Projects
Congo’s Forgotten Children
Congo’s wars have raged for more than twelve years and the cost to human life has been enormous. Nearly five-and-a-half million people have been killed Read more »
Lifeline
The BBC makes, on behalf of various charities and NGOs, films highlighting their work. These films are broadcast monthly as appeals for funds. Read more »
Dispatches: Unseen Gaza
A Dispatches special in which Jon Snow examines the difficulties that news organisations around the world faced reporting the conflict in Gaza in January 2009. Read more »
Russia: A Journey with Jonathan Dimbleby
A landmark series for BBC2, following Jonathan Dimbleby as he ventures through the whole of present-day Russia, exploring how this huge country came to be what it now is, through the richness of it’s literary history and the tragedy of its legacy as the former “evil empire”.
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Return To Kirkuk
Karzan Sherabayani was arrested and tortured by Sadaam Hussein’s secret police whilst still a teenager. Lucky to escape both his captors and the Baathist regime, he returns to his native Kirkuk Read more »
The Case For War
A journey with former US Assistant Defence Secretary Richard Perle Read more »
Sex Crimes and the Vatican
An investigation into the Vatican’s silencing of the child victims of clerical sex abuse Read more »
Dispatches: At Home With The Terror Suspects
In 2005, following the House of Lords overruling the 2001 Terrorism Act which allowed for people to be held without trial, the Government forced legislation through Parliament that allowed for suspects to be placed on Control Orders Read more »
Torture: The Dirty Business
After 9/11 America created a legal framework to legitimise the use of torture Read more »
The Insider
Col “Bosnia” Bob Stewart travels to Basra in Iraq to investigate the role of the Territorial Army in the present climate of international conflict Read more »