Unreported World

Child preachers in Brazil are attracting large crowds and becoming celebrities, as the country's fast-growing evangelical movement gains religious and political power. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Marcel Theroux investigates the growing national scandal in South Korea of modern-day slaves, many of whom have learning difficulties and worked for years on a remote island chain. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Krishnan Guru-Murthy meets the television journalist in Sicily who's risking his life to expose the Mafia bosses whose tentacles still reach far into almost every aspect of life. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Reporter Morland Sanders meets the aid workers trying to reunite children and parents who are trapped on different sides of the frontline in the brutal civil war in South Sudan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Reporter Giles Duley visits a remarkable clinic for victims of acid attacks in Bangladesh, and follows one young victim as she rebuilds her life, and the inspirational team helping her Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this uplifting episode, reporter Ade Adepitan meets medics in Malawi who perform 15-minute operations that allow blind people to see Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

China's Gay Shock Therapy. Reporter Shaunagh Connaire and director Patrick Wells are in China to reveal how some hospitals use treatments including nausea-inducing drugs and electric shock therapy to ‘cure' gay people. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Miss Crimea. In the disputed territory of Crimea, Marcel Theroux meets Tatar families worried about what Russian rule might bring and a young woman who hopes to become the first Tatar winner of Miss Crimea. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Black Mambas: Saving the Rhino. In South Africa, reporter Evan Williams and director Laura Warner meet the Black Mambas: the world's first all-female anti-poaching unit, who are battling to save the rhino from extinction Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Generation Football. Ade Adepitan investigates unscrupulous agents preying on young footballers in Cameroon who are desperate to make a career playing for teams in Europe or the Middle East. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

40 Years to Find My Family. In Cambodia, Krishnan Guru-Murthy meets families torn apart by the Khmer Rouge genocide, who are now being reunited by reality TV. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Vaccination Wars. Unreported World meets the health workers risking their lives to vaccinate children against polio in Pakistan, where the Taliban have issued a decree against vaccination. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Standing Up To Mugabe.Unreported World meets the brave - and very funny - comics risking their security by satirising Zimbabwe's politicians online Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

America's Cowboy Kids. This action-packed, eye-opening episode visits Texas to meet the young children participating in what has been described as the world's most dangerous organised sport: bull-riding Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The City That Beat ISIS. A unique, devastating insight into the last days in the battle between Kurdish fighters and Isis for the Syrian town of Kobani Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

15 and Learning to Speak. Unreported World follows the inspirational work of the sign language teachers transforming the lives of deaf children and adults in Uganda who have never been able to communicate until now. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tripoli Burning. Libya is so dangerous most foreigners have left. Embedded in Tripoli's fire station, reporters Seyi Rhodes and Laura Warner gained a vivid snapshot of life in a disintegrating country. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Kids of Murder High. Ade Adepitan meets the inspirational head teacher in Honduras who's battling to give his pupils the best chance of survival in one of the most dangerous places on Earth. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

India's Electric Dreams. Krishnan Guru-Murthy examines the Indian government's drive to provide electricity for every village in the country, and how it will affect the country's environment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Siberia's Next Supermodels.Unreported World meets some of the thousands of young Russian women moving to China to become models, but finding the work and conditions a lot harder than they had expected. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Invisible People. Unreported World visits Lebanon to reveal the plight of some of the most vulnerable refugees fleeing the war in Syria: disabled people, many of whom are children. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Vietnam's Dog Snatchers.Unreported World investigates how dog thieves are stealing thousands of pet dogs from family homes in Vietnam to meet the demand for dog meat. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Surviving Ebola. Unreported World provides a unique view of what life is like for the health workers battling Ebola in Sierra Leone and the families affected by the virus. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Africa's Drug Scandal. Cancer now kills more people in Africa than malaria, HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis combined. Reporter Krishnan Guru-Murthy and director Daniel Bogado travel to Senegal to reveal how patients across the continent are being deprived of the single most important drug for relieving the pain of cancer - morphine - despite governments having the funds to purchase supplies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jamaica's Underground Gays.In an eye-opening episode, reporter Ade Adepitan and director Andrew Careter travel to Kingston to investigate the growth of homophobic attacks in Jamaica and to meet the gay and transgender group who've ended up living in a storm drain, where they suffer shocking violence, attacks and insults because of their sexuality. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Neighbours At War. Krisnan Guru-Murthy and director Adam Pletts manage to film on both sides of the lines in the Lebanese city of Tripoli, where Sunni Muslim fighters are besieging an Alawite neighbourhood in a conflict mirroring that happening in Syria.Guru-Murthy uncovers a vicious low-level war of sniping, assassinations and kneecappings, and meets commanders and gunmen who revel in killing their neighbours, and whose hate has taken over their lives. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Cursed Twins. Unreported World visits a remote area of Madagascar, where the dead make the rules.A set of taboos, handed down from long-dead ancestors, controls what you eat, when you work and every aspect of how you behave.Reporter Kiki King and director David Fuller visit the town of Mananjary, on the isolated east coast, to reveal how one taboo against twins leads to children being abandoned and mothers becoming outcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Carjack City. At least 30 vehicles are carjacked every day in South Africa. The country's cars are routinely fitted with satellite trackers, so that if they're carjacked by theives an armed response unit can track them.Reporter Marcel Theroux and director James Brabazon visit the country's capital, Pretoria where this type of crime is acute. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kickboxing Kids. This powerful episode documents the lives of Thai children as young as seven who fight in the brutal sport of Muay Thai, knocking out their opponents with elbows, knees and fists.It can leave the kids brain damaged, but adult gambling on these unpredictable fights is big business, and their families put enormous pressure on the kids to fight and win.Reporter Mary-Ann Ochota and director Daniel Bogado follow 11-year old Nat Thanarak, one of the best child boxers in the north of the country, as he prepares for the biggest match of his career so far, against a 12-year old champion from another province. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dancing In the Danger Zone. Reporter Evan Williams and director Marcel Mettelsiefen meet the extraordinary young dancers and musicians at Iraq's only music and ballet school, who are battling to keep their art alive against the rising tide of sectarian violence in Baghdad. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The World's Dirtiest River. The Indonesian island of Java is home to the planet's most polluted river and a textile industry supplying some of the world's biggest fashion brands. Reporter Seyi Rhodes and director Hugo Ward expose the extraordinary amount of untreated toxic waste from the textile factories, non-degradable plastics, household rubbish, dead animals and human effluent blanketing the Citarum river, which 35 million people rley on for drinking, cooking and washing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nepal: The Orphan Business. 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Jungle Midwife. Reporter 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 birt. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Egypt's Tomb Raiders. Unreported World investigates the shocking effects Egypt's political unrest is having on the country's tourism industry and its unique archaeological heritage. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

India: Slumkid Reporters. 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mexico: The Abandoned. 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

China's Lonely Hearts. 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Afghanistan's Hunted Women . 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Making Brazil Beautiful. 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? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Yemen: Death Row Teenagers. 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Bangladesh Women's Driving School . 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hong Kong's Tiger Tutors . 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Syria's Rebel Doctor. 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Gaza's Property Ladder. 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Saving Kenya's Street Kids. Aidan Hartley reports from his home town in Kenya on an extraordinary project to rescue the children who live on its streets. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cuba, Basketball and Betrayal. 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Burma: The Village That Took on the Generals. After 50 years of dictatorship, Burma is re-emerging from isolation as a pariah state. But development is leading to social unrest as tensions build between big business and locals. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Russia's Radical Chic. Unreported World meets Ksenia Sobchak, the glamorous young Russian socialite who has swapped high-profile TV stardom for a life leading political protests against President Putin. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Egypt: Sex, Mobs and Revolution. Unreported World examines the increase in sexual assaults and harassment in Egypt, revealing claims that young men are being paid to attack women, but the new generation are fighting back. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mumbai's Party Police. Young clubbers in Mumbai are being arrested and assaulted in a police crackdown on the city's nightlife. The film examines how East meets West and where generations clash as India changes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Master Chef of Mogadishu. Unreported World meets the British Somali man who has set up a chain of restaurants in Mogadishu as one of the world's most dangerous cities tries to rebuild itself. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.