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S13.E1 ∙ The Good Struggle

Fri, Jan 11, 2019

Perched high above the Qadisha valley in northern Lebanon, not far from the Syrian border, is the centuries-old Hamatoura monastery. In an intimate and revealing film Our World follows eighteen Greek Orthodox Christian monks, who make up the community here, as they go about their traditional and almost silent way of life: communal prayer, making cheese, candles, incense and farming. The monks reveal the personal journeys which brought them to the monastery.

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S13.E2 ∙ Ethiopia - Racing to Reform

Fri, Jan 18, 2019

It is arguably the most extraordinary story of reform in the world today. Africa's youngest leader, Abiy Ahmed, is transforming Ethiopia after decades of autocratic rule.

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S13.E3 ∙ Tunisia: A Woman's Share

Fri, Jan 25, 2019

With the president leading the way, Tunisia's Sharia-based inheritance laws, under which women are only entitled to half of what men receive, are being challenged.

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S13.E4 ∙ The Finnish Experiment

Fri, Feb 01, 2019

Finland has just completed a two-year trial of so-called 'basic income' for the unemployed. Our World followed four people during the trial to see what impact it has had.

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S13.E5 ∙ Raving in Palestine

Fri, Feb 08, 2019

Our World has been in Israel and the occupied West Bank, documenting the personal views of young Palestinians on the 'Rave' scene about the Arab-Israeli conflict.

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S13.E6 ∙ In the Shadow of Chernobyl

Thu, Feb 14, 2019

Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded 33 years ago in Soviet Ukraine. The cause, and who was to blame, is still being debated.

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S13.E7 ∙ India's Cow Vigilantes

Fri, Feb 22, 2019

Our World reports on the rise in so called 'cow vigilantism', Hindu extremists who attack religious minorities, often Muslims, in the name of protecting cows, which are sacred to Hindus.

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S13.E8 ∙ Saving Jesus

Fri, Mar 01, 2019

This week's Our World tells the story of a South African journalist's attempts to save a family friend from drug addiction.

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S13.E9 ∙ Portland's Battleground

Thu, Mar 07, 2019

Since the election of Donald Trump, rival groups of far-right and far-left activists have battled in the streets of some American cities. Perhaps most affected is Portland, Oregon, a liberal, progressive city in the Pacific Northwest.

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S13.E10 ∙ Australia's Water Wars

Fri, Mar 22, 2019

With a general election just weeks away, revelations of government bungling, corporate greed and corruption have thrust water to the forefront of Australia's political debate.

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S13.E11 ∙ The Rise of the Right in Europe

Fri, May 17, 2019

A wave of far-right politics is sweeping Europe. Jean Mackenzie travels across the continent to find out why the Right is on the rise.

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S13.E12 ∙ The Yazidi's Secret Children

Fri, May 24, 2019

Nafiseh Kohnavard has travelled to Iraq and Syria to hear from Yazidi women forced into sexual slavery by the so-called Islamic State, and who had children with their IS captors.

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S13.E13 ∙ Kenya's Night Runners

Fri, May 31, 2019

For BBC reporter Tom Odula investigates the enigma of the night runners, shining fresh light on the reality behind the myths, and revealing exclusive footage of night runners in action.

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S13.E14 ∙ The Last Sikhs of Afghanistan

Fri, Jun 07, 2019

For centuries, a significant Sikh minority has grown in relative safety in Afghanistan. But, in the last decade, persecution has seen the population drop.

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S13.E15 ∙ Fighting for Lapland

Thu, Jun 13, 2019

In northern Europe's Lapland, temperatures are rising faster than anywhere else in the world, threatening the livelihood of its indigenous Sami people. Central to Sami life is the ancient practice of reindeer herding, but climate change is putting the reindeer at risk of starvation. Many Sami also worry that plans to build a railway, to exploit Lapland's natural resources, will add to the pressure on their traditional way of life. For Our World, Erika Benke has been to Arctic Finland to hear from Sami women about their fears for the future.

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S13.E16 ∙ The Best Pakistani Transgender Retirement Home

Fri, Jun 21, 2019

In a country where it's expected that your extended family will look after you in old age, what do you do if they rejected you a long time ago?

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S13.E17 ∙ Denmark's Migrant Ghettos

Fri, Jun 28, 2019

Denmark's efforts to better integrate its migrant population are attracting controversy both at home and abroad, with the government designating 29 housing areas as 'migrant ghettos'.

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S13.E18 ∙ Sudan's Bloody Uprising

Fri, Jul 05, 2019

In December 2018, the people of Sudan rose up against the thirty-year dictatorship of Omar al-Bashir. Namak Khoshnaw follows a young Sudanese doctor who took part in the protests.

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S13.E19 ∙ Inside China's Camps

Fri, Jul 12, 2019

The BBC has been given rare access to the vast system of highly secure facilities thought to be holding more than a million Muslims in China's western region of Xinjiang. Authorities there insist they are just training schools.

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S13.E20 ∙ Two Brains, One Skull: Separating Conjoined Twins

Fri, Jul 19, 2019

Safa and Marwa are twin girls who were born joined at the head, then brought from Pakistan to London's Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital for a series of highly complex operations.

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S13.E22 ∙ The Fight for Rojava

Fri, Sep 27, 2019

Anna Campbell was killed by a Turkish air strike whilst fighting for the Kurdish armed forces. Anna's father Dirk learns about the Syrian Kurds and the cause his daughter was willing to die for.

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S13.E23 ∙ Russia: The Empire Strikes Back

Fri, Oct 04, 2019

Steve Rosenberg, a British journalist, travels through Russia and some Baltic countries to explore the legacy of 1989. The BBC played this in 2 X 30 minute episodes.

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S13.E24 ∙ Forgotten Britain

Fri, Oct 11, 2019

Michael Buchanan meets people in Hartlepool in the North East of England to find out how government cuts have affected their lives.

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S13.E25 ∙ Addicted: America's Opioid Crisis

Fri, Oct 18, 2019

America's love affair with opioids has had a devastating impact. Our World traces why so many Americans became addicted and meets the people who are now picking up the pieces.

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S13.E27 ∙ Silicon Valley's Online Slave Market

Fri, Nov 01, 2019

Google, Apple and Facebook-owned Instagram are enabling an illegal online slave market by approving and providing apps used for selling domestic workers in the Gulf. For Our World, BBC News Arabic's undercover investigation exposes the people in Kuwait breaking local and international laws on modern slavery, including a woman offering a child for sale. At the centre of this powerful investigative film is Fatou, a 16-year-old in Kuwait City, who has been there for nine months. We follow her rescue and journey back home to Guinea, West Africa and ask what is being done to control these apps.

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S13.E28 ∙ Inside the Hong Kong Protests

Fri, Nov 08, 2019

For four months protests have rocked Hong Kong, pitting hundreds of thousands of young, idealistic demonstrators against the authorities and the might of China.

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S13.E29 ∙ The Battle for the Great Barrier Reef

Fri, Nov 15, 2019

The Great Barrier Reef is in danger - it is now officially declared to be in a very poor state. Yet the battle to save a national icon has sparked furious clashes and opened up deep divides in Australian society. As Australia wrestles with the effects of climate change, Nick Lazaredes meets those who are fighting to preserve the reef and those being blamed for its sudden decline.

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S13.E30 ∙ Russian Women Fight Back

Thu, Nov 21, 2019

Russia faces a deadly epidemic of domestic violence. For years it has been hidden from view, but now a new generation of women are fighting back.

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S13.E31 ∙ Hidden Children of Bulgaria

Thu, Nov 28, 2019

In 2007 the BBC film Bulgaria's Abandoned Children exposed tragic levels of neglect in Mogilino Social Care Home, an institute for mentally and physically disabled young people. Since then, more than a quarter of a billion euros has been given by the EU to Bulgaria to replace the country's institutes with smaller family-like Group Homes. Film maker Kate Blewett returns to Bulgaria to find out what's happened to the children she met in Mogilino and reveals the reality of life for children in some of the new Group Homes.

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S13.E32 ∙ Qandeel: The Verdict

Thu, Dec 05, 2019

In 2016 Pakistani social media sensation Qandeel Baloch was murdered in her bed, the victim of a so-called honour killing. Will there be justice for Qandeel?

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