Oil-rich Venezuela has been in an ever-growing state of crisis since Hugo Chavez died in 2013, and global oil prices crashed. Air Date : 1st-May-2020

Colombia has long been the world's largest producer of cocaine. A historic peace deal in 2016 was meant to reduce the amount of cocaine being produced by offering farmers alternatives to growing coca. But last year the UN estimated that its output was the largest since records began. Our World traveled to the Cauca Valley to find that farmers are now being caught between new criminal gangs with devastating consequences. Air Date : 17th-Jan-2020  Read More

In October 2019, a rising star of Syrian democratic politics, 34-year-old Hevrin Khalaf, was brutally murdered in the Kurdish-governed north east of the country. Air Date : 25th-Jan-2020  Read More

In 2017 a group of fishermen found a hoard of precious coins on the sea bed off the coast of Gaza. They were decadrachms from the reign of Alexander the Great- and they were worth a fortune. 3 years on, they have disappeared. So what happened to them, and why are rare coins so hard to trace? Air Date : 31st-Jan-2020  Read More

Antarctica is one of the most remote and inhospitable places on earth. Reporter Justin Rowlatt travels to Thwaites, the so-called Doomsday Glacier. Air Date : 7th-Feb-2020  Read More

Panzuto was a mafia boss, and a hardened killer. For years he played a key role in Naples' Camorra, but now he has turned state witness and is helping put his former associates behind bars. Dominic Casciani gains exclusive access to an Italian anti-mafia prison to meet Panzuto and hear his story of love, murder and betrayal. It's a tale which took him from the back streets of Naples to a caravan park in Blackpool. We hear from those at the sharp end of the ongoing battle against organised crime in Naples, and from those who believe the tide has finally turned. Above all we hear from the man himself: why did he decide to break with the Camorra, and what does the future hold for him? Air Date : 14th-Feb-2020  Read More

Our World gained unprecedented access to enter Indonesia’s prison to witness both Garil and Sarah meeting the bombers who killed their parents. Air Date : 21st-Feb-2020  Read More

Few events are more nerve wracking than meeting the parents of someone you love. For black and Asian couples in South Africa, it's even more challenging. Air Date : 28th-Feb-2020  Read More

With exclusive access to two film-makers inside the Chinese city of Wuhan, Our World tells the story of life under lockdown. Air Date : 13th-Mar-2020  Read More

Umaru Fofana investigates trade in trafficked rosewood worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Air Date : 20th-Mar-2020  Read More

Our World follows two North Koreans as they gain fame in front of the camera capitalising on their defector status yet struggle to move on from their past. Air Date : 28th-Mar-2020  Read More

On Easter Sunday 2019 eight co-ordinated suicide bomb attacks across Sri Lanka killed over 270 people and injured hundreds more. One year on, Jane Corbin returns to the island and meets three of those whose lives were changed that day and who have set out to help rebuild the Sri Lanka they love. Air Date : 17th-Apr-2020  Read More

Deforestation has skyrocketed in Colombia since the Peace Deal of 2016. Our World joins a team of scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew as they go on a mission into virgin tropical rainforest; they hope to discover and save rare plant species, before they are destroyed and vanish forever. Air Date : 24th-Apr-2020  Read More

Oil-rich Venezuela has been in an ever-growing state of crisis since Hugo Chavez died in 2013, and global oil prices crashed. Air Date : 1st-May-2020  Read More

In India a child goes missing every 8 minutes. The children are often trafficked into domestic labour or the sex trade - many are never seen again. Air Date : 8th-May-2020  Read More