Season 2012

1. Egypt - Children of the Revolution

2012-02-03 · 60m

Investigative documentary. A year-long look at the lives of three young revolutionaries as their differing visions for the new Egypt collide following 2011's Arab Spring.

2. Inside the Meltdown

2012-02-23 · 60m

Investigative documentary. A look at 2011's tsunami that swamped Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant, making 100,000 people homeless and causing nuclear meltdown and a radiation leak.

3. The Fastest Changing Place on Earth

2012-03-05 · 60m

Investigative documentary series. Following the lives of three people in rural China as their tiny farming community is transformed by a massive government urbanisation project.

4. Interviews Before Execution: A Chinese Talk Show

2012-03-12 · 60m

Investigative documentary series. This World explores Interviews before Execution, an extraordinary Saturday night talk show in China which interviews prisoners on death row.

5. The Mormon Candidate

2012-03-27 · 60m

International investigative documentary series. John Sweeney investigates Mormonism, the belief system of Mitt Romney, the potential Republican candidate for the 2012 US election.

6. Norway's Massacre

2012-04-15 · 60m

This World tells the story of the 2011 massacre in Norway, offering insight into the life and mind of the perpetrator, Anders Breivik, and exposing the hatred that inspired him.

7. The Shame of the Catholic Church

2012-05-01 · 60m

Decades of clerical abuse and cover up have left the Catholic church in Ireland at breaking point. Now Darragh MacIntyre reveals new evidence of a scandal that goes to the very top of the Irish church.

8. Michael Portillo's Great Euro Crisis

2012-05-09 · 60m

Michael Portillo visits Germany, Europe's economic powerhouse, and debt-stricken Greece. Is this the moment the Eurozone becomes more united, or will it be pulled apart?

9. Aung San Suu Kyi: The Choice

2012-09-22 · 60m

Documentary which captures the moment when the Nobel Prize-winning dissident Aung San Suu Kyi took the huge, risky step into everyday politics in Burma.

10. Obama: What Happened to Hope?

2012-11-04 · 60m

With days to go before the US presidential election, Andrew Marr assesses Barack Obama's first term in office, talking to those who have worked closely with him in the White House.

11. Cuba with Simon Reeve

2012-12-11 · 60m

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.

12. The Great Spanish Crash

2012-12-16 · 60m

Investigative documentary series. Paul Mason travels to Spain to examine how a once thriving economy became the latest casualty of the Eurozone crisis.