This World - Season 9 / Year 2012

This World - Season 9 / Year 2012

Season 9 / Year 2012

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Episodes12
DatesFeb 3, 2012 - Dec 16, 2012
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Episodes

Egypt: Children of the Revolution
Year 2012Episode 160 min

Egypt: Children of the Revolution

Investigative 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.
Feb 3, 2012
Inside the Meltdown
Year 2012Episode 260 min

Inside the Meltdown

Investigative 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.
Feb 23, 2012
The Fastest Changing Place on Earth
Year 2012Episode 360 min

The Fastest Changing Place on Earth

Investigative documentary series. Following the lives of three people in rural China as their tiny farming community is transformed by a massive government urbanisation project.
Mar 5, 2012
Interviews Before Execution: A Chinese Talk Show
Year 2012Episode 460 min

Interviews Before Execution: A Chinese Talk Show

Investigative documentary series. This World explores Interviews before Execution, an extraordinary Saturday night talk show in China which interviews prisoners on death row.
Mar 12, 2012
The Mormon Candidate
Year 2012Episode 560 min

The Mormon Candidate

International investigative documentary series. John Sweeney investigates Mormonism, the belief system of Mitt Romney, the potential Republican candidate for the 2012 US election.
Mar 27, 2012
Norway's Massacre
Year 2012Episode 660 min

Norway's Massacre

This 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.
Apr 15, 2012
The Shame of the Catholic Church
Year 2012Episode 760 min

The Shame of the Catholic Church

Decades 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.
May 5, 2012
Michael Portillo's Great Euro Crisis
Year 2012Episode 860 min

Michael Portillo's Great Euro Crisis

Michael 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?
May 9, 2012
Aung San Suu Kyi: The Choice
Year 2012Episode 960 min

Aung San Suu Kyi: The Choice

Documentary which captures the moment when the Nobel Prize-winning dissident Aung San Suu Kyi took the huge, risky step into everyday politics in Burma.
Sep 22, 2012
Obama: What Happened to Hope?
Year 2012Episode 1060 min

Obama: What Happened to Hope?

With 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.
Nov 4, 2012
Cuba with Simon Reeve
Year 2012Episode 1160 min

Cuba with Simon Reeve

Simon 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.
Dec 11, 2012
The Great Spanish Crash
Year 2012Episode 1260 min

The Great Spanish Crash

Investigative documentary series. Paul Mason travels to Spain to examine how a once thriving economy became the latest casualty of the Eurozone crisis.
Dec 16, 2012

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