Life Episode Guide

Episode Guide

• An Act of Faith: The Phelophepa Health Train

  The life of Lilian Cingo, manager of the Phelophepa health train touring the poorest, most remote areas of South Africa

• Aids Crisis Control

  Revealing how Eastern Europe is experiencing an HIV epidemic

• All Different, All Equal

  Five years after the Beijing Conference on Women, the progress in achieving greater equality for women is stifling.

• Area K

  The global economy affects everyone.

• At the End of a Gun: Women and War

  War causes thousands of women to become victims of injury and violence.

• Back in Business?
• Balancing Acts

  Human stories and expert analysis explaining the concept of globalisation

• The Barcelona Blueprint

  A tour of Barcelona's redeveloped seafront and docks, followed by a studio debate

• Because We're Worth It

  The poor in China receive help in order to break the cycle of poverty and ignorance.

• Between War and Peace

  The United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in Liberia encourages combatants to turn in their weapons and wage peace.

• Blue Danube

  Human stories and expert analysis explaining the concept of globalisation

• Bolivia Blues

  Initiatives to co-ordinate donor agencies and foreign aid in an attempt to reduce poverty in Bolivia

• The Boxer

  The story of Luis, a 27-year-old poverty-stricken Mexican who is determined to realise his ambition to become a champion boxer

• Brazil: Winning Against Aids

  A report on the fight against Aids in Brazil, and how the success of their treatment programme has attracted the attention of other countries, including the USA

• Brazil's Land Revolution

  Human stories and expert analysis explaining the concept of globalisation

• Cash Flow Fever

  The hidden economy of sending and receiving money abroad

• Cheated of Childhood

  A look at the economic and social threats of homeless children in Russia

• City Life

  With growing urbanization, cities must take advantage of the globalized economy.

• Coffee Go-Round

  Human stories and expert analysis explaining the concept of globalisation

• The Cost of Living

  Ninety per cent of the people infected with HIV live in developing countries.

• Credit Where Credit is Due

  The work of the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee which aims to alleviate the worst symptoms of poverty by offering millions of villagers a loan

• Danger! Children at Work

  Children in Guatemala begin making fireworks, often at the age of 6.

• The Debt Police

  A network of 'Watch' groups monitor governments and hold them accountable for burdening the poorest countries with debt.

• The Doctor's Story

  Human stories and expert analysis explaining the concept of globalisation

• Doing the Right Thing

  How Porto Alegre in Brazil, is putting direct democracy into action by giving all its citizens a say in running the city

• The Donor Circus

  Human stories and expert analysis explaining the concept of globalisation

• Educating Lucia

  Girls in Zimbabwe face many obstacles on the road to education.

• Educating Yaprak

  Human stories and expert analysis explaining the concept of globalisation

• A Fistful of Rice

  Tackling malnutrition in Nepal, where nine out of ten children suffer from the condition

• For a Few Pennies More

  There are two billion people at risk from iodine deficiency.

• For Richer For Poorer

  Human stories and expert analysis explaining the concept of globalisation

• From Docklands to Dhaka

  A British doctor goes to Bangladesh to prove his theory that treating illness in poor areas involves working with an entire community.

• Gaza Under Siege

  The experiences of a refugee family living in the Gaza Strip following the Palestinian uprising

• Geraldo Off-line

  The global economy affects a Brazilian factory worker.

• Geraldo's Brazil

  Human stories and expert analysis explaining the concept of globalisation

• God Among the Children

  Growing inner-city violence prompts the formation of the Boston Ten Point Coalition.

• The Great Health Service Swindle

  The health services in rich countries that are dependent on doctors and nurses from developing countries

• The Health Protestors

  Following the progress of the new People's Health Charter, from the decision to draw it up to the debates over the wording

• Helping Ourselves

  Human stories and expert analysis explaining the concept of globalisation

• Holding Our Ground

  Human stories and expert analysis explaining the concept of globalisation

• Holy Smoke

  Buddhist monks are now spreading the campaign to persuade Cambodians to give up tobacco.

• The Hospice

  Sister Leonia creates a hospice in Zambia, to combat the AIDS epidemic.

• How Green is My Valley?

  Human stories and expert analysis explaining the concept of globalisation

• In the Name of Honour

  The oppression of the Kurds has unleashed a chain of violence mostly directed towards their women.

• In the Wake of War

  How Burundi in Africa is finally getting the benefits of a peace process

• India Inhales

  Tobacco companies are launching new campaigns in India to lure in new smokers, while activists have pledged to stop them.

• An Introduction: The Story So Far

  The globalized economy may be running out of control.

• A is for Additives

  The plight of youngsters in developing countries who are dying from common childhood diseases due to Vitamin A deficiency

• It Takes a Village

  Human stories and expert analysis explaining the concept of globalisation

• Keeping Tabs

  How the HPIC initiative monitors governments in an attempt to relieve the burden of debt in the world's poorest countries

• Kill or Cure

  Human stories and expert analysis explaining the concept of globalisation

• Killing Poverty

  Human stories and expert analysis explaining the concept of globalisation

• Kosovo: A House Still Divided?

  The resentment that remains between Serbs and Kosovo Albanians years ago in the civil war

• Kosovo: Rebuilding the Dream

  UN-Habitat officials try to rebuild the municipal government and trust in the region

• Life: The On-going Story

  Life revisits some of the stories covered in earlier episodes.

• Lines in the Dust

  An insight into how literacy is being tackled in Ghana, as men and women are encouraged to debate issues

• Listen to the Kids!

  Children in developing countries often have a huge responsibility at work and in the home

• The Long March

  Government development of irrigation systems in Chendu, south-west China

• Lost Generations

  Attempts to stop the cycle of malnourished mothers passing on their deficiencies to their children in Maharashta, Mysore and Delhi

• Millenium Goals: Dream or Reality?

  Human stories and expert analysis explaining the concept of globalisation

• The Miller's Tale

  How Egyptians have resisted attempts to fortify their bread with iron

• Missing Out

  Following two birth attendants in Niger : a country where less than a third of the population has access to health care : as they try to persuade women to take iron folate and visit hospital

• My Hanoi

  A family must move due to the dramatic growth of the city.

• My Mother Built This House

  The stories of three shack dwellers who have been rehoused by the South African Homeless People's Federation

• A-OK

  The lack of vitamin A in developing countries and the lives this endangers

• The On-Going Story

  The international community's commitment to social and economic development and human rights

• The Other Side

  How Mexican villagers are trying to ensure that their children won't have to migrate to the US to achieve their dreams

• The Outsiders

  A young journalist in Kiev reveals some of the moral and economic dilemmas facing adolescents today.

• Paradise Domain

  The sale of the domain name dot tv : one of the few valuable assets belonging to the tiny South Pacific nation of Tuvali

• Patently Obvious

  how the world Trade Organisation patent regulations are benefiting the Indian state of Gujarat

• Patents and Patients

  Human stories and expert analysis explaining the concept of globalisation

• Pavements of Gold

  With urban poverty set to become one of the major problems of the 21st century, why do so many migrants still believe big cities will provide a better life?

• Paying the Price

  The background to Aids treatment in Africa and why the South African government is refusing to authorise a national programme of treatment for sufferers

• The Perfect Famine

  A look at how rich countries help the world's poor without rewarding unaccountable regimes

• Philadelphia Story

  A homeless, unemployed woman has no healthcare.

• The Posse

  A group of friends try to make it to the elite in Brazil's socially divided society

• Reaching Out to the Grass Roots

  Human stories and expert analysis explaining the concept of globalisation

• Real Leap Forward

  How China succeeded in freeing so many people from poverty

• Reel to Real: Holding Our Ground

  International efforts to assure reproductive health and rights conflict.

• Regopstaan's Dream

  The story of an elder in the Khomani clan of the Bushmen of the Kalahari, who fought to regain control of their land

• Returm to Srebrenica

  Human stories and expert analysis explaining the concept of globalisation

• Returning Dreams

  In the aftermath of Liberia's civil war, children are fighting to reclaim their futures and return home.

• The Right to Choose

  The traditional role of inferiority for women in Africa is being challenged to change.

• The Road to Rio

  Human stories and expert analysis explaining the concept of globalisation

• Roma Rights

  Roma is still excluded from health, education and jobs. But changes is happening. Once disparate Roma groups are joining forces to get their collective voice heard

• School's Out

  Human stories and expert analysis explaining the concept of globalisation

• The Seattle Syndrome

  Drastic import controls with alliance of liberals mean people in developing countries are fighting new colonialism.

• Seeing is Believing

  Human stories and expert analysis explaining the concept of globalisation

• Sierra Leone: Back in Business

  Human stories and expert analysis explaining the concept of globalisation

• The Silent Crisis
• The Silver Age

  Advances in science and health care mean that more people are living longer but there are fewer young people to take care of them.

• Slum Futures

  Investigation into Mumbai's extraordinary slum culture

• The Son's Legacy

  The story of Itzhak Frankental, father of a murdered son and founder of The Parent's Forum

• Sowing the Seeds of Hunger

  Human stories and expert analysis explaining the concept of globalisation

• Srebrenica: Looking for Justice

  Human stories and expert analysis explaining the concept of globalisation

• Staying Alive

  Human stories and expert analysis explaining the concept of globalisation

• Stop the Traffic

  Human stories and expert analysis explaining the concept of globalisation

• The Story So Far

  The promise of the eradication of poverty.

• The Summit

  World leaders meet in Geneva for a five-year review of the 1995 Copenhagen Social Summit promises.

• Ted Francis

  Rosie Boycott talks to Ted Francis : the man who lied to protect Jeffrey Archer, little realising that his friend would use it as a potential alibi to protect him in his libel case against the Daily Star. Thirteen years later, he achieved notoriety by risking his own liberty to bring Archer down

• This Hard Ground

  The Sri Lankan army, the government and the NGOs discuss the prospects of long-term political settlement and lasting peace in their country

• Together Against Violence

  Local leaders joined forces to challenge gangs to heal their differences in a ghetto suburb of Kingston, Jamaica.

• The Trade Trap

  The arguments for and against the possibility that trade could be the way out of poverty for poor countries

• Trouble in Paradise
• Untouchable

  Discrimination based on the caste system was made illegal in India in 1947, but it still exists today.

• Up In Smoke

  In Malawi, tobacco is the major export crop. But economic dependency on tobacco has not brought the country wealth

• USA Special : Philadelphia Story

  The story of Cheri Honkala, a homeless, unemployed American woman with no healthcare insurance

• Waiting to Go

  The problems faced by the estimated 250,000 Palestinian refugees living in the Lebanon

• Warming Up In Mongolia

  Repairing environmental damage by burning fossil fuels

• When the Crows Come Home

  Documentary on rural Jamaica which is struggling to make ends meet on farming

• Whose Agenda is it Anyway?

  Human stories and expert analysis explaining the concept of globalisation

• Without Rights

  Palestinian refugees living in Jerusalem and the West Bank face new problems.

• Yemeni Futures

  Human stories and expert analysis explaining the concept of globalisation