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 (5)
1. Schoolgirl Pin-ups
10.0Aired 7 August 2020 • 24 min
Marcel Theroux meets the Japanese schoolgirls seeking pop stardom performing for mostly older male fans. A cultural quirk, or is something more sinister going on in the Japanese music industry?
2. Trump's Housewives
Aired 14 August 2020
Karishma Vyas visits California to meet the "TradWives" - a growing movement of women in the United States who idolize Donald Trump, embrace traditional family values, reject feminism and are working hard to secure his reelection.
3. Swarm Chasers
Aired 21 August 2020
Sahar Zand reports on the adverse impact of locusts across Kenya and neighbouring countries, which are devouring crops and threatening millions with starvation where agriculture provides for more than 80% of the population threatening millions with starvation and economic collapse.
4. Nirvana for Sale
Aired 28 August 2020
Marcel Theroux visits Thailand and the controversial Dhammakaya movement. Critics say they're a money obsessed cult. Dhammakaya claim they're a force for good.
5. Death in the Alps
Aired 4 September 2020
Adnan Sarwar follows the trail of migrants dicing with death as they attempt to cross the frozen Alpine peaks marking the border between Italy and France. Braving altitudes of up to 2,500 meters and temperatures as low as minus 20, many have died in their attempt to seek safety, having been denied asylum in Italy or threatened with deportation back to the countries from which they fled.