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Duration: 58 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two Northern IrelandLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Wales

This final episode follows staff and claimants at Bolton Jobcentre. New claimant Paula is stunned to realise that she will only have £532 a month to live off until she has paid back her advances. Show more

Duration: 59 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland HD

At Toxteth jobcentre, manager Gemma is under pressure to ensure her staff meet new claimants every week until they get a job - but with too few staff and too many claimants, it is proving difficult. Show more

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC Two HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Wales

The story of Princess Latifa, daughter of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, who attempted to escape Dubai in early 2018 but was captured. Show more

Contributors

Producer:
Jane McMullen
Director:
Jane McMullen
Executive Producer:
Sarah Waldron
Executive Producer:
Sam Bagnall

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC ThreeLatest broadcast: on BBC One Wales

Intimate and moving documentary about Stuart Mangan, paralysed from the head down after a rugby injury, as he leaves hospital and gets on with living a new and different life. Show more

Duration: 59 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Wales HD

At Peckham Jobcentre in London, Rachel has recently moved onto Universal Credit after leaving her 27-year NHS career to become a carer for her ill parents. Show more

Duration: 55 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One HDLatest broadcast: on BBC One Northern Ireland HD

Documentary in which Annie Price, who is about to become a mother for the first time, reveals the reality of becoming a parent. Show more

Duration: 59 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One WestLatest broadcast: on BBC One Northern Ireland HD

Documentary following Annie Price, who was badly burnt in a fire as a baby, as she travels to South Korea to explore a culture where plastic surgery is common. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Annie Price
Executive Producer:
Sarah Waldron
Director:
Clare Johns
Producer:
Clare Johns

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC ThreeLatest broadcast: on BBC One Wales

Documentary about a woman's return to Afghanistan, where she discovers a world of violence against women and gains a new understanding of why her family decided to leave. Show more

Contributors

Producer:
Sarah Waldron
Producer:
Sarah Waldron
Executive Producer:
Tom Giles
Executive Producer:
Tom Giles

Duration: 59 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland HD

The story of Anna Campbell, who travelled to northern Syria in secret in 2017. Just eight months after arriving and with no military background, Anna went to the front line to fight with Kurdish YPJ. Show more

Contributors

Director:
Marina Parker
Producer:
Marina Parker
Executive Producer:
Sarah Waldron

Duration: 59 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland

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Exploring the life of Aung San Suu Kyi. After 15 years of house arrest in Myanmar, she was celebrated as an icon of democracy, but ten years on, she is seen by many as an international pariah. Show more

Contributors

Executive Producer:
Sarah Waldron
Producer:
Ali Fowle

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC ThreeLatest broadcast: on BBC Three

Twenty-three-year-old Judith Wanga grew up in London but was born thousands of miles away in the Democratic Republic of Congo. She's now going back to Congo - 20 years later. Show more

Contributors

54 Days

Series 1

America and the Pandemic

Duration: 59 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Wales HD

Available for years

Through moving and intimate interviews with public health officials and scientists, this film chronicles 54 days in which the United States made crucial decisions about the spread of Covid-19. Show more

Contributors

Producer:
Emma Supple
Executive Producer:
Sarah Waldron

This World

The Coffee Trail with Simon Reeve

Duration: 50 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC WORLD NEWS AfricaLatest broadcast: on BBC WORLD NEWS South Asia

Simon Reeve heads to Vietnam to uncover the stories behind the morning pick-me-up. He travels to the central highlands where he meets the people who grow, pick and pack our coffee. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Simon Reeve
Producer:
Andy Wells
Director:
Andy Wells
Series Producer:
Sarah Waldron
Executive Producer:
Sam Bagnall

Genres

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC Two Northern IrelandLatest broadcast: on BBC Two England

Documentary series examining how the 11-plus selection test impacts on education. The first episode follows children from Upland Primary School as they prepare to take the test. Show more

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC Two HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two HD

How the 11-plus selection test impacts on education. Following a student who finds it hard to focus and an extremely bright student who clashes with the school authorities. Show more

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC Two Northern IrelandLatest broadcast: on BBC Two HD

How the 11-plus selection test impacts on education. In the third and final part of this series, students at Erith School and Townley Grammar face their GCSE mocks. Show more

This World

Cuba with Simon Reeve

Duration: 50 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC WORLD NEWS AfricaLatest broadcast: on BBC WORLD NEWS Europe

Simon Reeve heads to Cuba to find a communist country in the middle of a capitalist revolution and asks if the new economic openness could lead to political liberalisation. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Simon Reeve
Director:
Tom McCarthy
Producer:
Tom McCarthy
Series Producer:
Sarah Waldron
Executive Producer:
Sam Bagnall

Genres

This World

Iraq: Did My Son Die in Vain?

Duration: 50 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC WORLD NEWS AfricaLatest broadcast: on BBC WORLD NEWS North America

The father of an RAF reservist killed in Basra in 2007 travels to the Iraqi city to discover the impact of the war and the subsequent occupation on ordinary Iraqis. Show more

Contributors

Executive Producer:
Sam Bagnall
Series Producer:
Sarah Waldron

Genres