Season 2012
12 episodes · Feb 3, 2012
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- S9E1
Egypt - Children of the Revolution
Feb 3, 201260mInvestigative documentary. A year-long look at the lives of three young revolutionaries as their differing visions for the new Egypt collide following 2011's Arab Spring.
- S9E2
Inside the Meltdown
Feb 23, 201260mInvestigative documentary. A look at 2011's tsunami that swamped Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant, making 100,000 people homeless and causing nuclear meltdown and a radiation leak.
- S9E3
The Fastest Changing Place on Earth
Mar 5, 201260mInvestigative documentary series. Following the lives of three people in rural China as their tiny farming community is transformed by a massive government urbanisation project.
- S9E4
Interviews Before Execution: A Chinese Talk Show
Mar 12, 201260mInvestigative documentary series. This World explores Interviews before Execution, an extraordinary Saturday night talk show in China which interviews prisoners on death row.
- S9E5
The Mormon Candidate
Mar 27, 201260mInternational investigative documentary series. John Sweeney investigates Mormonism, the belief system of Mitt Romney, the potential Republican candidate for the 2012 US election.
- S9E6
Norway's Massacre
Apr 15, 201260mThis World tells the story of the 2011 massacre in Norway, offering insight into the life and mind of the perpetrator, Anders Breivik, and exposing the hatred that inspired him.
- S9E7
The Shame of the Catholic Church
May 1, 201260mDecades of clerical abuse and cover up have left the Catholic church in Ireland at breaking point. Now Darragh MacIntyre reveals new evidence of a scandal that goes to the very top of the Irish church.
- S9E8
Michael Portillo's Great Euro Crisis
May 9, 201260mMichael Portillo visits Germany, Europe's economic powerhouse, and debt-stricken Greece. Is this the moment the Eurozone becomes more united, or will it be pulled apart?
- S9E9
Aung San Suu Kyi: The Choice
Sep 22, 201260mDocumentary which captures the moment when the Nobel Prize-winning dissident Aung San Suu Kyi took the huge, risky step into everyday politics in Burma.
- S9E10
Obama: What Happened to Hope?
Nov 4, 201260mWith days to go before the US presidential election, Andrew Marr assesses Barack Obama's first term in office, talking to those who have worked closely with him in the White House.
S9E11Cuba with Simon Reeve
Dec 11, 201260mSimon Reeve heads to Cuba to find a communist country in the middle of a capitalist revolution and asks if the new economic openness could lead to political liberalisation.
- S9E12
The Great Spanish Crash
Dec 16, 201260mInvestigative documentary series. Paul Mason travels to Spain to examine how a once thriving economy became the latest casualty of the Eurozone crisis.