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  • S2000E01 Walking the China Tightrope

    • February 26, 2000
    • BBC Two

  • S2000E02 The Other Lockerbie

    • March 4, 2000
    • BBC Two

  • S2000E03 The Corsica Rebellion

    • March 11, 2000
    • BBC Two

  • S2000E04 The Cocaine War

    • March 18, 2000
    • BBC Two

  • S2000E05 Licence to Kill

    • March 25, 2000
    • BBC Two

    Licence to Kill is the follow-up to last year's award-winning documentary, Murder in Purdah, on the killing of women in Pakistan.

  • S2000E06 Convoy to Moldova

    • April 8, 2000
    • BBC Two

    In early 1999, Romanian Connection an independent charity known for the their humanitarian work in Romania, are sent photographs of children in an orphanage in Hincesti, Moldova, in an appalling state of neglect.

  • S2000E07 Looking for Reg

    • April 15, 2000
    • BBC Two

  • S2000E08 Europe

    • April 29, 2000
    • BBC Two

  • S2000E09 Our Genes

    • May 6, 2000
    • BBC Two

    Three stories investigate the geography of Europe's genes

  • S2000E10 Our Nationality

    • May 13, 2000
    • BBC Two

    Europe's far right political parties believe they're entering a golden age of opportunity-nationalist feeling is growing in many European countries.

  • S2000E11 Our Poison

    • May 20, 2000
    • BBC Two

    Investigating the effects of the Danube cyanide spill. The world's media passed through Bozinta Mare in early February. The residents of this small village in the foothills of the Carpathians had never experienced anything like it. But then they had never experienced anything like the reason for their sudden close attention.

  • S2000E12 Our Rights

    • May 27, 2000
    • BBC Two

  • S2000E13 Our Faith

    • June 3, 2000
    • BBC Two

  • S2000E14 Our Aged

    • June 10, 2000
    • BBC Two

  • S2000E15 The Final Battle of Yugoslavia

    • August 5, 2000
    • BBC Two

    Alongside Serbia, Montenegro is the only nation to remain in President Slobodan Milosevic's Yugoslavia after Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia parted amid war. Last year, Montenegro's pro-Western leader, Milo Djukanovic, threatened to call a referendum on its independence from Serbia unless Milosevic changed his policy toward the smaller republic. Milosevic has refused to budge.

  • S2000E16 The Scandal of the Erika

    • August 12, 2000
    • BBC Two

    At an Athens party for the movers and shakers in world shipping the drinks flow freely. Life is good. But the industry funding this champagne lifestyle is coming under increasing scrutiny following one of Europe's worst environmental disasters.

  • S2000E17 No Experience Necessary

    • September 23, 2000
    • BBC Two

    An estimated half a million women are being transported to Western Europe by sex traffickers every year. It's a multi-million pound business where, for the traffickers, the rewards are high and the risks are low. But, for the girls, the consequences are brutal and potentially dangerous. Following a route which begins in the former Soviet Republic of Latvia and leads to Denmark, Ireland and the UK, Sue Lloyd-Roberts uncovers a murky, cruel world in which employment agencies seduce young women with false promises, unscrupulous pimps abuse them and the police and judiciary turn a blind eye to this contemporary form of slavery.

  • S2000E18 Thirsting for War

    • September 30, 2000
    • BBC Two

    This week's Correspondent is a journey along the river Euphrates, through Turkey, Syria and Iraq. It traces the political and environmental impact of Turkey's project to harness the river through a series of dams, and exposes the extent to which people's lives in all three countries are being affected by the Turkish scheme.

  • S2000E19 Lessons from History

    • October 7, 2000
    • BBC Two

    The war in Bosnia was one of the most traumatic - and dramatic - assignments of my career. For myself and all my colleagues who stuck it out, long term, those wasted cities - Sarajevo, Mostar, Maglay, Travnik, Vitez, Jajce-places that are now off the map, forgotten - are indelibly burned in my mind. They are no longer big stories. But I can't forget them, and I doubt I ever will.

  • S2000E20 Finding Leticia

    • October 14, 2000
    • BBC Two

    Tom Gibb, who covered El Salvador's civil war for the BBC, follows Maria Leticia - who always believed she was an El Salvadoran orphan - on a journey to meet her birth parents for the first time and to discover one of the darkest legacies of the Cold War.

  • S2000E21 Who Killed Lumumba?

    • October 21, 2000
    • BBC Two

    In this week's Correspondent, David Akerman investigates the brutal murder of Congo's charismatic first prime minister 40 years ago.

  • S2000E22 Israel Accused

    • November 4, 2000
    • BBC Two

    Khiam prison was a detention and interrogation centre during the years of the Israeli occupation in Southern Lebanon. From 1985 until the Israeli withdrawal this May, thousands of Lebanese were held in Khiam without trial. Most of them were brutally tortured - some of them died.

  • S2000E23 When Peace Died

    • November 18, 2000
    • BBC Two

    Two images captured the hatred that has destroyed the peace process in the Middle East. Mohammed al-Durrah, the boy from Gaza, shielded by his father but still dying under a hail of bullets fired by Israeli soldiers and the lynching and brutal murder of two Israeli reservists by a Palestinian mob.

  • S2000E24 To Kill a Stranger

    • December 16, 2000
    • BBC Two

    Phil Rees travels to the Basque Country to find out why so many young men and women growing up in a prosperous part of Western Europe are prepared to kill a stranger

Season 2001

  • S2001E01 City of Dreams

    • January 13, 2001
    • BBC Two

    The Mexican police have arrested an Egyptian chemist, suspected of murdering over 200 people in the border town of Juarez in the past seven years. But have they got the right man? Bruno Sorrentino investigates.

  • S2001E02 The Man from Madras

    • January 20, 2001
    • BBC Two

    The world is knocking at India's door to try to meet the insatiable demand for software engineers. Mike Wooldridge charts the progress of two young men in southern India who are seeking a life of opportunity in the cradle of hi-tech, California.

  • S2001E03 Caravan of Death

    • January 27, 2001
    • BBC Two

    Chilean judge Juan Guzman this week interrogated Chile's former military ruler, General Augusto Pinochet. The questions centred on the actions of a military squad, known as the Caravan of Death.

  • S2001E04 Rocketchiki

    • February 3, 2001
    • BBC Two

    Few things could be more threatening than a once powerful army in disarray - and that applies to Russia. In this atmosphere of heightened suspicion and tension, Vladimir Pozner, Russia's most celebrated Television reporter gets to know the Rocketchiki, the men on Russia's nuclear front line.

  • S2001E05 Who is Putin?

    • February 10, 2001
    • BBC Two

    The BBC's former Moscow correspondent Bridget Kendall asks how Vladimir Putin - a former KGB spy - emerged from nowhere and became the leader of the world's largest country.

  • S2001E06 Death Row on Trial

    • February 17, 2001
    • BBC Two

    Since it reintroduced the death penalty a quarter of a century ago, America has executed 695 people. Another 3,703 wait on death row. But a recent spate of releases of the wrongfully convicted has triggered alarm that America may be executing the innocent.

  • S2001E07 Death of a Priest

    • February 24, 2001
    • BBC Two

    The BBC's East Africa correspondent Andrew Harding takes a chilling look at a murky world far removed from the safaris and the wildlife clichés of modern Kenya.

  • S2001E08 Saddam's Bomb

    • March 3, 2001
    • BBC Two

    In the wake of the US and British bombing of Iraq, investigative film maker Gwynne Roberts finds evidence that suggests that Iraq may already have developed its own nuclear weapons.

  • S2001E09 Justice: A Greek Tragedy

    • March 18, 2001
    • BBC Two

    Heather Saunders' husband was killed in Greece last year by the terrorist group November 17. N17 have been killing for a quarter of a century and no one has been caught. Edward Stourton travels to Greece to follow Heather's fight for justice.

  • S2001E10 Solidarity: Mad Cows and an Englishman

    • March 25, 2001
    • BBC Two

    'Mad cow disease' has created Europe's biggest public health challenge for half a century. We don't really understand BSE or the human equivalent. Could we have been looking for the answers in the wrong place? This is the story of the British farmer who thinks we have.

  • S2001E11 Equality: Family Affairs

    • April 1, 2001
    • BBC Two

    The BBC's Edward Stourton travels to Albania and France to examine women's rights in contemporary Europe.

  • S2001E12 Dying to Leave

    • April 7, 2001
    • BBC Two

    In June last year the bodies of 58 Chinese men and women were discovered in a truck at Dover. As a British lorry driver is found guilty of manslaughter, Correspondent - a BBC documentary programme - has traced the tragedy to its source in an exclusive programme from Fujian, China.

  • S2001E13 Desperately Seeking Asylum

    • April 22, 2001
    • BBC Two

    With a British general election imminent, immigration policy holds a place close to the centre of the national stage. Desperately Seeking Asylum tells the story of one man's attempt to secure political asylum in Britain, and raises some fundamental questions about the way the system works.

  • S2001E14 Killers Don't Cry

    • April 29, 2001
    • BBC Two

    Alan Little reports on the ruthless gangs that terrorize and kill in South Africa's prisons, and a brave attempt to reach out to the murderers and ask them to confront their actions.

  • S2001E15 Letter to America

    • December 9, 2001
    • BBC Two

    Born in Syria, the writer and broadcaster Rana Kabbani returns to the Middle East to find out how Muslims have come to view the United States. Her journey takes her to Egypt, the United Arab Emerates and Iran.

Season 2002

  • S2002E01 The Dispossessed

    • January 20, 2002
    • BBC Two

    Documentary film maker Taghi Amirani and his mainly Iranian crew gained rare access to Makaki, a refugee camp in Taleban-held territory. On 13 November, Kabul fell and the ripples of change in Afghanistan reached Makaki.

  • S2002E02 The Slave Children

    • January 22, 2002
    • BBC Two

    Correspondent investigates the modern trade in child slaves which robs them of their childhood. Olenka Frenkiel reports from the West Coast of Africa.

  • S2002E03 Exposed

    • January 27, 2002
    • BBC Two

    When Slobodan Milosevic waved goodbye to Serbia on the 28 June 2001 his final words were "farewell brother Serbs". It is ironic that Milosevic could be convicted on the evidence of his own brother Serbs - those he thought he could trust - and not on the word of an Albanian Kosovar. Nancy Durham reports.

  • S2002E04 Zimbabwe Burning

    • March 3, 2002
    • BBC Two

    Ten mass graves lie in the heart of an abandoned army camp - hard evidence of what happens to people who fall foul of Robert Mugabe. Despite a ban on the BBC reporting, John Sweeney uncovers Zimbabwe's culture of impunity for those who today torture and kill for Mugabe.

  • S2002E05 Addicted to Arms

    • May 31, 2002
    • BBC Two

    As growing concerns about human rights around the world help push arms sales up the political agenda, and New Labour continues to preach an ethical foreign policy gospel, reporter and novelist Will Self goes in search of the truth behind Britain's continuing addiction to the arms sales fix.

  • S2002E06 Boys Will Be Boys

    • June 16, 2002
    • BBC Two

    Correspondent looks at Bosnia and Kosovo where girls as young as 15 have been duped into working in brothels and forced to have sex with UN personnel. We find that the boys will be boys culture prevails and that international soldiers and police officers at the highest level are turning a blind eye. It is a shameful and disturbing tale.

  • S2002E07 Burma: The Forgotten War

    • July 28, 2002
    • BBC Two

    Democracy was not to last long in Burma following independence from the British in 1948. A military junta soon took power, crushing any dissent. A country torn by ethnic differences, independence brought with it mass insurgency. The source - a deep rooted divide over national identity.

  • S2002E08 Argentina - You've been Tango'd!

    • October 13, 2002
    • BBC Two

    In December 2001, banks across Argentina closed their tills, shut down their ATMs and slammed their doors. Their customers were left out in the cold with no money. They still are.

  • S2002E09 Massacre in Luxor

    • December 6, 2002
    • BBC Two

    On 17 November 1997, 58 tourists were murdered in Luxor, Egypt. Correspondent joined relatives from three families of victims as they returned to try to find out why and how it happened.

Season 2003

  • S2003E01 Armenia: The Betrayed

    • January 26, 2003
    • BBC Two

    In a special Correspondent to coincide with Holocaust memorial week, Fergal Keane investigates how a terrible slaughter, three quarters of a century ago, has returned to haunt the relationship between Turkey and its western allies.

  • S2003E02 Suing the Pope

    • January 29, 2003
    • BBC Two

    The Catholic Church did not tell the locals that Fr Fortune was a brutal, predatory paedophile. They organised delegations to two Bishops - wrote to the Papal Nuncio and the Vatican. The church promised it would do something. It never did.

  • S2003E03 Love in China

    • February 2, 2003
    • BBC Two

    As many Chinese find love through dating agencies, they can find themselves coming into conflict with both communist and traditional values.

  • S2003E04 Holidays in the Axis of Evil (1): North Korea

    • February 10, 2003
    • BBC Two

    Reporter Ben Anderson visits the countries branded "evil" by George W Bush. His first destination is North Korea, a hermit kingdom which lives with paranoid propaganda and fear of nuclear war.

  • S2003E05 Holidays In the Axis of Evil (2): Iraq

    • February 11, 2003
    • BBC Two

    Reporter Ben Anderson poses as an archaeology enthusiast to gain access to Iraq, where he talks to locals about the impending war.

  • S2003E06 Zimbabwe: Hounded Out

    • February 16, 2003
    • BBC Two

    Correspondent shows a first hand account of one family's struggle to defend their land and their lives against government supporters in Zimbabwe.

  • S2003E07 Holidays in the Axis of Evil (3): Syria, Libya and Iran

    • February 17, 2003
    • BBC Two

    In the third part of a Correspondent special exploring the countries that George W Bush has condemned, Ben Anderson travels to Syria, Libya and then on to Iran, where he is arrested and held for seven days accused of spying.

  • S2003E08 Holidays in the Axis of Evil (4): Cuba

    • February 18, 2003
    • BBC Two

    Reporter Ben Anderson is in Cuba. He finds life in Havana stifling, while in the countryside he searches for Castro's revolutionary legacy

  • S2003E09 After Saddam

    • February 23, 2003
    • BBC Two

    Reporter John Sweeney gleans information from inside Iraq, the corridors of power at Opec and at world summits to build a picture of how Iraq might look without its dictator.

  • S2003E10 Texas Undercover

    • March 2, 2003
    • BBC Two

    Tom Mangold unfolds the story of an undercover cop in Tulia, Texas, who arrested one tenth of the town's black population on alleged narcotics charges. Five cases have already been overturned, others are on appeal, championed by a new campaign by the US Civil Rights movement to see justice.

  • S2003E11 Russia: Poison City

    • March 9, 2003
    • BBC Two

    This once-secret Russian city is where the Soviet Union made its vast arsenal of chemical weapons. Reporter Tim Samuels ventures inside, finding it a surreal place with a shortage of men.

  • S2003E12 Israel's Secret Weapon

    • March 17, 2003
    • BBC Two

    Mordechai Vanunu has been imprisoned for 16 years for exposing Israel's secret nuclear bomb factory to the world. Vanunu is seen as a traitor in his own country. He has been abandoned by most of his family and has spent 11 years in solitary confinement. Today only an American couple, who have legally adopted him, are among the few visitors he is permitted.

  • S2003E13 America's School Kid Soldiers

    • March 23, 2003
    • BBC Two

    The US military is expanding its role into public high schools. As part of the Correspondent strand, reporter Charles Wheeler explores whetherthis is the solution to the problem of the country's troubled inner-city schools or part of a recruitment drive targeting the younger generation?

  • S2003E14 Evan's Euro Adventure

    • March 30, 2003
    • BBC Two

    Any day now, the government will finally stop deliberating on the euro. They are due to tell us whether or not Britain has past the five Gordon Brown tests. This is arguably our biggest economic decision since the Battle of Hastings. So, BBC economics editor, Evan Davis previews the government's decision, by taking a whistle-stop tour of four eurozone countries.

  • S2003E15 Warship: At War

    • May 6, 2003
    • BBC Two

    The USS Abraham Lincoln, a huge floating battle station with 6,000 men and women on board, played a crucial role in the Iraqi war. For this Correspondent special, cameras follow the ship from the last tense days of the diplomatic discussions prior to the outbreak of war through to the air bombardment of Baghdad. Among those revealing how they feel about the war - and America's role in it - are the crew of a Prowler jet, a young female technician plus one of the few Muslims on board.

  • S2003E16 Al-Jazeera Exclusive

    • May 11, 2003
    • BBC Two

    Controversial Arab news broadcaster al-Jazeera has said it was justified in showing images of dead and captured coalition soldiers in the Iraq war.

  • S2003E17 War Spin

    • May 18, 2003
    • BBC Two

    Saving Private Jessica: Fact or fiction Correspondent challenges the Pentagon's version of a story that boosted American morale during a sticky point in the Iraq War as part of its investigation into allied propaganda.

  • S2003E18 Behind the Fence

    • May 25, 2003
    • BBC Two

    In June 2002 Israel began construction of a massive security fence in the area of the Green Line, the unofficial border where Israel meets the occupied West Bank.

  • S2003E19 Terror in the Philippines

    • June 15, 2003
    • BBC Two

    In the Philippines, where Osama Bin Laden 's right-hand man plotted many terror attacks, US troops are helping soldiers deal with brutal Islamic militants who behead hostages. However, some mistrust the Americans' motives - including the daughter of the former president, who's now also a politician.

  • S2003E20 Iraq: Whose Country Is It Anyway?

    • June 22, 2003
    • BBC Two

    Prize fish, chandeliers, repro Louis XV chairs - the Ali Babas of Baghdad loot anything and everything from the dictator's palaces.

  • S2003E21 The Real Dr Evil

    • July 20, 2003
    • BBC Two

    With Saddam Hussein gone, North Korea's Kim Jong-il is regarded as the world's most dangerous man.

  • S2003E22 Special Forces: Taliban Patrol

    • October 19, 2003
    • BBC Two

    Film-makers John O'Sullivan and Gard Andreassen follow a team of US National Guard Special Forces volunteers on their mission to clear Afghanistan of weapons, the Taleban and al-Qaeda.

  • S2003E23 Abortion Ship

    • October 26, 2003
    • BBC Two

    As Dr Rebecca Gomperts sails the Langenort - a floating abortion clinic - into Poland, we follow the ensuing conflict and legal battles in a country where abortion is almost entirely banned.

  • S2003E24 When Killing is Easy

    • November 2, 2003
    • BBC Two

    British cameraman James Miller was shining a torch onto a white flag when he was shot dead in May in Palestine. Within seven weeks, in a three-mile radius, an American and another Briton were also victims. James's friend, John Sweeney investigates the state of Israel when even foreigners are under threat in this Correspondent report.

  • S2003E25 Arafat Investigated

    • November 9, 2003
    • BBC Two

    America's President will not talk with him. Israel's Prime Minister wants to exile him. Why has Palestinian President Yasser Arafat become an outcast? Jeremy Bowen travels to Palestine to investigate Arafat's commitment to peace, and asks whether there can be a settlement of the Middle East conflict without the man who has led the Palestinians for nearly four decades.

  • S2003E26 Dowry Law

    • November 16, 2003
    • BBC Two

    It is wedding season in India. All over the country the booming middle class is spending a fortune on dowries - bikes, fridges, microwaves, cars and large amounts of cash - all in the attempt to find a suitable husband.

  • S2003E27 Gringo Crimebusters

    • November 30, 2003
    • BBC Two

    Mexico City is one of the most crime-ridden cities in the West. The police force is underpaid, unmotivated and inefficient. In a desperate bid to cut crime, the Mexicapolice hired Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City, to assist them.

  • S2003E28 Gun Traffic

    • December 7, 2003
    • BBC Two

    About half a million people around the world are shot dead every year with illegally traded guns; most of the victims are civilians.