Taboo Episode Guide

Episode Guide

Taboo: Season 3

• Season 3 Episode 10: Rites of Manhood

  What makes a man?

• Season 3 Episode 9: Gross Grub

  Delicacies from around the world

• Season 3 Episode 8: Crime Scene

  An in-depth look at the people who face death everyday, including forensic anthropologists to crime scene cleaners

• Season 3 Episode 6: Body Art

  Extreme etching

• Season 3 Episode 5: BDSM : Bind Me, Boss Me, Beat Me

  Clare Beckwith investigates the sadomasochism scene in Nottingham and discovers whether it's a strictly taboo subject or just a bit of harmless escapism. Plus, a man who gets his thrills through vampirism

• Season 3 Episode 4: Extreme Childhood

  A look at alternative upbringings

• Season 3 Episode 3: Extreme Cuisine

  Sampling bats in Papua New Guinea and live octopus in South Korea

• Season 3 Episode 2: Spirit Worlds

  A look at how different cultures from around the world connect with the spirit world. From Hindus that pierce their flesh with skewers to Indian exorcists who beat demons out of those possessed

• Season 3 Episode 1: Extreme Living

  A look at unusual living conditions including a nudist colony in Florida and living with the dead in Manila

Taboo: Season 2

• Season 2 Episode 13: Gross Work

  The less attractive jobs performed by employees around the world, including Mexican sewage workers and the people who retrieve dead bodies from car crash scenes in Thailand

• Season 2 Episode 12: Outcasts

  Looking at ostracisation in different cultures

• Season 2 Episode 11: Marks of Identity

  A look at how various tribes and cults from all over the world use body piercings and tatoos to mark their identity as part of a particular sect

• Season 2 Episode 10: Sacred Pain

  A look at the extreme lengths some fundamentalists go to in affirming their faith and devotion to a specific cause : including tongue-piercings and facial gougings

• Season 2 Episode 9: Initiations

  Investigating the initiation rituals associated with important life transitions around the world, involving dancing on razor blades, painful tattoos and poisonous fire ants

• Season 2 Episode 8: Blood Bonds

  An insight into the structures of families around the world

• Season 2 Episode 7: Extreme Entertainers

  The weird and wonderful entertainers of the world

• Season 2 Episode 6: Childrearing

  A look at how children are raised in different cultures

• Season 2 Episode 5: Body Perfect

  An insight into gruesome forms of cosmetic surgery, including the sharpening of teeth and the breaking of legs in a bid to become more attractive

• Season 2 Episode 3: Creature Cures

  An insight into alternative medicines which make use of a wide range of creatures. Including antidotes such as flesh-eating maggots and baboons' claws

• Season 2 Episode 2: Delicacies

  A look at favourite recipes from all over the world, including rotten shark meat and seared rat

• Season 2 Episode 1: Justice

  A look at the resurgence of old methods of retribution, which advocates the 'eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth' approach and questions current, more popular modes of benign rehabilitation

Taboo: Season 1

• Season 1 Episode 13: Rites of Passage

  Exploration of rites of passage, including initiations into womanhood and African circumcision ceremonies

• Season 1 Episode 12: Bloodsports

  The history of blood sports, including cockfighting, bullfighting and straightforward punch-ups, revealing the origins of humanity's fascination with violence

• Season 1 Episode 11: Tests of Faith

  How men in New Guinea prove their commitment to their religion by jumping from cliffs

• Season 1 Episode 10: Death

  How different cultures deal with death, from India to Indonesia

• Season 1 Episode 7: Drugs

  Exploring the world of mind-altering substances, from acid to Ecstasy

• Season 1 Episode 6: Marriage

  Forbidden unions, from Indian children who marry at 10 years old, to same-sex marriages and polygamy : still the norm in many parts of Africa

• Season 1 Episode 5: Witchcraft

  The secrets of modern-day witchcraft, from Mexican dark magic to a witch cleanser in Zimbabwe and a Wicca gathering in England

• Season 1 Episode 2: Healers

  Exploring traditional healing methods, including a Bolivian shaman who summons mountain spirits, a native American who contacts his ancestors, and an Ethiopian witchdoctor who performs 'magic'

• Season 1 Episode 1: Food

  Exploring different cultural delicacies, including insects, snakes and dogs