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Season 2018

  • S2018E01 'Hunt My Animals and I'll Catch You'

    • July 16, 2018
    • BBC News

    The women helping to protect one of the largest remaining elephant populations in Africa.

  • S2018E02 On Board the Attenborough Polar Ship

    • July 17, 2018
    • BBC News

    There's even space for a coffee shop, sauna and gym on the £200m vessel.

  • S2018E03 The School That Abolished Marking

    • July 18, 2018
    • BBC News

    A primary school in Peterborough has decided to abolish marking and introduce one-on-one feedback sessions with pupils instead.

  • S2018E04 How Frida Kahlo 'Fashioned' Her Identity

    • July 18, 2018
    • BBC News

    When Frida Kahlo died in 1954, her belongings were sealed until the caretaker of her estate passed away in 2002. For the first time her dresses, makeup and jewellery are being displayed outside Mexico. A new exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London uses this time capsule of a wardrobe to tell the story of Mexico's greatest painter.

  • S2018E05 Hong Kong's Rock Song of Freedom

    • July 30, 2018
    • BBC News

    In 1993, Hong Kong band Beyond released Boundless Oceans Vast Skies. The song has since become a Hong Kong protest anthem against mainland China but can it also bridge the divide?

  • S2018E06 The Mayor Who Wants a 'Sexy' Police Force

    • July 30, 2018
    • BBC News

    A small group of women in shorts is patrolling the streets of Broummana in Lebanon.

  • S2018E07 The Cost of Getting Shot in America

    • August 14, 2018
    • BBC News

    Megan Hobson still cannot walk properly since being caught in a crossfire of bullets in Florida six years ago. But for her and many other shooting victims, the price of survival is not just months of rehabilitation and operations, it is tens of thousands of dollars in medical bills with no end in sight.

  • S2018E08 Georgia's Rave Revolution

    • August 14, 2018
    • BBC News

    Dance is a form of protest in a country where tensions between liberal youths and far-right groups run deep.

  • S2018E09 The Brooklyn Scene You Don't Hear About

    • August 14, 2018
    • BBC News

    Black-owned businesses in Brooklyn are challenging the perception that gentrification has pushed out African American entrepreneurs.

  • S2018E10 Inside Small-town Britain's Drug Epidemic

    • August 15, 2018
    • BBC News

    County lines: Newsnight looks at the murky world of drug dealing.

  • S2018E11 Fishing for Coins to Survive in India

    • August 22, 2018
    • BBC News

    Fishing for coins in the Ganges river to survive.

  • S2018E12 Can US Schools Keep Students Safe?

    • August 24, 2018
    • BBC News

    Many US schools are introducing new tactics to try to prevent shootings.

  • S2018E13 What Americans Get Wrong About 911

    • August 28, 2018
    • BBC News

    The US emergency number has been misused by white people feeling threatened by African Americans who are simply mowing a lawn or leaving an Airbnb.

  • S2018E14 Tower Bock Living: We're Not Slum People

    • September 3, 2018
    • BBC News

    Meet Tamika, Sarah and Lamin who are trying to make 15 high-rise blocks in Birmingham a better place to live.

  • S2018E15 The Supermodels That Will Never Die

    • September 6, 2018
    • BBC News

    Balmain: The 3D digital models taking the fashion industry by storm.

  • S2018E16 The Plastic Smokers Leave Behind

    • September 6, 2018
    • BBC News

    Jason Alexander founded 'Rubbish Walks' to clean up beaches in Suffolk.

  • S2018E17 Video Game Design Secrets Revealed

    • September 10, 2018
    • BBC News

    The design work of hit games like Splatoon and Journey is celebrated in an exhibition.

  • S2018E18 Could This Missing Soldier be Alive?

    • September 10, 2018
    • BBC News

    Soviet soldier Igor Bilokurov went missing in Afghanistan in 1988 - his family think he has been found.

  • S2018E19 Yemen's Island 'Jewel' Under Threat

    • September 10, 2018
    • BBC News

    The island of Socotra has so far escaped largely unscathed as civil war rages on mainland Yemen, but the foreign powers bringing aid and infrastructure to the impoverished region could threaten its unique ecosystem.

  • S2018E20 'I Marched in a North Korean Parade'

    • September 11, 2018
    • BBC News

    Kim Ji-young, who defected in 2013, talks about what it's like to take part in a North Korean military parade.

  • S2018E21 Being a Young Carer

    • September 17, 2018
    • BBC News

    Hundreds of thousands of children across England are caring for an adult.

  • S2018E22 Why Does This Town Have So Many Twins?

    • September 20, 2018
    • BBC News

    The small Brazilian village has a phenomenal number of twin births.

  • S2018E23 Meet the Real Life Bodyguard

    • September 23, 2018
    • BBC News

    Detective Chief Inspector Steve Ray has protected heads of state and government in his work as a close protection officer. He lists communication and negotiation as key skills for the job, as well as the ability to work in a team. So how close is the role to its TV portrayal?

  • S2018E24 The American Who Bought London Bridge

    • September 25, 2018
    • BBC News

    Why did an American millionaire buy London Bridge and move it to the Arizona desert?

  • S2018E25 Are You Fit Enough

    • September 25, 2018
    • BBC News

    The British army has introduced new fitness tests.

  • S2018E26 Venezuelans' Long Walk from Hunger

    • September 25, 2018
    • BBC News

    What drives a mother to cross South America on foot?

  • S2018E27 'I Wish I Had a Family To Go Back Home To'

    • September 26, 2018
    • BBC News

    The people leaving care to go to university.

  • S2018E28 UK Rap Drama Stacking up Views

    • October 8, 2018
    • BBC News

    Meet the man behind Shiro's story.

  • S2018E29 Coping With Our Daughter's New Face

    • October 10, 2018
    • BBC News

    Katie and her parents describe what it has been like adjusting to life since she underwent a face transplant last year. Colm Flynn interviewed the family in Cleveland, where the 22-year-old is recovering.

  • S2018E30 Chained up While Seeking Mental Health Help

    • October 12, 2018
    • BBC News

    The BBC finds religious centres in Ghana using chains to restrain people.

  • S2018E31 Unblocking India's Sewers... By Hand

    • October 15, 2018
    • BBC News

    The practice of people removing human excrement and sewage with their bare hands was made illegal in India 25 years ago. That doesn't mean people have stopped doing it. It’s called ‘manual scavenging’ and the Indian government estimates that there are about 600,000 ‘manual scavengers’ in the country. Official estimates say that one worker dies every five days in India doing this type of work, but campaigners have told Newsnight this is the tip of the iceberg as many deaths go unreported.

  • S2018E32 The Children Saving Iceland's Pufflings

    • October 17, 2018
    • BBC News

    Puffins are an endangered species, and important populations in Iceland are disappearing.

  • S2018E33 The Venetians Trying to Reclaim Venice

    • October 17, 2018
    • BBC News

    Venice has lost more than half its population in the past 50 years.

  • S2018E34 Syrian Refugee who Lives in a Stately Home

    • October 19, 2018
    • BBC News

    Tamer fled Syria seven years ago, but now lives in a historic house in south-west London.

  • S2018E35 Cameroon: Anatomy of Killing

    • October 23, 2018
    • BBC News

    In July 2018 a horrifying video began to circulate on social media. It shows two women and two young children being led away at gunpoint by a group of Cameroonian soldiers. The captives are blindfolded, forced to the ground, and shot 22 times. The government of Cameroon initially dismissed the video as "fake news." But BBC Africa Eye, through forensic analysis of the footage, can prove exactly where this happened, when it happened, and who is responsible for the killings. In an interview with the Cameroonian Minister of communications the government finally acknowledged that the killings seen in this video were carried out by Cameroonian soldiers.

  • S2018E36 The Men Having Penis Fillers to Boost Their Self-esteem

    • October 31, 2018
    • BBC News

    Penis fillers, designed to increase a man's girth, are gaining in popularity, despite warnings over complications. The British Association of Urological Surgeons believe the rise is driven by a lack of self-esteem among men, whose view of a normal sized penis is distorted by pornography and whose view of cosmetic surgery has been normalised by celebrities and influencers promoting their procedures online. Two men tell the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire programme why they are not ashamed to have them.

  • S2018E37 Spinal Implant Helps Paralysed Patients Walk

    • November 1, 2018
    • BBC News

    Scientists develop an implant that can enable paralysed patients to walk temporarily.

  • S2018E38 The School with No Classrooms

    • November 6, 2018
    • BBC News

    In Finland, some schools are ditching traditional classrooms for open-plan learning.

  • S2018E39 Inside the Hospital Treating Acid Attack Scars

    • November 8, 2018
    • BBC News

    A growing number of people are being hospitalised because of acid attacks, new figures show. The BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme has been given access inside the St Andrew's Centre at Broomfield Hospital to see how they help survivors recover.

  • S2018E40 First 'Retirement Home' for Showbiz Beluga Whales

    • November 8, 2018
    • BBC News

    Beluga whales in a Chinese marine park are to be moved to a natural habitat in Iceland.

  • S2018E41 Doing Lifts: Are You Breaking the Law?

    • November 8, 2018
    • BBC News

    Illegal lift services are growing in popularity and may be putting young people at risk.

  • S2018E42 Brexit Blind Dates: Love Island's Zara and Magid Magid

    • November 19, 2018
    • BBC News

    Love Island's Zara McDermott, who recently quit her role as a policy adviser in the civil service so she can now speak freely on politics, is pro-Brexit. Magid Magid, Lord Mayor of Sheffield, supports the Green Party and wants another referendum.

  • S2018E43 Brexit Blind Dates: Prof Lord Winston and Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace

    • December 20, 2018
    • BBC News

    What happens when two strong-minded individuals from opposite sides of the Brexit debate sit down for dinner? Former Big Brother contestant Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace is pro-Leave. Labour peer and fertility expert Prof Lord Winston believes the UK would be much better remaining in the EU. They went into the meal without knowing whom they would be meeting.

  • S2018E44 Yemen: Where Children Search Through Rubbish for Food

    • November 21, 2018
    • BBC News

    After nearly four years of war in Yemen, Houthi rebels and the Saudi-led military coalition appeared to agree to pause fighting. But it wasn’t to last. International pressure has been mounting to end the conflict, which has pushed the country to the verge of starvation. The BBC’s Nawal Al-Maghafi reports from a camp for displaced people, where children hunt desperately for something to eat.

  • S2018E45 Brexit Blind Dates: June Sarpong and ex-Stig Perry McCarthy

    • November 26, 2018
    • BBC News

    What happens when two strong-minded individuals from opposite sides of the Brexit debate sit down for dinner? June Sarpong is a broadcaster who campaigned for Remain. Perry McCarthy is an ex-racing driver who became the first Stig on Top Gear, and is firmly opposed to the EU. They went into the meal without knowing who they would be meeting. But did they get on?

  • S2018E46 Brexit Blind Dates: Stanley Johnson and Ella Whelan

    • November 26, 2018
    • BBC News

    What happens when two strong-minded individuals from opposite sides of the Brexit debate sit down for dinner? Stanley Johnson, Boris Johnson's father, is a former Conservative MEP and founder of Environmentalists for Europe, who believes the UK would be better off remaining in the EU. Ella Whelan, author and journalist at Spiked, staunchly believes in Brexit. They went into the meal without knowing whom they would be meeting. But did they get on?

  • S2018E47 Brexit Blind Dates: Dustin Lance Black and Ulrika Johnson

    • November 27, 2018
    • BBC News

    Dustin Lance Black is an Oscar-winning screenwriter, married to Olympic diver Tom Daley, who believes the UK would be better off remaining in the EU. Ulrika Jonsson is best known for her TV presenting, and staunchly believes in Brexit. They went into the meal without knowing who they would be meeting. But did they get on?

  • S2018E48 How to Be a Spy in the Digital Age

    • December 11, 2018
    • BBC News

    The head of MI6 has just revealed a huge secret - his first ever mission But more than 20 years on from that, the demands on agents have massively changed. It's no longer just a matter of trench coats, cocktails and false identities. So what does it take to be a spy in the digital age?

Season 2019

  • S2019E01 Transgender Fertility: Should the NHS Pay?

    • January 7, 2019
    • BBC News

    Changing gender can often leave people infertile but, if their eggs or sperm are frozen before treatment, it is possible for them to start their own families. The BBC has found that about a quarter of all NHS Clinical Commissioning Groups in England offer free fertility treatment to transgender patients, while the rest don't. Now the equalities watchdog is suing NHS England – and calling on them to make the treatment freely available to all transgender patients. BBC reporter Ashley John-Baptiste has been to meet some of those affected.

  • S2019E02 Is This the World's Most Dangerous Commute?

    • January 15, 2019
    • BBC News

    How a homeless community in the Philippines is ferrying passengers around.

  • S2019E03 Intersex Surgeries

    • January 17, 2019
    • BBC News

    The UN says as many as 1.7% of the world have intersex traits - that's the same as the number of people with red hair. All over the world, children with intersex traits are being operated on to be sex assigned at birth - sometimes with devastating consequences. BBC Gender and Identity Reporter Megha Mohan explores the hidden world of intersex children.

  • S2019E04 "When Waters Rise, My Farm Floats"

    • January 17, 2019
    • BBC News

    Bangladesh is home to the world's largest river delta and prone to frequent, devastating flooding. Farmers here are expanding an ancient technique of building floating farms that simply rise and fall with the swelling waters. In times of rising sea levels, could this offer a solution to food security problems?

  • S2019E05 Meet Conjoined Twins Marieme and Ndeye

    • January 24, 2019
    • BBC News

    The conjoined twins have an uncertain future after moving from Senegal to the UK.

  • S2019E06 Instagram 'Helped Kill My Daughter'

    • January 25, 2019
    • BBC News

    Molly Russell, 14, took her own life in 2017. When her family looked into her Instagram account they found distressing material about depression and suicide. Molly's father Ian says he believes Instagram is partly responsible for his daughter's death. In a statement, Instagram said it "does not allow content that promotes or glorifies self-harm or suicide and will remove content of this kind." The UK government is urging social media companies to take more responsibility for harmful online content which illustrates and promotes methods of suicide and self-harm.

  • S2019E07 Niagara Falls Becomes a Winter Wonderland

    • January 29, 2019
    • BBC News

    The world-famous waterfall is transformed as a cold snap hits.

  • S2019E08 The PewDiePie Hackers

    • February 4, 2019
    • BBC News

    Would you break international laws for your favourite YouTube vlogger? Two teenagers did just that. They hacked tens of thousands of home and office printers in support of YouTube's biggest star, PewDiePie. The hackers are now in hiding from the police and internet vengeance. They tell us how they did it, and whether it was worth looking over their shoulders for the rest of their lives.

  • S2019E09 The Gompertz Guide to... Dior

    • February 5, 2019
    • BBC News

    Almost everything you'll need to know about fashion designer, Christian Dior.

  • S2019E10 How Sesame Street Changed the World

    • February 5, 2019
    • BBC News

    Sesame Street is 50 years old.