Season 41

2021-10-01

In Chiapas, one of the poorest states in Mexico, Coca-Cola is king. Residents in the state drink on average 821 litres a year, almost 16 litres a week, five times the national average. Reporter Guillermo Galdos travels to San Cristobal to meet one family who sell the beverage, but are experiencing first-hand the consequences of a sugary lifestyle. Blighted by ill-health, they rely on Coca-Cola for an income. Galdos investigates the region's growing diabetes crisis, where the deadly combination of Covid and sugar is sending people to early graves.

2021-10-08

In South Dakota there are twice as many indigenous women missing than all other women. Campaigners believe their cases aren't taken seriously enough, but one private investigator refuses to give up searching.

2021-10-22

Anja Popp went to Georgia for Unreported World, and found a largely unregulated surrogacy market, where wealthy couples can have multiple babies at the same time, and where there is no shortage of vulnerable women to meet the demand.

2021-10-29

Jamal Osman travels to the Democratic Republic of Congo, to investigate the dirty business of cobalt mining and the toxic cost for miners and their families of going green.

2021-11-19

Reporter Minnie Stephenson meets the young female surfers riding the waves of change, seeking new roles in Senegal, a predominantly Muslim state going through changes.

2021-11-26

The last survivors of the so-called `comfort stations" in wartime Asia, where hundreds of thousands of women were forced into sexual slavery and exploitation by the Japanese military. Krishnan Guru-Murthy follows 92-year-old campaigner Lee Yong-soo, known affectionately as Grandma Lee, who wants justice before it's too late. On a journey to the South Korean capital of Seoul, Lee recounts how she endured rape, electric shocks and torture at the hands of her captors.