About this season
The series is mainly focused on social issues and current affairs stories around the world. International current affairs documentaries, replacing "Correspondent".
Episodes (12)
1. Egypt - Children of the Revolution
Aired 3 February 2012 • 60 min
Investigative documentary. A year-long look at the lives of three young revolutionaries as their differing visions for the new Egypt collide following 2011's Arab Spring.
2. Inside the Meltdown
Aired 23 February 2012 • 60 min
Investigative documentary. A look at 2011's tsunami that swamped Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant, making 100,000 people homeless and causing nuclear meltdown and a radiation leak.
3. The Fastest Changing Place on Earth
Aired 5 March 2012 • 60 min
Investigative documentary series. Following the lives of three people in rural China as their tiny farming community is transformed by a massive government urbanisation project.
4. Interviews Before Execution: A Chinese Talk Show
Aired 12 March 2012 • 60 min
Investigative documentary series. This World explores Interviews before Execution, an extraordinary Saturday night talk show in China which interviews prisoners on death row.
5. The Mormon Candidate
Aired 27 March 2012 • 60 min
International investigative documentary series. John Sweeney investigates Mormonism, the belief system of Mitt Romney, the potential Republican candidate for the 2012 US election.
6. Norway's Massacre
Aired 15 April 2012 • 60 min
This World tells the story of the 2011 massacre in Norway, offering insight into the life and mind of the perpetrator, Anders Breivik, and exposing the hatred that inspired him.
7. The Shame of the Catholic Church
Aired 1 May 2012 • 60 min
Decades of clerical abuse and cover up have left the Catholic church in Ireland at breaking point. Now Darragh MacIntyre reveals new evidence of a scandal that goes to the very top of the Irish church.
8. Michael Portillo's Great Euro Crisis
Aired 9 May 2012 • 60 min
Michael Portillo visits Germany, Europe's economic powerhouse, and debt-stricken Greece. Is this the moment the Eurozone becomes more united, or will it be pulled apart?
9. Aung San Suu Kyi: The Choice
Aired 22 September 2012 • 60 min
Documentary which captures the moment when the Nobel Prize-winning dissident Aung San Suu Kyi took the huge, risky step into everyday politics in Burma.
10. Obama: What Happened to Hope?
Aired 4 November 2012 • 60 min
With days to go before the US presidential election, Andrew Marr assesses Barack Obama's first term in office, talking to those who have worked closely with him in the White House.
11. Cuba with Simon Reeve
Aired 11 December 2012 • 60 min
Simon Reeve heads to Cuba to find a communist country in the middle of a capitalist revolution and asks if the new economic openness could lead to political liberalisation.
12. The Great Spanish Crash
Aired 16 December 2012 • 60 min
Investigative documentary series. Paul Mason travels to Spain to examine how a once thriving economy became the latest casualty of the Eurozone crisis.