This World - Season 9 / Year 2012
Season 9 / Year 2012
Network
Episodes12
DatesFeb 3, 2012 - Dec 16, 2012
Episodes
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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