Unreported World (2000)
Synopsis
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.
Network
Channel 4
Episodes
Azerbaijan: All the President's Oil
Marcel Theroux tries to find out who is benefitting from the enormous gas and oil reserves in a country riddled with corruption.
Brazil: Fighting for a Seat at the Table
Sonya Saul finds that more than a decade of exposure to the global free market has changed little for the poorest 40% of the population who still live on less than two dollars a day.
Sudan: Market of Death
Saira Shah travels to the centre of a sleeping sickness epidemic, and discovers that potentially lethal cocktails of chemicals are being injected into patients who are denied a safe drug owing to the lack of financial incentive for the major pharmaceutical companies.
Indonesia: A 21st Century War
Jonathan Miller investigates the fate of the Ambonese people on the island of Maluku in Indonesia as that country takes part in a bitter religious war between Muslims and Christians.
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Original Title
Unreported World
Status
Returning Series
Seasons
40
Episodes
395