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Season 2003

2003 · 12 episodes

  1. 1. Girls Alone

    2003-03-04 · 48m

    A 'social experiment' fly-on-the-wall documentary following 10 12-year girls left alone to fend for themselves in a house without adult supervision.

  2. 2. Snatched

    2003-07-08

    On a holiday to the then Yugoslavia, Alison met and fell in love with a man. They moved back to the UK together where they married and had two children. However, after turmoil in his home country, her husband became radicalized by his Muslim faith, and the couple divorced. Alison was granted custody of the children, but her ex-husband fled with them. Now Alison must track them down on a journey which takes her not just to what is now Bosnia, but also to the tumultuous patriarchy of Iran, where the father's rights trump all else.

  3. 3. A Mother's Love

    2003-07-15

    In any society a mother's love for her child is thought to be sacred. Late in 2003 in an American court that most universal of instincts was being called into question. A jury had to decide if Terri Milbrandt had violated the trust of her daughter and perpetrated a sadistic fraud, deceived a caring community.

  4. 4. Bad Behaviour

    2003-07-22

  5. 5. Behind Closed Doors

    2003-07-29

  6. 6. A Tale of Two Alis

    2003-09-25

  7. 7. Battle for a Baby

    2003-10-02

  8. 8. Child Sex Trade

    2003-10-08

    Filmmaker Liviu Tipurita investigates the pan-European trafficking of children for sex.

  9. 9. Beauty Queens And Bloodshed

    2003-10-16

  10. 10. Crooked Tarts and Coronets

    2003-10-22

    The story of two Australian brothel madams who arrived in England in 1996 and began passing themselves off as aristocratic ladies before being caught by the police.

  11. 11. The Last White Kids

    2003-10-30

    A look at what it is like to be an ethnic minority in Britain from a child's point-of-view.

  12. 12. 14 Alone

    2003-11-18

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