Our World Season 9

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9x01 Calais: The Final Frontier aired Jan 30, 2015

The northern French port of Calais is facing an international refugee crisis. Thousands of illegal migrants have descended on the town with the intention of ... read more

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9x02 The Billion Dollar Gamble aired Feb 06, 2015

It's the first planned Palestinian city, a billion dollar project to build homes for 25,000 people with a soccer stadium and even an amphitheatre, complete w... read more

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9x03 Bringing Business Back aired Feb 13, 2015

From Walmart to Apple, from Colorado to California, many companies across the United States say they are bringing jobs back from overseas. As wages rise in c... read more

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9x04 Uganda: My Mad World aired Feb 20, 2015

In Uganda few people are willing to talk about mental illness. Those who suffer are frequently isolated, shunned by their community and rejected by their fam... read more

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9x05 The Power of Le Pen aired Feb 27, 2015

The Front National was once regarded as a marginal, extremist political party, but economic turmoil in Europe has thrust it into the mainstream of French Pol... read more

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9x06 A Royal Wedding: Indian Style aired Mar 06, 2015

With exclusive behind the scenes access, Rupa Jha reports for Our World on the most lavish Indian wedding since independence. Thanks to two decades of dramat... read more

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9x07 Inside Eritrea aired Mar 13, 2015

Eritrea has been described as one of the most secretive states in the world. Every year, thousands of people flee indefinite military service and arbitrary i... read more

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9x08 Saving Gaza's Grand Piano aired Mar 27, 2015

For years it has been hidden in the dusty corner of an abandoned theatre - a magnificent instrument allowed to moulder away in an Islamist-ruled territory wh... read more

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9x09 St Helena: An End to Isolation aired Mar 21, 2015

St Helena is preparing for its new airport to receive its first flights. Our World meets St Helenians to discover how they feel about the end to their isolat... read more

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9x10 Rhino Wars aired Apr 04, 2015

Our World sets out to discover whether hunting the poachers can save the rhino. Last year a record number of rhinos were illegally slaughtered for their h... read more

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9x11 Ukraine's Fragile Ceasefire aired Apr 11, 2015

More than 6,000 people have been killed in Ukraine since fighting erupted between Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed rebels last Spring. A million people ha... read more

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9x12 The Uighurs, Silk Road Survivors aired Apr 18, 2015

Central Asian governments are facing pressure from China to clamp down on Uighur demands for their own state. For the eleven million Uighur people who live i... read more

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9x13 Remembering the Armenian Massacres aired Apr 25, 2015

It has been 100 years since the massacres and mass deportation of Armenians who lived in the Ottoman Empire, now Turkey. Armenians say one and a half million... read more

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9x14 Kidnapped for a Decade aired Apr 25, 2015

For years they were imprisoned, beaten, and raped. Now Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus, two of the girls who were kidnapped by Ariel Castro in Cleveland, Ohio,... read more

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9x15 Arctic Mission with David Shukman aired May 09, 2015

A team of Norwegian scientists has spent the winter on a research ship in the Arctic examining the sea ice. They say it's becoming thinner. David Shukman has... read more

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9x16 Nepal: Survivors' Stories with Yalda Hakim aired May 16, 2015

More than 7 thousand people were killed by the earthquake in Nepal in April 2015, and hundreds of thousands more were made homeless. For Nepalis living in po... read more

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9x17 Saving Gaza's Grand Piano aired May 20, 2015

For years it has been hidden in the dusty corner of an abandoned theatre, a magnificent instrument allowed to moulder away in an Islamist-ruled territory whe... read more

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9x18 Who Killed Alberto Nisman? aired May 28, 2015

In January a high-profile prosecutor was found in a pool of blood in his bathroom, days before he was due to release a report condemning the Argentine govern... read more

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9x19 The Lusitania's 100 Year Secret aired Jun 05, 2015

When the RMS Lusitania set sail from New York for England in May 1915 the German government took out adverts in the American newspapers warning that travelle... read more

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9x20 Mosul: Living with Islamic State aired Jun 13, 2015

Iraq's second city is closed to the outside world and tightly controlled by its new rulers. With exclusive, secretly filmed footage of life in Mosul, Yalda H... read more

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9x21 Pardon Me, Mr President aired Jun 20, 2015

The War on Drugs in the United States led to a huge increase in America's prison population. For decades, hundreds of thousands of people convicted of even m... read more

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9x22 Mediterranean Migrants - Rescue at Sea aired Jun 27, 2015

Our World documents the heroism and horror of what is happening in the Mediterranean on a daily basis and tries to discover what motivates a person to risk a... read more

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9x23 Bosnia: The Cradle of Modern Jihadism? aired Jul 02, 2015

During the civil war in Bosnia, hundreds of Arab jihadists came to join Bosnian Muslims fighting against their neighbours the Serbs and Croats. Grouped into ... read more

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9x24 Made in China: Club Drugs aired Jul 11, 2015

A new drug of choice, ketamine, is flooding China's night clubs, and the Chinese authorities are losing the battle to stop its spread. Criminal gangs have di... read more

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9x25 Deported to Afghanistan aired Jul 18, 2015

Over the past ten years, thousands of unaccompanied children have fled to the UK from war-torn Afghanistan, but when they turn 18 they have to return or face... read more

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9x26 Living with Malaria aired Jul 25, 2015

Malaria kills a child every minute and disables millions of adults. While there has been success in tackling the disease, malarial mosquitos are posing a new... read more

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9x27 A Very Political Assassination aired Aug 01, 2015

Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian spy, was poisoned in a London hotel in November 2006. He drank tea laced with radioactive polonium, and died three wee... read more

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9x28 The Killing of Farkhunda aired Aug 08, 2015

Zarghuna Kargar tells the story of Farkhunda, a 27-year-old Afghan woman, and religious scholar who was brutally murdered by a mob in the streets of Kabul in... read more

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9x29 Yemen: The Hidden War aired Sep 17, 2015

An escalating ground and air war in Yemen, against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels, has brought the country to the point of collapse. Millions of people are in ... read more

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9x30 The Bangladesh Blogger Murders aired Sep 26, 2015

Mukul Devichand reports on the mood amongst bloggers in Bangladesh following the murders of four atheist internet bloggers, apparently for challenging religi... read more

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9x31 South Korea's Adoption Shame aired Oct 03, 2015

Yalda Hakim visits Seoul to investigate why South Koreans are so reluctant to bring up someone else's child.

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9x32 A Bumpy Road to Rio? aired Oct 10, 2015

With Nikki Fox. Rio de Janeiro is gearing up for its big year. The famous Brazilian city will host the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games. But what is everyda... read more

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9x33 After the Jungle aired Oct 17, 2015

During Sierra Leone's ten-year civil war seven thousand children were forced to join the fighting, abducted from their families, drugged and made to kill. As... read more

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9x34 Russia's Modern Mystics aired Oct 24, 2015

Growing numbers of Russians are consulting mystics and psychics. It's been a longstanding flirtation - most famously, a century ago, the country's last Royal... read more

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9x35 South Sudan: Shattered Dream aired Oct 31, 2015

Just four years after South Sudan was granted independence, becoming the world's newest country, it has descended into chaos and conflict. The fighting, most... read more

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9x36 Pregnant and Punished in the UAE aired Nov 07, 2015

In the UAE, sex outside marriage can land you in prison. Three women tell of how they fell foul of the law, revealing that it's often pregnant women and moth... read more

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9x37 The Lost Daughter of Halabja aired Nov 14, 2015

In 1988, in the final months of the Iran-Iraq War, the Kurdish city of Halabja was devastated in a chemical weapons attack by Saddam Hussein. An estimated 50... read more

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9x38 Greece: No Place to Die aired Nov 28, 2015

Greece's biggest cities have run out of places to bury the dead. Graves are now rented rather than owned, and, after three years, bodies are exhumed to make ... read more

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9x39 Surviving Ebola aired Dec 05, 2015

The Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone lasted 18 months. Despite the country being declared free of the disease in November, thousands of survivors now face a bl... read more

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9x40 Welcome to Germany with Catrin Nye aired Dec 12, 2015

In the midst of the refugee crisis Catrin Nye spends three months in Gera, in the east of Germany, as new residents arrive from war-torn Syria. She follows t... read more

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9x41 The Lusitania's 100 Year Secret aired Dec 23, 2015

Duncan Kennedy finds out why mystery still surrounds the sinking of RMS Lusitania, and pieces together what happened on that fateful last journey in which mo... read more

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