Season 1

1. Azerbaijan: All the President's Oil

2000-09-08

Marcel Theroux tries to find out who is benefitting from the enormous gas and oil reserves in a country riddled with corruption.

2. Brazil: Fighting for a Seat at the Table

2000-09-15

Sonya Saul finds that more than a decade of exposure to the global free market has changed little for the poorest 40% of the population who still live on less than two dollars a day.

3. Sudan: Market of Death

2000-09-22

Saira Shah travels to the centre of a sleeping sickness epidemic, and discovers that potentially lethal cocktails of chemicals are being injected into patients who are denied a safe drug owing to the lack of financial incentive for the major pharmaceutical companies.

4. Indonesia: A 21st Century War

2000-09-29

Jonathan Miller investigates the fate of the Ambonese people on the island of Maluku in Indonesia as that country takes part in a bitter religious war between Muslims and Christians.