Anja Popp
Self - Reporter
Unreported World (2000)
Season 9
Unreported World is a foreign affairs programme produced by Quicksilver Media Productions and broadcast by Channel 4 in the United Kingdom. Over the course of its twenty-four series, reporters have travelled all over the world in an attempt to uncover stories usually ignored by the world media.
Released Sept. 8, 2000
Episode 25 min
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Genres: Documentary, News
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Network: Channel 4
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S9E1 - Egypt's Rubbish People
Evan Williams visits the Zabbaleen, a Coptic Christian community in Cairo living and working in rubbish in ghettos overrun by rats, who claim that they are treated as second-class citizens.
Feb. 8, 2008, midnight
S9E2 - USA: The Devil's Highway
Aidan Hartley reports from the Sonoran Desert in Northern Mexico, crossed every day by thousands of illegal immigrants from Central and South America, desperate to reach the USA.
Feb. 15, 2008, midnight
S9E3 - Nicaragua: Blood, Church and State
Kate Seelye reports on the consequences of a total ban on abortions, with women scared to visit hospitals and doctors afraid to carry out life-saving operations on female patients.
Feb. 22, 2008, midnight
S9E4 - Russia: Railway of Bones
Sam Kiley discovers a nation where political dissent is stifled, corruption is rife, and where little of its huge wealth reaches a population racked by poverty, alcoholism and suicide.
Feb. 29, 2008, midnight
S9E5 - Bangladesh: The Drowning Country
Ramita Navai finds out what it's like to live in this poor, extremely overpopulated, flat country on the front line of climate change.
March 7, 2008, midnight
S9E6 - Sudan: Meet the Janjaweed
Nima Elbagir meets an Arab militia accused of being an important element of the Janjaweed, blamed for the atrocities in Darfur.
March 14, 2008, midnight
S9E7 - Gaza: Reign of the Rockets
Sam Kiley finds Israel and Hamas on a collision course, each new 'incursion' or 'terror attack' seemingly driving them on towards outright war.
March 28, 2008, midnight
S9E8 - Benin: Voodoo Children
Evan Williams visits the only country in the world to recognize Voodoo as a state religion.
April 4, 2008, midnight
S9E9 - Brazil: The Amazon's Golden Curse
Jenny Kleeman reveals how the record high price of gold brought about by the global financial crisis is affecting some of the earth's most isolated people.
April 11, 2008, midnight
S9E10 - Kenya's Human Time Bomb
Aidan Hartley finds the government, UN and NGOs all refusing to acknowledge the high birthrate as the major cause of poverty, violence, homelessness and pollution.
April 18, 2008, midnight
S9E11 - South Africa: Body Parts for Sale
Ramita Navai reveals that hundreds of people have been killed for body parts to be used in traditional medicine and meets a man who admits to torturing and killing people as part of his trade - as a 'healer'
Oct. 17, 2008, midnight
S9E12 - India: God's Own Country
Jenny Kleeman investigates the allegations varying from fraud to physical and sexual abuse being faced by some of Kerala's 3,000 holy men.
Oct. 24, 2008, midnight
S9E13 - Abkhazia: Valley Of The Lost
Aidan Hartley reports on the continuing bitter ethnic conflict between Georgians and Abkhazians which has cost thousands of lives over the last decade.
Oct. 31, 2008, midnight
S9E14 - Paraguay's Painful Harvest
Tanya Datta reports on a nationwide peasant uprising against farmers of genetically-modified soya who are mainly Brazilian and seen as colonists partly responsible for the almost total deforestation of the eastern provinces.
Nov. 7, 2008, midnight
S9E15 - Philippines' Dirty War
Evan Williams reports on an armed rebel group's efforts to seize control of the country's resources from the 135 families who hold economic and political power, as hundreds of students, activists and left wing politicians disappear without trace.
Nov. 14, 2008, midnight
S9E16 - Venezuela: Cult of the Thugs
Nima Elbagir finds Venezuelans turning to the spirits of dead gangster criminals for protection against crime.
Nov. 21, 2008, midnight
S9E17 - Thailand: Lessons in Terror
Seyi Rhodes finds schools on the front-line in a battle for hearts and minds between the Thai government and the extremists among Muslim separatists in the ethnic Malay south.
Dec. 5, 2008, midnight
S9E18 - Yemen: Sea of Tears
Dec. 12, 2008, midnight
S9E19 - Mexico: Seven Days in Hell
This programme reveals how the demand for cocaine has led to thousands of deaths in Mexico.
Dec. 19, 2008, midnight
Network: Channel 4
Episode Runtime: 25 min.
Season Runtime: 30 min.
Released: Sept. 8, 2000
Last Air Date: Nov. 21, 2025, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: NR
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