China

Latest Episodes

• Season 1 Episode 4: Freedom and Justice

  The series ends by exploring how the government intervenes in people's lives. Restrictions on religious worship in the country mean only a form of Catholicism sanctioned by the Communist Party is allowed - while other faiths are not permitted among state employees and students. Meanwhile, cover-ups and corruption are allegedly common, leading campaigners to claim deceitful officials are being rewarded

• Season 1 Episode 3: EPISODE: 3

  A third of the world relies upon China's rivers for water, but industrialisation in the country appears to have passed environmental regulations by. Tons of raw human sewage is dumped, while there is little legislation to stop companies using the water to dispose of their waste, and even the Deputy Minister of the Environment concedes he is powerless to stop them. With 50,000 people along one river's banks suffering from cancer, the documentary meets campaigners including Huo Daishan to see what can be done

• Season 1 Episode 2: Women of the Country

  Insight into the new pressures facing Chinese women, as their determination to have an education and career clashes with the traditional values demanded by family and husbands. The programme follows mother Xiao Zhang as she travels 600 miles from Beijing to her village to see her children for the first time in a year, and considers why the country has the highest female suicide rate in the world