Unreported World — Season 1

Sept 2000

Marcel Theroux tries to find out who is benefitting from the enormous gas and oil reserves in a country riddled with corruption.

Sept 2000

Sonya Saul finds that more than a decade of exposure to the global free market has changed little for the poorest 40% of the population who still live on less than two dollars a day.

Sept 2000

Saira Shah travels to the centre of a sleeping sickness epidemic, and discovers that potentially lethal cocktails of chemicals are being injected into patients who are denied a safe drug owing to the lack of financial incentive for the major pharmaceutical companies.

Sept 2000

Jonathan Miller investigates the fate of the Ambonese people on the island of Maluku in Indonesia as that country takes part in a bitter religious war between Muslims and Christians.