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- :Presented by: Professor Hans Rosling
:Production company: The Open University, Wingspan Productions
Swedish statistical showman Professor Hans Rosling returns on-stage, featuring with more holographic-style projection for facts and figures that shows his consideration to put an end from extreme poverty across the world. (en)
- :Reported by: Darragh MacIntyre
:Production company: BBC Northern Ireland
Darragh MacIntyre investigates with the failure of the Catholic Church over by child abuse that claims to the very top of the Irish church in Ireland. (en)
- :Presented by: Professor John Marsden
Clinical Psychologist and addiction expert Professor John Marsden travels to the state capital in Denver, Colorado to investigate the impact of cannabis legalization on a country that already suffering an epidemic of teenage marijuana use. (en)
- :Narrated by: Andrew Sachs
:Production company: Ronachan Films
The story follows how a crisis on a tiny island in the middle of the Mediterranean is changing the face of immigration in Europe. In spring 2011, in the wake of the uprisings across the Arab world, the Italian island of Lampedusa, just 70 miles from the African coast, has seen the arrival of over 40,000 migrants from Tunisia and Libya.
It also charts how, within weeks, its small migrant reception centre is overflowing, and the island's tourist economy faces meltdown. The islanders openly revolt, blockading the small port and riot in the streets. (en)
- :Narrated by: Steven Mackintosh
:Production company: Mongoose Pictures
The story takes place at Maine State Prison in Warren, featuring the life of staff in order to improve the system and release some of the most dangerous prisoners back into the general population. (en)
- :Reported by: Andrew Neil
:Production company: Renegade Productions
An examination of the so-called Tea Party, a right-wing political movement; as the US prepares to vote in mid-term elections, journalist Andrew Neil is on a whistle-stop tour to find out what is behind the movement and its causes to spread. (en)
- :Reported by: Paul Kenyon
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. (en)
- :Production company: Amos Pictures
A year since the infamous shantytown - also dubbed as the 'Jungle', where the largest migrant settlement is being dismantled and burned down into chaos. The story, shot deep inside the notorious migrant camp, follows the filmmaker Dan Reed as he follows up in the end of Calais Jungle for days, capturing the constant, miserable attempts to escape to the UK as well as talking to aid volunteers and French officials. (en)
- :Narrated by: Stephen Barrett
In the future stem cell transplants could offer hope to people with Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy and those who have suffered strokes. But the cells are harvested from embryos and foetuses - raising ethical issues that have led to researchers having their funding cut. With the science largely unproven, the desperately ill seek help in countries with hazy legislation. The episode follows a group of patients to Ukraine to see if transplanted foetal stem cell injections can already help save or improve lives. (en)
- :Narrated by: Amanda St. John
Military conscription, a first hunting trip and a circumcision - the symbolic transformation from childhood to adulthood. From the edge of the Arctic Circle and the closeted world of the Japanese geisha, to the Russian forest and the training grounds of the world's largest army, these poignant chronicles of adolescence disclose the universal themes that unite - and divide - us all. (en)
- :Narrated by: Colin Tierney
Since the Roman Catholic Church reduced the number of miracles required for sainthood from four to two, new saints have been canonised. Despite this, the French pilgrimage site of Lourdes has only had 67 miracles recognised in the last 150 years. The episode discovers how the Church introduced a new sub-miracle category to boost numbers, and follows three individuals on their search for a miracle. (en)
- :Presented by: Oscar Duke
:Production company: Dragonfly Film and Television
The episode exploring the shameful plight of albino people in east Africa. Oscar Duke, a NHS doctor who also has albinism, travels to Malawi and Tanzania where albinos are not merely persecuted and shunned but frequently attacked and even killed. He meet with east Africa’s albinos and – illuminatingly, if enragingly – their tormentors, including a man imprisoned for murder. (en)
- :Reported by: Fergal Keane
Victim's families struggle and seek the truth about what happened to their loved ones who were killed in a bloody masacre in central Bangkok, Thailand. (en)
- :Narrated by: Hermione Norris
:Production company: BBC Northern Ireland
The story tracks back to the massacre at Oslo, Norway in 2011. (en)
- A year after the Iranian-backed militants claimed victory in a bloody 33-day conflict with Israel, some claim Hezbollah are back - and more powerful than ever. Guided by a wisecracking former Shia militiaman named Dawoud, the story journeys to Beirut's darkly vibrant underbelly. (en)
- :Presented by: John Dickie
:Production company: Lion Television
Historian John Dickie investigates the story of Italy's elusive powerful crime network and Europe’s biggest cocaine traffickers - 'Ndrangheta', which uncovers inside the secret world of their amazing underground empire. (en)
- :Presented by: Carrie Gracie
The episode tells the story of White Horse Village, a tiny farming community deep in rural China. A decade ago, it became part of the biggest urbanisation project in human history, as the Chinese government decided to take half a billion farmers and turn them into city-dwelling consumers.
It is a project with a speed and scale unimaginable anywhere else on Earth. In just ten years, the Chinese Government plan to build thousands of new cities, a new road network to rival that of the USA and 300 of the world's biggest dams. Carrie Gracie follows the lives of three local people during this upheaval, filmed over the past six years. (en)
- :Narrated by: Steven Mackintosh
:Production company: LIC Production
The episode 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. (en)
- :Presented by: Saira Khan
:Production company: BBC Scotland
Saira Khan looks into some of the dramatic stories of British Asians who have been forced to marry against their will. She reports on some of the rescues that have been made in rural Pakistani communities and the reason in the 21st century such a practice is still occurring. (en)
- With two million people expected to lose their homes in the US this year after being sold loans that they would never be able to pay, Emeka Onono travels to Cleveland, Ohio, to investigate the human cost of the worst banking crisis since the Great Depression. His story reveals how the predatory sale of "ninjas" - loans offered to those with "no income, no job and no assets" - at first brought rewards for those concerned, but eventually led to the global credit crunch that was felt in Britain during the bank run on Northern Rock. (en)
- :Production company: In Focus Productions
The banning of religious symbols in schools has become a talking point recently. In France, however, it has become law, a move that has provoked outrage among the country's 15 million Muslims.
The episode follows a group of veiled girls at a Paris school who are resisting the new law in defiance of their headmaster. The girls risk expulsion and could forfeit vital exam qualifications, but the head believes school should be a bastion against a rising tide of Islamic fundamentalism. (en)
- :Reported by: Olenka Frenkiel
Crisis talks over North Korea's nuclear weapons have already begun but, away from the show-city of Pyongyang, there's evidence that the communist power is testing its chemical weapons on women, children, families of dissidents, and political prisoners. Gaining unprecedented access, reporter Olenka Frenkiel uncovers fresh proof of this barbarous conduct from those who, until now, have been silenced. (en)
- :Reported by: Paul Mason
In Spain, Paul Mason travels to observe as the economy crisis could spreadout with another casualty by the Eurozone. (en)
- Kidnappings in São Paulo. (en)
- Land reform and related violence in South Africa. (en)
- :Production company: October Films
The story follows with the American Muslims which they share their own views on their country. (en)
- :Presented by: Duncan Bannatyne
:Production company: Hardcash Productions
Duncan Bannatyne heads to Africa to investigate with the increasing numbers of young people are taking up the habit. There he meets children as young as ten who not just only smoke, but try to make their living from selling cigarettes. Having gathered evidence of the extraordinary marketing practices, the uncompromising Scot prepares to confront the company on his return to Britain. (en)
- Pro-democracy youth movements in Azerbaijan. (en)
- Proliferation of murders of women in Guatemala. (en)
- :Narrated by: Adrian Lester
The success of the film Buena Vista Social Club inspired many Cuban musicians to set about re-releasing their old songs. But American publishing company Peer Music quickly took them to court, claiming their founder bought ownership to the songs in the 1930s. The story follows with the legal battle between the company and the surviving composers, who argue that the tunes are part of Cuba's musical heritage. (en)
- :Reported by: Rageh Omaar
Despite the popular Western perception of slavery as a shameful historic abomination, the slave trade is still big business, with an estimated 8.5 million children being exploited as commodities globally. Rageh Omaar takes a remarkable journey across three continents to expose the truth about contemporary slavery and discover why it is still in existence. (en)
- The international trade in counterfeit drugs. (en)
- :Reported by: Andrew Harding
:Production company: InFocus Asia
In September, the tipping point for political change appeared to have arrived in Burma, as civilians, students and bloggers joined demonstrations by Buddhist monks across the country. The story follows the hopeful and eventful days before their military rulers sent troops into the capital, Rangoon, to remove the monks and quell the unrest. (en)
- :Narrated by: Michael Lumsden
:Production company: Amos Pictures
Pulled from thousands of hours of security footage with more than a hundred cameras, the story takes viewers inside Kenya’s Westgate Shopping Mall as the siege unfolds. (en)
- :Reported by: John Sweeney
:Production company: BBC Northern Ireland
John Sweeney travels more than 5,000 miles through the old Soviet Union, from Joseph Stalin's birthplace in Georgia to a former labour camp in Russia, to investigate whether the dictator's reputation is being rehabilitated despite the fact he was one of the 20th century's most notorious mass murderers. (en)
- :Narrated by: David Morrissey
With the preparation for the upcoming month of the World Cup 2014 in Brazil, the episode takes place at one of the iconic and exclusive hotel - Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana Palace, which tells the story of the workers and visitors - where it has played host to everyone from its existence. (en)
- :Presented by: Simon Reeve
Part one of a two-part documentary exploring the country in the aftermath of the recent humanitarian crisis in which thousands of Rohingya Muslims were driven from their homes by the military. Simon visits Burma's Buddhist heartlands, including the ancient capital of Bagan, and meets the city's controversial nationalist monks. While the region affected by the military crackdown is off limits, he is able to visit the world's biggest refugee camp in Bangladesh, and meet people traumatised by the violence. (en)
- :Narrated by: Andrew Lincoln
From the streets of Phnom Penh to the nightclubs of Rio de Janeiro, a day in the lives of six very different people from around the world, with one thing in common - they are all HIV-positive. On World Aids Day, their inspirational stories provide an insight into life with one of the most feared viruses on Earth. (en)
- A look at the clash of religious and secular values in Turkey through the prism of Istanbul's fashion industry. On one side, a young, Porsche-driving, yacht-owning manufacturer of racy lingerie. On the other, the owner of an Islamic fashion house where business is on the up. Also featuring Turkey's answer to Caprice and a bevy of Brazilian lingerie models. (en)
- Clinical trials in India administered without informed consent. (en)
- : Production company: Blakeway Productions
The episode follows a group of school girls as they adapt to life after their imprisonment at the hands of Boko Haram at Chibok in Northern Nigeria. Until recently, they were set to be released and reunited with their family members whom they have not seen since that day they went missing and the process of coming to terms with what has happened to them.
It also meets some of the 'Forgotten Girls' who have fallen prey to Boko Haram in Maidugari. They have deeply disturbing stories of their treatment and their troubles have not ended on their escape from the forest - as they are often treated with suspicion due to their connection with Boko Haram. (en)
- :Reported by: Jane Corbin
:Production company: Blakeway Productions
The episode follows the British survivors of the January 2013 terrorist attack at Amenas gas plant in Algeria as they told their dramatic and harrowing stories. (en)
- Israeli settlers' efforts to resist the unilateral disengagement plan in the Gaza Strip. (en)
- :Narrated by: Gary Bakewell
This summer, a farmer in southern India found a two-day-old baby girl who'd been buried alive. She was one of the thousands of unwanted girls in a country where daughters are seen as a burden. Girls are often aborted as soon as their gender is known. At orphanages, most of the children are abandoned or rescued girls. The episode look at the other side of India's economic boom, where there are now so few young women that men are struggling to find brides. (en)
- :Narrated by: Katy Cavanagh
:Production company: Quicksilver Media
The story follows the events surrounding the collapse of the Rana Plaza Building in Bangladesh in 2013, which killed 1,134 garment workers.
At its heart are the stories of the workers in the building, often young women making clothes for leading western brands. They recount their shocking stories of being buried in the rubble, but also explain how their jobs, despite pitiful pay and long hours, gave them much-wanted independence. (en)
- :Narrated by: Ian Curtis
The episode follows with Laleh Seddigh from Tehran who became a national motor sports champion after racing against male drivers. She lives in a society where females can become engineers and MPs, yet face execution for "moral" crimes such as adultery. (en)
- :Presented by: Michael Portillo
:Production company: OR Media Limited
Michael Portillo visits Greece to Germany to explore the implications of the Euro crisis which has affected attitudes and monetary union. (en)
- :Narrated by: Michael Lumsden
Purported links between death metal, Satanism and murders in Italy. (en)
- The story follows the assassination of the North Korean dictator’s half-brother, Kim Jong-nam - who was attacked at Kuala Lumpur airport in February by using the lethal nerve agent VX.
The incident - caught on CCTV - uncovers the activities of North Korean secret agents who were at the airport on the day of his murder, as well as to unravel the family feud that led to it and the international business network that has allowed the Kim family to stay in power for nearly 70 years. (en)
- :Narrated by: John Simm
:Production company: 360 Degree Films
In September 2006, Chinese border guards opened fire on some Tibetan refugees trying to flee to Nepal over the Himalayas. A group of Western mountaineers filmed the tragedy and their footage, mixed with evidence from survivors, paints a powerful picture of death and politics at the top of the world. (en)
- :Presented by: Katya Adler
Katya Adler explores the impact of Spain's stolen baby scandal through the eyes of the children and parents who were separated at birth, and who are now desperate to find their relatives. (en)
- :Narrated by: Joseph Radcliffe
The story follows at the University of Central Florida which spending a term with the group of American college fraternity boys as they embark on the pledging process, when new recruits have to prove themselves before they can become a fraternity brother. It also looks at the issues with barbaric initiation rituals, known as hazing, and some argue that the way the fraternity system is set up allows sexual assaults to be occur. (en)
- :Reported by: Liviu Tipuriță
Filmmaker Liviu Tipuriță explores inside the extreme world of Romania's new traditional Gypsy music and contemporary pop, with lyrics that glorify money, fast cars, glamour and bling. (en)
- :Narrated by: Shaun Dooley
:Production company: Quicksilver Media, Mongoose Pictures
In West Africa, the Ebola outbreak appears to be in abeyance, having killed thousands. The story traces the most recent outbreak back to the father of so-called Patient Zero – the first fatality of the recent outbreak – and meets the local officials and international aid workers who were still trying to figure out what they could and should have done better. (en)
- :Presented by: Anita Rani
:Production company: OR Media Limited
Anita Rani investigates with a growing epidemic of childhood obesity in India. (en)
- :Presented by: Dan Snow
:Production company: BBC Northern Ireland
Dan Snow travels to Congo, seeking to provide some insight into the vast central African country’s history, its colonial legacy, post-independence chaos, and endemic corruption. (en)
- :Narrated by: Katy Cavanagh
Geoff Dunsmore revisits to Basra in Iraq where his son - Chris Dunsmore, a RAF reservist who was killed in 2007. (en)
- :Reported by: John Sweeney
In Russia, hundreds of people have been killed and thousands poisoned after drinking alcohol spiked with a mysterious deadly chemical. John Sweeney travels to Pskov, a city that has had to declare a state of emergency due to the number of poisonings, in an attempt to track down the cause. (en)
- :Narrated by: Jack Fortune
:Production company: Red Rebel Films, Pieter van Huystee Films
Geert Wilders, who was known as one of the most controversial of Dutch politician in the Netherlands - the story tracks from campaigning in the elections, meeting members of the anti-Islamic network who back him, and to expose a conspiracy theory promoting the belief that Islam is taking over Europe. (en)
- :Narrated by: Steven Mackintosh
First part of the ISIS series.
The episode follows British girls and how they had been attracted and traveled across to Islamic State in Syria - where the radicals were trying to lured them with a mixture of slick marketing, social media and religious fervour. (en)
- Reconstruction after the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake in Lampuuk, Aceh. (en)
- :Presented by: Anita Rani
Second part of the Population series.
Anita Rani travels to Manila - known as one of world’s most densely populated cities in the Philippines, where she encounters across the developing world in general that dealts with the fastest growing population. (en)
- :Production company: Israel Goldvicht and Raw TV Production
Israel's jails are at bursting point. Since the start of the second intifada, the number of Palestinians behind bars has increased seven-fold. The team gains unprecedented and unrestricted access inside two of the country's highest security prisons - Beersheba and Hasharon - which hold male and female prisoners regarded by those who guard them as the most dangerous terrorists in the country. (en)
- :Presented by: Peter Hain
Peter Hain MP heads to Johannesburg in South Africa and uncover the stories on the shooting of 34 protesting miners outside Marikana platinum mine in 2012. (en)
- :Reported by: Olenka Frenkiel
Reporter Olenka Frenkiel investigate with the reports that the American, British and other European governments are colluding in a system referred to as "extraordinary rendition". Judges, journalists and civilian plane-spotters provide pieces of a puzzle that suggests the CIA has a secret programme of kidnapping citizens and transporting them abroad to be tortured or put before what even US military lawyers call "kangaroo courts". (en)
- :Reported by: John Sweeney
John Sweeney meets Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, who's been able to get away with anti-US statements, it's claimed, simply because his country owns huge resources of oil. Chavez boasts that he is spending the oil bonanza on the poor, but does his rhetoric match the reality of life in the barrios? (en)
- A dramatic and at times frighteningly real drama illustrating how easily global events can spiral out of control. The episode explores the nightmare imagined scenario in which the West finds itself on the brink of a nuclear confrontation with Russia.
A real war room bunker is rigged with cameras and six top military, political and diplomatic figures from around the world are sealed in it. Despite their vastly different views, they have to work together and come to decisions on each of the scenarios they are presented with in a documentary that reaches right into the heart of the most serious threat to the world. (en)
- :Narrated by: Ian Curtis
:Production company: InFocus Asia
After the end of hostilities in the Vietnam War, hundreds of thousands failed to return home. Thirty years later, Vietnamese families are still looking for their loved ones and, in desperation, have turned to a group of government-supported psychics - called Project TRK05 - who claim that they can talk to the dead. Featuring a woman made famous by her ability to locate dead bodies in the old battlefields. (en)
- :Reported by: Tom Mangold
The story follows behind the international operation that brought Russian businessman Viktor Bout to justice. One of the world's most notorious arms dealers and sanctions busters, he now languishes in a Bangkok prison facing extradition to the US. (en)
- :Presented by: Ade Adepitan
:Production company: Firecrest Films
Ade Adepitan follows the trail of clothing that was donated to a charity shop and was subsequently sent to Ghana. (en)
- :Reported by: Jane Corbin
Following the life-saving work of Doctor Shershah Syed during the time of the devastating floods in Pakistan. (en)
- :Reported by: Vivien White
Death by lethal injection was devised to be a humane method of execution, but can result in a prolonged and painful end if not administered correctly. As the US Supreme Court considers whether this violates the constitution's prohibition against "cruel and unusual" punishment, reporter Vivian White meets those involved in the controversy. (en)
- :Reported by: John Sweeney
:Production company: BBC Northern Ireland
John Sweeney travels to Utah and examine about Mitt Romney and his Mormon beliefs. (en)
- :Presented by: Katya Adler
As the UK begin its process for leaving the EU after its referendum results, Katya Adler travels across the European continent examining whether the Union can survive by facing the biggest challenge in its 60-year history. (en)
- With the conflict between Russian and England supporters at Marseille during the last summer on 2016 European Championships, Russian hooligans injured over 100 England supporters with two people in a coma. It has raised major concerns before Russia hosts the 2018 World Cup.
The story then follows the filmmaker Alex Stockley Von Statzer, who travels to Russia to track down, for a rare interview, members of the Orel Butchers - uncovering a world where aggressiveness has become a sign of honour and a icon of newly resurgent Russian masculinity. (en)
- :Reported by: Jane Corbin
The second part of the ISIS series.
Jane Corbin travel across the Middle East to examine why Christianity is facing the greatest threat to its existence as hundreds of thousands of Christians are fleeing from the Islamic extremists, conflict and persecution. (en)
- :Presented by: Reggie Yates
Reggie Yates investigate the reality behind the "luxury" fashion which goes into the production and sale of the most expensive animal wares. (en)
- :Production company: Films of Record
The episode follows a story of life and death on the Moscow property market. Virtually unknown in the West and full of sinister complexities, it's a tale of multi-million dollar scams involving corrupt judges and bureaucrats, bent policemen, fake lawyers, mafia henchmen, and a cast of hapless victims who are either dead or reduced to poverty.
Investigating a series of unlawful repossessions that have been ignored by the authorities, it asks whether Russia is really living up to its claim to be an orderly democratic society, subject to the rule of law. (en)
- :Narrated by: Rupert Graves
:Production company: Quicksilver Media
The story takes place at Fukushima, Japan - which unfolding the desperate hours and days after nuclear disaster as when the fate of thousands of Japanese citizens fell into the hands of a small corps of engineers, firemen and soldiers who risked their lives to prevent the Daiichi nuclear complex from complete meltdown. (en)
- :Reported by: Mark Franchetti
Mark Franchetti gives a candid profile of former KGB agent Andrei Lugovoi, who sparked the biggest diplomatic crisis since the Cold War when he became Scotland Yard's prime suspect in the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko in 2006. As he prepares to stand in this week's Russian parliamentary elections, the investigation takes places the Litvinenko murder mystery in the context of a newly resurgent Russia, where Lugovoi is regarded by many as a hero. (en)
- :Presented by: Anita Rani
First part of the Population series.
Anita Rani travel across Japan to investigate on the population problem that cause the birth rate collapsed, and the results of Japanese men and women that have been drifted apart. (en)
- As America's national debt breaks the ten trillion dollar mark, David Walker argues that the US economy is close to imploding, particularly if president-elect Barack Obama has, as many predict, to spend his way out of the impending recession. (en)
- :Narrated by: Steven Mackintosh
:Production company: Fury Films Production
The world's longest manhunt came to a successful conclusion in April 2006 with the arrest of Bernardo Provenzano, the 73-year-old boss of the Sicilian Mafia, in a run-down farmhouse near the Sicilian town of Corleone. Featuring unique access to the police and judicial team who painstakingly hunted down the real-life Godfather, the episode looks at Provenzano's long reign over Cosa Nostra, his decades on the run and the dedicated police investigation that finally brought him to justice. With their boss now imprisoned, what does the future hold for the infamous Italian crime syndicate? (en)
- :Presented by: Andrew Marr
Andrew Marr looks back at Barack Obama's first term in the office which has lived up to his expectations. (en)
- :Presented by: Dan Snow
:Production company: BBC Northern Ireland
Dan Snow takes a journey to Syria, which looked at the complex past of the civil war and the roots of the current crisis. (en)
- :Narrated by: Ian Curtis
:Production company: Nomad Films
For more than two decades, Brazil's environmental police, the IBAMA, have struggled to contain the illegal loggers, smugglers and gangs that have ravaged the Amazon Rainforest. Year after year, deforestation has continued at an alarming rate - up to 25,000 square km a year. But, with greater resources and the introduction of armed services, the IBAMA is starting to fight back.
The episode examines how this increased enforcement of Brazil's environmental laws will affect the frontier societies that exploit the forest, and the heated confrontations that are sure to arise. (en)
- :Presented by: Martin Sixsmith
:Production company: BBC Northern Ireland
After the story of Philomena was shown on the film, Martin Sixsmith travels to Ireland and the United States uncovering the stories of parents and children that are involved with a transatlantic adoption trade. (en)
- :Narrated by: David Morrissey
After the events of Chapo Guzman's arrest in February 2014, the story follows up to explore the various ways on the US government enforcement agencies that have become bound up in the business of Mexico’s notorious Sinaloa Cartel, seemingly in the name of bringing down its kingpins. (en)
- :Presented by: Robert Peston
Robert Peston reports on the dramatic economic slowdown which affects China and the rest of the world. (en)
- :Narrated by: Ian Curtis
:Production company: Israel Goldvicht and Raw TV Production
Meet Mahmoud, a 12-year-old boy who struggles to support his family by selling tea in the wards of Gaza's biggest hospital. Filmed before and during the Israeli re-occupation of the Gaza Strip, the story follows Mahmoud and the hospital staff as they cope with gun battles between Palestinian groups, the reality of life under the Hamas Government, and the collapse of the ceasefire with Israel that ushered in the bloodiest period the region has seen in years. (en)
- :Presented by: Professor Hans Rosling
:Production company: The Open University, Wingspan Productions
The third and final part of the Population series.
Swedish statistician, Professor Hans Rosling presents as 'live' studio event featuring cutting-edge 3D infographics painting a vivid picture of a world that has changed in ways to the people barely understand – often for the better. (en)
- :Presented by: Robert Peston
Robert Peston investigates the rise of Marine Le Pen and the Front National in France, and the economic stagnation that threatening France's way of life which could determine by the European Union themselves. (en)
- :Reported by: Peter Taylor
The third and final part of the ISIS series.
Peter Taylor investigates at the wealth of the so called Islamic State in the Middle East, together for the first time TV interview with an imprisoned former senior leader of IS leadership. (en)
- :Presented by: Ruhi Hamid
:Production company: Films of Record
Some western countries, proud of their multiculturalism, have considered allowing Muslim communities to have their own courts - like Jews and Christians. But for many, the very mention of the word "Sharia" immediately brings to mind images of amputations and stoning to death.
The story goes to Nigeria, where the Sharia experiment is now six years old, to find out how Sharia law works in reality alongside the official British-style secular legal system - both inside and outside the courtroom.
Behind the popular cliches, it has surprising attractions for women, and the punishments are handled in an unexpected way. (en)
- :Reported by: Olenka Frenkiel
The episode follow the stories of North Koreans who are risking everything from torture to execution to escape their homeland. (en)
- :Presented by: Simon Reeve
Simon Reeve heads to Cuba - where the iconic island undergoes sweeping and radical economic changes in preparation for life after Fidel Castro and a new relationship with the United States, as the story look at how economic liberalisation is taking hold of communist country. (en)
- :Reported by: Jane Corbin
Jane Corbin reports the evidence with various conspiracy theories about Bin Laden's death, where the story recounts how a special crack team of American special forces stormed into a compound at Abbottabad in Pakistan. (en)
- A 90-minute story follows the cases of US police officers involved in the shooting of black men. (en)
- :Reported by: Mark Franchetti
The story travels to Naples in Italy - where Mark Franchetti investigates on one of the bloodiest organized mafia and largest criminal syndicate - The Camorra. (en)
- :Reported by: Simon Reeve
:Production company: Tooth Productions
Sitting on top of the world's biggest patch of oil, the extended family that runs Saudi Arabia has managed to fend off the assaults of modernity and democracy since the state's foundation. But the triple shocks of 9/11, the US-led invasion of Iraq and the al-Qaeda bombings inside the kingdom have catapulted Saudi Arabia into the limelight.
The United States wants Saudi Arabia and other Arab states to embrace democracy and join it in the "war on terror", but many Saudis are suspicious of America's intent. Can Crown Prince Abdullah strike a balance between Saudi Arabia's liberals and reactionaries, and meet the increasingly vocal demands of the West? (en)
- In Iran the buying and selling of kidneys is regulated by the state, which claims to have eliminated waiting lists for people on dialysis. But if you don't have the money, there is no list to get on. The episode explores inside one of Iran's kidney donor clinics where the poor and desperate come to sell an organ in the hope of funding a better life. (en)
- Jim Muir investigates the death of a news photographer in a Tehran prison in June 2003. (en)
- With the UK terror threat level at "severe", the drama-documentary episode based on real-life stories focuses from inside the UK’s counter terrorism unit. It tells the incident of an ISIS-inspired terrorist group planning a firearms attack, and follows with the ongoing police investigation. The story follows with Joseph, a young man who, while in prison on drugs charges, is recruited and radicalised by an Islamic extremist. Through drama and interviews, it also reveals how UK agencies are working to keep the public safe from what experts fear is the most likely scenario for a UK next major terror attack. (en)
- :Production company: InFocus Asia
Around the world, approximately 105 men are born for every 100 women. In China, it's a different story entirely - up to 118 men are born for every 100 women. The Chinese government knows this serious issue needs to be addressed, but family planning is a sensitive subject amongst the world's biggest population.
Following three stories - an independent women, a migrant worker desperate for a wife, and a local police unit fighting to stem the recent spate of kidnapped wives - the episode investigates a problem that could spell major trouble for China in the future. (en)
- :Reported by: Jane Corbin
Jane Corbin discovers the evidence that challenges the accepted story for one of the most terrifying events after twenty years from the Rwandan genocide. (en)
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