the North

31 mai 2008

Another chance to see this awarding-winning film in a newly updated version. Olenka Frenkiel reports on the plight of North Korean refugees as they seek to escape the communist regime for the chance of a better life elsewhere.

Épisode 21 - India's Motoring Revolution

7 juin 2008

Chris Morris explores India's ambitious plans for a new generation of low budget cars, and a modern road network on which to drive them.

Épisode 22 - Blood on the Silk Road

14 juin 2008

Natalia Antelava investigates how hundreds of young children have been infected by the HIV virus inside the hospitals of Central Asia.

Épisode 23 - Our World: Zimbabwe's Election Crackdown

21 juin 2008

Featuring news programmes on current issues around the world. A showcase of BBC journalism with programmes that expose and evaluate global topics.

Épisode 24 - After the Storm

28 juin 2008

Every year, unseen by the rest of the world, thousands of refugees cross the freezing waters of the Tumen River into China hoping to escape the repressive regime in North Korea. Olenka Frenkiel investigates.

Épisode 25 - Swing Town, America

5 juillet 2008

The BBC's Matt Frei returns to the small town of Culpeper,Virginia. In this critical swing state he takes the political pulse of the voters.

Épisode 26 - City in the Sand

12 juillet 2008

Crispin Thorold in Saudi Arabia investigates plans for an entirely new city in the desert.

Épisode 27 - The Killing Machines

19 juillet 2008

Duncan Kennedy investigates Mexico's heavily armed drugs cartels. He uncovers training camps where gang members are prepared to fight an increasingly violent war on the country's streets, and tracks the guns to their source across the border in the U.S.A.

Épisode 28 - Pakistan's Taliban

26 juillet 2008

From the shelter of Pakistan's remote tribal areas, fighters strike against international forces in Afghanistan and attack the government in Pakistan's cities. They are Pakistan's Taliban, and the question of how to deal with them has left relations between Pakistan and the United States at their most strained for years. As Barbara Plett reports, the BBC has gained rare access to their leader and his supporters.

Épisode 29 - Jihad Rehab

2 août 2008

The Saudi Arabia government is employing a radical approach to win back the hearts and minds of those who have committed atrocities on behalf of groups like al-Qaeda. Shiraz Maher reports on turning young men away from extremism, Saudi style.

Épisode 30 - From the Bann to Beijing

9 août 2008

The story of three men from one Northern Ireland town, Coleraine, with the shared dream of Olympic rowing glory in China. For the past 18 months Our World has followed the progress of oarsmen Alan Campbell, Richard Chambers and Richard Archibald on their journey to Beijing 2008.

Épisode 31 - Kenya: Peace at Any Price

16 août 2008

Six months after a peace deal brought an end to Kenya's post election violence, Our World examines what is being done to repair the damage. Kenyans are desparate for the violence not to be repeated but does that mean sweeping away difficult questions?

Épisode 32 - China's win-win in Africa

23 août 2008

China's Olympic slogan is 'One World, One Dream', and it hopes the Beijing games will herald a new era in its relations with the world. But what lies beyond the Olympic dazzle? Tim Whewell investigates the impact of Chinese economic power in Africa.

Épisode 33 - Stormchaser

30 août 2008

With the Atlantic hurricane season in full flight, Simon Hancock visits America's Tornado Alley. He joins thrillseekers who hunt down the spectacular storms and meets the people whose job it is to protect communities from the weather's destructive power.

Épisode 34 - GM: Time to Think Again?

6 septembre 2008

In the United States and Africa the answer to the global food crisis is being sought partly in genetically modified crops. But in Europe there's hostility towards the science.

Épisode 35 - When the Water Runs Out

13 septembre 2008

The south-western US is suffering its eighth year of drought. There are concerns that the Colorado River can no longer meet the needs of the tens of millions of people living in major cities such as Las Vegas and Los Angeles. Matthew Price investigates.

Épisode 36 - Fighting Alzheimer's

20 septembre 2008

Fourteen million people around the world are known to suffer from Alzheimer's. We meet the sufferers and their carers, as well as the scientists racing to find a cure. A special programme introduced by David Willis.

Épisode 37 - The Land That Radovan Built

27 septembre 2008

The former Bosnian Serb leader, Radovan Karadzic, is on trial for war crimes but what about the country he left behind? The Bosnian war ended 13 years ago. The fighting has stopped but as Allan Little discovered, much else remains unchanged.

Épisode 38 - No Rain in Spain

4 octobre 2008

Spain is in the grip of its worst drought in 40 years. Barcelona is now importing drinking water, and thousands of farmers have abandoned their parched land. Sue Lloyd Roberts reports on the drought in the Iberian Peninsula.

Épisode 39 - Return to Dora

11 octobre 2008

Mark Urban returns to the Baghdad suburb Dora, once known as 'the worst place in Iraq', to see if things there have improved.

Épisode 40 - 24 Hours in Somalia

25 octobre 2008

The BBC's Mark Doyle meets the African Union peacekeepers trying to maintain order in one of the world's most lawless capitals, Mogadishu. He discovers a military force under immense pressure and a population on the brink of despair.

Épisode 41 - The Last Volunteer

1 novembre 2008

At the 90th anniversary of the Armistice, Robert Hall meets Henry Allingham. In this intimate portrait, Britain's oldest man remembers his childhood at the turn of the twentieth century, his experience of combat, and the horrors of the First World War.

Épisode 42 - The Cold Rush

8 novembre 2008

David Shukman in Alaska discovers that the massive melt of arctic ice is opening up new opportunities to exploit the natural resources of this northern wilderness. But it's also raising fresh tensions over international boundaries in the arctic circle.

Épisode 43 - Broken Georgia

22 novembre 2008

For five days in August, Russia and Georgia went to war over the tiny breakaway region of South Ossetia. Our Moscow correspondent Richard Galpin returns to Georgia to look at how that conflict fractured the country and undermined its government.

Épisode 44 - Inside South Ossetia

29 novembre 2008

When Russian tanks entered Georgian territory this autumn, European security was shaken to the core. But what really happened, and who was to blame?

Épisode 45 - Without Warning

13 décembre 2008

Southern California recently undertook America's biggest ever emergency drill - to test its readiness for a potentially catastrophic earthquake. Rajesh Mirchandani reports on a day of shocking drama and intense scrutiny along the San Andreas fault.

Épisode 46 - Held Hostage

20 décembre 2008

The BBC's Alan Johnston - himself held hostage in Gaza for four months - talks to Ingrid Betancourt, who lived through six years of captivity and torture in the Colombian jungle at the hands of FARC guerrillas.

Épisode 47 - Volga down the Volga

1 mars 2008

Rupert Wingfield-Hayes takes a leisurely drive in a Volga car down the Volga river.

Épisode 48 - White Horse Village

6 décembre 2008

Carrie Gracie returns to White Horse Village deep in rural China. She finds out who is winning and who is losing out as the old way of life is demolished to make way for a new city.

Épisode 1 - The Lost Bomb

10 janvier 2009

Travelling deep into the Arctic Circle to a US base still of immense strategic importance, the BBC's Gordon Corera reveals the untold story of how forty years ago the US abandoned a nuclear bomb below the ice in Greenland.

Épisode 2 - Conflict Delta

10 janvier 2009

Épisode 3 - Saving the River

17 janvier 2009

Nick Bryant reports from Australia's food bowl, The Murray Darling Basin, as long term drought and interstate feuding threaten the livelihood of farmers and undermine a fragile ecosystem.

Épisode 4 - Back From the Front

24 janvier 2009

Jeremy Paxman reports on how three British soldiers who have fought in Iraq and Afghanistan are coping with a very different life back home.

Épisode 5 - Africa's Forgotten Conflict

31 janvier 2009

Reporter Mike Thompson travels deep into the heart of the Central African Republic to discover poverty and war in a country which has been sliding backwards for 50 years. Yet its crisis has been largely overlooked by the international community.

Épisode 6 - Kabul Cops

7 février 2009

Nadene Ghouri goes inside Kabul's Criminal Investigation Department, as the city's police chief battles crime, corruption and drugs. She asks if the price for Law and Order in the Afghan capital is a justice which is just too rough.

Épisode 7 - Nicole's Story

14 février 2009

Laura Jones profiles Nicole Dryburgh - a young woman left with severe disabilities after spinal cancer who has fought back to live an inspirational life of writing, fund-raising and adventure.

Épisode 8 - Iran, 30

21 février 2009

Thirty years after the foundation of an Islamic Republic in Iran, the BBC's Tehran Correspondent Jon Leyne explores the legacy of the revolution, and asks what the future holds in this changing society.

Épisode 9 - Basra Farewell

28 février 2009

BBC's Paul Adams is with the British Army in Basra. As the troops prepare for the final pull-out later this year, Paul looks at the city they leave behind them and asks how their work in southern Iraq will be judged.

Épisode 10 - Brazil's Bitter Harvest

7 mars 2009

Biofuel - it is part of the green revolution. It has made Brazil an agricultural superpower and sugar cane from the plantations is fuelling the world's engines. But it comes at a human cost, as Richard Bilton discovers when he meets the sugar cane cutters.

Épisode 11 - A Sodier's Tale

14 mars 2009

The BBC's Lyse Doucet returns to Afghanistan 20 years after the end of the Soviet campaign there. She meets the Soviet soldier who stayed on, converted to Islam, and now finds himself in the midst of a fresh conflict with strange echoes of the past.

Épisode 12 - Darwin's Footsteps

21 mars 2009

As the world celebrates the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth, David Shukman retraces his footsteps on the Galapagos Islands that are now threatened by tourism.

Épisode 13 - Power Rules

28 mars 2009

As Ethiopia forges ahead with plans for a massive dam to feed its growing appetite for electric power, Peter Greste explores the lands of the Omo River. Will the people who live here have to pay the price for urban development?

Épisode 14 - Russia's New Model Army

4 avril 2009

The BBC's Tim Whewell gains rare access to the Russian military and explores plans for the biggest reform in the former Cold War army for more than fifty years.

Épisode 15 - Haiti in Crisis

11 avril 2009

Laura Trevelyan travels to Haiti with the UN, as the country tries desperately to recover from the impact of successive hurricanes against a backdrop of diminishing global aid.

Épisode 16 - Zimbabwe

18 avril 2009

Sue Lloyd-Roberts films undercover in Zimbabwe. She investigates whether the new coalition government can deliver real change and prevent Zimbabwe becoming another failed state.

Épisode 17 - Les Liasons Dangereuses

25 avril 2009

The BBC's Paris Correspondent Emma-Jane Kirby reports from the frontline of French military engagement in Afghanistan. As France rejoins the top table at NATO, what difference can the French boots on the ground make here?

Épisode 18 - Defending The Bourgeoisie

2 mai 2009

Tim Whewell returns to the Russian city of Yaroslavl, 250 kilometres north of Moscow, to find out how Russia's nascent middle class are coping with the economic crisis. Tim first visited the city during the Rouble crisis of the late 1990s, returning in 2004.

Épisode 19 - Glitz and Grime

19 mai 2009

The city of Mumbai is still reeling from November's terror attacks as India, the world's largest democracy, elects a new government. Mihir Bose reports from this city of contrasts, as the country finds new interest in politics and gains new confidence.

Épisode 20 - Poisoned Seas

16 mai 2009

Many creatures will be threatened as carbon dioxide makes the oceans increasingly acidic. Some species may already have been harmed. As Roger Harrabin finds out, scientists fear we may be heading for a huge extinction in the seas.

Épisode 21 - Third Time Lucky, Sir Ranulp Fiennes on Everest

23 avril 2009

Described by some as the greatest living adventurer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes has succeeded on his third attempt to reach the summit of Everest. At 65, he's the oldest Briton to achieve this feat. He is also the only man to cross both polar ice-caps as well as climbing the world's highest mountain. BBC correspondent Andy North accompanied him on the first part of his journey up the mountain.

Épisode 22 - One Family, Two Armies

30 mai 2009

It is just over a year since the Maoists came to power in Nepal. Now the people of this former kingdom wait to see if two armies, until recently bitter enemies, can peacefully become one. Charles Haviland looks at how ten years of war affected one family.

Épisode 23 - The End of Solidarity

6 juin 2009

Twenty years ago in Poland, the Communist regime lost its grip on power. Brian Hanrahan returns to Poland to meet the activists who fought for change.

Épisode 24 - Malaria: A Mother's Journey

13 juin 2009

British mother Joanne Yirrell makes an emotional journey to the village in Ghana where her son Harry caught malaria. He died soon after returning to the UK in 2005. Joanne's journey takes her to the country's largest children's hospital.

Épisode 25 - Can China Save the World? (1)

20 juin 2009

The world is increasingly looking to China to pull the global economy out of the economic crisis. Paul Mason travels along one of China's oldest export routes, that of sheepskin and cashmere, to find out what is really happening in the Chinese economy.

Épisode 26 - Can China Save the World? (2)

27 juin 2009

Épisode 27 - The Pirates of Somalia

4 juillet 2009

Piracy off the coast of Somalia is big business. Very few journalists have ventured ashore. In a film for Our World, Andrew Harding travels to northern Somalia, to meet some of the men responsible.

Épisode 28 - Beloved Sons

11 juillet 2009

As British combat operations have now ended in Iraq, the families of four soldiers who died in the conflict reflect on what the war there has meant for them. What has been achieved and what will be the lasting impact on their families.

Épisode 29 - Henry Allingham's Story

19 juillet 2009

Featuring news on issues around the world. A showcase of BBC journalism with programmes that expose and evaluate global topics.

Épisode 30 - The Russian Billionaire

25 juillet 2009

He was Russia's richest man before the credit crunch. Despite the lost billions, Oleg Deripaska maintains a global empire built on the sale of aluminium. In a BBC exclusive he tells Tim Whewell how he built his business and how he plans to bounce back.

Épisode 31 - Chechnya's Missing Women

1 août 2009

On July 16th, Chechen human rights activist Natalya Estemirova was kidnapped and murdered. The attack happened just weeks after she talked to the BBC's Lucy Ash for an Our World investigation into the growing incidence of violence against women in Chechnya.

Épisode 32 - Proud of the Cloud

15 août 2009

Once shrouded in secrecy, Hanford, the site of the largest nuclear waste dump in North America, is becoming a haven for tourists. Two billion dollars are being spent cleaning up the reactors that made the plutonium for the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. But local residents are not about to hide their town's past. Rajesh Mirchandani meets the community that is 'proud of the cloud'.

Épisode 33 - Children of Beslan

4 septembre 2009

The teenage survivors of the Beslan terrorist attack have spent the last five years trying to recover from the trauma of that atrocity. In a film for Our World, Ewa Ewart talks to them about their hopes and fears for modern Russia and how they have coped.

Épisode 34 - Hitler's Bodyguard

12 septembre 2009

The last survivor of Adolf Hitler's Berlin bunker, Rochus Misch, recalls how he witnessed the end of the Third Reich. In an interview with Steve Rosenberg he talks about his final moments with Hitler before the Allies reached Berlin.

Épisode 35 - How a Bank Changed the World

19 septembre 2009

The BBC's Business Editor Robert Peston meets many of the people who witnessed the demise of Lehman's, from bank bosses to Wall Street lawyers and government regulators and asks them a year on if anything has changed.

Épisode 36 - Hollywood or Bust

26 septembre 2009

In previous recessions, as the economy got tough, people flocked to the movies. Now competition is stiff from DVD and video sales and downloads. David Willis talks to people in the film industry to find out whether Hollywood is recession-proof or in debt.

Épisode 37 - Spain's Dark Past

3 octobre 2009

Spanish society is struggling to come to terms with its fascist past as General Franco's victims are exhumed from mass graves across the country. Sue Lloyd-Roberts travels to Spain to report on a nation still bitterly divided over the legacy of its past.

Épisode 38 - Politics of Thirst

10 octobre 2009

With hundreds of thousands of people fleeing the drought-stricken areas, Our World looks at the impact that water scarcity has on security in the already fragile Middle East.

Épisode 39 - Mine Games

17 octobre 2009

The BBC's Southern Africa Correspondent Karen Allen reports from the conflict zones of Eastern Congo, to trace the minerals that make it into global electronics goods and mobile phones.

Épisode 40 - Hunger to Learn

31 octobre 2009

Around the world, millions of children are not getting proper education because their families are too poor to send them to school. Barriers to education across the globe from poverty and war to gender and natural disasters are examined by the Our World reporters.

Épisode 41 - Fall of the Wall

7 novembre 2009

Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Brian Hanrahan returns to interview some of the most prominent people around at the time.

Épisode 42 - Sharia UK

14 novembre 2009

The word 'sharia' conjures up images of draconian punishments under strict Islamic regimes. The reality of sharia in Britain is very different. In a film for Our World, Emily Buchanan examines some of the myths behind sharia.

Épisode 43 - Return to Sobibor

28 novembre 2009

Several hundred prisoners at a Nazi concentration camp launched an uprising and broke out of the camp. Steve Rosenberg talks to survivors and revisits the site of one of the most extraordinary acts of resistance during the Holocaust in Return to Sobibor.

Épisode 44 - Climate Countdown

5 décembre 2009

David Shukman reports on climate issues from around the world in the lead-up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.

Épisode 45 - The Perfect Storm

12 décembre 2009

California's traditional fire season is now a year-round threat. So what is being done to try to prevent these catastrophic fires? Peter Bowes looks at how some residents are taking matters into their own hands.

Épisode 46 - Tar Wars

19 décembre 2009

This film investigates why a small band of Cree Indians in Canada are taking on the world's oil companies, and being bankrolled by a high street business in the UK.

Épisode 47 - Inside MI5

24 décembre 2009

Three former heads of MI5 chart the changing face of spying. In exclusive interviews with the BBC's Security Correspondent Gordon Corera, they show how MI5 changed from chasing Cold War subversives to hunting down terrorists.

Épisode 48 - Saving India's Dancing Bears

25 décembre 2009

A British-led coalition of international animal rescue groups has made history by taking the last dancing bears off the streets of India. This brings an end to a centuries-old tradition that inflicted terrible cruelty on thousands of highly endangered sloth bears. BBC reporter Claudia Sermbezis was given exclusive access to the work being done to care for the bears and retrain their handlers.

Épisode 49 - Mission Makers

26 décembre 2009

Rachel Burden takes one small step into the space business, and discovers the part that Britain is playing in the search for life on Mars.

Épisode 50 - Dancing with the Devil

22 août 2009

Humphrey Hawksley retraces Graham Greene's journey across Liberia and Sierra Leone and finds that despite huge amounts of international aid, the countries are still beset with a multitude of problems.

Épisode 51 - The Winton Train

6 septembre 2009

Nicholas Winton saved hundreds of Czech children from the hands of the Nazis in the late 1930s. By organising eight trains from Prague to London, he helped more than 600 mainly Jewish children reached the safety of Great Britain. Robert Hall reports.

Épisode 52 - Warm Russia

23 avril 2009

The BBC's James Rodgers travels to the northern Russian port of Archangel to investigate how the changing climate is altering people's lives. He discovers that the inhabitants of Russia's north no longer know what to expect - either at work, or at play.

Épisode 53 - The New Wild West

20 mai 2009

Épisode 1 - Vanishing Breed

2 janvier 2010

Thirty years ago, the then BBC correspondent Brian Barron and his cameraman Eric Thirer set out to make a film about the hunters of east Africa. The film was never completed - until now.

Épisode 2 - Breaking into Auschwitz

2 janvier 2010

An amazing tale of courage amid the horrors of the Holocaust. Denis Avey spent the latter stage of World War Two as a prisoner of war in a camp adjoining Auschwitz. Working alongside the starved and brutalised Jewish inmates, he decided to try to help them.

Épisode 3 - Hard Labour

9 janvier 2010

Tougher jail sentences mean the US prison system is having to deal with more and more pregnant women behind bars. Laura Trevelyan reports on how many are shackled whilst giving birth, and the moves to ban the practice.

Épisode 4 - Operation Angry Cobra

9 janvier 2010

As President Obama raises America's stake in Afghanistan, his military commanders are trying to seize the initiative with large scale military operations. Mark Urban and cameraman Mark McCauley follow the US Marines in Helmand.

Épisode 5 - Uganda

16 janvier 2010

Tim Whewell has been to Uganda to investigate why there are now more reports of ritual killings. He hears some astonishingly frank confessions from those directly involved in murdering children, supposedly to satisfy evil spirits.

Épisode 6 - Guantanamo Reunited

23 janvier 2010

A former guard at Guantanamo Bay comes face-to-face with two of his ex-prisoners who spent more than two years at the world's most notorious prison accused of being members of Al Qaeda.

Épisode 7 - Ceausescu's Children

30 janvier 2010

In 1990, the world was shocked by the evidence of neglect and squalor in the orphanages of Romania. Twenty years on, Chris Rogers uncovers appalling conditions that adults and young people with disabilities and HIV are still suffering in the country's institutions.

Épisode 8 - Mandela - 20 Years of Freedom

6 février 2010

Twenty years after Nelson Mandela's release from prison, James Robbins reports from South Africa, a country transformed by the end of white minority rule and racial segregation. Former President FW de Klerk and Desmond Tutu look back on that historic day.

Épisode 9 - Sharing Power

13 février 2010

A year since Zimbabwe's Zanu-PF and Movement for Democratic Change formed a unity government, Sue Lloyd-Roberts returns to the country to find out if power-sharing has benefited the lives of ordinary Zimbabweans.

Épisode 10 - The Cocaine Trail

20 février 2010

Gary Duffy reports on the women being used by international traffickers to carry drugs through Brazil's airports - and what happens to these so-called drug mules when they get caught.

Épisode 11 - The Rise of the Sceptics

27 février 2010

Nick Bryant reports from Australia on how climate change scepticism there is on the rise, with a political backlash following December 2009's conference in Copenhagen.

Épisode 12 - Inside Cuba

5 mars 2010

The Cold War may have ended 20 years ago following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, but there remains one last simmering conflict: US-Cuban relations. The generation that led the Cuban revolution remains in power, as does the punitive US trade embargo. A year after President Obama came to power, relations with America's Communist neighbour are as strained as ever. With unprecedented access, Matt Frei reports on the reality of living inside Cuba, from the politics to economics, and discovers a vibrant culture that flourishes in the most unlikely circumstances.

Épisode 13 - Beneath the Radar

13 mars 2010

Featuring news on issues around the world. Olenka Frenkiel reports on Bill Carney, a former priest from Ireland accused 32 times of abusing children in his care, who is still living quietly in Britain.

Épisode 14 - Front Line Helmand

20 mars 2010

British soldiers serving in Afghanistan talk frankly about life and loss. Using their own video material, as well as that shot by a BBC team, Our World shows the reality of a military campaign for those most intimately involved with it.

Épisode 15 - Cracking Walls

27 mars 2010

BBC reporter Jiyar Gol travels across Iraq to discover the extraordinary impact the internet is having politically and socially in the country.

Épisode 16 - Aid Under Scrutiny

2 avril 2010

Humphrey Hawksley examines how much aid from the British government actually gets to those who need it most. He asks whether enough is being done to deal with corruption in the aid chain, and whether those who blow the whistle are treated fairly.

Épisode 17 - On/Off

10 avril 2010

A village in Nigeria is linked up to the internet for the first time, while two families in the most wired nation on earth, South Korea, have their internet connection switched off for a week. How will both communities react to their changed circumstances?

Épisode 18 - Mexico's Drug War

17 avril 2010

Katya Adler examines the battle between rival drug cartels in Mexico over smuggling routes to America, and hears from the victims of the violence.

Épisode 19 - FC Barcelona

24 avril 2010

Dan Walker is access all areas with Joan Laporta in his final months as the president of FC Barcelona. Our World explores the football club's Catalonian identity, visits Rwanda to witness its groundbreaking work with Unicef, and talks to the game's greats about what makes the European Champions more than a club.

Épisode 20 - Motorway Man

1 mai 2010

With Britain's General Election campaign in its final week, Stephen Smith seeks the views of people who regularly use or live near motorway service stations.

Épisode 21 - China's Unknown Mega City

8 mai 2010

In the last decade Chongqing in South West China has mushroomed into the biggest metropolis in the world. John Simpson reports from a city with a larger population than Canada, where a massive campaign against organised crime and corruption is underway.

Épisode 22 - Afghanistan Online

17 mai 2010

Can the web help aid development in a country blighted by poverty and decades of war? Najieh Ghulami travels to Afghanistan to look at the role the internet plays in people's lives.

Épisode 23 - Returning to Sierra Leone

28 mai 2010

Ten years ago, Allan Little reported on the civil war that tore Sierra Leone apart and the British military intervention that stopped it. Now he returns to look at the story behind that military action.

Épisode 24 - Afghanistan's Alcatraz

29 mai 2010

Lyse Doucet gains unprecedented access to Kabul's main jail. She meets the Taliban fighters and long-term prisoners in this extraordinary community and asks, is justice itself on trial here?

Épisode 25 - Inside North Korea

5 juin 2010

Few journalists are allowed the access to venture through North Korea's borders. Sue Lloyd Roberts travels to the Korean peninsula for a rare glimpse inside one of the last remaining communist states in the world.

Épisode 26 - This Is London

19 juin 2010

Seventy years ago General de Gaulle made an impassioned plea on the BBC for France to continue fighting the Nazi invaders. Robert Hall has been to France to meet resistance veterans and finds out how important the BBC was in the fight for freedom.

Épisode 27 - Anti-gay in Uganda

3 juillet 2010

A bill being put forward in the Ugandan parliament is proposing life imprisonment and even death for some homosexual acts. As John Simpson finds out, there is widespread public support for the bill.

Épisode 28 - Thailand's Red Rage

10 juillet 2010

For two months Bangkok was blockaded by protesters wearing red, shouting for democracy and calling for the prime minister to resign. The BBC's Asia correspondent, Alastair Leithead, traces the background to the crisis and asks - what next for Thailand?

Épisode 29 - Pakistan and the Great Game

17 juillet 2010

Nine years after the West began the war in Afghanistan, it's becoming clear that military action alone will not bring peace. Can the Taliban be defeated without the full support of the Pakistani government? John Simpson investigates

Épisode 30 - Brazil's Child Prostitutes

31 juillet 2010

In this shocking episode of Our World, Chris Rogers goes undercover, posing as one of the millions of so-called sex tourists who visit Brazil. As Brazil prepares to host the next World Cup, it's people are confronted with the growing problem of child prostitution. The country's relaxed attitude to buying sex has long attracted millions of tourists, particularly men. But now the world's oldest industry is recruiting the world's youngest workers. UNICEF estimates there are 250,000 children forced into prostitution across Brazil.

Épisode 31 - Iraq - Militiamen

14 août 2010

An inside look at the Sunni militia credited with turning the tide against Al Qaeda in Iraq. Now they are being targeted by Al Qaeda - and as Gabriel Gatehouse reports - their future as a legitimate force is uncertain

Épisode 32 - Alaska - After the Spill

21 août 2010

The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has reawakened painful memories for people who lived through what was America's worst spill - until now - in the once-bountiful waters of southern Alaska. Rajesh Mirchandani reports.

Épisode 33 - Kandahar: the Prize

4 septembre 2010

Mark Urban and cameraman Luke Winsbury go to the Taliban stronghold in Kandahar and discover both a growing climate of fear, and the shape of the plan to turn the city around.

Épisode 34 - Luol Deng - Home Game

11 septembre 2010

One of the brightest stars of basketball has returned to the country he fled as a child refugee. In an exclusive episode of Our World, Tim Franks has followed Luol Deng for the BBC's World Olympic Dreams series as he goes to southern Sudan.

Épisode 35 - God's Beggar Children

18 septembre 2010

Every day in the west African state of Senegal, tens of thousands of schoolboys are sent out to beg on the streets by their own teachers. They are the Talibes, pupils at private Islamic schools, forced to live a life of abuse and exploitation.

Épisode 36 - Clash of Faiths

25 septembre 2010

In Indonesia, recent attacks on churches and other minority groups have raised fears that conservative Islamic groups are gaining support in the world's most populous Muslim nation. Karishma Vaswani investigates from the capital Jakarta

Épisode 37 - The Legacy of Empire

2 octobre 2010

As the tide of history turned against the empire, a young colonial officer John Smith trained young Nigerians to run what would become their own democratic republic. Fifty years on from independence, he returns to meet one of his old students.

Épisode 38 - Europe's Secret Prisons

9 octobre 2010

Daniel Sandford investigates allegations that terrorist suspects were tortured in Europe. He travels to Poland and Lithuania where prosecutors are to decide whether crimes were committed at secret CIA sites.

Épisode 39 - Joining the Club

16 octobre 2010

For tiny Montenegro joining the European club is a priority that will help stabilise the Balkans. For Ukraine it is a long journey that could take decades. Humphrey Hawksley reports from both countries on the challenges and obstacles to joining the club.

Épisode 40 - Gary - City of the Century?

23 octobre 2010

Paul Mason goes to Gary, Indiana, one of the poorest cities in America, to see the impact of President Obama's fiscal stimulus. The city's downtown district was wrecked spectacularly by the decline of industry.

Épisode 41 - Extreme Schemes

30 octobre 2010

We are living through one of the biggest extinction eras the planet has ever witnessed. Some scientists are beginning to argue for intervention in the natural order in new ways: Extreme schemes to bring threatened species back from the edge.

Épisode 42 - Elections - Burmese Junta Style

6 novembre 2010

Elections are being held in Burma for the first time in 20 years. At the last elections, in 1990, the 'wrong' side won, that is Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy, and the generals are determined that this won't happen again.

Épisode 43 - Putin's Russia

24 décembre 2010

Rupert Wingfield-Hayes investigates life in modern Russia and asks if Vladimir Putin's policies are delivering a more contented country.

Épisode 1 - From Rubble to Recovery

29 janvier 2011

It is ten years since the Gujarat earthquake struck killing thousands and making many more homeless. Aid poured in, and a decade on, the worst-affected area of Kutch is now transformed.

Épisode 2 - Somalia's Forgotten Suffering

5 février 2011

Zeinab Badawi travels to parts of Somalia rarely seen by the outside world, and to neighbouring Djibouti, to witness the suffering of those who have fled the 20 years of violence.

Épisode 3 - The Gulf: Armed & Dangerous

12 février 2011

As the schism widens between Shias and Sunnis in the Gulf region, Bill Law heads to Bahrain and Kuwait and discovers that fear itself is already threatening peace in the Gulf.

Épisode 4 - Oil, Politics and Hugo Chavez

19 février 2011

Are the wheels coming off of Venezuela's socialist revolution? Around 40 per cent of the new parliament is comprised of MP's from opposition parties. James Robbins investigates whether President Chavez can push through his programme in this divided country.

Épisode 5 - The Guantanamo Prisoner

25 février 2011

Orla Guerin talks to Saad Iqbal Madni, a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay for over five years who remains haunted by his time there.

Épisode 6 - Cyberwar

5 mars 2011

A cyber attack on our energy, water or financial infrastructure could bring much of our everyday lives - even the global economy - grinding to a halt. Susan Watts looks at the world's dependence on digital systems and the threat of cyberwarfare.

Épisode 7 - Palin's Race

12 mars 2011

Jackie Long profiles Sarah Palin in her home state of Alaska and asks if she could yet become the first woman President of the United States.

Épisode 8 - Cuba at the Crossroads

19 mars 2011

Cuba is undergoing major economic change. The government is cutting back on subsidies like the ration cards, and planning to lay off more than a million people. Instead, people can now set up businesses for the first time. Michael Voss reports.

Épisode 9 - Behind the Saudi Veil

2 avril 2011

Some Saudi women call their country the 'biggest women's prison in the world'. Others are content with their traditional place in life. Many want change - but will it happen? Sue Lloyd-Roberts goes to Saudi Arabia to find out.

Épisode 10 - Tragedy at Smolensk

9 avril 2011

Peter Marshall investigates the air crash which killed the President of Poland and his entire cabinet a year ago. What went wrong, and how has the tragedy changed Poland's relationship with Russia?

Épisode 11 - Building Helmand

16 avril 2011

If the West's strategy in Afghanistan is to succeed, the victory will have to be more than military. David Loyn travels to the frontline province of Helmand to find out if British aid and development can deliver a hard-won peace.

Épisode 12 - Sisters of the Revolution

23 avril 2011

Bill Law meets five Egyptian women who have been working for political change. How has the fall of Mubarak changed their lives - and what are their hopes for the future?

Épisode 13 - The Vanishing Antarctica

30 avril 2011

Richard Wilson travels to the West Antarctic Ice Shelf to see the work of the British scientists who are investigating changes to the shape of the ice - and the possible consequences for our world.

Épisode 14 - Ecuador's Oil Gamble

7 mai 2011

Linda Pressly reports on the controversial deal offered by Ecuador over an oilfield under pristine rainforest. Ecuador is asking for billions to stop the field being developed, but will the deal work?

Épisode 15 - Yemen Uprising

13 mai 2011

In the midst of worsening political and economic turmoil, Yemen's President, Ali Abdullah Saleh, clings to power. Natalia Antelava looks at a country being transformed through popular uprising, and America's response to it.

Épisode 16 - Pirate Hunters

21 mai 2011

It's the scourge of international shipping. But for many from the failed state of Somalia, piracy has become a lucrative business. A few dozen warships are now patrolling the Indian Ocean trying to eradicate this ruthless trade. Jonathan Beale reports.

Épisode 17 - Stalin's Toxic Legacy

28 mai 2011

High in the mountains of Georgia, campaigners say there is an ecological disaster.

Épisode 18 - China's Green Revolution

4 juin 2011

China pollutes more than any other country on earth, but now the Chinese government says it wants the country to go green. So can China really clean up its act? Justin Rowlatt goes to see the impact of three unbroken decades of economic growth.

Épisode 19 - Journey from Tahrir

24 juin 2011

Tim Whewell travels through Egypt and into Gaza to explore the impact of the country's revolution on the people there.

Épisode 20 - Inside Assad's Syria

2 juillet 2011

Sue Lloyd-Roberts travels undercover through Syria to the capital Damascus to find out what is really going on under Assad's rule.

Épisode 21 - Uganda - Experiments in Aid

16 juillet 2011

Humphrey Hawksley reports from the Karamoja region of northern Uganda where the UN is pioneering an ambitious plan to end hunger and the region's long-term dependency on aid.

Épisode 22 - 24/07/2011

24 juillet 2011

Featuring news programmes on current issues around the world

Épisode 23 - Ruling Iran

30 juillet 2011

James Reynolds profiles Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Iran's Supreme Leader.

Épisode 24 - Oldham: Crossing The Line

6 août 2011

Ten years after the race riots, Oldham's government tries to bring communities together.

Épisode 25 - Barcelona - Bullfighting And Cathedrals

13 août 2011

In Barcelona, Steve Smith looks at the declining interest in bullfighting.

Épisode 26 - Gorbachev - Part 1, The Great Dissident

20 août 2011

Bridget Kendall charts the rise to power of Mikhail Gorbachev.

Épisode 27 - Gorbachev - Part 2, The Great Dissident

21 août 2011

Bridget Kendall charts the downfall of Mikhail Gorbachev, last leader of the Soviet Union.

Épisode 28 - Living With Slums

26 août 2011

By 2050, it is expected that around two billion people will live in slums. Paul Mason visits Manila to find out if we have to learn to live with slums.

Épisode 29 - Fallout 9-11

3 septembre 2011

The destruction of the twin towers was a site that became the definition of terror. It was an onslaught that killed nearly three thousand people - but a decade later, the attack isn't over.

Épisode 30 - That September Day

10 septembre 2011

Laura Trevelyan meets three New Yorkers all affected in different ways by 9/11. Their minute-by-minute recollections of that azure-blue morning convey the chaos and confusion which engulfed Manhattan as the twin towers were hit by hijacked planes.

Épisode 31 - Securing New York

16 septembre 2011

Granted rare access, this film follows the New York Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation as they fight terrorism in the city and work to prevent a second 9/11.

Épisode 32 - Crossing Steinbeck's America

24 septembre 2011

As America grapples with a deepening recession, white-collar workers are now losing their homes in increasing numbers. Paul Mason travels the country down the same road as John Steinbeck's migrants in The Grapes of Wrath. Visiting homeless shelters along the way, he unexpectedly finds a growing number of middle-class people who have ended up on the street.

Épisode 33 - Dangerous Journeys North

2 octobre 2011

Central American migrants heading north to the United States fear that they are increasingly in danger of being kidnapped and murdered by drug gangs. Linda Pressly follows part of the migrants' route - from Peten in Guatemala.

Épisode 34 - Mission For Maths

9 octobre 2011

Milton Nkosi follows the Warwick in Africa programme - bringing young teachers from the UK to South Africa. Can they really help, and what will teaching in the townships teach them?

Épisode 35 - The Witchdoctors' Children

15 octobre 2011

Chris Rogers uncovers evidence of violence against children in Uganda, and investigates the practice of trafficking young victims into the UK.

Épisode 36 - School of Olympic Dreams

22 octobre 2011

Bishop Okiring School in Kenya boasts world-class athletes among its former pupils and their success has inspired a generation of determined pupils to try for Olympic medals.

Épisode 37 - Abuse in America

30 octobre 2011

As government figures confirm that nearly two thousand children a year die of abuse or neglect in the United States, Natalia Antelava goes to Texas to investigate the roots of this epidemic of child deaths.

Épisode 38 - Europe's Christian Exodus

5 novembre 2011

In Europe the power of Christian ritual is waning. More than 180 thousand German Catholics left the Church last year - and in the last half century the Protestant Church has lost half its membership. Robert Pigott reports.

Épisode 39 - The Arctic Convoys

12 novembre 2011

Between 1941 and 1945 the Arctic convoys transported millions of tonnes of crucial supplies and munitions from Scotland to Russia. Robert Hall meets the survivors who served on these little-known convoys.

Épisode 40 - 29/12/2011 - Wind Turbines

29 décembre 2011

David Shukman explores the extraordinary engineering behind Britain's giant wind turbines, and asks if offshore wind really is the answer to our energy needs.

Épisode 1 - Has The Amazon Been Saved?

4 février 2012

Épisode 2 - Brainwaves

11 février 2012

Advances in technology are allowing scientists to understand the human brain as never before. Susan Watts looks at new approaches to dealing with mental illness, and whether brain-enhancing drugs can actually make you smarter

Épisode 3 - Dagestan's Football Dreams

25 février 2012

A billionaire in Dagestan is pouring vast sums of money into the republic's football team in a bid to bring stability. But can changing things on the pitch really change the region's politics?

Épisode 4 - Hope for Haiti?

3 mars 2012

Two years after the devastating earthquake hit Haiti, 500,000 people are still living in tents. Now Haiti's new president has a vision - investment, jobs, and reviving the army. Laura Trevelyan asks whether there can be hope for Haiti?

Épisode 5 - Beyond the Abyss

10 mars 2012

It's more than 50 years since the only successful manned mission to the deepest point on the planet - the Mariana Trench. Now a new wave of explorers is racing to be the next to go beyond the abyss.

Épisode 6 - Bahrain's Forgotten Spring

17 mars 2012

Featuring news on issues around the world. It's been nearly a year since Saudi troops rolled into Bahrain to help crush a pro-democracy uprising.

Épisode 7 - Supply Chain Children

24 mars 2012

Globalisation has brought the world's goods to the west. But how can rich consumers be sure they are buying food and clothing manufactured without harming workers - especially children? Humphrey Hawksley reports

Épisode 8 - Canada's First Nations Crisis

31 mars 2012

Prescription drug abuse is devastating the communities of Canada's indigenous First Nations peoples. Linda Pressly reports from Northern Ontario where addiction affects three quarters of the population.

Épisode 9 - No Man's Land

7 avril 2012

Chris Rogers investigates the plight of illegal migrants from India trapped in the UK without a home, work or an identity, and goes to their home villages to find out what makes them want to leave

Épisode 10 - President and the Pulpit

14 avril 2012

The government in the Philippines wants to provide free contraception to help cut the birth rate and reduce poverty. The proposal puts it on a collision course with the ultra-conservative Catholic Church. Kate McGeown reports from Manila.

Épisode 11 - Titanic Remembered

21 avril 2012

Featuring news on issues around the world. A hundred years after the sinking of the Titanic on its maiden voyage Jon Kay reports from the memorial cruise.

Épisode 12 - The Marriage Breakers of Bangladesh

28 avril 2012

In Bangladesh one in five girls are married by the age of 15, even though that breaks the law. Angus Crawford reports from Dhaka on an extraordinary new campaign to stop the teenage girls of the city being taken as child brides.

Épisode 13 - Dodging the Pirates

5 mai 2012

Featuring news on issues around the world. The BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner travels the world's most dangerous seas, to experience the threat from Somali pirates.

Épisode 14 - The Interrogators

12 mai 2012

Featuring news on issues around the world. As the men accused of responsibility for planning the 9/11 attacks face trial by a military commission, Peter Taylor examines the history of their capture and imprisonment.

Épisode 15 - Spain's Stolen Babies

19 mai 2012

Featuring news on issues around the world. Spain is reeling from allegations that thousands of babies were taken from their mothers and trafficked. Katya Adler investigates the impact of the stolen baby scandal through the eyes of the children and parents who were separated at birth

Épisode 16 - Human Torches of Tibet

26 mai 2012

As a wave of protests and self-immolations continues against the rule of China on the Tibetan plateau, Sue Lloyd-Roberts asks the Dalai Lama if the dream of increased independence for Tibet is dead.

Épisode 17 - A Death in Honduras

2 juin 2012

Honduras has the highest murder rate in the world. Linda Pressly meets the staff of the People's Funeral Service, who deal each day with the fall-out from these extreme levels of violence.

Épisode 18 - The Edge of the Earth

9 juin 2012

The biggest gas reserves on the planet are in the Russian Arctic. Lucy Ash travels to the remote Yamal Peninsula, high above the Arctic Circle, to meet both the people who travel there for work, and the indigenous herders whose way of life is under threat.

Épisode 19 - Abdullah is Beautiful

16 juin 2012

Featuring news on issues around the world. A special project at a hospital in Jordan is treating patients from across the Middle East who have been caught up in the region's conflicts. Caroline Hawley travels to Amman to meet the real people - many of them children - behind the casualty statistics.

Épisode 20 - India's Water Crisis

23 juin 2012

Featuring news on issues around the world. India receives adequate rainfall for its billion-plus population, but the country is facing a crisis as water is diverted from poor rural areas to fill water tanks and swimming pools in richer cities like Delhi. Jill McGivering reports.

Épisode 21 - Miami Justice

7 juillet 2012

Tim Samuels investigates the case of Krishna Maharaj - a Briton imprisoned for murder in Miami more than a quarter of a century ago, and still behind bars despite evidence he had nothing to do with the crime.

Épisode 22 - The Governor's Dirty Billions

14 juillet 2012

Featuring news on issues around the world. Peter Marshall reports on the corrupt politician who stole vast sums of money from the people of Nigeria, and the British lawyers who helped him launder the cash.

Épisode 23 - Germany's Far Right

21 juillet 2012

Featuring news on issues around the world. Katya Adler examines the extent of far-right extremism in Germany following a recent outcry when it emerged that a group of three neo-Nazis had apparently been able to go on a ten-year killing spree of racially-motivated murders

Épisode 24 - Corruption Crusader

28 juillet 2012

Featuring news on issues around the world. Despite ANC pledges to combat the issue, millions of South African lives are blighted by corruption. But the people are now placing their faith in one woman - Thuli Madonsela - the country's anti-corruption supremo. She has quickly become a household name and is already conducting 14,000 investigations, as Karen Allen report.

Épisode 25 - The Curse of Gold

4 août 2012

Featuring news on issues around the world, Humphrey Hawksley goes to the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda to investigate the link between minerals, war and business.

Épisode 26 - China's Toughest Test

11 août 2012

Featuring news on issues around the world. John Sudworth spends a year following the lives of pupils in a Shanghai school as they prepare for the university entrance exam which will dictate the course of their lives.

Épisode 27 - Bombing Belarus?

18 août 2012

John Sweeney reports undercover from Belarus on the bombing of the Minsk metro and the trial and execution of two men for the crime. But were they really guilty and did they get a fair trial?

Épisode 28 - Cold Turkey in Karachi

25 août 2012

Karachi is facing a drugs epidemic - it is estimated that half a million chronic heroin addicts live in the port city which is a main route to the west. Mobeen Azhar finds out how a charity is trying to help addicts and their families.

Épisode 29 - Trafficked

1 septembre 2012

Featuring news on issues around the world. Laura Trevelyan explores the hidden world of sex trafficking, from a small Mexican town built on the profits of the sex trade to the streets of New York City.

Épisode 30 - Witchhunt in Iraq

15 septembre 2012

In modern-day Iraq, many have become targeted for their sexual orientation. Natalia Antelava travels to Baghdad where she investigates government involvement in the deadly persecution of gay men and women in Iraq

Épisode 31 - Gridlock Sao Paulo

22 septembre 2012

Featuring news on issues around the world. The Brazilian mega-city of Sao Paulo has the worst traffic jams in the world. Paulo Cabral looks at how frustrated commuters are trying to beat the stranglehold of daily gridlock

Épisode 32 - The Big Melt

28 septembre 2012

Scientists say the Arctic ice is melting at an unprecedented speed and they fear it could have a dramatic effect on the weather in Europe. David Shukman reports from a Norwegian research station deep inside the Arctic Circle and witnesses the impact of a record-breaking summer thaw.

Épisode 33 - Syria - Descent into Hell

29 septembre 2012

Sue Lloyd Roberts looks back on the key events of the Syrian uprising and speaks to people she met while undercover there.

Épisode 1 - India's Lost Girls

19 janvier 2013

Natalia Antelava investigates the growing trade in girls in India.

Épisode 2 - The Iron Ladies Of Burma

26 janvier 2013

Two farmers' daughters in Burma are spearheading protests against a Chinese-backed mine.

Épisode 3 - Hillary: America's Diplomat in Chief

2 février 2013

As Hillary Clinton leaves office Kim Ghattas reports on her particular brand of diplomacy.

Épisode 4 - Kenya Elections - A Family Affair

9 février 2013

Karen Allen reports on the legacy of past electoral unrest in Kenya.

Épisode 5 - Murder in the Mediterranean

16 février 2013

Featuring news on issues around the world. Corsica has the highest murder rate per capita in Europe - many of the killings are blamed on organised criminal gangs. Tom Esslemont investigates.

Épisode 6 - Guatemala's Sweet Deal

2 mars 2013

Examining the reasons behind Guatemala's new trade privileges in detail.

Épisode 7 - The Battle for Mali

9 mars 2013

Andrew Harding examines the roots of the conflict and assesses the prospects for peace.

Épisode 8 - Nigeria's Hidden Conflict

16 mars 2013

Mark Lobel uncovers how the violence in north-eastern Nigeria is terrorising lives.

Épisode 9 - Born Under a Bad Sign

23 mars 2013

Yalda Hakim investigates the rise in numbers of babies born with birth defects in Iraq.

Épisode 10 - Mongolian Boom-time

30 mars 2013

Mongolia is expected to top the world's growth tables once again.

Épisode 11 - Who Am I?

6 avril 2013

Report on babies taken from their mothers during Argentina's military dictatorship.

Épisode 12 - Paragliding Over Mosul

13 avril 2013

Yalda Hakim wants to get into Mosul, said to be the most dangerous city in the world.

Épisode 13 - In Your Eyes: The Women of Iraq

20 avril 2013

Yalda Hakim reports from Baghdad on how life has changed for women in Iraq.

Épisode 14 - Electrifying Africa

27 avril 2013

How East Africa's green energy revolution is chasing the darkness from rural homes.

Épisode 15 - Sri Lanka's Open Wounds

4 mai 2013

Victims of Sri Lanka's civil war address the lasting legacy of 30 years of violence.

Épisode 16 - Ukraine's AIDS Racket

11 mai 2013

Leaders of Ukraine's Orange Revolution promise to tackle the country's Aids epidemic.

Épisode 17 - Romario Tackles Brazil

18 mai 2013

With exclusive access to the footballing politician, Tim Franks investigates why one of Brazil's World Cup heroes is shooting down the BRIC giant's moment of glory.

Épisode 18 - Rescuing Russia's Orphans

25 mai 2013

Tim Whewell report on the struggle to free Russian orphans from the state system.

Épisode 19 - The Violent Heart of LA

1 juin 2013

The BBC's Frank Gardner witnesses first-hand how lives are torn apart by gun crime.

Épisode 20 - Fleeing Syria

8 juin 2013

Bombed and fired at by government troops, over a million Syrians seek refuge abroad

Épisode 21 - Bangladesh: Out of the Rubble

15 juin 2013

After one of the world's worst industrial disasters, Yalda Hakim visits Bangladesh.

Épisode 22 - Meet the Hackers

22 juin 2013

Featuring news on issues around the world. Susan Watts meets the Scottish teenager who acted as the PR man for a group of hackers called LulzSec and learns how he was drawn into a life lived almost entirely online.

Épisode 23 - Treasures of the Deep

29 juin 2013

David Shukman investigates signs of a global race to mine the ocean floor.

Épisode 24 - Lebanon on the Brink

6 juillet 2013

Nahed Abouzeid investigates a Lebanon teetering on the brink of an intra-religious war.

Épisode 25 - In Sickness and in Debt

13 juillet 2013

What impact are austerity measures in Greece having on the nation's health?

Épisode 26 - Yemen: The Most Dangerous Journey on Earth

20 juillet 2013

Yalda Hakim follows Ethiopian migrants on a journey to find work in Saudi Arabia.

Épisode 27 - Australia's Adoption Shame

27 juillet 2013

Duncan Kennedy looks back on the story of Australia's practice of forced adoptions.

Épisode 28 - Peres at 90

3 août 2013

Chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet meets Israeli president Shimon Peres.

Épisode 29 - Yemen - America's New Frontline

10 août 2013

Yalda Hakim reports from America's new front line, Yemen.

Épisode 30 - Clinton in Africa

17 août 2013

The BBC's Komla Dumor travels to East Africa with the former US president Bill Clinton.

Épisode 31 - Bahrain: Policing Protest

24 août 2013

As unrest continues, Bill Law investigates allegations of police brutality in Bahrain.

Épisode 32 - Myanmar's Extremist Monk

31 août 2013

Jonah Fisher visits Burma to meet a Buddhist monk and members of Burma's Muslim community.

Épisode 33 - Germany Under Pressure

7 septembre 2013

How politicians in Germany are confronting unwelcome truths about Europe's richest country

Épisode 34 - Coffee's Cruel Secret

14 septembre 2013

Chris Rogers goes undercover in Indonesia to investigate coffee production.

Épisode 35 - Indonesia: The Mercury Time Bomb

21 septembre 2013

Linda Pressly visits Indonesia, where deadly mercury is being used to mine gold.

Épisode 36 - China's Love Hunters

28 septembre 2013

By the end of this decade 24 million Chinese men won't be able to find wives.

Épisode 37 - Tel Aviv Comes Out

5 octobre 2013

Tim Samuels explores how Tel Aviv has deliberately set out to become a gay mecca.

Épisode 38 - Russia's Frozen Assets

12 octobre 2013

Daniel Sandford investigates the dash to exploit Russia's untapped wealth.

Épisode 39 - Dropping the Knife: Gambia

19 octobre 2013

Gambian activists try to put an end to the tradition of female genital mutilation.

Épisode 40 - Dropping the Knife: Kurdistan

26 octobre 2013

Shaimaa Khalil reports on the remarkable grass-roots campaign that led to the centuries' old practice of female genital mutilation being outlawed in Kurdistan.

Épisode 41 - Iran's Secret Army

2 novembre 2013

Yalda Hakim investigates the clandestine role of Iran in Syria's civil war, providing a dramatic insight into Tehran's support for the Assad regime on the ground.

Épisode 42 - Sri Lanka's Unfinished War

9 novembre 2013

As commonwealth leaders prepare to meet in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, Our World investigates on-going allegations of rape and torture by the Sri Lankan security forces.

Épisode 43 - Colombia's Child Soldiers

16 novembre 2013

Thousands of children have been forced to fight in Colombia's 50-year conflict. With peace talks underway, Tom Esslemont meets children as they find their way back to society.

Épisode 44 - Exorcising Mexico's Demons

30 novembre 2013

The Roman Catholic church in Mexico is training a record number of priests as exorcists.

Épisode 45 - Peru's Cocaine Trail

7 décembre 2013

Sue Lloyd-Roberts follows the trail of cocaine from the coca plant in the Amazon jungle to the young mules who try to smuggle it out of the country to consumers in Europe.

Épisode 46 - Turkey's Hidden Truths

29 décembre 2013

Following her reporting on protests in Istanbul last summer, the BBC's Selin Girit was the target of a hate campaign on Twitter begun by a senior Turkish politician. For Our World, Selin returns to Turkey to investigate why journalists so often find themselves under attack from the authorities.

Épisode 1 - Living with the Roma

4 janvier 2014

Featuring news on issues around the world. Yalda Hakim visits Romania, which has one of the largest Roma populations in the EU, to find out why they are one of the most discriminated against ethnic minorities in Europe.

Épisode 2 - Thailand's Slave Fishermen

25 janvier 2014

Thailand's seafood export industry continues to use trafficked and forced labour.

Épisode 3 - The Bloody Rhino Horn Trade

15 février 2014

In Vietnam, although the trade in rhino horn is illegal, there's a thriving market.

Épisode 4 - Inside China's Steel City

22 février 2014

Robert Peston gains access to one of the biggest state-owned companies in China.

Épisode 5 - Inside Bagram Prison

1 mars 2014

Yalda Hakim reports on suspected Taliban insurgents in Bagram prison.

Épisode 6 - India's Invisible Women

8 mars 2014

Featuring news on issues around the world. Even in 21st-century India, life for single women can be tough. Rupa Jha speaks to single women across the country and uncovers some uncomfortable truths.

Épisode 7 - Djibouti on the Frontline

30 mars 2014

Djibouti is the only country in Africa with a US military base. From here, war on terror is being waged against Al Shabab in Somalia and Al Qaeda in Yemen. Frank Gardner, the BBC's Security Correspondent, was granted rare access to the American base and reports from there for Our World.

Épisode 8 - A Good Man in Rwanda

5 avril 2014

The BBC's international development correspondent, Mark Doyle, returns to Rwanda to piece together the remarkable story of an unsung hero, Captain Mbaye Diagne.

Épisode 9 - The Imam, the Archbishop and the Killers

12 avril 2014

Two religious leaders, from opposing sides in war-torn Central African Republic, are risking their lives by travelling the country together to try to stop the killing.

Épisode 10 - Mugabe at 90

19 avril 2014

Featuring news on issues around the world. The Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe, has just turned 90 and is showing no sign of stepping aside. Our World joins him as he celebrates his 90th and asks what his legacy will be.

Épisode 11 - China's Model Army

26 avril 2014

Steve Hewlett has gained exclusive access to the People's Liberation Army's officer training programme, as China's vast military machine re-invents itself.

Épisode 12 - Vietnam: Children of the Enemy

3 mai 2014

Sue Lloyd Roberts follows two American veterans on a dramatic and emotional journey as they return to Saigon looking for their children.

Épisode 13 - The Man Who Fell to Earth

9 mai 2014

Two years ago the body of a young man was found in a West London Street. He had no identity papers and no-one had reported him missing. Police were unable to trace his next of kin. But thanks to one number in his mobile phone the British police were able to piece together the extraordinary story of this young man's tragic death, thousands of miles from his home. For Our World Rob Walker tells the story of the 'man who fell to earth'.

Épisode 14 - Venezuela's Tower of Dreams

17 mai 2014

Olly Lambert meets some of the residents of an abandoned skyscraper in the heart of the capital of Venezuela, who have created a secure environment away from the violence on the streets below.

Épisode 15 - Saving the Awa Tribe

24 mai 2014

The Awa are believed to be one of the most endangered tribes on the planet. Loggers and farmers have invaded their land in the Amazon, and their traditional lifestyle is under threat. Now the Brazilian government is finally taking action. Our World follows the dramatic progress of Operation Awa as the troops go in to recover the tribe's land to try and save one of the world's most isolated communities.

Épisode 16 - Saudi's Secret Uprising

31 mai 2014

Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province is home to many of the country's minority Shia population. Many there have long complained of marginalisation at the hands of the Sunni ruling family.Shia people saying they are poorer than the Sunni despite living on one of the world's largest oil fields. In a special investigation for the BBC's Our World, Saudi journalist Safa Al Ahmad has gained unprecedented access to film in the region. She spoke to activists, some of whom were on the government's most wanted list, and uncovered how the Shia community was reacting to a violent government crackdown.

Épisode 17 - Back From the Front: Acid Oceans

6 juin 2014

Emissions of carbon dioxide are not just warming the world; they are also turning the oceans more acidic. The United States' Secretary of State, John Kerry, will warn at an oceans summit in the coming weeks that CO2 pollution may drive countless marine species to extinction. The BBC's Environment Analyst, Roger Harrabin, reports for Our World on the dangers facing some of the planet's most spectacular underwater environments, off the coasts of Papua New Guinea and Australia.

Épisode 18 - One Man, Three Wives with Yalda Hakim

14 juin 2014

As a new law ensuring legal recognition for second, third or even fourth wives, in polygamous marriages, comes into force in Kenya, Yalda Hakim travels to a traditional Maasai village and Nairobi's largest slum, Kibera.

Épisode 19 - Mount Everest - The Sherpa's Story

21 juin 2014

Navin Singh Khadka travels to remote villages around the Mount Everest to talk to families and community leaders trying to resolve the growing tensions within Sherpa society.

Épisode 20 - Nigeria Undercover with Yalda Hakim

27 juin 2014

The number of people killed by Nigeria's Boko Haram militants rises on an almost daily basis. Thousands have died in a conflict almost unseen by the outside world. But what is it actually like living in the shadow of one of the most violent insurgencies in Africa? Yalda Hakim has been to Nigeria for Our World - and gained access to exclusive undercover footage shot in the troubled north-east of the country.

Épisode 21 - Destination Syria with Catrin Nye

5 juillet 2014

The British Government has told its citizens not to go to Syria. The country has been in a state of civil war for more than three years, more than 150 thousand people are believed to have been killed and the war has attracted hundreds of British fighters. The UK authorities argue that Brits may be radicalised by what they see if they go to Syria and that even charity workers could get caught up in terrorism if they go. The UK government has threatened to seize the passport of anyone ignoring these warnings. But some British Muslims are going anyway. For Our World Catrin Nye travels overland to the Syrian border with a group from Bolton in the North of England. She waits for them on the border as they enter Syria, to deliver aid, money and ambulances - risking their lives and their passports. She asks what drives them to go, why they ignore the advice of the UK authorities and what they make of those UK citizens going to fight in Syria and whether they believe they pose a threat to Britain on their return.

Épisode 22 - Down to Earth: Mosul Revisited

11 juillet 2014

ISIS,'the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant', stunned the world last month by capturing Mosul, Iraq's second city. For Our World, Yalda Hakim has returned to Northern Iraq, a region she reported from last year, to find 4 people she met on her last visit - all members of a local paragliding club. She discovers how the arrival of ISIS has changed their country - and their lives, and asks if the ISIS declaration of an Islamic State, or Caliphate, marks the beginning of the end of Iraq as a country.

Épisode 23 - The Missing Migrants with Will Grant

19 juillet 2014

Will Grant meets one woman and her dedicated team in Arizona, who attempt to identify the bodies of migrants found in the desert, and return them to their families for burial.

Épisode 24 - The War Widows of Afghanistan

26 juillet 2014

The untold story of the hidden victims of the war in Afghanistan: the women whose husbands were killed in the fight against the Taliban.

Épisode 25 - Reclaiming Russia's Paradise

16 août 2014

Vladimir Putin may have angered the international community by snatching Crimea from Ukraine, but opinion polls show that nearly 80 per cent of Russians approve of the move. It is hard to overstate the importance of this Black Sea peninsula in the Russian psyche. The region was originally conquered by Catherine the Great's favourite general who said 'Russia needs its paradise.' But now millions of Ukrainian and foreign tourists are staying away. The Russian government is trying to fill the gap by urging employers to send staff on subsidised breaks in Crimea. A holiday in the newly annexed peninsula has become every Russian's patriotic duty, despite continuing fighting in nearby Eastern Ukraine and the recent downing of the Malaysian airliner. For Our World, Lucy Ash has been to meet tourists and locals in Yalta, one of Crimea's busiest resorts.

Épisode 26 - The Battle for Northern Iraq - With Yalda Hakim

30 août 2014

Fierce fighting in northern Iraq continues daily between the Islamic State, IS rebel army, Iraq's Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and the Iraqi national army. For Our World, Yalda Hakim has travelled to the region to assess how the brutal treatment of Iraq's Christian and Yazidi minorities at the hands of IS, could be a terrifying precursor for what might lie ahead in Iraq if IS gains the upper hand in the battle for control of what is fast becoming a failed state

Épisode 27 - Ireland's Hidden Bodies, Hidden Secrets

28 septembre 2014

Sue Lloyd-Roberts looks at the latest of several enquiries into the historical abuse of women and children in the care of the Roman Catholic Church.

Épisode 28 - The Mountain That Eats Men

4 octobre 2014

Bolivia's Cerro Rico mountain was once said to contain enough silver to build a bridge between South America and Spain. Catharina Moh reports on its collapsing, which threatens the lives of the thousands of miners who work there.

Épisode 29 - Designed In China

11 octobre 2014

"Assembled in China" but designed in California, Japan or Europe: that's been the story of China for the past 30 years. But now China is pouring billions into innovation in a bid to produce the next breakthrough products and ideas. For Our World, the BBC's China Editor, Carrie Gracie, explores whether China's great push to innovate is succeeding, or whether cultural factors hold China back from becoming a truly innovative power. She meets the startup innovators building their own 3D printers and robots and she visits a state-funded telescope whose cutting edge China-designed technology, enables it to see more of the sky than any other.

Épisode 30 - Libya: Last Stand Against Jihad

18 octobre 2014

Tim Whewell is one of the only western journalists to recently gain access to Tobruk, a once sleepy town now caught between terror and denial. He meets politicians and ordinary Libyans who fear that unless internationally-recognised authorities can regain control, Libya will become a stronghold for ISIS forces escaping the Western-led bombing campaign against them in Iraq.

Épisode 31 - Europe's Revolutions

25 octobre 2014

Tanya Beckett travels across Eastern Europe to meet some of the architects of the revolutions and people whose lives were changed forever by the events of 1989.

Épisode 32 - Switzerland: Stolen Childhoods with Kavita Puri

1 novembre 2014

Kavita Puri goes to Switzerland and hears the extraordinary stories of survivors who lived as indentured child labourers.

Épisode 33 - Iran's Sex Change Solution

8 novembre 2014

Ali Hamedani visits Turkey to meet LGBT exiles who have fled Iran in fear of being forced to change gender.

Épisode 34 - Rojava: Syria's Secret Revolution

15 novembre 2014

Is the Middle East's newest country a territory called Rojava? Out of the chaos of Syria's civil war, mainly Kurdish leftists have forged a radical, egalitarian, multi-ethnic mini-state run on communal lines. But with ISIS jihadists attacking them at every opportunity - especially around the beleaguered city of Kobane, how long can this idealistic social experiment last? Our World has gained exclusive access to Rojava, from the frontlines to the politicians and refugee camps.

Épisode 35 - Flashpoint: South China Sea

22 novembre 2014

Rupert Wingfield Hayes heads to the disputed Spratly Islands to find out how America will respond to this new expansionist challenge from China.

Épisode 36 - World's Most Dangerous Hospital

6 décembre 2014

Chris Rogers reveals the hidden shame of Guatemala's hospital for the mentally ill where it is alleged that patients suffer regular abuse at the hands of those meant to care for them.

Épisode 37 - Pakistan's Women: Punished for Love

13 décembre 2014

Our World's Yalda Hakim has been granted rare access to Pakistan's largest women's jail. The women she meets there give an insight into the place of women in Pakistan society.

Épisode 1 - Calais: The Final Frontier

30 janvier 2015

The northern French port of Calais is facing an international refugee crisis. Thousands of illegal migrants have descended on the town with the intention of making it across the English Channel to the UK, any way they can. Many are fleeing deadly wars at home and are prepared to take extreme risks. Some sneak into the back of UK bound trucks while others hide themselves in the undercarriage. Calais says it can no longer cope with the squatter camps and rising crime which accompany the gangs of desperate young men determined to make it across one of Europe's most heavily guarded borders. Darius Bazargan has been to Calais to meet the migrants, and the locals, caught up in a growing humanitarian crisis.

Épisode 2 - The Billion Dollar Gamble

6 février 2015

It's the first planned Palestinian city, a billion dollar project to build homes for 25,000 people with a soccer stadium and even an amphitheatre, complete with Roman columns. Rawabi is the vision of an American-Palestinian multi-millionaire, Bashar Masri, who has staked his fortune on a better future for his people. Though the main building work is largely finished the project, like the peace process, has ground to a halt over disagreements between the Palestinians and the Israelis. Lyse Doucet charts Masri's progress over a year. She meets a family eager to move in, as well as critics, both Israeli and Palestinian. Can Masri finish the city? Or will events beyond his control get the better of his dream?

Épisode 3 - Bringing Business Back

13 février 2015

From Walmart to Apple, from Colorado to California, many companies across the United States say they are bringing jobs back from overseas. As wages rise in countries such as China and India, Natalia Antelava travels across the U.S, and to India, to investigate whether the tide is turning on one of the biggest trends in globalisation - the outsourcing of work from the rich to the developing world.

Épisode 4 - Uganda: My Mad World

20 février 2015

In Uganda few people are willing to talk about mental illness. Those who suffer are frequently isolated, shunned by their community and rejected by their families. Our World meets a man who has broken the silence.

Épisode 5 - The Power of Le Pen

27 février 2015

The Front National was once regarded as a marginal, extremist political party, but economic turmoil in Europe has thrust it into the mainstream of French Politics. Charismatic leader, Marine le Pen, helped secure a historic victory for the party in the European Elections, and now has her sights set on the Elysee Palace. In a series of interviews for Our World, conducted before and after the terrorist attacks in Paris, Robert Peston tries to understand what's behind her extraordinary rise, and asks if she could really be president?

Épisode 6 - A Royal Wedding: Indian Style

6 mars 2015

With exclusive behind the scenes access, Rupa Jha reports for Our World on the most lavish Indian wedding since independence. Thanks to two decades of dramatic economic growth in India some royal families are enjoying a boom of their own. Harking back to the glory days of the Maharajas, the marriage of the Prince of Rajkot to the Princess of Dungarpore has been described as the most extravagant wedding in India for almost 70 years. The groom's family procession alone featured 2 elephants, 5,000 walking men, led by 30 royally attired princes and ex rulers, camels, horses, 7 gilded horse-drawn carriages and 50 vintage cars. The host, Prince Mandhatasinh Jadeja, entertained thousands during a week of celebrations, including feeding around 15,000 local and needy people. So how does he reconcile such apparent extravagance with the fact that India is home to more poor people than any other country in the world.

Épisode 7 - Inside Eritrea

13 mars 2015

Eritrea has been described as one of the most secretive states in the world. Every year, thousands of people flee indefinite military service and arbitrary imprisonment. But now, for the first time in around ten years, BBC News has been allowed to film inside the country. The authorities want to show off some positive news - they say child mortality is falling, maternal health is improving, and malaria has almost been wiped out. But alongside the gleaming hospitals on show, will Our World's Yalda Hakim gets a glimpse of why so many young Eritreans will risk everything to leave the country.

Épisode 8 - Saving Gaza's Grand Piano

27 mars 2015

For years it has been hidden in the dusty corner of an abandoned theatre - a magnificent instrument allowed to moulder away in an Islamist-ruled territory where many consider music 'haram' - religiously prohibited. It miraculously survived last year's war between Israel and Hamas, when the theatre itself was half-destroyed around it. Now, the only concert grand piano in Gaza has been rediscovered. Badly out of tune, it's been brought lovingly back to life by an expert flown in from Paris - to be the centrepiece of a project that's bringing music back to the children of Gaza. Our World was given exclusive access to film the restoration of the piano and its first celebratory playing by some of Gaza's budding young musicians.

Épisode 9 - St Helena: An End to Isolation

21 mars 2015

St Helena is preparing for its new airport to receive its first flights. Our World meets St Helenians to discover how they feel about the end to their isolation.

Épisode 10 - Rhino Wars

4 avril 2015

Our World sets out to discover whether hunting the poachers can save the rhino. Last year a record number of rhinos were illegally slaughtered for their horns in South Africa's Kruger Park. They were killed by poachers, most of them from poor communities in neighbouring Mozambique. The horn is trafficked to Asia, where it can command a higher price than gold or diamonds. Now South Africa is cracking down - up to 50 poachers were shot last year. Our World sets out to discover whether hunting the poachers can save the rhino.

Épisode 11 - Ukraine's Fragile Ceasefire

11 avril 2015

More than 6,000 people have been killed in Ukraine since fighting erupted between Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed rebels last Spring. A million people have fled their homes. A ceasefire signed earlier this year was hailed as a breakthrough - but is it holding? Natalia Antelava reports from both sides of the ceasefire line on whether the fighting has stopped, and what hope there is for a lasting peace.

Épisode 12 - The Uighurs, Silk Road Survivors

18 avril 2015

Central Asian governments are facing pressure from China to clamp down on Uighur demands for their own state. For the eleven million Uighur people who live in China freedom of speech, religion and movement is strictly controlled. But just along the Silk Road, across the border in Kazakhstan, a quarter of a million Uighurs enjoy relative freedom. For Our World Rustam Qobil meets Kazakh Uighurs concerned about China's growing influence in the region.

Épisode 13 - Remembering the Armenian Massacres

25 avril 2015

It has been 100 years since the massacres and mass deportation of Armenians who lived in the Ottoman Empire, now Turkey. Armenians say one and a half million people died, while the Turkish government says it was many fewer. The killings remain extremely controversial, with the Turkish government resisting Armenian calls to recognise them as genocide. They're rarely spoken of or taught in Turkish schools. BBC reporter Lara Petrossian's Armenian great-grandfather was one of the few who escaped and started a new life abroad. A century on, Lara visits her Armenian family's destroyed neighbourhood in Turkey. She is joined by BBC Turkish reporter Rengin Arslan, and together they discover how little remains of Armenian culture and community. As they discover their families' very different versions of the past, they try to understand why the story of the massacres continues to be so difficult to tell.

Épisode 14 - Kidnapped for a Decade

25 avril 2015

For years they were imprisoned, beaten, and raped. Now Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus, two of the girls who were kidnapped by Ariel Castro in Cleveland, Ohio, speak about their harrowing ordeal. They, along with Castro's third victim Michelle Knight, managed to escape in 2013. Berry and DeJesus talk to Kirsty Wark about their kidnap, incarceration, and how they survived.

Épisode 15 - Arctic Mission with David Shukman

9 mai 2015

A team of Norwegian scientists has spent the winter on a research ship in the Arctic examining the sea ice. They say it's becoming thinner. David Shukman has been aboard their ship.

Épisode 16 - Nepal: Survivors' Stories with Yalda Hakim

16 mai 2015

More than 7 thousand people were killed by the earthquake in Nepal in April 2015, and hundreds of thousands more were made homeless. For Nepalis living in poor and remote mountain villages, the challenge of rebuilding their homes and livelihoods is immense. Yalda Hasim reports from Nepal for Our World on the survivors struggling to salvage what they can in the devastating aftermath of the disaster.

Épisode 17 - Saving Gaza's Grand Piano

20 mai 2015

For years it has been hidden in the dusty corner of an abandoned theatre, a magnificent instrument allowed to moulder away in an Islamist-ruled territory where many consider music 'haram' - religiously prohibited. It miraculously survived the war between Israel and Hamas, when the theatre itself was half-destroyed around it. Now, the only concert grand piano in Gaza has been rediscovered. Badly out of tune, it has been brought lovingly back to life by an expert flown in from Paris, to be the centrepiece of a project that's bringing music back to the children of Gaza. Our World was given exclusive access to film the restoration of the piano and its first celebratory playing by some of Gaza's budding young musicians.

Épisode 18 - Who Killed Alberto Nisman?

28 mai 2015

In January a high-profile prosecutor was found in a pool of blood in his bathroom, days before he was due to release a report condemning the Argentine government. Wyre Davies examines claims that he was murdered and that the investigation into his death was bungled. Buenos Aires may be fading at the edges but it is still one of the world's great capitals - witness to some of the most tragic and momentous events in Argentine history. It is a city where military generals have justified coups d'etats, where grandmothers have marched in defiance against tyranny and where populist icons have vainly tried to unite a divided nation. Even today, intrigue and political scandal are never too far below the surface.

Épisode 19 - The Lusitania's 100 Year Secret

5 juin 2015

When the RMS Lusitania set sail from New York for England in May 1915 the German government took out adverts in the American newspapers warning that travellers sailed at their own risk. The Lusitania's captain was confident the ship was too fast to be attacked, but it was hit by a torpedo from a German U- boat and sank in less than 20 minutes. More than thirteen hundred people were drowned, and the disaster was a key factor in rallying Americans to the Allied cause. Duncan Kennedy finds out why mystery still surrounds the sinking, and pieces together what happened on the Lusitania's last journey.

Épisode 20 - Mosul: Living with Islamic State

13 juin 2015

Iraq's second city is closed to the outside world and tightly controlled by its new rulers. With exclusive, secretly filmed footage of life in Mosul, Yalda Hakim tells the story a city run by Islamic State.

Épisode 21 - Pardon Me, Mr President

20 juin 2015

The War on Drugs in the United States led to a huge increase in America's prison population. For decades, hundreds of thousands of people convicted of even minor drug crimes received long jail terms. President Obama says this has been counter-productive, consigning generations of young people to jail. Under a new presidential clemency initiative thousands of drug offenders can apply for early release. Our World speaks to some who have been freed and looks at the changing approach to tackling drug offences in the United States.

Épisode 22 - Mediterranean Migrants - Rescue at Sea

27 juin 2015

Our World documents the heroism and horror of what is happening in the Mediterranean on a daily basis and tries to discover what motivates a person to risk all in the pursuit of a European dream.

Épisode 23 - Bosnia: The Cradle of Modern Jihadism?

2 juillet 2015

During the civil war in Bosnia, hundreds of Arab jihadists came to join Bosnian Muslims fighting against their neighbours the Serbs and Croats. Grouped into secret fighting units in Central Bosnia, this was the first time in centuries Jihad had been fought against a Western, Christian enemy. Two decades later Bosnia is still reaping the consequences. In the past month ISIS declared the Balkans the next front of Jihad - and in remote mountain villages extremists are flying the ISIS flag. Mark Urban returns to Bosnia for 'Our World' and discovers how secular Bosnian society has been infiltrated by a militant Islamism which operates to this day.

Épisode 24 - Made in China: Club Drugs

11 juillet 2015

A new drug of choice, ketamine, is flooding China's night clubs, and the Chinese authorities are losing the battle to stop its spread. Criminal gangs have discovered ways to make it easily and plentifully, and high profile raids and executions are not affecting soaring production. Ketamine has long been used as an anaesthetic, but now many take it recreationally for its hallucinatory highs. Celia Hatton reports for Our World on the growing addiction to ketamine. She travels to The Fortress, a village in southern China thought to be at the heart of China's ketamine production.

Épisode 25 - Deported to Afghanistan

18 juillet 2015

Over the past ten years, thousands of unaccompanied children have fled to the UK from war-torn Afghanistan, but when they turn 18 they have to return or face deportation. Chris Rogers follows some of the young men, who claim their deportation to Afghanistan would be inhumane and that the UK is now their home.

Épisode 26 - Living with Malaria

25 juillet 2015

Malaria kills a child every minute and disables millions of adults. While there has been success in tackling the disease, malarial mosquitos are posing a new threat. They've started biting during the day. Judy Aslett reports from Burkina Faso.

Épisode 27 - A Very Political Assassination

1 août 2015

Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian spy, was poisoned in a London hotel in November 2006. He drank tea laced with radioactive polonium, and died three weeks later. It was designed to be the perfect murder, and the cause of death almost went undiscovered. So who killed him and why? Richard Watson investigates the polonium trail and reveals how it leads to President Putin's door.

Épisode 28 - The Killing of Farkhunda

8 août 2015

Zarghuna Kargar tells the story of Farkhunda, a 27-year-old Afghan woman, and religious scholar who was brutally murdered by a mob in the streets of Kabul in March. At the time it was wrongly alleged that she had burnt the Qu'ran.

Épisode 29 - Yemen: The Hidden War

17 septembre 2015

An escalating ground and air war in Yemen, against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels, has brought the country to the point of collapse. Millions of people are in danger. Gabriel Gatehouse reports.

Épisode 30 - The Bangladesh Blogger Murders

26 septembre 2015

Mukul Devichand reports on the mood amongst bloggers in Bangladesh following the murders of four atheist internet bloggers, apparently for challenging religious beliefs.

Épisode 31 - South Korea's Adoption Shame

3 octobre 2015

Yalda Hakim visits Seoul to investigate why South Koreans are so reluctant to bring up someone else's child.

Épisode 32 - A Bumpy Road to Rio?

10 octobre 2015

With Nikki Fox. Rio de Janeiro is gearing up for its big year. The famous Brazilian city will host the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games. But what is everyday life like in Rio for disabled people, and how will these Paralympic preparations affect them?

Épisode 33 - After the Jungle

17 octobre 2015

During Sierra Leone's ten-year civil war seven thousand children were forced to join the fighting, abducted from their families, drugged and made to kill. As the war came to an end, thousands of brutalised boys and young men were disarmed and tried to return to their communities - but they were not always welcomed back. Jewoh Nathaniel Sesay, also known as MashP, was one of them. Like many former child soldiers, MashP suffers from mental health problems. He's now approaching thirty and still trying to come to terms with his past. Our World meets MashP as he tries to rebuild his life, his relationships and make sense of his past.

Épisode 34 - Russia's Modern Mystics

24 octobre 2015

Growing numbers of Russians are consulting mystics and psychics. It's been a longstanding flirtation - most famously, a century ago, the country's last Royal family became reliant on a mystical faith healer called Rasputin. But now, 21st century Russians, faced with growing uncertainty and insecurity, are flocking to mystics for help. For Our World the BBC Russian Service's Olga Smirnova investigates the phenomenon.

Épisode 35 - South Sudan: Shattered Dream

31 octobre 2015

Just four years after South Sudan was granted independence, becoming the world's newest country, it has descended into chaos and conflict. The fighting, mostly along ethnic lines, has created one of the world's largest humanitarian crises. Thousands have been killed, more than two million people displaced, and the country is on the brink of famine. Our World's Yalda Hakim travels deep into rural South Sudan - where no Western journalist has been. She meets traumatised people, some on the verge of starvation.

Épisode 36 - Pregnant and Punished in the UAE

7 novembre 2015

In the UAE, sex outside marriage can land you in prison. Three women tell of how they fell foul of the law, revealing that it's often pregnant women and mothers who are most vulnerable.

Épisode 37 - The Lost Daughter of Halabja

14 novembre 2015

In 1988, in the final months of the Iran-Iraq War, the Kurdish city of Halabja was devastated in a chemical weapons attack by Saddam Hussein. An estimated 5000 people were killed. Many injured and orphaned children were taken across the border to Iran for treatment - most never saw their families again. Now, almost 30 years later, one of those children makes an emotional return to Halabja to try and find the family she lost.

Épisode 38 - Greece: No Place to Die

28 novembre 2015

Greece's biggest cities have run out of places to bury the dead. Graves are now rented rather than owned, and, after three years, bodies are exhumed to make space for new ones. Chloe Hadjimatheou reports.

Épisode 39 - Surviving Ebola

5 décembre 2015

The Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone lasted 18 months. Despite the country being declared free of the disease in November, thousands of survivors now face a bleak future.

Épisode 40 - Welcome to Germany with Catrin Nye

12 décembre 2015

In the midst of the refugee crisis Catrin Nye spends three months in Gera, in the east of Germany, as new residents arrive from war-torn Syria. She follows two families in the small city, one German and one Syrian. She sees how they adapt to life alongside one another and how the Paris attacks affect the reception the Syrian arrivals receive.

Épisode 41 - The Lusitania's 100 Year Secret

23 décembre 2015

Duncan Kennedy finds out why mystery still surrounds the sinking of RMS Lusitania, and pieces together what happened on that fateful last journey in which more than thirteen hundred people were drowned.

Épisode 1 - An American Injustice

23 janvier 2016

America imprisons a higher proportion of its citizens than anywhere else in the world, and Louisiana more than anywhere else in America. Aleem Maqbool tells the story of one prisoner, Robert Jones, who was jailed in the 1990s for killing a young British tourist in New Orleans. It was a crime another man had already been convicted of, but he was prosecuted anyway. The judge who sentenced the young father to life in prison now says his skin colour sealed his fate. But even today, more than 23 years after he was arrested, Robert Jones is still not a free man.

Épisode 2 - Votes For Women

30 janvier 2016

In December 2015, women in Saudi Arabia voted and stood as election candidates for the first time. Our World follows three women on the campaign trail.

Épisode 3 - Libya: The Hunt For The Golden Gun

6 février 2016

Five years ago revolution erupted in Libya as rebels rose up against the rule of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. A bloody civil war followed and Gaddafi was captured and killed in October 2011. The golden gun he was carrying was displayed by his killers as a trophy of their triumph. Today, Libya remains divided and violent, with so-called Islamic state becoming stronger there every day. Gabriel Gatehouse returns to Libya to find those who seized Gaddafi's golden gun, and report on IS's rise. Contains distressing images from the start.

Épisode 4 - Return to Zanskar

13 février 2016

Zanskar is one of the most inaccessible settlements on earth: a remote Himalayan Buddhist kingdom little changed in a thousand years. Thirty years ago two American college friends walked for seven days up the frozen Zanskar River to reach an ancient monastery, built into the side of a cliff, at an altitude of four thousand metres. Only a few hundred outsiders visit each year, but this is about to change. The first ever road into the region is nearing completion. The two friends have returned to try to find the people they met in 1986 - and to discover what they think about the dramatic changes coming to their valley.

Épisode 5 - Columbine: A Killer in the Family

20 février 2016

On April 20 1999, two teenagers walked into their high school in Colorado armed with guns, bombs and grenades and killed 12 fellow students and a teacher before taking their own lives. The tragedy had a seismic impact on America, with the murderers cited as an inspiration by subsequent killers. Now, for the first time, Sue Klebold, the mother of one of the shooters, talks to Kirsty Wark about trying to come to terms with what happened at Columbine High School and her efforts to raise awareness about children's mental health issues.

Épisode 6 - Thailand's Asylum Crackdown

27 février 2016

Chris Rogers goes undercover in Thailand to expose how the country treats its asylum seekers. Among the second largest group of asylum seekers in Thailand are Pakistani Christians fleeing extremist violence.

Épisode 7 - Confronting the Cartels

5 mars 2016

Tens of thousands of Mexicans have been killed in drug-related gang violence in the past ten years. Ruthless criminals control the illegal trade with the US, thought to be worth 13 billion dollars a year. One of Mexico's leading politicians, known as El Bronco, the governor of the State of Nuevo Leon claims he can beat the country's infamous cartels. Yalda Hakim speaks to him.

Épisode 8 - Kidnapped in Mexico

12 mars 2016

Kidnapping in Mexico is an epidemic. It's a crime that now affects not just the wealthy but also ordinary Mexicans. For Our World, Vladimir Hernandez meets people rebuilding their lives after being held for ransom, and he meets a man who has made kidnapping his business. In a rare and chilling interview, the kidnapper spells out what motivates him to abduct and sometimes to kill innocent people.

Épisode 9 - The Penguin Watchers

9 avril 2016

Victoria Gill joins scientists in Antarctica as they begin to analyse their findings after a year spent monitoring the lives of thousands of penguins.

Épisode 10 - Norway: Parents Against the State

15 avril 2016

Tim Whewell meets the parents and professionals calling Norway's child protection agency dysfunctional and dangerous. Is a system designed to put children first, out of control?

Épisode 11 - Death at the Junction with Yolande Knell

23 avril 2016

Over the past year, a new wave of violence has brought terror to the streets of Israel and the West Bank. Palestinians have attacked Israelis in apparently random acts. In some cases the attackers have been young teenagers, armed with kitchen knives. The Gush Etzion junction is one site of many attacks. It's on the main road between Jerusalem and Hebron and is used by thousands of Jewish settlers. The junction used to be a place where Palestinians would also shop and work. Now people are scared that being there could cost them their lives. The film contains disturbing images from the start.

Épisode 12 - Terror at the TV Station

30 avril 2016

The Kabul headquarters of Afghanistan's Tolo Television is a young and energetic place, and its staff work on some of the most-watched programmes in the country. But the station's reach and prominence carries a deadly risk. In January 2016, a Taliban suicide bomber blew up a bus carrying Tolo employees home - seven of them died. Yalda Hakim is in Kabul with the station's staff to hear them talk about life, and making television, in a country at war.

Épisode 13 - China's Family Planning Army

7 mai 2016

Now that China has ended its One Child policy, one group of state employees may be out of a job - the country's hated population police. Hundreds of thousands of officers used to hunt down families suspected of violating the country's draconian rules on child bearing. But with an eye on improving child welfare nationally, the state is hoping to redeploy many of them as child development specialists. Lucy Ash visits a pilot project in Shaanxi Province. Former enforcers there are being trained up to offer advice and support to rural grandparents who are left rearing children while parents migrate to jobs in the big cities. If successful, the scheme could be rolled out nationwide to redeploy an army of family planning workers and transform the life prospects of millions of rural children.

Épisode 14 - Killing the Ganges with Justin Rowlatt

14 mai 2016

India's greatest river, the mighty Ganges, is one of the world's dirtiest. The river's revered by Hindus - but it is also the sewer that carries away the waste from 450 million people. Hundreds of millions of people depend on the river, yet pollution from industry, agriculture - even religious waste - has turned its sacred waters into a toxic and deadly cocktail. The Indian prime minister has staked his political reputation on cleaning it up, but can the Ganges be saved?

Épisode 15 - Dancing for Peace? with Natalio Cosoy

21 mai 2016

Our World follows Fernando Montano, the world-famous Colombian ballet star, as he returns home for the first time in 16 years to lend his support to the peace process in Colombia.

Épisode 16 - Disabled and Displaced

28 mai 2016

Syria's neighbour Jordan is struggling with a huge refugee population. For disabled refugees, including those injured during the conflict, the future looks particularly difficult.

Épisode 17 - The European Dream

4 juin 2016

As the European Union struggles to stay united in the face of a 21st century crisis, Gabriel Gatehouse asks what's happened to the European dream.

Épisode 18 - Legacy of Wounded Knee

11 juin 2016

Nick Lazaredes reports on life at the Pine Ridge Indian reservation in South Dakota, and the efforts to improve life for young people there.

Épisode 19 - The Horrors of the Red House

18 juin 2016

Filipina women who were raped by Japanese soldiers during the Second World War tell their extraordinary stories. The handful of women who are still alive are fighting to make sure their ordeal isn't forgotten and asking for a full state apology from the Japanese Government.

Épisode 20 - Life on the Rubbish Dump

25 juin 2016

Namak Khoshnaw meets refugee families whose only means of survival is to scavenge in the rubbish dump which serves Erbil in Northern Iraq.

Épisode 21 - A Symphony for Syria

9 juillet 2016

The Syrian National Orchestra for Arabic Music was founded in Damascus in 2003. But, after the outbreak of war in 2011, many of its members were forced to flee the country. Our World follows four musicians as they prepare for a groundbreaking series of concerts, reuniting orchestra members in exile, and those in Syria, in the hope of changing perceptions of their war-torn nation.

Épisode 22 - Iran's Nuclear Deal

14 juillet 2016

Iran wanted an end to sanctions. The West wanted to stop Iran getting a nuclear bomb. Stalemate and the threat of military action finally ended with an historic agreement in 2015. With exclusive interviews, and access to the key players, Our World goes behind the scenes to reveal the story of one of the most complex and significant diplomatic deals of our time.

Épisode 23 - Ghana's Child Labourers

23 juillet 2016

Tens of thousands of children work for fishermen on Lake Volta in Ghana. Many have been given away by poor families in the hope they would have a better life, but they have been trafficked into forced labour and are treated like slaves. Yalda Hakim joins a team of charity workers travelling around the lake rescuing trafficked children and trying to help them rebuild their lives.

Épisode 24 - Going Hungry in Venezuela

30 juillet 2016

Oil-rich Venezuela is struggling to feed its people. With a spiralling economic and political crisis, the country is threatening to slide into anarchy. Vladimir Hernandez returns home to meet those struggling to survive and finds thousands queueing for hours in the hope of buying basic food items.

Épisode 25 - Russia: Crushing Dissent

6 août 2016

After the last elections in Russia, mass protests against vote-rigging led to violent clashes in Moscow. They were the biggest challenge Vladimir Putin has ever faced to his rule. Four years on and some demonstrators are still serving long prison sentences, the laws on protesting have been tightened and arrests continue. As Russia gears up for its next elections, Our World meets some of those caught up in the 2012 protests and asks what their experiences tell us about President Putin's Russia.

Épisode 26 - Afrikaners on the Edge

17 septembre 2016

More than 20 years after the end of apartheid, some Afrikaners claim their language, and culture, are being marginalised. For Our World, Benjamin Zand meets Afrikaners who fear for their future in the Rainbow Nation.

Épisode 27 - Starving Yemen

24 septembre 2016

The silent killer in Yemen's ongoing conflict is starvation. Nawal Al-Maghafi travels to the city of Hodeida - while it is being bombed by Saudi-led forces.

Épisode 28 - The Philippine Drug War

1 octobre 2016

The new president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, has launched a brutal crackdown on drug crime. Might the president's ruthless approach succeed, or simply see his country branded a leading human rights abuser?

Épisode 29 - Sweden: Exporting Islamic Extremism

8 octobre 2016

More than 300 people have left Sweden to fight for ISIS in Syria and Iraq, one of the highest numbers in Europe, per head of population. Many are second generation immigrants and come from neighbourhoods on the fringes of Sweden's two largest cities, Stockholm and Gothenburg. Yalda Hakim has been to one such community in Gothenburg to discover why so many young people there are attracted by ISIS. She meets a young man who describes how extremists tried to recruit him and she talks to a young girl who has returned from Isis-controlled Syria. Gothenburg police tell her they have a problem and admit they are struggling to cope.

Épisode 30 - The Killing of Qandeel

22 octobre 2016

Qandeel Baloch, Pakistan's first social media star, was murdered in her bed in July. Our World has been to her home village to discover more about the remarkable story of her life.

Épisode 31 - The Poisoning of Flint

29 octobre 2016

Residents of the small American city of Flint, Michigan, are living with a contaminated water supply. Our World meets residents to find out how they're coping.

Épisode 32 - Nomad Warrior Women

5 novembre 2016

The Olympic Games are the pinnacle for many of the world's leading sportsmen and women - but for horseback wrestlers, bone-throwers and eagle hunters it's the World Nomad Games. Kyrgyzstan hosts the games, and they are an important part of the region's drive to re-establish its nomad identity and traditions, 25 years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. One of the most important nomad folk heroes is a female warrior called Saikal. As part of the BBC's 100 Women season Olga Ivshina visits the Games in search of Central Asia's modern-day nomad warrior women.

Épisode 33 - Australia's Shark Menace

12 novembre 2016

Australia's world-famous east coast surfing beaches are suffering from a spate of deadly shark attacks, with 14 attacks in the past two years. On some beaches, great white sharks are spotted almost daily. Coastal communities are suffering, and people are divided over whether to cull the giant predators. But as Our World discovers, there's little agreement about what can actually be done to make the beaches safer.

Épisode 34 - American Addiction

19 novembre 2016

More Americans die from drug overdoses than car crashes or being shot. The majority of the deaths involve the use of heroin or prescription painkillers. Over the past year, Ian Pannell has followed a number of addicts as they try to kick the habit.

Épisode 35 - Cleansing Turkey

25 novembre 2016

On one traumatic night in July 2016, a faction of the Turkish military tried to overthrow the government. The coup failed, but hundreds of people were killed. President Erdogan said it was the work of the US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen and his supporters. Gulen denies involvement, but President Erdogan has vowed to 'cleanse the virus' behind the coup attempt and thousands of Turks, accused of being Gulenist sympathisers, have lost their jobs. Tim Whewell reports.

Épisode 36 - Living Goddesses

3 décembre 2016

For centuries in Nepal girls, some as young as one, have been chosen to be living goddesses - or Kumaris. They are worshipped and revered by Buddhists and Hindus. The title is bestowed on three girls at any one time. Once appointed, the Kumari is confined to the temple and has little contact with the outside world and they hit puberty they must leave and try to live an ordinary life. As part of the 100 Women season, Sahar Zand travels to Nepal to find out if this practice empowers women or demeans them.

Épisode 37 - The Forgotten Shipwreck

10 décembre 2016

In April 2016 a boat carrying more than 500 people sank in the Mediterranean. Fewer than one in ten of those on board survived. The passengers were migrants, travelling from North Africa to Italy. Survivors spoke of a horrendously overcrowded ship, unfit for its human cargo. But other details of the journey remained unclear, including where the passengers set off from, and who organised their deadly journey.

Épisode 38 - The Funeral Bombing

17 décembre 2016

Nawal al-Maghafi investigates the Saudi-led coalition campaign in Yemen.

Épisode 39 - The Year the World Changed

23 décembre 2016

Allan Little examines the forces behind the momentous events of the last year and explores the new political landscape as we enter 2017.

Épisode 1 - Black in Trump's America

28 janvier 2017

In 2008 Barack Obama called slavery 'America's original sin'. But how much of a difference did his eight-year presidency make to the lives of African-Americans? And what does Donald Trump's election say about attitudes to race in the United States today? Gabriel Gatehouse reports from Louisiana.

Épisode 2 - The Chimp Smugglers

3 février 2017

Entire families of adult chimpanzees are being slaughtered by poachers in Africa in order to capture newborn chimps to sell as pets in the Middle East and Asia. During a year-long undercover investigation, BBC journalists posing as prospective buyers infiltrate a global baby chimpanzee trafficking ring and discover how criminals are flouting international law to trade in this endangered species.

Épisode 3 - Killing for Conservation

11 février 2017

India is that rare thing in animal conservation: a success story. Nowhere exemplifies that success more than Kaziranga National Park. But for many, the gains have come at a cost.

Épisode 4 - Nuclear Test Survivors

18 février 2017

Our World has been to Kazakhstan to meet an extraordinary survivor, a celebrated artist and anti-nuclear campaigner.

Épisode 5 - Killing for Honour

25 février 2017

Namak Khoshnaw heads to northern Iraq to tell the story of one woman - Sunwr Omar - whose father is on the run, having been accused of her killing.

Épisode 6 - Cambodia: The Power of Memory

25 février 2017

Almost 40 years after the Cambodian genocide, which cost more than two million lives, people are still struggling to come to terms with what happened. A new film by Hollywood director Angelina Jolie, with an entirely Cambodian cast, attempts to help the healing process. For Our World, Yalda Hakim has been to Cambodia to meet Angelina and some of those who lived through that time.

Épisode 7 - Freedom and Fear in Myanmar

11 mars 2017

Jonah Fisher investigates, for Our World, allegations of mass murder and rape among Myanmar's displaced Rohingya minority.

Épisode 8 - Return to Mosul

1 avril 2017

BBC journalist Basheer Al-Zaidi grew up in Mosul, the Iraqi city taken over by so-called Islamic State in 2014. Now, Iraqi forces are engaged in a fierce battle to retake the city, and eastern Mosul has been freed from IS rule.

Épisode 9 - Living With The Dead

22 avril 2017

The dead are a constant presence in the Toraja area of Sulawesi in Indonesia. Centuries-old traditions mean the dead share space with the living. Sahar Zand reports.

Épisode 10 - Banished for Bleeding

29 avril 2017

In the Bajhang district of western Nepal, centuries-old taboos about menstruation still affect the lives of girls and women. Menstruating females are believed to be impure and are required to stay away from their families overnight in small huts. This practice, known as chhaupadi, has been illegal in Nepal since 2005, but the law is hard to enforce in the face of tradition. Two young Nepali women travel from Kathmandu to far-western Nepal to find out why chhaupadi's hold is still so strong there.

Épisode 11 - Srebrenica: Denying Genocide

6 mai 2017

In the town where Europe's worst atrocity since the Second World War took place, some local politicians, and the new mayor, refuse to accept that genocide happened there.

Épisode 12 - Transgender Family

13 mai 2017

In Ecuador a transgender couple became an international news sensation by announcing that he, Fernando Machado, was pregnant to his transgender girlfriend, Diane Rodriguez.

Épisode 13 - My Child, ECT and Me

20 mai 2017

Reporting on the growing number of American children undergoing electroconvulsive therapy.

Épisode 14 - The Sex Slaves of Al Shabaab

27 mai 2017

For six years the Kenyan army has been fighting the Somali Islamist militants Al Shabaab. As part of an exclusive investigation, the BBC has discovered that Kenyan women are being abducted and trafficked as sex slaves to Al Shabaab camps. Anne Soy meets women who have managed to escape from the camps, and an Al Shabaab insider who reveals for the first time how vulnerable women are captured and imprisoned.

Épisode 15 - Syria - Football on the Front Line

3 juin 2017

Syria's national football team is in with a real chance of qualifying for the World Cup. It is an astonishing achievement for a country entering its seventh year of a bloody civil war. The team can't play at home and many of its star players have left Syria. Other stars refuse to play because the team is funded by the Assad regime. Richard Conway has spent time with members of the squad in Damascus and the whole team in Malaysia for a qualifying match against Uzbekistan. He discovers that, for some Syrians, the country's football team is a focus for a national pride which appears to transcend the nation's deep and bloody divisions.

Épisode 16 - Homeless in Hawaii

17 juin 2017

Hawaii's beaches have long been a draw for tourists, but many glittering hotel facades now sit alongside squalid camps, as the state has the highest rate of homelessness in the US.

Épisode 17 - Goodbye Aleppo

24 juin 2017

In this remarkable film, four citizen journalists, who are also activists opposed to President Assad, documented their last days in East Aleppo.

Épisode 18 - Murder On Campus

1 juillet 2017

A brilliant student, Mashal Khan, was brutally murdered by a mob on a university campus in Pakistan earlier in 2017 after he was accused of blasphemy. The killing caused widespread outrage in Pakistan and has even led to calls to change the country's strict blasphemy laws. Who was Mashal Khan and why was he murdered? Secunder Kermani investigates.

Épisode 19 - Sicily Overwhelmed with Yalda Hakim

8 juillet 2017

Sicily is on the frontline of Italy's escalating migrant crisis. More than 80,000 people are believed to have crossed the Mediterranean from Libya to Italy in 2017, and 2,000 are thought to have died in the attempt. Ships operated by charities are rescuing thousands but, as the numbers crossing grow, they face accusations that they are encouraging the migrant trade. Meanwhile, anti-immigrant groups are targeting Sicily, seeing an opportunity to build popular support. Yalda Hakim reports.

Épisode 20 - Praying for Asylum

15 juillet 2017

In the Netherlands and across Europe, thousands of Iranian refugees are converting to Christianity. Are these converts 'born-again Christians' or simply praying for asylum?

Épisode 21 - The Battle for Raqqa

22 juillet 2017

In the Syrian city of Raqqa, the group that calls itself 'Islamic State' is under siege. Its fighters are surrounded by a Kurdish-led, US-backed coalition. Gabriel Gatehouse reports.

Épisode 22 - Resistance and Repression in Venezuela

29 juillet 2017

In Venezuela daily protests against President Maduro's government have resulted in scores of deaths. Inflation, malnutrition and even starvation are on the rise. For Our World, Vladimir Hernandez reports from Caracas

Épisode 23 - China's New Silk Road

12 août 2017

The BBC's China editor, Carrie Gracie, has traveled from the east of China to the west of Europe, to hear from people who live along the route of China's new Silk Road.

Épisode 24 - Life Under The Caliphate

19 août 2017

Yalda Hakim has been to Mosul to meet survivors and discover how they endured three years of brutal rule under ISIS, and whether they can now rebuild their destroyed and divided city.

Épisode 25 - Conflict and Cholera: Yemens Catastrophe

23 septembre 2017

The youngest and most vulnerable are paying a terrible price for over two years of war in Yemen as food, medical shortages and now a deadly cholera outbreak take their toll.

Épisode 26 - Madagascar's Sapphire Rush

30 septembre 2017

Tens of thousands of Madagascar's poor are flocking to the country's remote forests to illegally mine for sapphires. But the wealth they seek comes at an environmental cost.

Épisode 27 - In the Shadow of El Che

7 octobre 2017

What has Che Guevara's legacy been in Cuba, and would he recognise the country that it has now become? The BBC's Cuba correspondent, Will Grant, reports from Havana.

Épisode 28 - Welcome to Germany

14 octobre 2017

Over a million refugees have entered Germany in the past three years, more than anywhere else in Europe. What has the effect been on the country and the migrants themselves?

Épisode 29 - Songbirds for Sale

21 octobre 2017

The songbird trade in Indonesia is booming, causing dozens of protected species to be threatened with extinction. Our World's Victoria Gill travels to meet conservationists in search of a safe haven for some of the world's most endangered songbirds.

Épisode 30 - The Forgotten Children of the Ukraine

28 octobre 2017

In Ukraine more than 30,000 children with disabilities are living in state-run institutions. A few are orphans, but most have families - yet they spend much of their lives in children's homes, some in shockingly bad conditions. Nikki Fox reports.

Épisode 31 - Escaping ISIS

4 novembre 2017

As they retreat from northern Iraq, Isis has left thousands of women and children behind. A desperate effort is now underway to reunite these women and children with the families they have been separated from.

Épisode 32 - Rebuilding Puerto Rico

11 novembre 2017

Two months ago Hurricane Maria devastated the US territory of Puerto Rico, depriving many of electricity and clean water, and destroying vital infrastructure. President Trump blames its slow recovery on an already poorly managed economy. Is he right?

Épisode 33 - The Butcher of Bosnia

18 novembre 2017

More than 20 years after the Bosnian war ended an international court is about to deliver its verdict on the genocide case against Bosnian Serb army commander, Ratko Mladic. For Our World, Mark Urban has been to Bosnia and discovers a country still haunted by its past.

Épisode 34 - The Massacre at Tula Toli?

25 novembre 2017

In recent months, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims have fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh, driven from their homes by the Burmese army and local Buddhist civilians. Many other Rohingyas have been murdered and their villages burned. Gabriel Gatehouse has been to a refugee camp in Bangladesh to hear from survivors of a massacre in the village of Tula Toli. This film contains harrowing testimony from the start.

Épisode 35 - Why Can't My Child Speak?

2 décembre 2017

Selective mutism is a condition which deprives some children of the ability to speak at will. For the youngsters affected - and their parents - it can cause great anxiety, lead to isolation and hinder a child's progress. For the first time, cameras have been allowed access to one of the only intensive-therapy summer camps for young people with selective mutism. Over the course of a week in New York City, Our World hears from parents and children about living with the condition.

Épisode 36 - The Return

9 décembre 2017

At just three days old, Kati Pohler was left on a street in the Chinese city of Suzhou. At the time, China's 'one-child policy' banned parents from having a second baby and many were abandoned. Kati's parents left a note with their daughter asking whoever raised her to bring her back to meet them at the 'Broken Bridge in Hangzhou' at a set date in the future. Kati was adopted by an American family and moved to the USA. Over twenty years later, she returns to China to meet her birth parents.

Épisode 1 - Ukraine's Frontline Bakery

13 janvier 2018

The war in eastern Ukraine between Russian-backed rebels and the Ukrainian army has killed more than 10,000 people over four years, and peace remains a distant prospect. Despite the violence and poverty though, civilians in the war zone try to live as normal a life as possible. In the frontline town of Marinka, a new bakery has opened which brings some comfort and sustenance to war-weary locals. From Marinka, Lucy Ash reports.

Épisode 2 - China's Chat Girls

20 janvier 2018

Lele Tao is an internet superstar in China's $3 billion dollar 'live streaming' industry. With more than a million fans she can earn thousands of dollars a day singing, dancing, flirting, or often just chatting into her webcam. Fans buy her virtual gifts which she redeems for cash. In return she works hard to keep them entertained, always conscious someone younger and prettier could be waiting to take her place.

Épisode 3 - Russia's Ghost Towns

27 janvier 2018

Hundreds of industrial towns across Russia face extinction. Once the pride of the Soviet Union, many have now been abandoned and millions have lost jobs and homes after the collapse of their local industry. The government now has a plan to save at least some of Russia's dying towns.

Épisode 4 - France's Stolen Children

3 février 2018

More than 2,000 children were taken to France from the Indian Ocean island of Reunion between the 1960s and early 1980s, as part of a French government plan to repopulate rural areas. Promised a better life and an education, many suffered sexual and physical abuse. Some, now middle-aged, are seeking an apology and compensation from the French state. For Our World, Katie Razzall travels from France to Reunion with two women searching for the families they lost more than 50 years ago.

Épisode 5 - The Trauma of War

10 février 2018

For nearly 40 years Afghanistan has been in a constant state of war. How has this affected the mental health of its people? With unprecedented access to Afghanistan's only secure mental health unit, Sahar Zand meets patients, including a former Taliban fighter, struggling to deal with the trauma of war.

Épisode 6 - "We Lived Through a War" Compton, LA

17 février 2018

Compton in Los Angeles has long been renowned for gang violence. Thirty years ago local rappers NWA released the hugely influential album Straight Outta Compton which described drugs, guns and murder on the streets. Gangs are still a fact of life in Compton but homicide and gun violence have fallen significantly because of fewer turf wars over drugs, better policing and a proactive Mayor. As Katty Kay discovers though, years of extreme gang violence have taken their toll. There are flashing images from the beginning of this film.

Épisode 7 - Crushing Dissent in Egypt

24 février 2018

Featuring news programmes on current issues around the world. Leading challengers have been harassed out of the March 2018 presidential race in Egypt and Abdel Fattah al-Sisi looks guaranteed to be re-elected. Critics accuse him of an unprecedented assault on human rights. They say mass arrests, torture and 'disappearances' are hallmarks of his regime. With press freedom under attack much of the brutality goes unseen. The BBC's Cairo correspondent Orla Guerin meets victims and their families.

Épisode 8 - Russia's 'Fake' Election

3 mars 2018

Ksenia Sobchak is young, wealthy and famous. Her father helped bring down the Soviet Union. Now she's challenging ex-KGB officer Vladimir Putin for the Russian presidency. A perfect pedigree Perhaps. But some say she's a fake candidate, running a no-hope race to boost the Kremlin's democratic credentials. Gabriel Gatehouse travels to Russia to unravel a tale of family loyalties, a death in suspicious circumstances, and double dealings in the quest for power.

Épisode 9 - Working for the Enemy

10 mars 2018

Collaborating with Israel can mean prison or death in Gaza. So why do people do it? Some Palestinians say they're forced or blackmailed, others believe they're helping to prevent attacks on innocent people. Israel says recruiting Palestinian agents helps protect its citizens. For Our World, BBC Arabic's Murad Batal Shishani travels to Israel and Gaza to unravel a complex web of desperation and exploitation.

Épisode 10 - Iraq's War on Meth

5 mai 2018

Iraq's oil-rich southern province, Basra, is in the grip of a crystal meth epidemic. High levels of unemployment, poverty and despair are fuelling the crisis, along with plentiful, cheap supplies of the highly addictive drug. Yalda Hakim has gained exclusive access to Basra's police SWAT team, and the prison where dealers and addicts are all kept in the same cell. She reports on the authority's tough approach to drug-related crime

Épisode 11 - Mexico's Streets of Blood

12 mai 2018

A showcase of BBC journalism with programmes that expose and evaluate global topics. Mexico's murder rate reached a record high in 2017, with close to 30,000 dying in drug related violence. The coastal city of Acapulco is particularly dangerous, in the grip of vicious turf wars between gangs over control of the drugs trade. Clive Myrie follows a paramedic and a body collector in Acapulco and meets a senior member of a powerful drug syndicate.

Épisode 12 - My Stolen Childhood

19 mai 2018

Thousands of women across West Africa have been enslaved by a centuries-old practice called 'Trokosi', whereby girls are forced to live and work with priests in religious shrines to 'pay' for the sins of family members. Brigitte Sossou Perenyi was one of those girls, until she was adopted by an American and moved to the US. Twenty years later, Brigitte goes on a journey to understand what 'Trokosi' really is and why her family gave her away.

Épisode 13 - Escaping Europe

26 mai 2018

Every week hundreds of Syrians, given asylum in Germany, are returning home. They risk arrest as they're smuggled from the EU into Turkey, en route to Syria. For Our World Nawal Al-Maghafi joins them to discover why they're giving up the safety of Europe to return to their war-torn country.

Épisode 14 - Crisis in Catalonia

2 juin 2018

The independence vote in the north-eastern region of Catalonia shook Spain's democracy to the core. The Spanish authorities used force to try and stop it, but more than two million Catalans defied the police to back a new independent republic. Nine months on, Catalonia is still part of Spain, its leaders are in prison or abroad and its people are deeply split on the region's future. BBC correspondent Niall O'Gallagher, who reported on the referendum, has gone back to ask what happens next.

Épisode 15 - Pakistan's Child Maids

9 juin 2018

Tens of thousands of children in Pakistan are legally employed as domestic servants. They cook and clean for their employers - and are vulnerable to exploitation and physical abuse.

Épisode 16 - Guatemala: After the Fire

16 juin 2018

When a fire at a children's home in Guatemala killed dozens of teenage girls, it exposed a terrifying culture of abuse. For Our World, Linda Pressly investigates how the tragedy, in what was meant to be a place of safety, has revealed a child protection crisis of epic proportions.

Épisode 17 - Weapons of Mass Deception

21 juillet 2018

It has been a year since Qatar's neighbours cut off diplomatic and economic ties. Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt all accuse Qatar of supporting terrorism. A BBC investigation has uncovered an 'arsenal' of media weapons being used in the war of words in the Gulf, and examines whether people in the region will ever know the truth in an age of fake news and twitterbots.

Épisode 18 - The Fake Murder that Fooled the World

28 juillet 2018

Why did the Ukrainian security services stage the death of Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko? And in the propaganda war between the truth and fake news, what did it achieve?

Épisode 19 - Norway's Silent Scandal

4 août 2018

In April this year, a highly respected Norwegian child psychiatrist was convicted of downloading thousands of images of child pornography. The psychiatrist had been used as an expert, until his arrest, by Norway's controversial child protection system and was involved in decisions about whether children should be removed from their parents. Campaigners in Norway have long accused the system of removing children from their parents without justification and now, despite the serious nature of this man's offence, the authorities are refusing to review the child protection cases he gave evidence in. For Our World, Tim Whewell has been to Norway to try to discover why child protection in one of the world's wealthiest countries appears to be in crisis. This programme contains adult themes.

Épisode 20 - A Tale of Two Swedens

8 septembre 2018

For decades Sweden has been held up as a model society: prosperous, egalitarian and well-integrated. But in recent years a counter-narrative has taken hold. According to this story, Sweden is a nation where liberal values, a generous welfare state and an open-door policy towards refugees have led to a crime wave that threatens to spiral out of control. Against this backdrop, Sweden is holding a general election in which an anti-immigrant party, with its roots in the Neo-Nazi movement, is threatening to upset 'politics-as-usual'. So what is going on? Gabriel Gatehouse goes to Sweden to find out.

Épisode 21 - Colombia - A Fragile Peace

14 septembre 2018

Two years ago a peace deal saw Colombia's FARC guerrilla group lay down their weapons, ending Latin America's longest running insurgency. The BBC's Frank Gardner has travelled across the country to assess how the peace is holding. He finds some areas have been stabilised, but in others cocaine production has reached unprecedented levels, murder rates have soared, and criminal gangs have filled the vacuum in areas formerly controlled by FARC.

Épisode 22 - Gaza Dreams

21 septembre 2018

With nearly two million people living in miserable conditions in Gaza, the Israeli blockade has taken its toll on mental health there. Against the backdrop of the border clashes earlier in 2018 this film goes deep inside the minds of the people of Gaza to explore the mental health issues affecting many there.

Épisode 23 - Philippines: Democracy in Danger?

29 septembre 2018

Featuring news on issues around the world. Outside the Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte is best known for his violent 'war on drugs'. Now, two years after being elected, critics say Duterte is attacking the very institutions designed to keep his power in check. He's locking up those who criticise him, whilst the children of former dictator Ferdinand Marcos are emerging as powerful players. Howard Johnson reports from the capital Manila, where the outlook for democracy looks bleak.

Épisode 24 - Don't Shoot, I'm Disabled

6 octobre 2018

Hundreds of people are killed by the police in the US each year. Much of the media attention has been on the race of victims, but there is another pattern to the deaths. A large number of those killed in interactions with police had a disability and many of the dead had been living with a serious mental illness, learning difficulties or a physical disability. North America Correspondent Aleem Maqbool investigates some of the recent incidents.

Épisode 25 - What's Killing America's White Men

12 octobre 2018

Every year, nearly 45,000 people in America kill themselves. That is more than twice the number that die in homicides, and the numbers are increasing. There is one group in particular causing this spike - white, middle aged men. India Rakusen goes to Montana, where suicide rates are double the national average, to find out what drives so many of these men to despair and taking their own lives.

Épisode 26 - Australia and New Zealand - Troubled Neighbours

20 octobre 2018

For decades Australians and New Zealanders have had the right to live and work in each other's country - but those rights have now been curtailed by Australia. Thousands of New Zealanders are being deported from Australia, some with criminal convictions, but others on the grounds of 'bad character'. The New Zealand government claims the policy breaches human rights conventions. Once the closest of neighbours, the special bond between Australia and New Zealand appears to be fracturing.

Épisode 27 - 2nd Platoon - Still Fighting

27 octobre 2018

A decade after returning from Iraq, Our World meets a group of former US soldiers still struggling to adjust to life back home. The BBC filmed with them in Baghdad in 2007 at a time of intense violence, and has tracked them down to find out how they have adjusted to civilian life. The programme discovers they have been facing new struggles with PTSD, alcohol, marital breakup and a wider society that does not understand what they went through.

Épisode 28 - Ukraine's Church - Rejecting Russia

3 novembre 2018

In Ukraine, a new independent Orthodox church is set to reject 350 years of spiritual domination by Russia. Four years into a war against Russian-backed rebels many Ukrainians want to sever ties with their closest neighbour. But will the trauma caused by this religious schism further divide Ukraine?

Épisode 29 - Saudi's Crown Prince on Trial

11 novembre 2018

In the wake the brutal murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi, in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, the future of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler, is being questioned. Our World reveals allegations that close associates of the Prince have been involved in torture and murder in the past.

Épisode 30 - Justice for Qandeel

17 novembre 2018

Qandeel Baloch was murdered in her bed, the victim of a so-called honour killing that rocked Pakistan and the world. She was a social media sensation, a young woman from a poor village who became famous for her sexually provocative online appearances. After her murder, a new law against honour crimes was passed. Four members of Qandeel's family, along with a celebrity TV cleric, are on trial but justice for Qandeel appears elusive.

Épisode 31 - Who Cares About Israel's Thai Workers?

24 novembre 2018

Around 25,000 people from Thailand work on Israel's farms. Filmed over a year, Our World investigates allegations that many are being exploited. The team uncover evidence of squalid living conditions, unpaid wages, and hear widespread claims their health is being put at risk from pesticides. Although under Israeli law they are entitled to decent housing and safe working conditions, one Israeli NGO that supports workers tells the BBC they are being treated as 'tools', rather than 'human beings'.

Épisode 32 - China's Hidden Camps

1 décembre 2018

China is accused of locking up as many as a million Muslims in its western region of Xinjiang. The government denies this, claiming people willingly attend special 'vocational schools' to combat 'terrorism and religious extremism'. But a BBC investigation has found evidence of a vast, and rapidly growing, network of detention centres where people are held against their will and often abused and humiliated.

Épisode 33 - Burundi's Torture Houses

8 décembre 2018

In 2015 there was widespread unrest in the East African country of Burundi when the country's president ran for a third term. Protestors said he was violating the constitution that limits presidential terms to just two. Since then street protests have ended, but a BBC investigation has now uncovered evidence of government-sponsored torture and killings designed to silence dissent.

Épisode 34 - The Struggle for Polands Future

15 décembre 2018

As Poland celebrates 100 years of independence, a struggle is underway over the future direction of the country. Will a new self-confident Poland close the door to immigrants and turn its back on the EU? Yalda Hakim meets ordinary Poles, some urging immigrants to assimilate or leave. She also meets far right political leaders who hope to be part of the mainstream and one of Poland's first openly gay politicians, who is confident he can build an inclusive national liberal movement. So where does all this leave Poland's newest arrivals, immigrants and refugees, many of whom experience racism on a daily basis?

Épisode 1 - The Good Struggle

12 janvier 2019

Perched high above the Qadisha valley in northern Lebanon, not far from the Syrian border, is the centuries-old Hamatoura monastery. In an intimate and revealing film Our World follows eighteen Greek Orthodox Christian monks, who make up the community here, as they go about their traditional and almost silent way of life: communal prayer, making cheese, candles, incense and farming. The monks reveal the personal journeys which brought them to the monastery.

Épisode 2 - Ethiopia: Racing to Reform

19 janvier 2019

It is arguably the most extraordinary story of reform in the world today. Africa's youngest leader, Abiy Ahmed, is transforming Ethiopia after decades of autocratic rule.

Épisode 3 - Tunisia - A Womans Share

26 janvier 2019

ince the country's 2011 protests sparked the Arab Spring, Tunisia has been the country most willing to publicly engage with the issue of women's rights. Now, with the President leading the way, Tunisia's Sharia based inheritance laws, under which women are only entitled to half of what men receive, are being challenged. But, there is fierce resistance from Tunisia's conservative religious community. They've been blocking reform efforts for more than 30 years. Nada Issa finds out if the time has finally come for Tunisia's women to get their fair share.

Épisode 4 - The Finnish Experiment

2 février 2019

Finland has just completed a two-year trial of so-called 'basic income' for the unemployed. Two thousand people, who had been receiving unemployment benefit, were instead given 650 dollars a month, with no strings attached. Our World followed four people over the two years to see what impact the experiment has had on their lives.

Épisode 5 - Raving in Palestine

9 février 2019

Our World spent the New Year party season in Ramallah, Bethlehem and Haifa documenting the personal views of young Palestinians on the Israeli occupation, and how it impacts their music. The rave scene, with its vibrant electronic music and dance culture has, for some Palestinians, become a focus for political dissent and protest, for others an escape. It's also a source of tension between some conservative parents and a younger generation.

Épisode 6 - In the Shadow of Chernobyl

16 février 2019

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded 33 years ago in Soviet Ukraine. The cause, and who was to blame, is still being debated.

Épisode 7 - India's Cow Vigilantes

23 février 2019

Critics say the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, has not done enough to stop hate crimes against India's Muslim minority, with a rise in 'cow vigilantism'. Disturbing content.

Épisode 8 - Saving Jesus

2 mars 2019

Épisode 9 - Portland's Battleground

9 mars 2019

Since the election of Donald Trump, rival groups of far-right and far-left activists have battled in the streets of some American cities. Violence has broken out in New York, Berkeley and Charlottesville. But perhaps most affected is Portland, Oregon, a liberal, progressive city in the Pacific Northwest. For our season on Crossing Divides, Mike Wendling has been there to meet activists from both sides.

Épisode 10 - Australia's Water Wars

16 mars 2019

Australia is suffering the hottest summer on record. Water is often scarce but growing demand, mainly from farming, and higher temperatures linked to climate change, have created the country's worst ever water shortage. With a general election just weeks away revelations of government bungling, corporate greed and corruption have thrust water to the forefront of Australia's political debate.

Épisode 11 - The Rise of the Right in Europe

18 mai 2019

A wave of far-right politics is sweeping Europe, with parties promising to smash the ruling elite, end migration and re-shape the EU. With elections just days away the BBC’s Jean Mackenzie travels across the continent to find out why the Right is on the rise, meeting those celebrating its success, and those fighting to stop it. Could Europe, as we know it, be about to change?

Épisode 12 - The Yazidi's Secret Children

25 mai 2019

Nafiseh Kohnavard travels to Iraq and Syria to hear from the Yazidi women forced into sexual slavery by so-called Islamic State, and who had children with their IS captors.

Épisode 13 - Kenya's Night Runners

1 juin 2019

Documentary about night runners - the elusive figures who sneak around at night in villages across Kenya, throwing stones and carrying out small acts of vandalism.

Épisode 14 - The Last Sikhs of Afghanistan

7 juin 2019

For centuries, a significant Sikh minority has grown in relative safety in Afghanistan. But, in the last decade, persecution has seen the population drop.

Épisode 15 - Fighting for Lapland

15 juin 2019

In northern Europe's Lapland, temperatures are rising faster than anywhere else in the world, threatening the livelihood of its indigenous Sami people.

Épisode 16 - The Best Pakistani Transgender Retirement Home

22 juin 2019

In a country where it is expected that your extended family will look after you in your old age, what do you do if they long ago rejected you? That is a question for most of Pakistan’s transgender community. They have often spent their lives ostracised by their families, scraping a living together by dancing at weddings or as sex workers. Now, one member of the community, Guru Ashee, is setting up Pakistan’s first retirement home for transgender people. Mobeen Azhar has been to Lahore to meet her.

Épisode 17 - Denmark's Migrant Ghettos

29 juin 2019

Denmark’s efforts to better integrate its migrant population are attracting controversy, both at home and abroad. Twenty-nine housing districts, known as ‘migrant ghettos’, are now subject to special measures to tackle crime and unemployment, and encourage greater mixing between migrants and wider Danish society. In the run-up to Denmark's recent landmark election, Sahar Zand travelled to Copenhagen to witness how immigration is shaping the campaign debate and question the country's politicians and migrants about these controversial policies.

Épisode 18 - Sudan's Bloody Uprising

6 juillet 2019

In December 2018, the people of Sudan rose up against the thirty-year dictatorship of Omar al-Bashir. He stood down in April, but his supporters remain in control and in June they launched a vicious attack on unarmed protestors leaving over a hundred dead and scores raped and beaten. Namak Khoshnaw follows a young Sudanese doctor, who took part in the protests, as she celebrates the uprising’s success only to watch it collapse in the face of terrifying violence.

Épisode 19 - Inside China's Camps

13 juillet 2019

China is now thought to be holding more than a million Muslims in giant camps in its far west region of Xinjiang. The authorities insist that the facilities are not prisons but schools, where ‘thought transformation’ is taking place to combat violent extremism. Reporter John Sudworth gets rare, highly controlled access to go inside and, despite official supervision, uncovers important evidence about the nature of the system.

Épisode 20 - Two Brains, One Skull - Separating Conjoined Twins

20 juillet 2019

Safa and Marwa are twin girls who were born joined at the head. They were brought, by their family, from Pakistan to London’s Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital for a series of highly complex operations to separate them. The BBC’s Fergus Walsh has followed them through the dangerous nine-month process aimed at giving independence to the girls, who have never been able to see each other's faces.

Épisode 21 - Saving Jesus

2 août 2019

Épisode 22 - The Fight for Rojava

28 septembre 2019

In 2017, 25-year-old Anna Campbell travelled in secret from the UK to northern Syria. She was heading for Rojava, the Kurdish territory in the north of the country. Anna went to the front line to fight with the Kurdish armed forces, YPJ. A month later she was killed by a Turkish air strike. This film follows Anna's father Dirk as he travels to Rojava one year after her death. By meeting her YPJ comrades and talking to those displaced by the war, he learns about the Syrian Kurds and the cause his daughter was willing to die for.

Épisode 23 - Russia: The Empire Strikes Back

5 octobre 2019

Thirty years ago, the fall of the Iron Curtain was heralded in Europe as a new era of freedom and democracy. But for Russia, it marked the loss of an empire. For Our World, Steve Rosenberg explores how Moscow views the tumultuous events of 1989 and how Vladimir Putin’s Russia is trying to regain its influence.

Épisode 24 - Forgotten Britain

12 octobre 2019

In 2010, the UK government embarked on a major programme of public spending cuts, chopping tens of billions of pounds from many services, including policing, local government and public health. Local communities were expected to find other ways of providing vital services, but in some places it has been a struggle. Amid government claims that the decade of austerity is over, Michael Buchanan meets people in Hartlepool in the North East of England to find out how the cuts have affected them.

Épisode 25 - Addicted: America’s Opioid Crisis

19 octobre 2019

America’s love affair with opioids has had a devastating impact. Every 25 minutes a baby is born suffering from opioid withdrawal and a new generation is growing up with addicted parents. For years pharmaceutical companies made billions from the drugs, but now lawsuits are piling up and so are questions for regulators who should have prevented the crisis. Our World traces why so many Americans became addicted and meets children and workers on the front line who are now picking up the pieces.

Épisode 26 - The Best Pakistani Transgender Retirement Home

26 octobre 2019

In a country where it's expected that your extended family will look after you in old age, what do you do if they rejected you a long time ago? That's a question for most of Pakistan's transgender community. They've often spent their lives ostracised by their families, scraping a living by dancing at weddings or as sex workers. Now, one member of the community, Guru Ashee, is setting up Pakistan's first retirement home for transgender people. Mobeen Azhar has been to Lahore to meet her.

Épisode 27 - Silicon Valleys Online Slave Market

2 novembre 2019

Google, Apple and Facebook-owned Instagram are enabling an illegal online slave market by approving and providing apps used for selling domestic workers in the Gulf. For Our World, BBC News Arabic’s undercover investigation exposes the people in Kuwait breaking local and international laws on modern slavery, including a woman offering a child for sale. At the centre of this powerful investigative film is Fatou a 16 year old in Kuwait City who has been there for nine months. We follow her rescue and journey back home to Guinea, West Africa and ask what’s being done to control these apps?

Épisode 28 - Inside The Hong Kong Protests

9 novembre 2019

For five months protests have rocked Hong Kong, pitting hundreds of thousands of young, idealistic demonstrators against the authorities and the might of China. The clashes between police and protestors have become increasingly violent and neither side shows signs of backing down. Our World goes beyond the frontline to tell the stories of some of those involved, what drives them - and their hopes and fears for the future.

Épisode 29 - The Battle for the Great Barrier Reef

16 novembre 2019

The Great Barrier Reef is in danger - it is now officially declared to be in a very poor state. Yet the battle to save a national icon has sparked furious clashes and opened up deep divides in Australian society. As Australia wrestles with the effects of climate change, Nick Lazaredes meets those who are fighting to preserve the reef and those being blamed for its sudden decline.

Épisode 30 - Russian Women Fight Back

23 novembre 2019

Russia faces a deadly epidemic of domestic violence. For years it has been hidden from view, but now a new generation of women are fighting back. Lucy Ash meets the families whose extraordinary stories have sparked a national debate and the politicians who are campaigning for changes in the law and better protection for those at risk.

Épisode 31 - Hidden Children of Bulgaria

29 novembre 2019

In 2007 the BBC film Bulgaria's Abandoned Children exposed tragic levels of neglect in Mogilino Social Care Home, an institute for mentally and physically disabled young people. Since then, more than a quarter of a billion euros has been given by the EU to Bulgaria to replace the country's institutes with smaller family-like Group Homes. Filmmaker Kate Blewett returns to Bulgaria to find out what's happened to the children she met in Mogilino and reveals the reality of life for children in some of the new Group Homes. A member of staff in one of the homes said, "The world must see what is happening."

Épisode 32 - Qandeel: The Verdict

6 décembre 2019

In 2016 Pakistani social media sensation Qandeel Baloch was murdered in her bed, the victim of a so-called honour killing. Her brother and five other men, among them a celebrity cleric, were charged with her murder. As the court prepares to deliver its verdict, Hani Taha - who has followed the story in two previous Our Worlds - returns to Qandeel's home town. Will there be justice for Qandeel? And how has her life and death changed Pakistan?

Épisode 33 - Europe's Greenest Town?

14 décembre 2019

How has a small place in northern Finland managed to become Europe's most eco-friendly town? Ii has slashed its CO2 emissions by 80% and is producing 10 times more renewable energy than it consumes. This community project could be an inspiration for us all - but such rapid change is not without opposition.

Épisode 1 - Colombia: The New Cocaine War

17 janvier 2020

Colombia has long been the world's largest producer of cocaine. A historic peace deal in 2016 was meant to reduce the amount of cocaine being produced by offering farmers alternatives to growing coca. But last year the UN estimated that its output was the largest since records began. Our World travelled to the Cauca Valley to find that farmers are now being caught between new criminal gangs with devastating consequences.

Épisode 2 - Who Betrayed Hevrin Khalaf?

24 janvier 2020

In October 2019, a rising star of Syrian democratic politics, 34-year-old Hevrin Khalaf, was brutally murdered in the Kurdish-governed north east of the country. Yalda Hakim travels to Syria to investigate this young woman's killing, her battle for freedom and empowerment, and her colleagues' view that her death was the result of President Trump's withdrawal of support from the Kurds, who have been a key American ally in the defeat of so-called Islamic State.

Épisode 3 - The Hunt for Gaza's Lost Treasure

1 février 2020

In 2017 a group of fishermen found a hoard of precious coins on the sea bed off the coast of Gaza. They were decadrachms from the reign of Alexander the Great- and they were worth a fortune. 3 years on, they have disappeared. So what happened to them, and why are rare coins so hard to trace?

Épisode 4 - Journey to the Doomsday Glacier

7 février 2020

Glaciologists have described Thwaites Glacier as the "most important" glacier in the world, the "riskiest" glacier, even the "doomsday" glacier. Scientists from the UK and US are studying the glacier's changes as part of the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration. The BBC's chief environment correspondent Justin Rowlatt visited the project.

Épisode 5 - Confessions of a Mafia Killer

14 février 2020

Panzuto was a mafia boss, and a hardened killer. For years he played a key role in Naples' Camorra, but now he has turned state witness and is helping put his former associates behind bars. Dominic Casciani gains exclusive access to an Italian anti-mafia prison to meet Panzuto and hear his story of love, murder and betrayal. It's a tale which took him from the back streets of Naples to a caravan park in Blackpool. We hear from those at the sharp end of the ongoing battle against organised crime in Naples, and from those who believe the tide has finally turned. Above all we hear from the man himself: why did he decide to break with the Camorra, and what does the future hold for him?

Épisode 6 - Facing the Bombers

21 février 2020

Our World gained unprecedented access to enter Indonesia’s prison to witness both Garil and Sarah meeting the bombers who killed their parents.

Épisode 7 - Blasian Love in South Africa

28 février 2020

Few events are more nerve wracking than meeting the parents of someone you love. For black and Asian couples in South Africa, it's even more challenging.

Épisode 8 - Wuhan: Life under Lockdown

13 mars 2020

Coronavirus is now spreading around the world as governments scramble to contain it. The outbreak began in the Chinese city of Wuhan, which has been locked down since late January. With exclusive access to two film-makers inside the city, Our World tells the story of life under lockdown. It is a film which takes you from the deserted streets to the homes of those battling the virus. How do you survive when daily life gets shut down?

Épisode 9 - The Trees That Bleed

20 mars 2020

Illegal logging of the endangered rosewood tree is decimating forests in Casamance in Senegal. The BBC investigates the trade worth trade worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

Épisode 10 - North Korea's Celebrity Defectors

27 mars 2020

There are over 30 000 North Korean defectors currently living in South Korea. Most have fled the brutal regime of Kim Jong-un in the hope of a better life and some of them have become celebrities. Our World follows two North Koreans as they gain fame in front of the camera capitalising on their defector status yet struggle to move on from their past.

Épisode 11 - Sri Lanka: One Year On

17 avril 2020

One year on, Jane Corbin returns to the island and meets three of those whose lives were changed that day and who have set out to help rebuild the Sri Lanka they love.

Épisode 12 - Saving Eden

25 avril 2020

Deforestation has skyrocketed in Colombia since the peace deal of 2016. Our World joins a team of scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew as they go on a mission into virgin tropical rainforest. They hope to discover and save rare plant species before they are destroyed and vanish forever.

Épisode 13 - Venezuela Falling Backwards

2 mai 2020

Oil-rich Venezuela has been in an ever-growing state of crisis since Hugo Chavez died in 2013 and the crash in global oil prices.

Épisode 14 - India's Missing Children

8 mai 2020

In India, a child goes missing every eight minutes. The children are often trafficked into domestic labour or the sex trade. Many are never seen again.

Épisode 15 - Ireland's Traveller Women

15 mai 2020

Irish society has changed dramatically in recent years, but discrimination against travellers remains widespread. In 2017, in a bid to change public attitudes, travellers were formally recognised by Ireland's government as a distinct ethnic group, but many say they are still unfairly treated. Our World meets three young women fighting to bust the myths about their community and make their dreams a reality.

Épisode 16 - Spain's Coronavirus Heroes

22 mai 2020

Spain is one of the countries hardest hit by coronavirus. Ice rinks have been turned into morgues, and drive-through funerals have caused heartbreak for many families unable to say goodbye properly. Our World follows the lives of some of those at the heart of the crisis, among them a nurse who moved away from her children to play her part in the fight back.

Épisode 17 - New York: Coronavirus Diaries

30 mai 2020

New York has been the epicentre of America's coronavirus outbreak, with nearly 30,000 deaths in the state so far. As the virus took hold in March, doctors and nurses from across the US answered New York's call for help. This is the story of four of those on the frontline - told through their video diaries as the crisis unfolds. It is about bravery, sacrifice and sadness: life in the eye of the storm.

Épisode 18 - South Korea: How to Fight Coronavirus

6 juin 2020

In January, a woman passenger had her temperature checked at Incheon International Airport - and South Korea discovered its first case of coronavirus. In the hundred days that followed, the country would become a model for how to fight the virus. With unprecedented access from the first few hours of the outbreak, Laura Bicker tells the inside story of South Korea's virus hunters. How did they manage to keep the death toll so low, and what can the rest of the world learn from South Korea's story?

Épisode 19 - Wuhan: Life After Lockdown

19 juin 2020

The lockdown in Wuhan has now been lifted, and the city is trying to recover. But just how normal is daily life in Wuhan now - and how are its people adjusting to a new world?

Épisode 20 - Kenya's Locust Hunters

27 juin 2020

Épisode 21 - Coronavirus Cruises

3 juillet 2020

More than 25 million people go on cruises each year. As coronavirus spread, cruise ships suffered devastating outbreaks that resulted in thousands being infected and dozens dying.

Épisode 22 - Brazil: One Virus, Two Worlds

10 juillet 2020

Brazil has been devastated by coronavirus. More than 1.4 million people have been infected and the numbers are rising fast. Our World travels to Sao Paulo.

Épisode 23 - Coronavirus in Iran

19 septembre 2020

Reporting on the Coronavirus from inside Iran.

Épisode 24 - Police Brutality - American Witnesses

26 septembre 2020

The killing of George Floyd, caught on camera by eyewitnesses, has led to an outpouring of anger in America. But what happens when the cameras are turned off?

Épisode 25 - Europe's Cycling Revolution

3 octobre 2020

Over a billion euros has been invested in cycling across Europe since the start of the pandemic. Some of the continent's biggest cities are being transformed as people seek alternative, safer, greener ways to move around. Anna Holligan travels across Europe to see how people are getting on their bikes and asks if the surge in cycling is the start of a much bigger change in the way we travel.

Épisode 26 - Trump and God

10 octobre 2020

Lebo Diseko meets Christian voters in the swing state of North Carolina and explores how important faith will be in a contest that Biden has billed as a battle for America's soul.

Épisode 27 - The Day Moria Burned

16 octobre 2020

On 8 September, the Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos went up in flames. More than 12,000 migrants, already living in dire conditions, were burned out of their tents. The Greek authorities have blamed the blaze on a small number of residents of the camp, but among the refugees themselves many say local far-right activists started the fire. On both sides there were people who wanted the camp gone. So who torched Europe's largest refugee camp? With the help of a group of young refugee film-makers and exclusive access to a huge archive of footage from the fire and its aftermath, Gabriel Gatehouse investigates the events surrounding the blaze and the roots of Europe's dysfunctional migration policy.

Épisode 28 - America's Tik Tok Election

24 octobre 2020

TikTok is one of the fastest growing apps in the world and has now been downloaded more than two billion times. It is most famous for lip-syncing teenagers and out-of-control pets, but its phenomenal growth means it is starting to change the world - and nowhere is that clearer than in the US presidential election. Donald Trump may not be a fan, but his supporters and Joe Biden's are now fighting for the future of their country on TikTok. With just over a week to go until America decides, Sophia Smith-Galer delves into the crazy world of TikTok and meets its breakout stars - from the Republican Girls to the Minnesota state senator who is using it to get out the Democrat vote. How is TikTok changing US politics, and what influence will it have on who the next resident of the White House will be?

Épisode 29 - Bangladesh: The End of Fast Fashion?

31 octobre 2020

Bangladesh has the world's second largest garment manufacturing industry, which for decades fuelled Europe and America's appetite for fast fashion. But as coronavirus spread around the world, over two billion pounds’ worth of clothing orders were cancelled and many factories were shut. It was a devastating blow to the sector on which many livelihoods depend. Our World follows factory owner Mostafiz Uddin, who now stands to lose everything, and meets the women workers whose jobs have disappeared. Has coronavirus changed the way we buy clothes forever - and what about those who are being left behind?

Épisode 30 - Iran and the Mystery Murders

7 novembre 2020

Could the Iranian regime have orchestrated assassinations and an attempted bombing on European soil?

Épisode 1 - California Burning

15 janvier 2021

Our World tells the extraordinary story of the holidaymakers who found themselves trapped by an almighty wildfire at Mammoth Pools in California's Sierra National Forest.

Épisode 2 - New Orleans: The Year the Music Stopped

23 janvier 2021

New Orleans was getting ready to celebrate Mardi Gras. But among the crowds was a virus that before long would stop the music and kill thousands in the state of Louisiana.

Épisode 3 - Syria: A Family's Fight against the Virus

29 janvier 2021

From civil war to the pandemic, 2020 was a deadly year for the Syrian province of Idlib. As doctors, Mohammed al-Sharif and Zeina Hallak were on the frontline of the humanitarian crisis, but as parents, they had to protect a growing family from the dual threat of war and disease. For nine months, BBC Our World followed the couple as coronavirus brought them face-to-face with life and death.

Épisode 4 - Kenya's Spy Queen

5 février 2021

Jane Mugo is Kenya's most famous - and controversial - private investigator. She says she's solved hundreds of crimes, but some accuse her of playing by her own rules. Reporter Sharon Machira meets the woman they call Kenya's Spy Queen.

Épisode 5 - Last Chance for Justice

12 février 2021

Human rights activist Azimjan Askarov was imprisoned in Kyrgyzstan in 2010 for a crime he says he did not commit. Ever since then, his wife Hadicha has campaigned tirelessly for his release. Now she sees one last chance for justice, in an appeal hearing at the country's supreme court. But as Hadicha prepares for the verdict, coronavirus is spreading across Kyrgyzstan, stopping Hadicha's prison visits and putting 69-year-old Azimjan at risk. Our World follows an extraordinary story of love, courage - and never giving up.

Épisode 6 - Morocco's YouTube Migrants

19 février 2021

Over the last few years, Moroccan migrants who are trying to reach the EU have become YouTube celebrities by blogging about the journey online. Our World travels to meet them.

Épisode 7 - Selling the Amazon

26 février 2021

The Amazon is the largest tropical rainforest and one of the most biodiverse places on earth. But now, vast chunks of it are being sold off – on social media. Reporter João Fellet travels deep into the Amazon to investigate the murky online world where the rainforest is for sale. Who is out to profit from deforestation. And what can be done to stop it?

Épisode 8 - Ischgl: The Super-Spreader Ski Resort

5 mars 2021

The Austrian resort of Ischgl has long been famous for its superb skiing and vibrant nightlife - some even called it 'Ibiza on Ice'. But in early 2020, skiers began to fall ill with coronavirus. The Austrian authorities were slow to react and then made a series of costly mistakes. Thousands of skiers flew home, inadvertently exporting the virus around the world. One year on, the resort is deserted, and some of the families of those who died are looking for justice. BBC Europe Editor Katya Adler explores what went so badly wrong in Ischgl and asks what the lessons learned for the next pandemic are.

Épisode 9 - GameStop: To the Moon and Back

12 mars 2021

In January this year, something very strange happened on the US stock market. The shares of GameStop, an unfashionable high street games store, suddenly went through the roof and kept rising. As a result, a group of hedge funds unexpectedly found themselves losing millions of dollars. The giant price spike turned out to be the work of a committed band of amateur online investors - many of whom were out to get their revenge on the titans of Wall Street for the financial crash. Mayhem on the markets ensued. So was this a David versus Goliath clash as many claim? And if so, who really won? James Clayton meets the investors who made a fortune trading from their bedrooms, the tech supremos who were watching on astonished and the hedge fund giants who are now nursing their losses.

Épisode 10 - Who Won the Karabakh War?

26 mars 2021

Late last year, a conflict that had lain almost dormant for more than 25 years flared up again. Armenia and Azerbaijan clashed over the disputed territory of Nagorno Karabakh, with Azerbaijan ultimately reclaiming much of the land they had lost in the conflict of the 1990s. More than 6000 people were killed, and thousands more were driven from their homes. So who really won? And what now for those whose lives were turned upside down during 44 days of fighting? With rare access inside Nagorno Karabakh, Jonah Fisher travels to both Azerbaijan and Armenia. He meets those who won their homes back and those who lost their loved ones - and discovers that a much bigger power is making a comeback.

Épisode 11 - Hong Kong: Jimmy Lai's Last Stand

17 avril 2021

Jimmy Lai is a billionaire newspaper proprietor and a self-proclaimed natural-born rebel. He owns Apple Daily, Hong Kong's last opposition newspaper and he is an outspoken critic of Beijing. As China tightens its grip on Hong Kong, that puts him in danger - in August he was arrested under the strict new national security law. Yet refusing to be intimidated, he continues to speak out. With remarkable access to Jimmy Lai, the BBC's Danny Vincent meets the man facing possible life in prison after being charged with violating Hong Kong's new law.

Épisode 12 - Anarchy in the Amazon?

23 avril 2021

Undercover of Covid, the Amazon rainforest is under attack. Deforestation is at levels not seen for more than a decade. Brazilian President, Jair Bolsonaro, talks of opening up the forest to development while the environmental policy is under attack from loggers. Our World obtained a recording of the Environment minister talking about using the cover of Covid to "change all the rules" in the Amazon. For Our World, Justin Rowlatt is on a mission to find out how a tribe he visited a decade ago is faring the face of this assault.

Épisode 13 - A Mothers Choice: Birth in the Balkans

30 avril 2021

n Bosnia and Herzegovina, the healthcare system only allows women to give birth in hospitals. Our World follows Dr Amira Cerimagic as she prepares to deliver her baby at home in secret.

Épisode 14 - Myanmar: The Spring Revolution

7 mai 2021

The Myanmar military has killed more than 700 people since they seized power in a coup three months ago. Mass protests demanding a return to democracy and the release of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi have been met with brutal force. Borders are closed, and the internet is effectively blocked. This is a story the military does not want the world to see. But some people are bravely resisting and are willing to tell their stories. Our World follows a brother and sister now fighting for their future. As their options narrow, can they - and others like them - win the fight?

Épisode 15 - Nigeria's Retirement Hell

14 mai 2021

Nigeria's pensions system is in a mess. It leaves some elderly people penniless after decades of hard work, but it grants some politicians generous retirement packages. Pension payments are held up by corruption and inefficiency, and it is the elderly who pay the price. Reporter Yemisi Adegoke meets the retired Nigerians struggling to survive and travels to Cross River State to meet the Ghost Pensioners, who the state declared dead and deprived of their pensions.

Épisode 16 - Killing Hope: Targeted Attacks in Afghanistan

21 mai 2021

Afghanistan is in the grip of a new and sinister campaign of violence, in which young professionals - often women - are being deliberately singled out, targeted, and murdered. All the victims were working to build a country based on democratic values. The government blames the violence on insurgent groups like the Taliban, who have their own agenda ahead of the withdrawal of US troops later this year. Speaking to families who have lost loved ones, those who have chosen to leave, and those living in fear, Our World asks what impact this tactic will have on the future of Afghanistan.

Épisode 17 - Yazidi Women: Clearing Sinjar's Mines

4 juin 2021

Six years ago, Amsha escaped from captivity in Northern Iraq. Like many Yazidi women, she had been held by IS militants. Today she is risking her life to clear her homeland of unexploded mines. Our World follows her as she sets out to tackle the deadly legacy her captors left behind.

Épisode 18 - Australia's Wildlife: After the Fires

11 juin 2021

In 2019-20, Australia suffered its most intense bushfire season on record. Millions of hectares of land burned and up to three billion animals were killed or displaced. Eighteen months on, Nick Lazaredes travels to some of the areas hardest hit to discover how the wildlife is faring now, and to meet the experts who are still assessing the scale of the damage.

Épisode 19 - Lockdown in London

18 juin 2021

How did one London street make it through the last year? Filmed from the start of the first lockdown, this intimate portrait shows how the residents coped with the pandemic.

Épisode 20 - Nigeria's Kidnapped Children

25 juin 2021

Kidnappers have seized more than a thousand students and staff from schools in a series of raids across northern Nigeria. The wave of abductions has devastating consequences.

Épisode 21 - Mozambique: Escape from Palma

2 juillet 2021

In March this year, Islamist militants attacked the busy town of Palma in the northern tip of Mozambique. In the hours and days that followed, chaos and bloodshed ensued. Many Mozambicans and overseas contractors tried to flee on foot and by boat, while others sought refuge in a hotel compound, awaiting rescue. With compelling eyewitness testimony and mobile phone footage, Catherine Byaruhanga tells the extraordinary stories of those caught up in the attack who were left fighting for survival as the insurgents closed in.

Épisode 22 - The Battle for the South China Sea

9 juillet 2021

A storm is brewing in the South China Sea. China claims large swathes of it as its own, but President Biden has recently warned that it must be open for trade and navigation. Caught in the middle are Filipino fishermen, who increasingly find themselves shadowed by the Chinese coastguard and militia boats as they try to earn a living. Howard Johnson sails to Scarborough Shoal, a large coral reef 120 nautical miles off the coast of the Philippines, to discover how far China is prepared to go to assert its power and influence in the region.

Épisode 23 - Finding Grace

16 juillet 2021

James Clayton travels to Kansas to discover how cutting edge science has identified a woman who was killed 30 years ago and is helping law enforcement in their hunt for the killer.

Épisode 24 - Return of the Taliban - Part One

13 août 2021

Afghanistan is at a critical juncture in its history. As American and allied forces withdraw, the country is now at risk of falling to the Taliban. In episode one of this two-part series, Yalda Hakim returns to the country of her birth to meet people who have benefitted from the last twenty years and spends time with Vice President Amrullah Saleh, who says he would rather die than surrender to the Taliban. What does the future hold for the Afghan people?

Épisode 25 - Return of the Taliban - Part Two

20 août 2021

In the second part of this two-part series, Yalda Hakim travels to the country of her birth, Afghanistan, where she gets unprecedented access to the Taliban. She meets with a frontline commander from Helmand Province as well as the Taliban leadership in Doha, learning about their plans for ruling the country after the Americans leave. They claim they have changed and want to work with the Government, but who are the Taliban in 2021, and are they planning a return to the brutal regime of the 90s?

Épisode 26 - Merkel's Germany

27 août 2021

This autumn Angela Merkel bows out after 16 years as German Chancellor. In that time she has been a key player on the world stage, but how has she changed her own country?

Épisode 27 - Building My New Face

24 septembre 2021

Nine-year-old Rodwell Nkomazana was attacked by a hyena earlier this year while sleeping outside his church in Zimbabwe. He suffered life-threatening injuries. Now, a team of volunteer doctors in South Africa is battling to help Rodwell by rebuilding his face. Our World follows their groundbreaking work and Rodwell's remarkable recovery.

Épisode 28 - The Battle for the Channel

15 octobre 2021

Over 17000 migrants have arrived in the UK this year by crossing the English Channel in small boats - that is more than double last year's total. Both the UK and French authorities are talking tough, but the numbers keep rising. So why do two of the richest nations in the world find it so hard to control who crosses such a busy shipping lane? Lucy Williamson goes on patrol with the police tasked with turning the tide - and meets the migrants who are determined to outwit them.

Épisode 29 - Lebanon on Life Support

23 octobre 2021

Not for the first time in its troubled history, Lebanon finds itself facing a crisis. A collapsing currency, severe shortages of basic goods, and a fragmented political system have all led the Lebanese people down a dark and uncertain path. Nowhere are the day-to-day consequences of these challenges felt more acutely than in the nation's hospitals. Our World follows the director of Lebanon's largest public hospital as he tries to stave off disaster and a junior doctor forced to decide between her patients and her own future.

Épisode 30 - Shots Fired?

27 septembre 2021

A company believes it can help tackle America's growing gun crime problem by alerting police the moment shots are fired. Its technology, however, has become increasingly controversial.

Épisode 31 - Greece's Megafires

6 novembre 2021

This summer, Greece was ravaged by thousands of wildfires, fanned by the country's worst heatwave in decades. Hardest hit was Greece's second largest island, Evia. The Greek government blamed climate change for the blazes, which destroyed huge swathes of forest. Bethany Bell, who reported on the fires in August, returns to Evia to see how people are dealing with the consequences of the catastrophe.

Épisode 32 - Flooded: One Night in New York City

13 novembre 2021

On 1 September 2021, New York City was hit by hurricane Ida. In the devastating flooding which followed 13 people died, the majority of them trapped in basement homes. With compelling eyewitness accounts and previously-unseen footage, Our World tells the story of what happened that night, and asks what it means for New York City's future as climate change makes extreme weather events more likely.

Épisode 33 - Canada's Missing Children

20 novembre 2021

In May this year, the unmarked graves of 215 children were found on the grounds of an old Indian residential school in Canada. More grave sites have been discovered across the country. It is thought more than 100,000 indigenous children suffered abuse in the government and church-run schools. With powerful interviews from survivors and lawyers trying to identify the missing children, Our World follows the story to discover who should be held accountable for the decades of institutional abuse.

Épisode 34 - Barbados: Road to a Republic

27 novembre 2021

As Barbados removes the Queen as its head of state and becomes the world's newest republic, British-Barbadian Daniel Henry returns to his ancestral home to determine what islanders make of the move. From the man in charge of rebuilding parliament to England's first black cricketer, Roland Butcher, Daniel asks - why now? And does what it mean for the island's future?

Épisode 1 - America's New Abortion Battle

21 janvier 2022

Abortion has long been a fault line in American politics. Now those who want to ban it scent a famous victory, with implications for millions.

Épisode 2 - Inside the Taliban Regime

28 janvier 2022

With access to the new Taliban government, Yalda Hakim travels back to Afghanistan to find out what the country is like under their rule. The economy is close to collapse, millions face starvation and the one-time terrorist group now face a terror threat of its own. Can the Taliban form a government that can put their violent past behind them and help rebuild this broken country?

Épisode 3 - Kazakhstan's Crypto Boom?

28 janvier 2022

Bitcoin is now big business and a major talking point around the world. Whilst some countries like China have banned cryptocurrencies, others have embraced them. Kazakhstan has grabbed the crytpo revolution with both hands and has become a leader in cryptocurrency mining, with companies built from scratch to power the technology that underpins these digital coins. But as Our World discovered, Kazakhstan's Bitcoin rush has come at a cost with electricity supplies threatened and profound environmental impacts being felt.

Épisode 4 - Harvesting Turkey's Tea

12 février 2022

For centuries, women have picked tea on the steep slopes of Turkey's Black Sea region. It is gruelling work, and much of what they earn has traditionally been handed to their husbands. But now a new generation are turning their backs on tea picking, and the industry's survival is uncertain. Our World follows the young women who hope change is coming and the older ones who fear for their way of life.

Épisode 5 - Italy's Hidden Sins

18 février 2022

Italy is a bastion of global Catholicism, and yet, unlike many other countries, it has failed to tackle the scourge of clerical sex abuse. Mark Lowen investigates.

Épisode 6 - Platform 5: Escaping Ukraine

11 mars 2022

Since Russia invaded Ukraine more than 2 million people have fled the country. Hundreds of thousands of them have passed through Lviv train station, heading for Platform 5. That's where trains take women and children to safety beyond Ukraine’s borders, and where many families have to part. Fergal Keane tells the stories of the people on the platform hoping to escape, the staff who bravely keep the station running and those who are left behind.

Épisode 7 - Who Killed My Grandfather?

17 avril 2022

1974, Beirut. It's the height of the Cold War. A prominent Yemeni politician is shot dead in his car. Some say, had he lived, Yemen would be a different country today. The killer was never caught, the assassination never investigated. Almost 50 years later, his granddaughter Mai Noman, a BBC journalist, seeks answers.

Épisode 8 - Myanmar: Inside The Resistance

22 avril 2022

Myanmar is now in a state of civil war. What started in February 2021 as a mass protest movement against the military coup is now a nationwide armed uprising. The junta is under attack across the country from a network of civilian militias called the People's Defence Forces, fighting to restore democracy. The BBC gained rare access to the jungle training camps where young protesters are turned into soldiers. We follow a single mother and a student who have sacrificed everything to join the fight. They're up against a well-trained military willing to use brutal tactics to stay in power. As the death toll mounts and the world looks away, can they restore democracy?

Épisode 9 - Fixing San Francisco

29 avril 2022

During the first year of the pandemic, San Francisco had more deaths from drug overdoses than Covid. In December, the mayor declared a state of emergency in parts of the city - in a desperate attempt to tackle the problem. In a spectacular U-turn, she declared the city needed 'tough love' and reversed her policies on defunding the police.

Épisode 10 - Welcome to the Metaverse

6 mai 2022

Axie Infinity is a hugely popular online game in which players breed, battle, and trade fantasy creatures. But for many people around the world, it's now much more than that - it's a way of making a living. The game's phenomenal growth is part of a bigger trend, as workers realise that they can make more money in the virtual world than they can in the real one. Our World follows players in the Philippines and Venezuela who are trying to escape economic problems at home by working in the metaverse. Could this be a glimpse of the future?

Épisode 11 - Cambodia: Returning the Gods

13 mai 2022

For decades temples across Cambodia were looted and their treasures stolen, smuggled, and sold abroad. But now the Cambodian government wants them back. Celia Hatton has exclusive access to the Cambodian authorities' fight to trace and reclaim their precious antiquities. We visit rarely seen temples, track down former looters turned state witnesses, and unravel the tale of the controversial British art collector who many believe was at the heart of the trade. The statues aren't stone objects for many Cambodians - they're living Gods that need to return home.

Épisode 12 - Eurovision: Ukraine's Victory

21 mai 2022

With exclusive access to Ukraine's winning Eurovision entry, Our World follows Kalush Orchestra from the war-torn outskirts of Kyiv to their triumph in Turin. Reporter Viktoriia Zhuhan tells the inside story of how the band's song Stefania struck a chord with viewers across Europe and brought the Eurovision trophy home.

Épisode 13 - Three Million Refugees and Counting

28 mai 2022

On 24 February, Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, ordered a military invasion of neighbouring Ukraine, triggering the largest refugee crisis in Europe since the Second World War. Almost six million Ukrainians have fled the country, half of them to next-door Poland. During a week in April, Our World follows Warsaw's mayor, Rafal Trzaskowski, as well as refugees and volunteers living through the crisis. How have the people of Warsaw dealt with such a sudden increase in the city's population. And what is the long-term plan for all the new arrivals?

Épisode 14 - Iran and the Water Crisis

24 juin 2022

In 2021, anti-government protests took place across Iran. They were triggered by a severe water shortage in the south of the country, in a province called Khuzestan. Once lush and green, rivers are now running dry, crops are failing and tap water is scarce. So where has the water gone? BBC Persian's Siavash Ardalan investigates what is behind the shortage.

Épisode 15 - Hong Kong: Life Under the Crackdown

2 juillet 2022

Our World has spent the last year with journalists and protestors as they live through the most turbulent period in Hong Kong's recent history. When the British government transferred sovereignty back to China 25 years ago, it promised to protect freedom of speech, but new laws have effectively silenced all criticism. Street protests have all but stopped, pro-democracy lawmakers have been replaced by Beijing loyalists and Hong Kong's new Chief Executive is its former Security Chief, who led the crackdown. Reporter Danny Vincent has been following those who have lived through the street protest movement, both as activists and reporters, many of whom are now in prison.

Épisode 16 - I Call Him by His Name

16 juillet 2022

In March this year, the town of Bucha was occupied by a shock invasion of Russian troops trying to reach Kyiv. What followed was a massacre that has shocked the world. But what happens when - against all odds - somebody survives to tell the story? In this compelling film, the sole survivor of a terrible crime in Ukraine joins the wives and mothers of his dead comrades to tell an extraordinary story. While the executions were meant to dehumanise and wipe the victims' presence from the world, this is a powerful account of love in the face of terror.

Épisode 17 - The Hunt for Alia

12 août 2022

When the Taliban took over Afghanistan in August 2021, they assured citizens that they had changed since their regime in the 1990s and said they would protect women's rights. Eight months ago, Alia Azizi, a 45-year-old policewoman from Herat, disappeared. Her family has not heard from her since. Yalda Hakim travels to Afghanistan to investigate the case. She speaks with female activists and protestors who have been scared into silence, asking the Taliban why they are not doing more to investigate the disappearance of women like Alia.

Épisode 18 - China's Zero-Covid Trap

24 septembre 2022

In recent weeks, tens of millions of people in China have again been confined to their homes in coronavirus lockdowns. This is not without political risk, especially in the run up to the twice a decade Communist Party Congress. BBC China Correspondent Stephen McDonell travels across the country and meets people struggling to stay afloat with their country showing no signs of abandoning its "Zero-Covid" policy.

Épisode 19 - Expelled from Uganda

30 septembre 2022

In 1972, Idi Amin publicly condemned Ugandan Asians as the enemy, enforcing a brutal policy that ordered them to leave the country within 90 days. Estimates of up to 70,000 South Asians left Uganda in fear for their lives. On the 50th anniversary of the expulsion, BBC reporter Reha Kansara follows her mum and aunt as they return to Uganda together for the first time. Setting off from the English suburbs, they journey to the sugar plantations of Kakira and the home in Jinja they were forced to leave in a hurry. They reunite with old friends and discover how the expulsion changed the country they left behind.

Épisode 20 - Iran: Catching a Killer

8 octobre 2022

In July 2022 former Iranian official Hamid Nouri was convicted by a Swedish court of murder and war crimes and sentenced to life imprisonment. His offences were committed in Iran’s prisons in 1988, when an estimated 5000 political prisoners were killed. For the survivors and the families of those who died it was a crucial breakthrough in their long campaign for justice. BBC Persian’s Omid Montazeri, whose own father was killed for his communist beliefs in the massacres, follows the trial for Our World and tells the story of how a killer was caught.

Épisode 21 - Fighting Putin's Propaganda

14 octobre 2022

TV Rain, Russia's last remaining opposition TV station, was forced off air in March 2022 following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Now the channel's senior presenters, husband and wife Tikhon Dzyadko and Katya Kotrikadze, spearhead an ambitious plan to relaunch TV Rain from exile. Our World follows them on a journey through Georgia and Latvia to reconnect with their audiences and to deliver the truth to the many Russians under the influence of the Kremlin's pervasive propaganda.

Épisode 22 - Svalbard's Climate Change Fight

29 octobre 2022

Our World travels to the fastest-warming place on earth: Svalbard. Deep inside the Arctic Circle, it is home to the world’s northernmost settlement, Longyearbyen, which is estimated to be heating at six times the global average. People living here have a front row seat for the climate crisis - melting glaciers, rising sea levels, avalanches and landslides. Add to this an energy crisis in Europe fuelled by the war in Ukraine, which many experts believe is now undermining the fight against climate change. Nick Beake finds out what is being done to try to save Svalbard as we know it.

Épisode 23 - The Hunt for the Russian Superyachts

12 novembre 2022

For many Russian oligarchs, their superyachts have long been their most prized assets. But when Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine, some of those superyachts became targets for an unprecedented set of sanctions launched by the West. Many yachts were seized or detained, others tried to escape in a hurry and some seemingly disappeared. With an exclusive interview with the head of the US KleptoCapture Task Force, Our World tells the inside story of the game of cat and mouse between some of the world’s most powerful nations and some of Russia’s richest men.

Épisode 1 - Jessica and Austin: When Murder Goes Viral

4 février 2023

In June 2020, three friends filmed themselves finding bodies in a suitcase. As their videos went viral, the lives of the victims, Jessica and Austin, were lost to rumour and speculation as people online combed through their story. Over the course of the two year trial, the programme follows the families as they try to get justice for their children, lost in a social media storm.

Épisode 2 - Brits in Battle: Ukraine

18 février 2023

Since Vladimir Putin launched the invasion of Ukraine a year ago, many British nationals have travelled there to fight. Some have prior military experience, others have none; but all are inspired by the idea that they are making a difference. With exclusive access to months of extraordinary footage filmed on the frontline, Emma Vardy meets the soldiers who are drawn to this conflict and the family members of those who have made the ultimate sacrifice.

Épisode 3 - Our Tribe's Addiction

24 février 2023

Following the work of the MHA Nation's recovery clinic and their own drug enforcement team as they try to turn a rising tide of addiction.

Épisode 4 - Inside the Illegal Puppy Trade

3 mars 2023

Puppies are a multi-billion Euro industry in Europe. But where are all these puppies coming from? Our World unveils a criminal underworld of puppy traders trafficking dogs across Europe.

Épisode 5 - My Escape from Afghanistan

11 mars 2023

In February 2022, a video emerged of a young Afghan woman screaming for help whilst her door was being kicked in by the Taliban. Little is known about what took place after - where was she taken, and for what reason? Yalda Hakim travels to Afghanistan after gaining access to her and her family once they are released from prison, and as they plot their escape from Afghanistan to Europe.

Épisode 6 - Facial Recognition - Fighting Crime?

24 mars 2023

Facial recognition technology is at the cutting edge of fighting crime in the United States. Police forces across the country can upload your image and search databases containing millions of photos scoured from the internet. Whether you’ve uploaded the photo yourself, or someone else has without your knowledge – you can be identified and tracked down. James Clayton investigates the accuracy of this controversial technology and asks whether it is invading your privacy and should be a part of law and order in America.

Épisode 7 - Finding Alaa

8 mai 2023

Finding Alaa is the story of families struggling to live with the consequences of acts of terror and the story of one man's search for a child.

Épisode 8 - Inside El Salvadors Gang Crackdown

18 mai 2023

Once dubbed the 'murder capital' of the world, for nearly three decades, rival gangs ruled the streets of El Salvador through a regime of violence, extortion and fear. That is, until now. For the last year, the country's young, media-savvy president has launched a full-scale war on gangs, imposing emergency constitutional measures and giving police sweeping new powers of arrest. As the State of Exception passes its one-year anniversary, more than 65,000 people have been arrested and dramatic images of a new 'mega prison' hit headlines around the world. But as the country transforms before people's eyes, this newfound freedom hides a dark reality. The government is accused of locking up thousands of innocent people without trial and in flagrant abuse of their human rights. Will Grant meets families impacted by both sides of this controversial policy to uncover the hidden cost of peace on the streets.

Épisode 9 - South Africa: On The Edge of Darkness

27 mai 2023

South Africa is struggling to keep the lights on. Its power system is crumbling, leading to regular and extensive blackouts - and it’s the poorest who are hardest hit. Why is it in such bad shape, and what hope is there of South Africa kicking its addiction to coal and switching to greener sources of energy? Andrew Harding uncovers a story of corruption and vested interests at the heart of South Africa’s power failure.

Épisode 10 - Myanmar's War in the Air

31 mai 2023

Russia is supplying the Myanmar military with advanced fighter jets and training their pilots how to use them in a war against their own people. More than two years on from the coup, the country's military is facing a countrywide armed uprising and their troops are struggling to hold ground and recruit foot soldiers. So, the strategy is turning increasingly to the air with devastating consequences. BBC's Asia editor Rebecca Henschke follows those fighting back on the ground and in the air. And she meets defectors from the air force who give exclusive insight into the strategy and psychology behind those operating these deadly machines.

Épisode 11 - North Korea: The Insiders

14 juin 2023

For more than three years, North Korea has sealed its borders. People are banned from leaving or entering the country. Almost every foreigner who was inside has packed up and left. The world's most secretive and tyrannical state is now an information black hole. For months, three people inside North Korea have risked their lives to tell the BBC what is happening. What they reveal is shocking. Years of hard labour for those found watching foreign films and TV programmes, and execution for the ones who try to escape. Jean Mackenzie, the BBC's correspondent in South Korea, asks: is this a new dark age for North Korea?

Épisode 12 - Abortion: Life After Roe v Wade

24 juin 2023

It's a year since millions of Americans were blocked from accessing an abortion. And the debate is as divisive as ever. Our World has travelled across two neighbouring, but very different, states - Florida and Alabama - to see how restrictions are impacting essential healthcare.

Épisode 13 - Hong Kong's Exodus

1 juillet 2023

Hong Kong is facing its biggest exodus since records began. Hundreds of thousands have left since Beijing imposed a draconian national security law on the former British colony. Critics say that Hong Kong has become a police state. The majority of the political opposition have either been detained or are now living in exile. The BBC’s Danny Vincent has been following Hong Kongers determined to start a new life in the UK and those determined to stay.

Épisode 14 - Zimbabwe: Spiralling Out of Control

18 août 2023

Zimbabwe is about to vote in its second national election following the end of Robert Mugabe's 37-year rule in 2017. There had been hopes that the country would enter an era of renewed prosperity, but runaway inflation has contributed to economic misery for millions of Zimbabweans. Through telling the story of ordinary Zimbabweans, Shingai Nyoka makes sense of life in Zimbabwe ahead of the upcoming vote.

Épisode 15 - Life, Loss, and Waiting in Ukraine

29 septembre 2023

The Ukrainian Army's 24th Brigade has been fighting non-stop since February 2022. The uniform has stayed constant, but only a handful of those fighting now have been there from the start. Mark Urban has secured unprecedented access to the brigade, meeting the drone operators on the front line, the wives whose husbands are missing, and those being called up now to fill in behind fallen comrades.

Épisode 16 - The Trial of Enrique Tarrio

6 octobre 2023

In September 2023, Enrique Tarrio was sentenced to 22 years in prison for seditious conspiracy - trying to overthrow the US government. He was the leader of the Proud Boys, a far-right group that was at the forefront of the Capitol riots on 6 January 2021. So was Tarrio the puppet master behind the assault on US democracy, or simply a convenient scapegoat? With exclusive access to him in the years leading up to his arrest, Our World tells the extraordinary story of one of the most elusive and divisive characters in modern America.

Épisode 17 - Windsurf Escape: Cubas Migration Crisis

14 octobre 2023

The Florida Straits are home to an invisible border that divides two very different worlds. Under six decades of a trade embargo, Cubans have built a way of life largely cut off from the resources of their US neighbours, just 90km away. But in July 2021, the effects of the pandemic combined with an economic crisis and food shortages triggered mass protests across the island on an unprecedented scale. A few weeks later began what is reported to be the biggest exodus of Cubans since the 1959 Revolution. Featuring never-before-seen footage, this dramatic film traces the story of three Cubans who took extraordinary risks to leave their country to reach the US. From a windsurf to an inflatable kayak, the film follows as they make the dangerous journey by any means possible. With access to the US Coast Guard, the film also captures a privileged insight into the authorities trying to protect US waters during this mass migration wave and prevent loss of life.

Épisode 18 - Lady of the Hills: The Thai Wife Killing

28 octobre 2023

Nearly twenty years ago the half-naked body of a Thai woman was found by walkers in a remote part of the Yorkshire Dales in England. The autopsy proved inconclusive, and an inquest failed to reveal how she died. For over a decade her identity remained unknown, her body buried in a grave marked 'The Lady Of The Hills'. The thirty-six-year-old was one of thousands of Thai women who marry foreign men every year. In 2016, after a review, her case was reopened as a homicide investigation. BBC Thai journalist Issariya Praithongyaem asks why no one in the UK reported this mother of three missing? And why hasn't anyone been brought to justice for her death.

Épisode 19 - Escape from Lahaina

10 novembre 2023

In August 2023, the most deadly fire in modern US history struck Lahaina on the Hawaiian island of Maui. At least 99 people lost their lives. Using the testimony of those who survived the fire and previously unreleased police footage and communications between the authorities, James Clayton investigates why it was so hard to escape the city and how police roadblocks contributed to a chaotic evacuation.

Épisode 20 - Ukraine's Draft Dodgers

16 novembre 2023

Thousands of Ukrainian men have joined the call to fight for their country since Russia's invasion in February last year. But what of those who decided military service was not for them? Our World investigates how many Ukrainians have dodged the call-up, why they don't want to stay and fight, and hears from the border guards who come face to face with these so-called draft dodgers on a daily basis.

Épisode 21 - Saving the Mighty Mekong River

17 novembre 2023

The Mekong River is arguably one of the most important in the world. It sustains more than sixty million lives as it travels through China and Southeast Asia. But an onslaught of dam building, intensifying climate change, and sand dredging have had a catastrophic effect. Laura Bicker is in Cambodia to ask if the mighty Mekong can be saved and meets a new generation trying to breathe life into the dying river.

Épisode 22 - The Rohingya Camps: Let Down by the UN

1 décembre 2023

Our World travels to the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh where community leaders and activists are living in fear of death. Hundreds have been murdered as rival gangs fight for control of the camps, and the violence is ongoing with new killings almost every week. The UN's refugee agency - UNHCR - receives tens-of-millions of dollars to run a protection programme for Rohingya. But as Our World finds out, those most likely to be targeted by the gangs say they've been abandoned by the agency.

Épisode 1 - Turkey's Earthquake: Those Who Stayed

2 février 2024

Powerful earthquakes that struck in February 2023 left south-eastern Turkey facing a devastating aftermath. A year on, hundreds of thousands have left the region, and much of it still lies in ruins. Many local people have been left homeless, schools are destroyed, and crucial agricultural work is at risk. But the women who stayed are determined that their cities are rebuilt. As they confront this challenging task, their fears rise even further when construction plans pose a threat to their livelihoods. Our World follows the stories of women over the course of a year, as their roles as mothers and activists evolve in their fight to protect their home for the generations to come.

Épisode 2 - Return to Platform 5: Families At War

14 février 2024

When a family gets caught up in Europe's greatest refugee crisis since World War Two, the strains are unimaginable. Where should they run to? Who will give safety and shelter?

Épisode 3 - Pakistan: Journalists Under Fire

17 février 2024

Journalists in Pakistan say they are under attack, with 140 targeted in just 12 months. They describe physical assaults, detentions, and even killing, often after criticising Pakistan's powerful military. Mobeen Azhar investigates their allegations of a campaign of fear and violence.

Épisode 4 - The Shadow of a Predator

30 mars 2024

After the BBC revealed that Johnny Kitagawa, the godfather of J-pop, spent a lifetime sexually abusing young boys in his talent agency, Mobeen Azhar investigates the aftermath of a predator.