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Unreported World - Season 17

Episode List

Muslim, Trans and Banned
E1 - Muslim, Trans and Banned

Aired: March 18, 2016

Reporter Marcel Theroux and director Victoria Bell are in Malaysia, where the government has declared transgender people to be enemies of Islam. There they meet the Trans women who are forced to live in what human rights groups say is one of the worst places in the world to be transgender and accompany the country's religious police as they crackdown on anything considered ‘un-Islamic'.

Find My Kid Drugs
E2 - Find My Kid Drugs

Aired: March 25, 2016

Krishnan Guru-Murthy and Patrick Wells travel to Venezuela, where they are joined by a family's frantic door-to-door search for medicines for their desperately ill daughter. This is one of the thousands of families who are affected by the shortage of drugs and medical equipment across the country. The episode visits a hospital lacking items as basic as antibiotics, and if doctors decide to speak out they are labelled anti-revolutionaries. The show will reveal how one of the world's biggest oil producers has been crippled by an economic disaster.

The City with No Water
E3 - The City with No Water

Aired: April 01, 2016

Reporter Fazeelat Aslam and director Karim Shah reveal how thousands of families living in Pakistan's richest city, Karachi, are suffering from chronic water shortages as a result of climate change, mismanagement, corrupt officials and criminal gangs. Their eye-opening report shows how drastic the situation has become, with families who are running out of supplies sometimes having to spend half their salary buying water illegally from criminals, or wait up night after night to see if community water taps will be turned on for a couple of hours.

Mission Critical: Afghanistan
E4 - Mission Critical: Afghanistan

Aired: April 08, 2016

Abigail Austen has unique, extraordinary access to the battle against Isis and the Taliban in Afghanistan, where the Taliban are threatening to take everything Britain helped fight for.

How to Stop a Murder
E5 - How to Stop a Murder

Aired: April 15, 2016

In America's murder capital - Chicago - Seyi Rhodes meets volunteer ex-gang members who risk their lives to try to halt cycles of revenge killings, in the face of budget cuts.

The Forgotten Holocaust Survivors
E6 - The Forgotten Holocaust Survivors

Aired: April 22, 2016

Krishan Guru-Murthy reveals how tens of thousands of Holocaust survivors in Israel are spending their final days living in poverty despite billions of dollars of reparation payments.

The Betrayal of Kenya's Athletes
E7 - The Betrayal of Kenya's Athletes

Aired: April 29, 2016

In four years, more than 40 Kenyan athletes have failed doping tests. Ade Adepitan visits Kenya as it faces a World Anti-Doping Agency deadline to put its house in order.

Iran's Dating Revolution
E8 - Iran's Dating Revolution

Aired: May 06, 2016

Many young Iranians are shunning marriage and enjoying new ways to meet people, like Instagram. But it's hard to balance this modern approach to life with the older generation's traditional values.

Yemen: Britain's Unseen War
E9 - Yemen: Britain's Unseen War

Aired: September 30, 2016

Channel 4's multi-award winning Unreported World returns with a powerful new episode from Yemen revealing the catastrophic effect of the Saudi-led coalition's bombing campaign, which is being carried out using British-supplied weapons. The bombing, together with a naval blockade on Yemen's major port, has resulted in a humanitarian emergency threatening millions with starvation. Reporter Krishnan Guru-Murthy and director Patrick Wells are the first international crew to film in Hodeidah port, which is critical to Yemen's food imports and has been disabled by bombing.

India's Blind Daters
E10 - India's Blind Daters

Aired: October 07, 2016

Marcel Theroux reports from India on matchmaking schemes for people with disabilities to find husbands and wives, while also navigating the complexities of caste, religion and parents' expectations

Exiled: Europe's Gay Refugees
E11 - Exiled: Europe's Gay Refugees

Aired: October 14, 2016

Unreported World meets gay refugees who have fled to Germany from the Middle East but are still subject to violent attacks and abuse, from fellow refugees and migrants.

Vietnam's Toxic Legacy
E12 - Vietnam's Toxic Legacy

Aired: October 28, 2016

Ade Adepitan investigates the legacy of a toxic herbicide dropped by US forces during the Vietnam War, which some doctors believe is causing health problems in a new generation of children.

The Fish Bombers
E13 - The Fish Bombers

Aired: November 04, 2016

Malaysian Borneo's beautiful coral reefs face environmental disaster as local fishermen resort to drastic, destructive fishing methods in order to survive, including using explosives or sodium cyanide

The Prison from Hell
E14 - The Prison from Hell

Aired: November 11, 2016

Seyi Rhodes gains access to one of the most notorious prisons on Earth: Haiti's National Penitentiary, where 80% of inmates have been locked up without being convicted of any crime.

South Africa's Skin Bleaching Scandal
E15 - South Africa's Skin Bleaching Scandal

Aired: November 18, 2016

Unreported World investigates why one in three women in South Africa reportedly use potentially dangerous skin-bleaching products, in spite of strict laws,

Sex for Grades
E16 - Sex for Grades

Aired: November 25, 2016

In Mozambique, Unreported World investigates the disturbing phenomenon of teachers forcing schoolgirls to have sex with them in return for good grades, or for their deserved grades.