Episodes 16

1 Cuba, Basketball and Betrayal

April 12, 2013

Ade Adepitan meets some of Cuba's top basketball players and finds out why some of them are defecting when the country seems to be opening up.

2 Saving Kenya's Street Kids

April 19, 2013

Aidan Hartley reports from his home town in Kenya on an extraordinary project to rescue the children who live on its streets.

3 Gaza's Property Ladder

April 26, 2013

In war-torn Gaza, Location, Location, Location means finding an apartment in one of the highly sought-after areas that are usually not shelled or hit by missiles.

4 Syria's Rebel Doctor

May 3, 2013

Reporter Evan Williams meets Dr Rami Habib, the NHS doctor who is risking his life by providing frontline medical care to the victims of the worsening conflict in Syria.

5 Hong Kong's Tiger Tutors

May 10, 2013

Marcel Theroux meets the students in Hong Kong aiming for success in one of the most competitive exam environments in the world, and meets the millionaire tutor seen as a key to success.

6 Bangladesh Women's Driving School

May 17, 2013

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Unreported World meets the young women in Bangladesh who are learning to be professional drivers but who face extraordinary odds, both on the dangerous roads and from social taboos.

7 Yemen: Death Row Teenagers

May 24, 2013

Krishnan Guru-Murthy travels to Yemen to reveal the scores of young men locked up in prisons and awaiting execution for crimes they are accused of committing while they were children.

8 Making Brazil Beautiful

May 31, 2013

Seyi Rhodes reports on the huge growth in cosmetic surgery in Brazil, where the pursuit of beauty means more subsidised or free surgery; does Brazil risk losing what's so special about its own people?

9 Afghanistan's Hunted Women

October 7, 2013

Unreported World gains rare access to secret houses in Afghanistan sheltering women hiding from violent husbands or from families who have tried to kill them for refusing arranged marriages.

10 Venezuela's Kidnap Cops

October 11, 2013

Caracas is the kidnap capital of the world. Unreported World follows the Venezuelan police's elite Anti-Kidnap Squad as they fight the kidnap gangs with brute force and technical ingenuity.

11 China's Lonely Hearts

October 18, 2013

China is predicted to have 24 million single men looking for love by 2020. Reporter Marcel Theroux meets two people who represent inequality in love in modern China.

12 Mexico: The Abandoned

October 25, 2013

Ade Adepitan, Daniel Bogado and former hospital patients gain access to Mexico's psychiatric institutions to secretly film the horrific and inhumane conditions endured by thousands of men and women.

13 India: Slumkid Reporters

November 1, 2013

Reporter Mary-Ann Ochota and director Suzie Samant travel to Delhi to meet the remarkable children who run the only newspaper in India campaigning on the problems that street children face.

14 Egypt's Tomb Raiders

November 8, 2013

Unreported World investigates the shocking effects Egypt's political unrest is having on the country's tourism industry and its unique archaeological heritage.

15 The Jungle Midwife

November 15, 2013

Seyi Rhodes meets a local midwife in the jungles of the Central African Republic saving mothers and babies in one of the most dangerous places in the world to give birth.

16 Nepal: The Orphan Business

November 28, 2013

Unreported World goes undercover in orphanages in Nepal, where they discover that many children have been taken from impoverished parents, and used by orphanage owners to attract donations.

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