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South Africa:
Body Parts For Sale
India:
Gods Own Country
Abkhazia:
Valley of the lost
Paraguay:
Paraguay's Painful Harvest
Philippines:
Lost in a Shadow War
Venuezuela:
Cult of Thugs
Nigeria:
Child Brides, Stolen Lives
Thialand
Lessons in Terror
Yemen:
Sea of Tears
Mexico:
Seven Days in Hell
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Unreported World, Series 16 General Press Quotes
'Real news. Responsible journalism. Engaging television.'
Observer
'Devoted to exposing obscure global injustices, this series is one of the most rewarding documentary strands on television.'
Sunday Times
South Africa: Body Parts For Sale;
Channel 4, Friday 17 October 2008, 7.35pm
Channel 4’s acclaimed foreign affairs strand Unreported World returns with an eye-opening and horrifying investigation by reporter Ramita Navai and producer James Brabazon into “Muti Murder” in South Africa. While the country is modernising fast, the team reveals how hundreds of people, including children, have been killed for body parts destined for the booming practise of traditional medicine – and interview a “healer” who claims he tortures and kills people for his trade in black magic.
'The excellent foreign affairs documentary strand begins a new series with a eye-opening investigation into “Muti Murder”. Very disturbing.’
Observer
'It is a horrifying topic. Reporter Ramita Navai and veteran producer James Brabazon should be congratulated for their fearlessness….'
Daily Telegraph
India: God's Own Country;
Channel 4, Friday 24 October 2008, 7.35pm
Reporter Jenny Kleeman and producer Edward Watts travel to the popular southern Indian tourist destination Kerala – which sells itself as ‘God’s Own Country’. It’s home to hundreds of ashrams - spiritual retreats where thousands of pilgrims from India, Britain and the rest of the world seek salvation through a growing number of self-styled gurus. But, Unreported World reveals, Kerala’s 3,000 so-called “Godmen” are facing allegations ranging from fraud to physical and sexual abuse.
'As reporter Jenny Kleeman discovers, all is not quiet on the southern front.’
Observer
'Admirable'
Gaurdian
Abkhazia: Valley of the Lost;
Channel 4, Friday 31 October 2008, 7.35pm
Fighting in Georgia’s breakaway republic of South Ossetia grabbed the headlines last summer. But, as Unreported World reveals, in Georgia’s other breakaway republic of Abkhazia, another tragedy was secretly unfolding.
Reporter Aidan Hartley and Director Alex Nott hear reports of fierce fighting taking place high in the Abkhaz Caucasus Mountains. After being forced back at checkpoints by militia commanders Hartley and Nott manage to slip away from their minders and enter the deserted village of Ajara where they find almost all of the houses ransacked and looted. It’s clear that the bitter ethnic conflict which led to this latest outbreak of fighting, and which has cost thousands of lives over the last decade, still continues.
'Aidan Hartley brings home the people's plight by picking his way through a ransacked house and movingly tracking down its former owners.'
Sunday Times
‘As this terrific report by Aidan Hartley demonstrates ... It's a portrait of the reality of ethnic cleansing in the best traditions of Unreported World’
Guardian
Paraguay's Painfull Harvest;
Channel 4, Friday 7 November 2008, 7.35pm
Reporter Tanya Datta and director Andrew Carter report from Paraguay, which has become one of the world’s largest suppliers of genetically modified soya – much of it destined to feed cattle that end up on European plates. The programme reveals how the West’s demand for meat is driving the industrial farming of soya to epic proportions. It’s a phenomenon that’s led to violent clashes between peasants, foreign landowners and the police, and accusations that insecticides sprayed on the crops are causing serious birth defects.
‘A direct, devastating report, delivered with the tightly edited urgency that is UW's calling card’
Guardian
‘A clarion call for action’
Observer
Philippines: Lost in a Shadow War;
Channel 4, Friday 14 November 2008, 7.35pm 14th November
Reporter Evan Williams and Director George Waldrum travel to the Philippines, where a war over control of the country’s resources is raging between rich and poor. On one side, the 135 families who hold economic and political power in the country, supported by the government and military; and on the other, an armed rebel group. Caught in the middle are hundreds of students, activists and left wing politicians – many of who have been killed or disappeared without trace.
‘A fascinating,terrifying dispatch’
The Observer
‘Devoted to exposing obscure global injustices, this series is one of the most rewarding documentary strands on television’
The Sunday Times
Venuezuela: Cult of The Thugs;
Channel 4, Friday 21 November 2008, 7.35pm
This week’s Unreported World reveals how Venezuelans are increasingly turning to a mystical cult that worships the spirits of dead Robin Hood-style gangsters as they seek supernatural protection from a crime wave that the police seem unable to contain.
Reporter Nima Elbagir and producer James Brabazon discover that as a result of the country’s unprecedented rise in murders – and the failure of the police to halt it - adherents of spiritism have turned gangster-ism into an act of veneration, legitimising violent criminals with the trappings of mainstream religious belief.
'One of the more harrowing offerings of this fine strand ... Reporter Nima Elbagir brings magnificent, brave understatement to her investigations, in a way that so many safari-suited investigative chaps couldn't help but boast about'
Observer
‘It’s a shame that the documentaries in this excellent strand are so short’
Daily Telegraph
Thailand: Lessons in Terror;
Channel 4, Friday 7 November 2008, 7.35pm
Southern Thailand is home to one of the most violent conflicts in South East Asia, with more than three thousand people killed since 2004 out of a population of just two million. Reporter Seyi Rhodes and producer Andy Wells reveal how just a few hours drive away from the tourist hotspot of Phuket, Islamic extremists are waging a murderous campaign against Buddhist teachers in a largely hidden conflict - which has turned hundreds of primary schools into bloody battlegrounds.
'The documentary is bravely and subtly done... it is also beautifully shot'.
Observer
'These reports are invariably punchy and illuminating. This week, the impressive reporter Seyi Rhodes travels in southern Thailand.'
Sunday Times
Yemen: Sea of Tears;
Channel 4, Friday 12 December 2008, 7.35pm
Reporter Aidan Hartley and Director Edward Watts reveal an unseen human catastrophe unfolding in Yemen as thousands of desperate refugees fleeing the chaos and carnage in the Horn of Africa suffer terrible ill-treatment as they cross the Gulf of Aden on their way to the Promised Land of Arabia. The team follows the route taken by the migrants as they attempt to get through the “Empty Quarter” where Hartley and Watts find dozens of groups of men walking through one of the world’s harshest environments, with nothing more than the clothes on their backs.
‘If we do indeed belong to a global community, this unassuming half-hour programme is worth more than all the rest of the week's television put together'
The Times
‘Another excellently executed example of the dire situations faced by a staggering proportion of the world's population brought to light by the Unreported World team’
Observer
Mexico: Seven Days in Hell;
Channel 4, Friday 19 December 2008, 7.35pm
Unreported World travels to Mexico where demand for cocaine from the US and Europe has led to the deaths of thousands in a brutal war between gangs fighting for control of drug trafficking routes. The killing is relentless. It includes gang members, police officers and innocent victims. Every few hours the team is called to another killing, dumped body, kidnapping or victim of a shoot-out. Reporter Evan Williams and Director Alex Nott provide a snapshot of seven days of death in northern city of Culiacan.
As ever, Unreported World raises many good questions, not the least of which is: why aren't there more programmes like this?’
Guardian
‘…the film leaves one stunned at the scale of the killings’
Observer
Nigeria: Child Brides, Stolen Lives;
Channel 4, Friday 28 November 2008, 7.35pm
This episode of Unreported World reveals the devastating effects of child marriage and pregnancy in Nigeria where nearly half of all girls in the country’s Northern states are married by the age of fifteen – often to much older men.
Local women tell Navai that it’s traditional for girls to get married from the age of 12 and start having babies. But the team discovers evidence of the devastating consequences suffered by mothers whose bodies are physically incapable of going through childbirth at such a young age, with many suffering horrible injuries and being left physically and emotionally scarred for life.
'A powerful documentary'
The Observer
'A deeply unsettling piece of journalism.'
Daily Telegraph
Executive Producer: Eamonn Matthews
Series Editor: Siobhan Sinnerton
Unreported World is a Quicksilver Media Production for Channel 4.
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