About this season
Unreported World is a foreign affairs programme produced by Quicksilver Media Productions and broadcast by Channel 4 in the United Kingdom. Over the course of its twenty-four series, reporters have travelled all over the world in an attempt to uncover stories usually ignored by the world media.
Episodes (16)
1. Cuba, Basketball and Betrayal
Aired 12 April 2013
Ade Adepitan meets some of Cuba's top basketball players and finds out why some of them are defecting when the country seems to be opening up.
2. Saving Kenya's Street Kids
Aired 19 April 2013
Aidan Hartley reports from his home town in Kenya on an extraordinary project to rescue the children who live on its streets.
3. Gaza's Property Ladder
Aired 26 April 2013
In war-torn Gaza, Location, Location, Location means finding an apartment in one of the highly sought-after areas that are usually not shelled or hit by missiles.
4. Syria's Rebel Doctor
Aired 3 May 2013
Reporter Evan Williams meets Dr Rami Habib, the NHS doctor who is risking his life by providing frontline medical care to the victims of the worsening conflict in Syria.
5. Hong Kong's Tiger Tutors
Aired 10 May 2013
Marcel Theroux meets the students in Hong Kong aiming for success in one of the most competitive exam environments in the world, and meets the millionaire tutor seen as a key to success.
6. Bangladesh Women's Driving School
Aired 17 May 2013 • 24 min
Unreported World meets the young women in Bangladesh who are learning to be professional drivers but who face extraordinary odds, both on the dangerous roads and from social taboos.
7. Yemen: Death Row Teenagers
Aired 24 May 2013
Krishnan Guru-Murthy travels to Yemen to reveal the scores of young men locked up in prisons and awaiting execution for crimes they are accused of committing while they were children.
8. Making Brazil Beautiful
Aired 31 May 2013
Seyi Rhodes reports on the huge growth in cosmetic surgery in Brazil, where the pursuit of beauty means more subsidised or free surgery; does Brazil risk losing what's so special about its own people?
9. Afghanistan's Hunted Women
Aired 7 October 2013
Unreported World gains rare access to secret houses in Afghanistan sheltering women hiding from violent husbands or from families who have tried to kill them for refusing arranged marriages.
10. Venezuela's Kidnap Cops
Aired 11 October 2013
Caracas is the kidnap capital of the world. Unreported World follows the Venezuelan police's elite Anti-Kidnap Squad as they fight the kidnap gangs with brute force and technical ingenuity.
11. China's Lonely Hearts
Aired 18 October 2013
China is predicted to have 24 million single men looking for love by 2020. Reporter Marcel Theroux meets two people who represent inequality in love in modern China.
12. Mexico: The Abandoned
Aired 25 October 2013
Ade Adepitan, Daniel Bogado and former hospital patients gain access to Mexico's psychiatric institutions to secretly film the horrific and inhumane conditions endured by thousands of men and women.
13. India: Slumkid Reporters
Aired 1 November 2013
Reporter Mary-Ann Ochota and director Suzie Samant travel to Delhi to meet the remarkable children who run the only newspaper in India campaigning on the problems that street children face.
14. Egypt's Tomb Raiders
Aired 8 November 2013
Unreported World investigates the shocking effects Egypt's political unrest is having on the country's tourism industry and its unique archaeological heritage.
15. The Jungle Midwife
Aired 15 November 2013
Seyi Rhodes meets a local midwife in the jungles of the Central African Republic saving mothers and babies in one of the most dangerous places in the world to give birth.
16. Nepal: The Orphan Business
Aired 28 November 2013
Unreported World goes undercover in orphanages in Nepal, where they discover that many children have been taken from impoverished parents, and used by orphanage owners to attract donations.