John Sweeney
Cast
Series SeasonSeason 9 episodes2012
This World
Season 2012
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Episodes
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Episode 160 min2012-02-03
Egypt - Children of the Revolution
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.
Episode 260 min2012-02-23
Inside the Meltdown
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.
Episode 360 min2012-03-05
The Fastest Changing Place on Earth
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.
Episode 460 min2012-03-12
Interviews Before Execution: A Chinese Talk Show
Investigative documentary series. This World explores Interviews before Execution, an extraordinary Saturday night talk show in China which interviews prisoners on death row.
Episode 560 min2012-03-27
The Mormon Candidate
International investigative documentary series. John Sweeney investigates Mormonism, the belief system of Mitt Romney, the potential Republican candidate for the 2012 US election.
Episode 660 min2012-04-15
Norway's Massacre
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.
Episode 760 min2012-05-01
The Shame of the Catholic Church
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.
Episode 860 min2012-05-09
Michael Portillo's Great Euro Crisis
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?
Episode 960 min2012-09-22
Aung San Suu Kyi: The Choice
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.
Episode 1060 min2012-11-04
Obama: What Happened to Hope?
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.
Episode 1160 min2012-12-11
Cuba with Simon Reeve
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.
Episode 1260 min2012-12-16
The Great Spanish Crash
Investigative documentary series. Paul Mason travels to Spain to examine how a once thriving economy became the latest casualty of the Eurozone crisis.