Unreported World
By Channel 4
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Series 2012 Episode 6: Unreported World | Cameroon: Last Of The Great Apes. In Cameroon there are fears that the practice of eating bushmeat - wild meat hunted in the rainforest, including endangered gorillas and chimpanzees - could trigger a new global pandemic of viruses. Unreported World investigates. Reporter Evan Williams and director James Brabazon also meet the British woman battling the trade and looking after the animals orphaned by the slaughter. | 25 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Series 2012 Episode 5: Unreported World | Ukraine: The Teenagers Who Live Underground. UNICEF estimates that there may be as many as 100,000 street children in Ukraine. Marcel Theroux and Suemay Oram go underground in Kiev to meet some and find out what their life is like. | 18 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Series 2012 Episode 4: Unreported World | Congo: Magic, Gangs & Wrestlers. Wrestlers are superstars in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In this vast and troubled country, wrestling is a passion, allowing fans to forget the poverty, violence and ongoing civil war for the duration of a bout. Contests are televised and reported on the sports pages and attract thousands of fans. In the capital, Kinshasa, Unreported World reporter Seyi Rhodes and director Wael Dabbous find some of the superstars of the sport practising 'black magic', and uncover allegations that many fighters are involved in gang violence and political intimidation. | 11 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Series 2012 Episode 3: Unreported World | Afghanistan: Lights, Camera, Death Threats. Cinema was outlawed in Afghanistan under the Taliban and a decade later, despite their overthrow, death threats remain a fact of life for Afghan film-makers. Reporter Jenny Kleeman and director Andrew Lang join the country's biggest film stars on set, and discover a passionate family of film-makers and actors, drawing strength and humour from each other as they risk their lives to produce movies. | 27 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Series 2012 Episode 2: Unreported World | Baghdad Bomb Squad. Unreported World gains unprecedented and exclusive access to the Baghdad Bomb Squad. Nine years after the invasion and with the British and the Americans gone, Iraq still faces almost daily attacks from those trying to foment political chaos and sectarian hatred. Reporter Krishnan Guru-Murthy and director Alex Nott spend time with a small band of brave Iraqi officers trying to prevent further murderous attacks. | 20 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Series 2012 Episode 1: Unreported World | Terror in Sudan. Aidan Hartley and Daniel Bogado gained rare access to the Nuba Mountains to film the heroic doctors who are saving children in a largely hidden war being perpetrated on civilians by one of the world's most brutal dictatorships. | 13 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 20: Unreported World | Australia's Hidden Valley. Unreported World investigates the effect of controversial emergency legislation on Australia's Aboriginal population. The government has used this legislation to take control of many Aboriginal settlements. It said this was help to end violence and child abuse, and combat the alcohol abuse that ravages many Aboriginal communities. Reporter Oliver Steeds and director Ed Braman begin their journey in Alice Springs - visited by tens of thousands of Britons every year for its aboriginal art galleries and tourist sites - where alcohol addiction is still ravaging the lives of the country's original inhabitants, many of whom live in desolate squatter camps on the outskirts of town. | 9 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 19: Unreported World | Honduras: Diving into Danger. Indigenous people in Honduras are risking their lives diving to dangerous depths for lobsters destined for North American and European diners. Overfishing means they must now dive as deep as 150ft to land their catch. Each time they dive, they risk paralysis or death from the bends. Reporter Jenny Kleeman and director Daniel Bogado travel into the Caribbean with divers on board a lobster diving boat. Kleeman discovers that while companies and consumers care about buying tuna that's caught in a way that doesn't harm dolphins, we don't seem to care about lobster that's caught in a way that has left hundreds dead and thousands paralysed. | 2 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 18: Unreported World | Trinidad: Guns, Drugs and Secrets. Trinidad has become the murder capital of the Caribbean. While half a million tourists soak up the carnival atmosphere every year, the government has introduced a state of emergency to try to stop the gang violence that results in a murder on average every 17 hours. | 25 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 17: Unreported World | India's Child Savers. Across India more than 60,000 children go missing every year. Unreported World explores the dark side of the booming economy, as many children are kidnapped into domestic slavery for the growing middle class and businesses, and others are kidnapped for ransom by those desperate to share some of the country's new wealth. | 18 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 16: Unreported World | Going for Gold in Gaza. Aidan Hartley meets members of the Palestinian Paralympic team hoping to qualify for London 2012. They find athletes struggling to train in the conflict zone. | 11 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 15: Unreported World | Russia: Vlad's Army. Unreported World reveals the huge personality cult around Vladimir Putin as it follows the extraordinary actions of the mass youth movement dedicated to protecting the interests of the Prime Minister and Russia. | 4 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 14: Unreported World | Nigeria's Millionaire Preachers. Miracles, expensive cars, exorcisms and bodyguards: religion is big business in Nigeria. Reporter Seyi Rhodes and director Matt Haan travel to Lagos to reveal the extraordinary world of the millionaire preachers. | 28 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 13: Unreported World | Uganda's Miracle Babies: In this week's Unreported World, Jenny Kleeman and Suemay Oram travel to Uganda to investigate hydrocephalus: a preventable yet misunderstood condition that affects a quarter of a million babies a year in Sub-Saharan Africa. They visit Africa's only paediatric neurosurgery hospital and meet the mothers in a race against time to save their babies' lives. | 21 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 12: Unreported World | Undercover Syria: Ramita Navai and Wael Dabbous spend two weeks living undercover in some of the most dangerous parts of Syria with members of the opposition movement determined to overthrow President Assad's brutal dictatorship. | 13 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 11: Unreported World | South Africa: Trouble in the Townships. New Unreported World reporter Krishnan Guru-Murthy visits South Africa. Seventeen years after it was freed from apartheid, he finds a country in which violent protests against corruption and the lack of basic services mean its ambition to lead the continent as a prosperous democracy hangs in the balance. Simmering with anger, South Africa's people tell Krishnan they feel a sense of betrayal they will tolerate no longer. | 7 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 10: Unreported World | In the final episode of the current series, Unreported World travels to Indonesia to meet young environmental activists battling to save endangered species such as orang-utans and sea turtles. Reporter Aidan Hartley and producer Rodrigo Vazquez visit a vast market where critically endangered animals are sold as pets or for the Chinese medicine trade, and uncover allegations of corruption and harassment of the campaigners. | 10 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 09: Unreported World | In episode nine, reporter Ramita Navai and director Paul Kittel arrive in the Sinai desert in north-east Egypt just over a month after the revolution that toppled the regime of Hosni Mubarak. Smuggling from Egypt to Israel has gone on for years, but now the smugglers are focused on people rather than goods. | 3 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 08: Unreported World | In episode eight, reporter Seyi Rhodes and director Alex Nott arrive in Abidjan, the commercial capital of the Ivory Coast in West Africa, to report on the escalating political crisis. Instead they find themselves one of the few television crews to be there as terrifying violence tears apart a city that had been described as the Paris of West Africa. | 27 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 07: Unreported World | In episode seven, reporter Evan Williams and Director Alex Nott travel to Ciudad Juarez, on the US border, to experience the daily life of a journalist who has been called one of the most courageous women in Mexico. Luz Sosa is chief crime reporter on El Diario, the main newspaper in Ciudad Juarez, where more than 3000 were murdered last year as powerful drug cartels fight for control of routes to smuggle cocaine and heroin into the US. | 20 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 06: Unreported World | In episode six, Unreported World exposes the plight of hundreds of children in Burundi locked up for years without trial in adult prisons, among some of the most dangerous criminals in the country. | 13 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 05: Unreported World | In episode five, Reporter Oliver Steeds and producer Matt Haan travel to China to follow one father's inspirational search for his son, who was abducted and sold into slavery. They expose one of the untold stories behind China's economic boom, discovering how thousands of young men with mental impairments have been kidnapped and forced to work in brick factories. | 22 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 04: Unreported World | In episode four, 'Pakistan: Defenders of Karachi', Peter Oborne and director Edward Watts spend time with a few courageous individuals who are risking their lives to hold the line against anarchy in Pakistan's largest city. | 15 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 03: Unreported World | In episode three, 'Nigeria: Sex, Lies and Black Magic', reporter Jenny Kleeman and director James Jones travel from Italy to Africa to reveal how human traffickers are using black magic to coerce and trap Nigerian women into a life of prostitution in Europe. | 8 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 02: Unreported World | In episode two, Aidan Hartley travels to eastern Congo to witness the remarkable work of one man who liberates the child soldiers who have been forced to fight in one of the world's longest-running conflicts. | 1 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 01: Unreported World | In the first of the Channel 4 Unreported World podcasts, Seyi Rhodes meets some remarkable people fighting back against leprosy in India. Here millions are affected by the disease and are being pushed to the margins of society, ostracised by their friends and families. | 25 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
Unreported world - leprosy
An excellent overview of the main social and physical problems which face leprosy sufferers. Congratiulatiuons on a good balance, and for not using the word 'leper' even once.
Brilliant
Great documentary, well produced, informative and moving.
brilliant
just brilliant - i listen to these at work and had to stop myself crying - i'm sure everyone now thinks i'm having a nervous breakdown or something! but seriously gives you lots to think about. honest reporting, inspiring.
