Our World (2007)

Season 2007

Current affairs documentary reporting on issues around the world.
Where to Watch Season 2007
36 Episodes
  • 16/06/2007
    E1
    16/06/2007As Darcey Bussell takes her final curtain call, she reflects on nearly 20 years as principal dancer of the Royal Ballet in London. Bussell talks to Louise Minchin and explains why she is retiring at the peak of her powers
  • Hunters of the Twilight
    E2
    Hunters of the TwilightAs scientists warn that global warming could threaten the future of animals and people in the Arctic, Fergal Keane reports on the unique world of the Inuits of Canada's high Arctic. He joins the hunters fighting to preserve an ancient way of life.
  • Turkish Journey
    E3
    Turkish JourneyAhead of the July 22nd parliamentary elections, BBC's Ben Hammersley travels across Turkey examining tensions between Ataturk's secular legacy and Islam.
  • Our World: Taking on the Taleban
    E4
    Our World: Taking on the TalebanBBC Correspondent Alastair Leithead spent three weeks with British troops and aid workers in southern Afghanistan. British forces are fighting a guerrilla war with the Taleban on a mission to help the Afghan government control lawless Helmand province.
  • 28/07/2007
    E5
    28/07/2007It's only 40 years since the United States overturned the ban on interracial marriage. Sean Fletcher goes on a very personal journey to America, to look at that historic Supreme Court ruling, and the mixed race couple who fought to change history.
  • Scouting: Prepare for the future
    E6
    Scouting: Prepare for the futureThe Scouts are celebrating their 100th anniversary. Robert Hall reports from South Africa and the UK on how the biggest youth organisation in the world is facing up to the challenges of the 21st century.
  • Afghanistan...A Country on the Edge
    E7
    Afghanistan...A Country on the EdgeHostage-taking and bus bombs on the streets, insurgency and foreign troops struggling to keep the peace. John Simpson travels across Afghanistan to find out whether the country is on the brink of becoming another Iraq.
  • 18/08/2007
    E8
    18/08/2007Austria is waging a war on waste. Nearly 60 per cent of all rubbish there is recycled compared to seven per cent in Britain. Euro 2008 is set to be the greenest tournament ever. Liz McKean journeyed across Austria to find that everyone is doing their bit.
  • A Growing Problem
    E9
    A Growing ProblemTwo-and-a-half million children in Britain are overweight or obese. The government aims to halt the rise in childhood obesity by 2010. Jackie Long has been following a group of families on a programme devised by the Institute of Child Health. Has it worked?
  • Drugs or Democracy?
    E10
    Drugs or Democracy?Ninety per cent of the world's illegal opium production now comes from one country, Afghanistan. David Loyn sets out to discover whether the thriving illegal drug trade was an inevitable transition in the country's development, or something more sinister.
  • The Longest Journey
    E11
    The Longest JourneyDuncan Kennedy travels with illegal migrants to see first hand the incredible risks they take for a new life in the USA.
  • Zimbabwe's Slow Death
    E12
    Zimbabwe's Slow DeathA report on the state of Zimbabwe. The BBC's Sue Lloyd-Roberts ventures into the country undercover, and finds a nation on the brink of catastrophe, with thousands of people dying each week from malnutrition
  • Basra Diary
    E13
    Basra DiaryAmateur film-maker Josh Fortune gives a vivid insight into life on the frontline during his six months in Basra with the Territorial Army Parachute Regiment.
  • A Country Practice
    E14
    A Country PracticeA doctor, his wife and their four children swapped the comforts of their UK home for the wilderness of north eastern Afghanistan. They're working to improve the health of some of the poorest people on Earth. Alastair Leithead went to meet the remarkable family.
  • A Country Practice
    E15
    A Country PracticeIt is estimated that unpaid carers save the economy 87 billion pounds a year. Many make extraordinary sacrifices to look after their friends and family. These are the moving stories of three members of Britain's caring society.
  • Sporting Chance
    E16
    Sporting ChanceDominic Cotton travels to Namibia with young people from deprived parts of England. Visiting their international counterparts, they share ideas about how sport can be used to enhance communities. They leave determined to use their experiences back home.
  • White Horse Village
    E17
    White Horse VillageVillagers in White Horse Village in China are being moved from their homes as part of government plans to move 500 million people out of rural areas and into high rise blocks in the cities. In this film Carrie Gracie returns to see how they are faring.
  • The Prying Game
    E18
    The Prying GameBritain has more video surveillance cameras than any other country. Since 9/11 the government has brought in new gadgets that let them track us more easily. So what technology will be around in the near future, how will it be used, and do we really mind?
  • End Game?
    E19
    End Game?The battle against insurgents in Iraq. Paul Wood travelled from the US to Iraq with a squad of the 101st Airborne. This special report assesses the chances for victory over the insurgents and a successful handover by the Americans to Iraqi government forces.
  • A Journey Through the North West Passage
    E20
    A Journey Through the North West PassageRecord melting caused by global warming cleared a direct route through the Arctic for the first time this summer. David Shukman joins a Canadian icebreaker as it makes a 600 mile journey of scientific discovery.
  • Red Line Roulette
    E21
    Red Line RouletteNine years after Britain and other powers intervened against Serbia in Kosovo, the status of the Balkan province remains undecided. Humphrey Hawksley reports.
  • Last Post in Arabia
    E22
    Last Post in ArabiaAfter a violent insurgency forty years ago, British troops were finally pushed out of Aden, the last British colony in the Middle East. Brian Barron watched the British leave and now returns to examine the fate of Aden and its people.
  • Iraq Surge
    E23
    Iraq SurgeIt's a violent world for US troops operating in Iraq. But is it getting any easier for them? Mark Urban travels to Iraq to talk to US soldiers.
  • Adventure Capitalist
    E24
    Adventure CapitalistOne of Britain's top executives shocked the City this year by giving up his job to help the less well off in Africa. Hugh Pym travelled to Kenya to find out how Richard Harvey is getting on, and to see what drove him to such a dramatic career change.
  • Darcey's Swansong
    E25
    Darcey's SwansongThis year Britain's best know ballerina, Darcey Bussell, took her final curtain call. Here's another chance to see Louise Minchin's revealing film, as Darcey reflects on nearly two decades as principal dancer of the Royal Ballet in London.
  • Covering Iraq
    E26
    Covering IraqBBC correspondent Andrew North has been reporting from Iraq since the invasion in 2003. He looks back on his time there and examines key events, such as the recent 'surge' of US troops and the British redeployment out of central Basra.
  • Passage to Pakistan
    E27
    Passage to PakistanThe BBC's Mishal Hussein looks at the changes in Pakistan since the partition of India in 1947.
  • 07/07/2007
    E28
    07/07/2007A BBC team joins the first research mission to a vast new feature of the Arctic map. For 3,000 years the ice was attached to the Canadian coast, but it's now broken free in what scientists say is one of the most alarming signs of global warming.
  • Tour of Duty
    E29
    Tour of DutyRoyal Marine Rich Robertson has just returned from a 6 month tour of duty in Afghanistan. BBC News gave him a camera to capture his experiences, and his footage provides a unique insight into life on the frontline for British troops fighting the Taliban.
  • 23/06/2007
    E30
    23/06/2007Royal Marine Rich Robertson has returned from Afghanistan. BBC News gave him a camera to capture his experiences on the frontline. Claire Marshall reports on Rich's first mission, as he prepared to leave his family and friends for Afghanistan.
  • 09/06/2007
    E31
    09/06/2007In the Six Day War in June 1967, Israel smashed the armed forces of Egypt, Jordan and Syria, deepening the Arab Israeli conflict. Forty years later its legacy still dominates the Middle East, as Jeremy Bowen reports.
  • 02/06/2007
    E32
    02/06/2007The scramble for energy supplies and worries about global warming have led to a big come-back for the nuclear industry, with dozens of new power stations due to be built in coming years. But who will control it?
  • Congo: The Mountains of Fear
    E33
    Congo: The Mountains of FearIn the mountains of eastern Congo a warlord's army has driven tens of thousands from their homes. His soldiers, accused of mass rape and murder, act under the noses of a United Nations peacekeeping force. Fergal Keane investigates whether the UN is unable or unwilling to defend the very people its mandate is supposed to protect.
  • 28/04/2007
    E34
    28/04/2007Thirteen year-old Ashok Kumar has been a 'debt slave' since he was nine - defined by the UN as modern day slavery and against Indian and international law. Damian Grammaticas' investigation freed Ashok but there may be millions of others unable to escape slavery.
  • 07/04/2007
    E35
    07/04/2007West Africa produces more than half the world's cocoa that goes into making chocolate. While our demand for chocolate is increasing, cocoa farmers are getting poorer. Humphrey Hawksley investigates the dark underbelly of one of our best-loved luxuries.
  • 06/04/2007
    E36
    06/04/2007Hundreds of people became refugees after an island vanished beneath the waves. Sea level rise and climate change take part of the blame. Roger Harrabin travels to the Bay of Bengal to find out how climate change could put millions at risk.
 
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