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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. |
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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]].{{ |
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}} |
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==Episode list== |
==Episode list== |
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===2004=== |
===2004=== |
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* ''[https://twitter.com/BBCThisWorld This World]'' at [[Twitter]] |
* ''[https://twitter.com/BBCThisWorld This World]'' at [[Twitter]] |
Revision as of 00:46, 15 March 2015
This World | |
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Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Executive producers | Karen O'Connor Louise Norman Lucy Hetherington Sam Bagnall |
Running time | 30–60 minutes 30-90 minutes (Special) |
Original release | |
Network | BBC Two BBC Two HD BBC World News |
Release | 4 January 2004 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 | |
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Overall | No. | ||
1 | 1 | "Hell Angels" | 4 January 2004 |
2 | 2 | "Ethiopia: A Journey" | 11 January 2004 |
3 | 3 | "Football and Freedom" | 18 January 2004 |
4 | 4 | "American Virgins" | 25 January 2004 |
5 | 5 | "Access to Evil" | 1 February 2004 |
6 | 6 | "Iran: A Murder Mystery" | 15 February 2004 |
7 | 7 | "A Killer's Homecoming" | 22 February 2004 |
8 | 8 | "Israel's Nuclear Whistleblower" | 30 May 2004 |
9 | 9 | "LAPD: Protect and Serve?" | 3 June 2004 |
10 | 10 | "Secret Swami" | 17 June 2004 |
11 | 11 | "Child Rescuers" | 20 June 2004 |
12 | 12 | "The Boy from the Block" | 8 July 2004 |
13 | 13 | "Saudi: The Family in Crisis" | 15 July 2004 |
14 | 14 | "The Real Bangkok Hilton" | 22 July 2004 |
15 | 15 | "Dolphin Hunters" | 9 November 2004 |
16 | 16 | "A Killer's Homecoming" | 16 November 2004 |
17 | 17 | "Guinea Pig Kids" | 30 November 2004 |
18 | 18 | "Locked in Paradise" | 7 December 2004 |
19 | 19 | "Private War" | 14 December 2004 |
2005
Episode | Title | Original air date | ||
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Overall | No. | |||
20 | 1 | "Tiger Traffic" | 8 March 2005 | |
21 | 2 | "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] | ||||
22 | 3 | "Inside Israel's Jails" | 22 March 2005 | |
23 | 4 | "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] | ||||
24 | 5 | "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] | ||||
25 | 6 | "Blood and Land" | 5 July 2005 | |
26 | 7 | "Bad Medicine" | 12 July 2005 | |
27 | 8 | "Property to Die For" | 19 July 2005 | |
28 | 9 | "At The Epicentre" | 26 July 2005 | |
29 | 10 | "Looking for China Girl" | 2 August 2005 | |
30 | 11 | "The Hurricane That Shook America" | 12 October 2005 | |
31 | 12 | "The Cocaine Jungle" | 19 October 2005 | |
32 | 13 | "Bollywood: The Casting Couch" | 26 October 2005 | |
33 | 14 | "Force Fed" | 2 November 2005 | |
34 | 15 | "Underworld Art Deal" | 9 November 2005 | |
35 | 16 | "The Last Stand" | 10 November 2005 | |
Israeli settlers' efforts to resist the unilateral disengagement plan in the Gaza Strip. | ||||
36 | 17 | "Last Hope Clinic" | 17 November 2005[a] | |
37 | 18 | "The Jungle Beat" | 17 November 2005[a] | |
Illegal logging in the Amazon Rainforest. | ||||
38 | 19 | "Death Metal Murders" | 24 November 2005 | |
2006
Episode | Title | Original air date | ||
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Overall | No. | |||
39 | 1 | "Munich: Operation Bayonet" | 24 January 2006 | |
40 | 2 | "Kidnap Cops" | 13 April 2006 | |
41 | 3 | "How to Plan a Revolution" | 20 April 2006 | |
42 | 4 | "Drug Trials: The Dark Side" | 27 April 2006 | |
Clinical trials in India administered without informed consent | ||||
43 | 5 | "Killer's Paradise" | 4 May 2006 | |
Proliferation of murders of women in Guatemala | ||||
44 | 6 | "Putin's Palace" | 11 May 2006 | |
45 | 7 | "Prisoners of Katrina" | 13 August 2006 | |
46 | 8 | "The Tea Boy of Gaza" | 3 October 2006 | |
47 | 9 | "Will Israel Bomb Iran?" | 10 October 2006 | |
48 | 10 | "Japan: Retired Husband Syndrome" | 14 October 2006 | |
49 | 11 | "Black and White and Read All Over" | 17 October 2006 | |
50 | 12 | "Baghdad: A Doctor Story" | 24 October 2006 | |
51 | 13 | "Iran Kidney Sale" | 31 October 2006 | |
52 | 14 | "Religion and Fashion" | 16 November 2006 | |
53 | 15 | "Poison, Murder and Putin - Anna's Last Words" | 24 November 2006 |
2007
Episode | Title | Original air date | |
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Overall | No. | ||
54 | 1 | "A 12-Year Old Smuggler" | 17 January 2007 |
55 | 2 | "Vodka's My Poison" | 14 March 2007 |
56 | 3 | "The Fight for Cuban Music" | 1 May 2007 |
57 | 4 | "I Belaive in Miracles" | 8 May 2007 |
58 | 5 | "Race Hate in Louisiana" | 24 May 2007[b] |
59 | 6 | "Mystery Flights" | 24 May 2007[b] |
60 | 7 | "Hunt for Hezbollah" | 31 May 2007 |
61 | 8 | "Running from Mugabe" | 7 June 2007 |
62 | 9 | "Race to the Beach" | 14 June 2007 |
63 | 10 | "All Girl Squad" | 21 June 2007 |
64 | 11 | "The Real Godfather" | 16 September 2007 |
65 | 12 | "Inside the Shari'ah Court" | 1 October 2007 |
66 | 13 | "India's Missing Girls" | 22 October 2007 |
67 | 14 | "American Nightmare" | 29 October 2007 |
68 | 15 | "The Goddess and the King" | 5 November 2007 |
69 | 16 | "Inside Burma's Uprising" | 12 November 2007 |
70 | 17 | "The Trillion Dollar Revolutionary" | 19 November 2007 |
71 | 18 | "Britain's Most Wanted" | 25 November 2007 |
2008
Episode | Title | Original air date | |
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Overall | No. | ||
72 | 1 | "The Boys from Baghdad High" | 8 February 2008 |
73 | 2 | "Girl Racer" | 19 February 2008 |
74 | 3 | "Diamonds and Justice" | 26 February 2008 |
75 | 4 | "Deep South Divide" | 4 March 2008 |
76 | 5 | "Miss Gulag" | 11 March 2008 |
77 | 6 | "Lethal Solution" | 18 March 2008 |
78 | 7 | "Massacre of Virginia Tech" | 8 April 2008 |
79 | 8 | "Bannatyne Takes on Big Tobacco" | 1 July 2008 |
80 | 9 | "Bttle of the Bishops" | 21 July 2008 |
81 | 10 | "Murder in the Snow" | 11 November 2008 |
82 | 11 | "The Man Who Armed the World" | 17 November 2008 |
83 | 12 | "American Time Bomb" | 24 November 2008 |
84 | 13 | "Forced to Marry" | 1 December 2008 |
2009
Episode | Title | Original air date | |
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Overall | No. | ||
85 | 1 | "Mandela at 90" | 31 January 2009 |
86 | 2 | "Escaping North Korea" | 6 April 2009 |
87 | 3 | "The Madoff Hustle" | 26 June 2006 |
88 | 4 | "Gypsy Child Thieves" | 2 September 2009 |
89 | 5 | "An Iranian'Martyr'" | 24 November 2009 |
90 | 6 | "Can Obama Save the Planet" | 25 November 2009 |
91 | 7 | "Stalin's Back" | 2 December 2009 |
2010
Episode | Title | Original air date | |
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Overall | No. | ||
92 | 1 | "Closing Guantanamo" | 3 January 2010 |
93 | 2 | "Obama and Me" | 19 January 2010 |
94 | 3 | "Tsunami: Five Years on" | 27 January 2010 |
95 | 4 | "Mexico's Drug War" | 7 February 2010 |
96 | 5 | "Stolen Brides" | 11 August 2010 |
97 | 6 | "Surviving Haiti" | 18 August 2010 |
98 | 7 | "The Wounded Platoon" | 25 August 2010 |
99 | 8 | "Hostage in the Jungle" | 20 October 2010 |
100 | 9 | "Tea Party America" | 1 November 2010 |
101 | 10 | "Pakistan's Flood Doctor" | 13 December 2010 |
2011
Episode | Title | Original air date | |
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Overall | No. | ||
102 | 1 | "The Paedophile Hunters" | 30 January 2011 |
103 | 2 | "Geert Wilders: Europe's Most Dangerous Man?" | 14 February 2011 |
104 | 3 | "Nicolas Sarkozy: President Bling-Bling?" | 21 March 2011 |
105 | 4 | "Chilean Milners: What Happened Next" | 28 March 2011 |
106 | 5 | "The Invasion of Lampedusa" | 14 June 2011 |
107 | 6 | "The Camorra - Italy's Bloodiest Mafia" | 13 July 2011 |
108 | 7 | "Thailand - Justice Under Fire" | 7 August 2011 |
109 | 8 | "Spain's Stolen Babies" | 18 October 2011 |
110 | 9 | "Return of the Lost Boys of Sudan" | 12 December 2011 |
2012
Episode | Title | Original air date | ||
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Overall | No. | |||
111 | 1 | "Egpyt - Children of the Revolution" | 3 February 2012 | |
112 | 2 | "Inside the Meltdown" | 23 February 2012 | |
113 | 3 | "The Fastest Changing Place on Earth" | 5 March 2012 | |
Carrie Gracie follows three villagers in China who become subject to an urbanisation.[20] | ||||
114 | 4 | "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] | ||||
115 | 5 | "The Mormon Candidate" | 27 March 2012 | |
116 | 6 | "Norway's Massacre" | 15 April 2012 | |
117 | 7 | "The Shame of the Catholic Church" | 1 May 2012 | |
118 | 8 | "Great Euro Crisis" | 9 May 2012 | |
119 | 9 | "Aung San Suu Kyi: The Choice" | 22 September 2012 | |
120 | 10 | "Obama: What Happened to Hope?" | 4 November 2012 | |
121 | 11 | "Cuba" | 11 December 2012 | |
122 | 12 | "The Great Spanish Crash" | 16 December 2012 |
2013
Episode | Title | Original air date | ||
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Overall | No. | |||
123 | 1 | "America's Poor Kids" | 6 March 2013 | |
124 | 2 | "A History of Syria" | 11 March 2013 | |
125 | 3 | "Iraq: Did My Son Die in Vain?" | 20 March 2013 | |
126 | 4 | "South Africa: The Massacre That Changed a Nation" | 24 March 2013 | |
127 | 5 | "The Mafia's Secret Bunkers" | 1 May 2013 | |
128 | 6 | "India's Supersize Kids" | 13 August 2013 | |
Anita Rani investigates into a growing epidemic of childhood obesity in India. | ||||
129 | 7 | "American's Stoned Kids" | 24 August 2013 | |
130 | 8 | "Terror in the Desert" | 31 August 2013 | |
131 | 9 | "History of Congo" | 9 October 2013 | |
132 | 10 | "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] | ||||
133 | 11 | "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] | ||||
134 | 12 | "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 | ||
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Overall | No. | |||
135 | 1 | "The Tea Trail" | 12 January 2014 | |
136 | 2 | "The Coffee Trail" | 26 January 2014 | |
137 | 3 | "How China Fooled the World" | 18 February 2014 | |
138 | 4 | "Copacabana Palace" | 12 May 2014 | |
139 | 5 | "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. | ||||
140 | 6 | "Clothes to Die For" | 21 July 2014 | |
141 | 7 | "Ireland's Lost Babies" | 17 September 2014 | |
142 | 8 | "Life In Solitary" | 21 September 2014 | |
143 | 9 | "Terror at the Mall" | 24 September 2014 | |
144 | 10 | "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 |
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"Surviving Sandy Hook" | Jezza Neumann | Sarah Foudy | 4 March 2015[27] |
"Secrets of Mexico's Drug Wars" | Elena Cosentino | Elena Cosentino | 11 March 2015[28] |
"Quelle Catastrophe! France" | Adam Jessel | Adam Jessel | 13 March 2015[29] |
Specials
Title | Producer | Original air date | |
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"One Day of War" | Will Daws | 27 May 2004 | |
"Coming of Age" | Kiran Soni | 22 February 2005 | |
"Living Positive" | Sarah Waldron | 01 December 2005 | |
"Child Slavery" | TBA | 26 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 |
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"DJ's Ray Big Day" | Lara Lgnew | Lara Lgnew | John Simm | 19 May 2004[42][43] |
"Love Converts" | Ashok Prasad | Ashok Prasad | Michael Lumsden | 26 May 2004[44][45] |
"Gypsy Child Brides" | Callum Macrae | Liviu Tipurita | John Simm | 2 June 2004[46][47] |
"Gay on the Cape" | Clifford Bestall | Clifford Bestall | TBA | 9 June 2004[48] |
"Mohammad and the Matchmaker" | Maziar Bahari | Maziar Bahari | John Simm | 16 June 2004[49][50] |
Notes
References
- ^ BBC News - This World, Tiger Traffic
- ^ BBC News - This World, Hunting for tiger poachers
- ^ BBC News - This World, Tiger Traffic transcript
- ^ BBC News - This World, It's My Country Too
- ^ BBC News - This World, Muslim American: A new identity?
- ^ BBC News - This World, It's My Country Too transcript
- ^ BBC News - This World, Inside Israel's Jails
- ^ BBC News - This World, The Headmaster and the Headscarves
- ^ BBC News - This World, Iran's Nuclear Secrets
- ^ BBC News - This World, Blood and Land
- ^ BBC News - This World, Blood and Land transcript
- ^ BBC News - This World, Bad Medicine
- ^ 65th Annual Peabody Awards, May 2006.
- ^ BBC News - This World, Property to Die For
- ^ BBC News - This World, Moscow's property lawlessness
- ^ BBC News - This World, At The Epicentre
- ^ BBC News - This World, At The Epicentre transcript
- ^ BBC News - This World, Looking for China Girl
- ^ BBC News - This World, Looking for China Girl transcript
- ^ BBC Two - This World, The Fastest Changing Place on Earth
- ^ BBC Two - This World, Interviews Before Execution: The Chinese Talk Show
- ^ 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.
- ^ Jones, James (12 March 2012). "China's death row TV hit: Interviews Before Execution". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 14 March 2012.
- ^ BBC Two - This World, No Sex Please, We're Japanese
- ^ BBC Two - This World, World's Busiest Maternity Ward
- ^ BBC Two - This World, Don't Panic - The Truth About Population
- ^ BBC Two - This World, Surviving Sandy Hook
- ^ BBC Two - This World, Secrets of Mexico's Drug Wars
- ^ BBC Two - This World, Quelle Catastrophe! France with Robert Peston
- ^ BBC NEWS | Programmes | This World | One Day at War
- ^ BBC NEWS | Programmes | This World | One Day at War Introduction - Tales of People at War
- ^ BBC News - This World, One Day at War Transcript
- ^ BBC NEWS | Programmes | This World | Coming of Age
- ^ BBC News - This World, Coming of Age Transcript
- ^ BBC NEWS | Programmes | This World | Living Positive
- ^ BBC News - This World, Living Positive Transcript
- ^ BBC NEWS | Programmes | This World | Child Slavery with Rageh Omaar
- ^ BBC NEWS | Programmes | This World | The World of Modern Child Slavery
- ^ BBC NEWS | Programmes | This World | My Life as a Child Prostitute
- ^ BBC NEWS | Programmes | This World | The Child Slaves of Saudi Arabia
- ^ BBC NEWS | Programmes | This World | World Weddings 2004
- ^ BBC NEWS | Programmes | This World | 'Cyber brides' vulnerable to abuse?
- ^ BBC News - This World, World Weddings: DJ's Ray Big Day Transcript
- ^ BBC NEWS | Programmes | This World | India: Modern Love versus Old Taboo
- ^ BBC News - This World, World Weddings: Love Converts Transcript
- ^ BBC NEWS | Programmes | This World | Gypsy Child Brides
- ^ BBC News - This World, World Weddings: Gypsy Child Brides Transcript
- ^ BBC NEWS | Programmes | This World | True colours of the Rainbow Nation?
- ^ BBC NEWS | Programmes | This World | Tackling Iran's Heroin Habit
- ^ BBC News - This World, World Weddings: Mohammad and the Matchmaker Transcript
External links
- This World at BBC Online (2010–present)
- This World at BBC Online (BBC World News site)
- This World at Twitter
- This World at BBC News (2004 - 2010)
- This World FAQ at BBC News (2004 - 2010)