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Congo:
Forest of the Dead
Cambodia:
Selling the Killing Fields
Turkey:
Killing for Honour
Sierra Leone:
Insanity of War
The Island that ate itself:
Lost in a Shadow War
China:
The Great Escape
India:
Children of the Inferno
Afganistan:
Waiting for Taliban
Papua New Guinea:
Bush Knives and Black Magic
Brazil:
THe Killables
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Brazil: The Killables;
Channel 4, Friday 15 May 2009, 7.35pm
Reporter Evan Williams and director Paul Kittel report from the city of Recife, Brazil’s murder capital. The team investigates claims that police death squads are responsible for hundreds of the two-and-a-half thousand killings that took place last year – only a short drive from the holiday hot spots that draw in over a million tourists every year
'Chilling'
The Observer
'Unreported World concludes another gripping ten-part series with the story of police death squads in Recife, Brazil.'
Birmingham Evening Mail
Papua New Guinea: Bush Knives and Black Magic;
Channel 4, Friday 8 May 2009, 7.35pm
Unreported World travels to Papua New Guniea, where reporter Ramita Navai and director Katherine Churcher investigate the brutal phenomenon of witch hunting that is undergoing a dramatic resurgence in one of the most isolated places on earth. Victims are burnt at the stake; stoned; slashed and even buried alive. Nearly all of the victims are women, and their attackers are rarely punished.
A tantalisingly brief visit to the wild, mountainous interior of a country where, we are told ominously, "witch-hunts are undergoing a massive resurgence’
The Observer
‘You don't see this on Tribe’
The Times
Afghanistan: Waiting for the Taliban;
Channel 4, Friday 1 May 2009, 7.35pm
This week Unreported World travels to Kabul, where director Alex Nott and reporter Peter Oborne find a city under siege. Kidnappings, suicide bombings and shootings are becoming more frequent as the Taliban and powerful criminal gangs create unprecedented levels of instability and lawlessness. Checkpoints, blast walls and razor wire ring the city in an attempt to stop the attacks: and everyday that passes, Kabul beings to look more like Baghdad.
‘Anyone who would dare to hope that life in Afghanistan is improving should make a point of watching this short, unambiguous dispatch by Peter Oborne.'
The Times
‘Recommended’
The Observer
India: Children of the Inferno;
Channel 4, Friday 24 April 2009, 7.35pm
Reporter Aidan Hartley and director Edward Watts travel to the town of Jharia, eastern India, whose 85,000 inhabitants live in a hell on earth. Coalfields beneath the town burn out of control: flames burst through the floors of houses, and sulphurous smoke chokes the streets. The fires exact a terrible human price as entire homes, and the people in them, are swallowed by the inferno.
'This week's programme reveals a vision of hell where the earth is literally on fire, as vast subterranean coal fires burn out of control beneath towns and villages'.
The Observer
'It is very easy for very important stories to go missing in a country as vast, populated, diverse and bewildering as India, but the one Aidan Hartley tells in this episode illuminates one of the most crucial.'
The Guardian
China: The Great Escape;
Channel 4, Friday 17 April 2009, 7.35pm
This week’s Unreported World travels to China’s remote border with North Korea, where few journalists ever set foot. Reporter Oliver Steeds and director Sam Farmar report on the plight of thousands of North Korean women who have been forced into prostitution or sold as brides after fleeing persecution and starvation in one of the world’s most secretive and repressive regimes.
'Oliver Steed reports from the indescribably bleak border between North Korea and China, which thousands of North Koreans try to cross in order to escape starvation.'
The Times
‘This may be one of the most depressing and dark programmes in this compelling series, but if at least one more person learns about the North Koreans' plight tonight, then it will have done its job.’
Daily Observer
Haiti: The island that ate itself;
Channel 4, Friday 10 April 2009, 7.35pm
Haiti hits the headlines last year when it was devastated by yet another hurricane. This week’s Unreported World returns to the island, where reporter Aidan Hartley and producer Alex Nott find that it’s still in a state of emergency. Locked in a vicious cycle of environmental disaster, hunger, poverty, and reliance on international aid, Haiti is an extreme example of what’s happening to many of the world’s poorest countries.
‘Another harrowing documentary from an excellent series.’
The Guardian
‘It’s hard to tell which is more horrifying. Either the images we see…or the story that slowly unfolds with narrative.’
The Observer
Sierra Leone: Insanity of War;
Channel 4, Friday 3 April 2009, 7.35pm
This week’s Unreported World comes from Sierra Leone, where ten years after one of the most brutal conflicts in recent history, up to half-a-million people have been left severely mentally traumatized. Reporter Seyi Rhodes and Director George Waldrum find a population that has endured rape, torture and public executions – and is served by just one psychiatrist.
‘Reporter Seyi Rhodes finds a population that has witnessed rape, torture and public executions… The world may have moved on, but here the scars of civil war still run deep.’
The Herald
‘This is a deeply affecting film, and not one that is easy to watch… a reminder of how rare real reporting on television has become, finding a story that is being ignored and confronting the viewer with the harsh truth.’
The Observer
Turkey: Killing for Honour;
Channel 4, Friday 27 March 2009, 7.35pm
In this week’s Unreported World, Reporter Ramita Navai and Producer Matt Haan travel to south-eastern Turkey to investigate so-called ‘Honour Killings’. As Turkey modernizes in a bid for EU membership, the team discovers the ancient traditions are still resulting in hundreds of women being murdered every year, sometimes for as little as standing too close to an unmarried man.
'The chilling documentary…casts a new light on the country that is visited by more than a million Brits a year.'
The Sun
‘The film is as necessary as it is depressing.’
The Guardian
Cambodia: Selling the Killing Fields
Channel 4, Friday 20 March 2009, 7.35pm
Reporter Jenny Kleeman and producer Andy Wells report from Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh, where land is now worth three times as much as two years ago. The team investigate allegations that the Cambodian authorities are behind a policy of violent evictions of the country's poor from their homes. Unreported World reveals how, 30 years on from the fall of the Khmer Rouge, and at the same time as Pol Pot's accomplices are being put on trial for war crimes, Cambodia's people are once again being brutally driven from their land. This time, however, it is capitalism, not communism, that is displacing them - as growing numbers of tourists fuel a property boom that is having devastating results.
'Characteristically direct and unambiguous… another tale of breathtaking international awfulness.’
The Guardian
'Jenny Kleeman reports on the dark side of this economic miracle, investigating claims that poor people have been the victims of violent evictions to make way for property developers'
The Observer
Congo: Forest of the Dead
Channel 4, Friday 13 March 2009, 7.35pm
In the first of a new series of Unreported World, reporter Nima Elbagir and director Edward Watts travel to the Democratic Republic of Congo in the wake of a new campaign of terror by the Lords Resistance Army. The first television crew to visit the latest massacre sites, they witness the results of terrifying brutality by the much-feared rebel group.
'This opening salvo in the new nine-part Unreported World series, never less than searingly brave and fair, is an eye-opener’
The Observer
'Elbagir headed to the northeast Congo to investigate the Christmas massacres carried out by the Lord’s Resistance Army rebel group'
The Independent Sunday
Executive Producer: Eamonn Matthews
Series Editor: Siobhan Sinnerton
Unreported World is a Quicksilver Media Production for Channel 4.
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