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'''''This World''''' is a [[BBC television]] [[documentary film|documentary]] strand, shown in the United Kingdom on [[BBC Two]], and occasionally internationally on [[BBC World]]. The subject matter is mainly social issues and current affairs stories from around the world.
'''''This World''''' is a [[BBC television]] [[documentary film|documentary]] strand, shown in the United Kingdom on [[BBC Two]], and occasionally internationally on [[BBC World]]. The subject matter is mainly social issues and current affairs stories from around the world.


Most films in the series run for one hour and in the UK are usually broadcast at 2100 on Tuesday or Thursday evenings. The ''This World'' [[website]] includes additional features and a [[internet forum|discussion facility]] for public comment on the programmes. The BBC [[streaming media|streams]] episodes in [[RealVideo]] format via its website for a limited period after they have been shown, and sells them on [[DVD]] and [[VHS]] by [[mail order]].{{fact|date=November 2013}}
Most films in the series run for one hour and in the UK are usually broadcast at 2100 on Tuesday or Thursday evenings. The ''This World'' [[website]] includes additional features and a [[internet forum|discussion facility]] for public comment on the programmes. The BBC [[streaming media|streams]] episodes in [[RealVideo]] format via its website for a limited period after they have been shown, and sells them on [[DVD]] and [[VHS]] by [[mail order]].{{citation needed|date=November 2013}}


==Episode list==
==Episode list==

===2004===
===2004===
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==External links==
==External links==
*{{BBC programme|id=b006mgxx|title=This World}} (2010 - present)
*{{BBC programme|id=b006mgxx|title=This World}} (2010–present)
*{{BBC programme|id=n13xtmjq|title=This World}} (BBC World News site)
*{{BBC programme|id=n13xtmjq|title=This World}} (BBC World News site)
* ''[https://twitter.com/BBCThisWorld This World]'' at [[Twitter]]
* ''[https://twitter.com/BBCThisWorld This World]'' at [[Twitter]]

Revision as of 00:46, 15 March 2015

For other uses, see This World (disambiguation).

This World
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producersKaren O'Connor
Louise Norman
Lucy Hetherington
Sam Bagnall
Running time30–60 minutes
30-90 minutes (Special)
Original release
NetworkBBC Two
BBC Two HD
BBC World News
Release4 January 2004 (2004-01-04) –
present

This World is a BBC television documentary strand, shown in the United Kingdom on BBC Two, and occasionally internationally on BBC World. The subject matter is mainly social issues and current affairs stories from around the world.

Most films in the series run for one hour and in the UK are usually broadcast at 2100 on Tuesday or Thursday evenings. The This World website includes additional features and a discussion facility for public comment on the programmes. The BBC streams episodes in RealVideo format via its website for a limited period after they have been shown, and sells them on DVD and VHS by mail order.[citation needed]

Episode list

2004

Episode Title Original air date
Overall No.
11"Hell Angels"4 January 2004
22"Ethiopia: A Journey"11 January 2004
33"Football and Freedom"18 January 2004
44"American Virgins"25 January 2004
55"Access to Evil"1 February 2004
66"Iran: A Murder Mystery"15 February 2004
77"A Killer's Homecoming"22 February 2004
88"Israel's Nuclear Whistleblower"30 May 2004
99"LAPD: Protect and Serve?"3 June 2004
1010"Secret Swami"17 June 2004
1111"Child Rescuers"20 June 2004
1212"The Boy from the Block"8 July 2004
1313"Saudi: The Family in Crisis"15 July 2004
1414"The Real Bangkok Hilton"22 July 2004
1515"Dolphin Hunters"9 November 2004
1616"A Killer's Homecoming"16 November 2004
1717"Guinea Pig Kids"30 November 2004
1818"Locked in Paradise"7 December 2004
1919"Private War"14 December 2004

2005

Episode Title Original air date
Overall No.
201"Tiger Traffic"8 March 2005
212"It's My Country Too"13 March 2005
The lives of Salman Ahmad and Muslims in the United States, and the Muslims for Bush pressure group.[4][5][6]
223"Inside Israel's Jails"22 March 2005
The lives of Palestinian militants in Israeli gaols.[7]
234"The Headmaster and the Headscarves"29 March 2005
The effect of the French law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools on ħijāb-wearing female Muslim students.[8]
245"Iran's Nuclear Secrets"3 May 2005

As Iran defies the world by restarting its nuclear programme, Paul Kenyon travels to the Islamic Republic with UN nuclear inspectors, and gains exclusive behind-the-scene access to the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Iranian negotiators talk candidly about why they deceived the world over their nuclear programme for 18 years.

But it takes on a new complexion now we know that Iran later abandoned the diplomacy and chose to start enriching uranium again.[9]
256"Blood and Land"5 July 2005
Land reform and related violence in South Africa.[10][11]
267"Bad Medicine"12 July 2005

The international trade in counterfeit drugs.[12]

This documentary won a Peabody Award in 2005[13]
278"Property to Die For"19 July 2005
Home ownership and the property market in Russia.[14][15]
289"At The Epicentre"26 July 2005
Reconstruction after the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake in Lampuuk, Aceh.[16][17]
2910"Looking for China Girl"2 August 2005
Demographic imbalance between the sexes in the People's Republic of China.[18][19]
3011"The Hurricane That Shook America"12 October 2005
3112"The Cocaine Jungle"19 October 2005
3213"Bollywood: The Casting Couch"26 October 2005
3314"Force Fed"2 November 2005
3415"Underworld Art Deal"9 November 2005
3516"The Last Stand"10 November 2005
Israeli settlers' efforts to resist the unilateral disengagement plan in the Gaza Strip.
3617"Last Hope Clinic"17 November 2005[a]
3718"The Jungle Beat"17 November 2005[a]
Illegal logging in the Amazon Rainforest.
3819"Death Metal Murders"24 November 2005
Purported links between death metal, Satanism and murders in Italy.

2006

Episode Title Original air date
Overall No.
391"Munich: Operation Bayonet"24 January 2006
Operation Wrath of God
402"Kidnap Cops"13 April 2006
Kidnappings in São Paulo
413"How to Plan a Revolution"20 April 2006
Pro-democracy youth movements in Azerbaijan
424"Drug Trials: The Dark Side"27 April 2006
Clinical trials in India administered without informed consent
435"Killer's Paradise"4 May 2006
Proliferation of murders of women in Guatemala
446"Putin's Palace"11 May 2006
457"Prisoners of Katrina"13 August 2006
468"The Tea Boy of Gaza"3 October 2006
479"Will Israel Bomb Iran?"10 October 2006
4810"Japan: Retired Husband Syndrome"14 October 2006
4911"Black and White and Read All Over"17 October 2006
5012"Baghdad: A Doctor Story"24 October 2006
5113"Iran Kidney Sale"31 October 2006
5214"Religion and Fashion"16 November 2006
5315"Poison, Murder and Putin - Anna's Last Words"24 November 2006

2007

Episode Title Original air date
Overall No.
541"A 12-Year Old Smuggler"17 January 2007
552"Vodka's My Poison"14 March 2007
563"The Fight for Cuban Music"1 May 2007
574"I Belaive in Miracles"8 May 2007
585"Race Hate in Louisiana"24 May 2007[b]
596"Mystery Flights"24 May 2007[b]
607"Hunt for Hezbollah"31 May 2007
618"Running from Mugabe"7 June 2007
629"Race to the Beach"14 June 2007
6310"All Girl Squad"21 June 2007
6411"The Real Godfather"16 September 2007
6512"Inside the Shari'ah Court"1 October 2007
6613"India's Missing Girls"22 October 2007
6714"American Nightmare"29 October 2007
6815"The Goddess and the King"5 November 2007
6916"Inside Burma's Uprising"12 November 2007
7017"The Trillion Dollar Revolutionary"19 November 2007
7118"Britain's Most Wanted"25 November 2007

2008

Episode Title Original air date
Overall No.
721"The Boys from Baghdad High"8 February 2008
732"Girl Racer"19 February 2008
743"Diamonds and Justice"26 February 2008
754"Deep South Divide"4 March 2008
765"Miss Gulag"11 March 2008
776"Lethal Solution"18 March 2008
787"Massacre of Virginia Tech"8 April 2008
798"Bannatyne Takes on Big Tobacco"1 July 2008
809"Bttle of the Bishops"21 July 2008
8110"Murder in the Snow"11 November 2008
8211"The Man Who Armed the World"17 November 2008
8312"American Time Bomb"24 November 2008
8413"Forced to Marry"1 December 2008

2009

Episode Title Original air date
Overall No.
851"Mandela at 90"31 January 2009
862"Escaping North Korea"6 April 2009
873"The Madoff Hustle"26 June 2006
884"Gypsy Child Thieves"2 September 2009
895"An Iranian'Martyr'"24 November 2009
906"Can Obama Save the Planet"25 November 2009
917"Stalin's Back"2 December 2009

2010

Episode Title Original air date
Overall No.
921"Closing Guantanamo"3 January 2010
932"Obama and Me"19 January 2010
943"Tsunami: Five Years on"27 January 2010
954"Mexico's Drug War"7 February 2010
965"Stolen Brides"11 August 2010
976"Surviving Haiti"18 August 2010
987"The Wounded Platoon"25 August 2010
998"Hostage in the Jungle"20 October 2010
1009"Tea Party America"1 November 2010
10110"Pakistan's Flood Doctor"13 December 2010

2011

Episode Title Original air date
Overall No.
1021"The Paedophile Hunters"30 January 2011
1032"Geert Wilders: Europe's Most Dangerous Man?"14 February 2011
1043"Nicolas Sarkozy: President Bling-Bling?"21 March 2011
1054"Chilean Milners: What Happened Next"28 March 2011
1065"The Invasion of Lampedusa"14 June 2011
1076"The Camorra - Italy's Bloodiest Mafia"13 July 2011
1087"Thailand - Justice Under Fire"7 August 2011
1098"Spain's Stolen Babies"18 October 2011
1109"Return of the Lost Boys of Sudan"12 December 2011

2012

Episode Title Original air date
Overall No.
1111"Egpyt - Children of the Revolution"3 February 2012
1122"Inside the Meltdown"23 February 2012
1133"The Fastest Changing Place on Earth"5 March 2012
Carrie Gracie follows three villagers in China who become subject to an urbanisation.[20]
1144"Interviews Before Execution: The Chinese Talk Show"12 March 2012
The programme takes a look at Chinese television programme Interviews Before Execution in which death row inmates are interviewed by a reporter shortly before they are executed. Chinese authorities cancelled the show following international interest generated by the documentary.[21][22][23]
1155"The Mormon Candidate"27 March 2012
1166"Norway's Massacre"15 April 2012
1177"The Shame of the Catholic Church"1 May 2012
1188"Great Euro Crisis"9 May 2012
1199"Aung San Suu Kyi: The Choice"22 September 2012
12010"Obama: What Happened to Hope?"4 November 2012
12111"Cuba"11 December 2012
12212"The Great Spanish Crash"16 December 2012

2013

Episode Title Original air date
Overall No.
1231"America's Poor Kids"6 March 2013
1242"A History of Syria"11 March 2013
1253"Iraq: Did My Son Die in Vain?"20 March 2013
1264"South Africa: The Massacre That Changed a Nation"24 March 2013
1275"The Mafia's Secret Bunkers"1 May 2013
1286"India's Supersize Kids"13 August 2013
Anita Rani investigates into a growing epidemic of childhood obesity in India.
1297"American's Stoned Kids"24 August 2013
1308"Terror in the Desert"31 August 2013
1319"History of Congo"9 October 2013
13210"No Sex Please, We're Japanese"24 October 2013
Anita Rani goes into the journey across Japan to investigate as why the Japanese are not having enough babies[24]
13311"World's Busiest Maternity Ward"31 October 2013
Anita Rani travels to Manila - one of world’s most densely populated cities - to understand how the Philippines and countries across the developing world in general are facing a future with a rapidly growing population.[25]
13412"Don't Panic - The Truth About Population"7 November 2013
Swedish statistician Professor Hans Rosling presents an 'as live' studio event featuring cutting-edge 3D infographics painting a vivid picture of a world that has changed in ways we barely understand – often for the better.[26]

2014

Episode Title Original air date
Overall No.
1351"The Tea Trail"12 January 2014
1362"The Coffee Trail"26 January 2014
1373"How China Fooled the World"18 February 2014
1384"Copacabana Palace"12 May 2014
1395"The Secret Life of Your Clothes"14 July 2014
Ade Adepitan investigates what happens to charity donations and the places where the clothes are sending at.
1406"Clothes to Die For"21 July 2014
1417"Ireland's Lost Babies"17 September 2014
1428"Life In Solitary"21 September 2014
1439"Terror at the Mall"24 September 2014
14410"Rwanda's Untold Story"1 October 2014
Jane Corbin discovers the evidence that challenges the accepted story for one of the most terrifying events after twenty years from the Rwandan genocide.

2015

Title Producer Director Original air date
"Surviving Sandy Hook"Jezza NeumannSarah Foudy4 March 2015[27]
"Secrets of Mexico's Drug Wars"Elena CosentinoElena Cosentino11 March 2015[28]
"Quelle Catastrophe! France"Adam JesselAdam Jessel13 March 2015[29]

Specials

Title Producer Original air date
"One Day of War"Will Daws27 May 2004
The experiences of 16 fighters in different conflicts on 22 March 2004.[30][31][32]
"Coming of Age"Kiran Soni22 February 2005
Rites of passage experienced by nine young people in different cultures around the world.[33][34]
"Living Positive"Sarah Waldron01 December 2005
The experiences of AIDS stigma by six HIV-positive people around the world on 22 July 2005.[35][36]
"Child Slavery"TBA26 March 2007

A 12 year old boy is sold by his mother for £25 to a fisherman in Ghana. The boy will spend his childhood diving to disentangle nets in the murky waters of Lake Volta.

In Saudi Arabia, a six year old boy who has been trafficked into the country from Yemen, in order to beg on the streets for a gang master, is picked up by the Saudi authorities and deported.

Meanwhile in Cambodia, a 17 year old girl recalls her horrific life as a sex slave, sold to a brothel aged 12.

These are just three of the lives encountered in this special documentary looking at the extraordinary, global story of child slavery today, in which eight and a half million children are estimated to be involved.[37][38][39][40]

World Weddings 2004

World Weddings is a special series of documentaries, which was focused on the marriage across the world from religious divides, ancient customs in clash with modern culture and law, gay marriage, hidden drug abuse to economic migrants. It was produced by BBC This World and originally broadcast on BBC Two with 20:00BST timeslot in UK.[41]

Title Producer Director Narrator Original air date
"DJ's Ray Big Day"Lara LgnewLara LgnewJohn Simm19 May 2004[42][43]
"Love Converts"Ashok PrasadAshok PrasadMichael Lumsden26 May 2004[44][45]
"Gypsy Child Brides"Callum MacraeLiviu TipuritaJohn Simm2 June 2004[46][47]
"Gay on the Cape"Clifford BestallClifford BestallTBA9 June 2004[48]
"Mohammad and the Matchmaker"Maziar BahariMaziar BahariJohn Simm16 June 2004[49][50]

Notes

  1. ^ a b These two episodes were broadcast on 17 November 2005, with different timeslot between 19:00BST and 21:00BST.
  2. ^ a b These two episodes were broadcast on 24 May 2007, with different timeslot between 19:00BST and 21:00BST.

References

  1. ^ BBC News - This World, Tiger Traffic
  2. ^ BBC News - This World, Hunting for tiger poachers
  3. ^ BBC News - This World, Tiger Traffic transcript
  4. ^ BBC News - This World, It's My Country Too
  5. ^ BBC News - This World, Muslim American: A new identity?
  6. ^ BBC News - This World, It's My Country Too transcript
  7. ^ BBC News - This World, Inside Israel's Jails
  8. ^ BBC News - This World, The Headmaster and the Headscarves
  9. ^ BBC News - This World, Iran's Nuclear Secrets
  10. ^ BBC News - This World, Blood and Land
  11. ^ BBC News - This World, Blood and Land transcript
  12. ^ BBC News - This World, Bad Medicine
  13. ^ 65th Annual Peabody Awards, May 2006.
  14. ^ BBC News - This World, Property to Die For
  15. ^ BBC News - This World, Moscow's property lawlessness
  16. ^ BBC News - This World, At The Epicentre
  17. ^ BBC News - This World, At The Epicentre transcript
  18. ^ BBC News - This World, Looking for China Girl
  19. ^ BBC News - This World, Looking for China Girl transcript
  20. ^ BBC Two - This World, The Fastest Changing Place on Earth
  21. ^ BBC Two - This World, Interviews Before Execution: The Chinese Talk Show
  22. ^ Coonan, Clifford (14 March 2012). "Dead show walking: China's death row interviews series faces axe". The Independent. Independent Print Ltd. Retrieved 14 March 2012.
  23. ^ Jones, James (12 March 2012). "China's death row TV hit: Interviews Before Execution". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 14 March 2012.
  24. ^ BBC Two - This World, No Sex Please, We're Japanese
  25. ^ BBC Two - This World, World's Busiest Maternity Ward
  26. ^ BBC Two - This World, Don't Panic - The Truth About Population
  27. ^ BBC Two - This World, Surviving Sandy Hook
  28. ^ BBC Two - This World, Secrets of Mexico's Drug Wars
  29. ^ BBC Two - This World, Quelle Catastrophe! France with Robert Peston
  30. ^ BBC NEWS | Programmes | This World | One Day at War
  31. ^ BBC NEWS | Programmes | This World | One Day at War Introduction - Tales of People at War
  32. ^ BBC News - This World, One Day at War Transcript
  33. ^ BBC NEWS | Programmes | This World | Coming of Age
  34. ^ BBC News - This World, Coming of Age Transcript
  35. ^ BBC NEWS | Programmes | This World | Living Positive
  36. ^ BBC News - This World, Living Positive Transcript
  37. ^ BBC NEWS | Programmes | This World | Child Slavery with Rageh Omaar
  38. ^ BBC NEWS | Programmes | This World | The World of Modern Child Slavery
  39. ^ BBC NEWS | Programmes | This World | My Life as a Child Prostitute
  40. ^ BBC NEWS | Programmes | This World | The Child Slaves of Saudi Arabia
  41. ^ BBC NEWS | Programmes | This World | World Weddings 2004
  42. ^ BBC NEWS | Programmes | This World | 'Cyber brides' vulnerable to abuse?
  43. ^ BBC News - This World, World Weddings: DJ's Ray Big Day Transcript
  44. ^ BBC NEWS | Programmes | This World | India: Modern Love versus Old Taboo
  45. ^ BBC News - This World, World Weddings: Love Converts Transcript
  46. ^ BBC NEWS | Programmes | This World | Gypsy Child Brides
  47. ^ BBC News - This World, World Weddings: Gypsy Child Brides Transcript
  48. ^ BBC NEWS | Programmes | This World | True colours of the Rainbow Nation?
  49. ^ BBC NEWS | Programmes | This World | Tackling Iran's Heroin Habit
  50. ^ BBC News - This World, World Weddings: Mohammad and the Matchmaker Transcript
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