In the fourth of this new foreign affairs series, Jim Muir visits a Muslim training school in Pakistan and finds that some of the children are kept in chains to prevent them from running away. They have been sent to the school by parents living in poverty who hope that their children might have better lives as mullahs. Instead, some of the children claim, they are beaten.

Matt Frei, who presents the programme from Rome, reports on how Italians faced with political instability are turning in increasing numbers to sorcerers and the occult.

There is also a report from Johannesburg by Tom Carver on the difficulties for blacks and whites of living together. Black South African businessman David Kupane has recently moved into a prosperous white suburb and is already missing the community spirit of Soweto.