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Why Poverty?
Four Born Every Second
- Broadcast
- 2012 (59 mins)
Four Born Every Second puts the spotlight on birth and infant mortality around the world. 130 million babies are born each year, but the circumstances - and country - of their birth will determine their life...
Why Poverty?
Stealing Africa
- Broadcast
- 2012 (58 mins)
Ruschlikon is a village in Switzerland with a very low tax rate and very wealthy residents. There is so much money in the public coffers that Mayor can’t spend it all, largely thanks to the contribution...
Earth Reporters
My City and Your City
- Broadcast
- 2011 (22 mins)
St Louis Senegal is the former colonial capital of West Africa. An Atlantic gem in the style of the great Creole cities. Now it is also the most threatened city in Africa from rising sea levels. In this...
Earth Reporters
Sea Change
- Broadcast
- 2011 (25 mins)
In the past generation, the science of our seas has undergone a revolution. As the ice caps melt and coral reefs face destruction, the urgency to understand our oceans has never been greater. They cover 72%...
Earth Reporters
Beating Plague: Rinderpest
- Broadcast
- 2011 (25 mins)
In this episode Kenyan Earth Reporter, Dr Dickens Chibeu, a veterinary epidemiologist from Nairobi, tells the story of how one of the world s most destructive diseases has been stamped out after centuries...
Earth Reporters
Burning Questions in the Freezing Cold
- Broadcast
- 2011 (22 mins)
Are melting ice sheets and glaciers disrupting global oceanic circulation - the ‘thermohaline’ effect? If so the weather patterns in many countries could change. A team of scientists has set out to the...
Earth Reporters
Damming the Mekong
- Broadcast
- 2011 (27 mins)
PhD student Thitarat Sriwattanapong travels from Thailand to One Square Mile on the banks of the great Mekong River in Xayaburi, Laos. Its the proposed site of the first of a number of new dams which could...
Syrian School
Changing Schools
- Broadcast
- 2010 (59 mins)
1/5 of observational documentary about life at 4 schools in Damascus, Syria. We meet the larger than life head teacher of an upmarket girls’ school who is determined the girls have freedom to express...
Syrian School
Rap Refugees
- Broadcast
- 2010 (59 mins)
2/5 of observational documentary about life at four schools in Damascus, Syria. This episode follows two girls who aspire to be rappers.
Syrian School
Being Inspired
- Broadcast
- 2010 (59 mins)
3/5 of observational documentary about life at four schools in Damascus, Syria. Two pupils give public readings of their poetry.