S2009 E1 • The Lost Bomb

Travelling deep into the Arctic Circle to a US base still of immense strategic importance, the BBC's Gordon Corera reveals the untold story of how forty years ago the US abandoned a nuclear bomb below the ice in Greenland.

Première diffusion : 10 janvier 2009

S2009 E2 • Conflict Delta

Steve Rosenberg travels to Copenhagen and Bavaria to uncover the story of former Danish SS officer Soeren Kam. Although named as one of the top ten Nazi war criminals, a German court has refused to extradite him to Denmark to stand trial.

Première diffusion : 10 janvier 2009

S2009 E3 • Saving the River

Nick Bryant reports from Australia's food bowl, The Murray Darling Basin, as long term drought and interstate feuding threaten the livelihood of farmers and undermine a fragile ecosystem.

Première diffusion : 17 janvier 2009

S2009 E4 • Back From the Front

Jeremy Paxman reports on how three British soldiers who have fought in Iraq and Afghanistan are coping with a very different life back home.

Première diffusion : 24 janvier 2009

S2009 E5 • Africa's Forgotten Conflict

Reporter Mike Thompson travels deep into the heart of the Central African Republic to discover poverty and war in a country which has been sliding backwards for 50 years. Yet its crisis has been largely overlooked by the international community.

Première diffusion : 31 janvier 2009

S2009 E6 • Kabul Cops

Nadene Ghouri goes inside Kabul's Criminal Investigation Department, as the city's police chief battles crime, corruption and drugs. She asks if the price for Law and Order in the Afghan capital is a justice which is just too rough.

Première diffusion : 7 février 2009

S2009 E7 • Nicole's Story

Laura Jones profiles Nicole Dryburgh - a young woman left with severe disabilities after spinal cancer who has fought back to live an inspirational life of writing, fund-raising and adventure.

Première diffusion : 14 février 2009

S2009 E8 • Iran, 30

Thirty years after the foundation of an Islamic Republic in Iran, the BBC's Tehran Correspondent Jon Leyne explores the legacy of the revolution, and asks what the future holds in this changing society.

Première diffusion : 21 février 2009

S2009 E9 • Basra Farewell

BBC's Paul Adams is with the British Army in Basra. As the troops prepare for the final pull-out later this year, Paul looks at the city they leave behind them and asks how their work in southern Iraq will be judged.

Première diffusion : 28 février 2009

S2009 E10 • Brazil's Bitter Harvest

Biofuel - it is part of the green revolution. It has made Brazil an agricultural superpower and sugar cane from the plantations is fuelling the world's engines. But it comes at a human cost, as Richard Bilton discovers when he meets the sugar cane cutters.

Première diffusion : 7 mars 2009

S2009 E11 • A Sodier's Tale

The BBC's Lyse Doucet returns to Afghanistan 20 years after the end of the Soviet campaign there. She meets the Soviet soldier who stayed on, converted to Islam, and now finds himself in the midst of a fresh conflict with strange echoes of the past.

Première diffusion : 14 mars 2009

S2009 E12 • Darwin's Footsteps

As the world celebrates the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth, David Shukman retraces his footsteps on the Galapagos Islands that are now threatened by tourism.

Première diffusion : 21 mars 2009

S2009 E13 • Power Rules

As Ethiopia forges ahead with plans for a massive dam to feed its growing appetite for electric power, Peter Greste explores the lands of the Omo River. Will the people who live here have to pay the price for urban development?

Première diffusion : 28 mars 2009

S2009 E14 • Russia's New Model Army

The BBC's Tim Whewell gains rare access to the Russian military and explores plans for the biggest reform in the former Cold War army for more than fifty years.

Première diffusion : 4 avril 2009

S2009 E15 • Haiti in Crisis

Laura Trevelyan travels to Haiti with the UN, as the country tries desperately to recover from the impact of successive hurricanes against a backdrop of diminishing global aid.

Première diffusion : 11 avril 2009

S2009 E16 • Zimbabwe

Sue Lloyd-Roberts films undercover in Zimbabwe. She investigates whether the new coalition government can deliver real change and prevent Zimbabwe becoming another failed state.

Première diffusion : 18 avril 2009

S2009 E17 • Les Liasons Dangereuses

The BBC's Paris Correspondent Emma-Jane Kirby reports from the frontline of French military engagement in Afghanistan. As France rejoins the top table at NATO, what difference can the French boots on the ground make here?

Première diffusion : 25 avril 2009

S2009 E18 • Defending The Bourgeoisie

Tim Whewell returns to the Russian city of Yaroslavl, 250 kilometres north of Moscow, to find out how Russia's nascent middle class are coping with the economic crisis. Tim first visited the city during the Rouble crisis of the late 1990s, returning in 2004.

Première diffusion : 2 mai 2009

S2009 E19 • Glitz and Grime

The city of Mumbai is still reeling from November's terror attacks as India, the world's largest democracy, elects a new government. Mihir Bose reports from this city of contrasts, as the country finds new interest in politics and gains new confidence.

Première diffusion : 19 mai 2009

S2009 E20 • Poisoned Seas

Many creatures will be threatened as carbon dioxide makes the oceans increasingly acidic. Some species may already have been harmed. As Roger Harrabin finds out, scientists fear we may be heading for a huge extinction in the seas.

Première diffusion : 16 mai 2009

S2009 E21 • Third Time Lucky, Sir Ranulp Fiennes on Everest

Described by some as the greatest living adventurer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes has succeeded on his third attempt to reach the summit of Everest. At 65, he's the oldest Briton to achieve this feat. He is also the only man to cross both polar ice-caps as well as climbing the world's highest mountain. BBC correspondent Andy North accompanied him on the first part of his journey up the mountain.

Première diffusion : 23 avril 2009

S2009 E22 • One Family, Two Armies

It is just over a year since the Maoists came to power in Nepal. Now the people of this former kingdom wait to see if two armies, until recently bitter enemies, can peacefully become one. Charles Haviland looks at how ten years of war affected one family.

Première diffusion : 30 mai 2009

S2009 E23 • The End of Solidarity

Twenty years ago in Poland, the Communist regime lost its grip on power. Brian Hanrahan returns to Poland to meet the activists who fought for change.

Première diffusion : 6 juin 2009

S2009 E24 • Malaria: A Mother's Journey

British mother Joanne Yirrell makes an emotional journey to the village in Ghana where her son Harry caught malaria. He died soon after returning to the UK in 2005. Joanne's journey takes her to the country's largest children's hospital.

Première diffusion : 13 juin 2009

S2009 E25 • Can China Save the World? (1)

The world is increasingly looking to China to pull the global economy out of the economic crisis. Paul Mason travels along one of China's oldest export routes, that of sheepskin and cashmere, to find out what is really happening in the Chinese economy.

Première diffusion : 20 juin 2009

S2009 E26 • Can China Save the World? (2)

The world is increasingly looking to China to pull the global economy out of the economic crisis. Paul Mason travels along one of China's oldest export routes, that of sheepskin and cashmere, to find out what is really happening in the Chinese economy.

Première diffusion : 27 juin 2009

S2009 E27 • The Pirates of Somalia

Piracy off the coast of Somalia is big business. Very few journalists have ventured ashore. In a film for Our World, Andrew Harding travels to northern Somalia, to meet some of the men responsible.

Première diffusion : 4 juillet 2009

S2009 E28 • Beloved Sons

As British combat operations have now ended in Iraq, the families of four soldiers who died in the conflict reflect on what the war there has meant for them. What has been achieved and what will be the lasting impact on their families.

Première diffusion : 11 juillet 2009

S2009 E29 • Henry Allingham's Story

Featuring news on issues around the world. A showcase of BBC journalism with programmes that expose and evaluate global topics.

Première diffusion : 19 juillet 2009

S2009 E30 • Our World: The Russian Billionaire

He was Russia's richest man before the credit crunch. Despite the lost billions, Oleg Deripaska maintains a global empire built on the sale of aluminium. In a BBC exclusive he tells Tim Whewell how he built his business and how he plans to bounce back.

Première diffusion : 25 juillet 2009

S2009 E31 • Chechnya's Missing Women

On July 16th, Chechen human rights activist Natalya Estemirova was kidnapped and murdered. The attack happened just weeks after she talked to the BBC's Lucy Ash for an Our World investigation into the growing incidence of violence against women in Chechnya.

Première diffusion : 1 août 2009

S2009 E32 • Proud of the Cloud

Once shrouded in secrecy, Hanford, the site of the largest nuclear waste dump in North America, is becoming a haven for tourists. Two billion dollars are being spent cleaning up the reactors that made the plutonium for the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. But local residents are not about to hide their town's past. Rajesh Mirchandani meets the community that is 'proud of the cloud'.

Première diffusion : 15 août 2009

S2009 E33 • Children of Beslan

The teenage survivors of the Beslan terrorist attack have spent the last five years trying to recover from the trauma of that atrocity. In a film for Our World, Ewa Ewart talks to them about their hopes and fears for modern Russia and how they have coped.

Première diffusion : 4 septembre 2009

S2009 E34 • Hitler's Bodyguard

The last survivor of Adolf Hitler's Berlin bunker, Rochus Misch, recalls how he witnessed the end of the Third Reich. In an interview with Steve Rosenberg he talks about his final moments with Hitler before the Allies reached Berlin.

Première diffusion : 12 septembre 2009

S2009 E35 • How a Bank Changed the World

The BBC's Business Editor Robert Peston meets many of the people who witnessed the demise of Lehman's, from bank bosses to Wall Street lawyers and government regulators and asks them a year on if anything has changed.

Première diffusion : 19 septembre 2009

S2009 E36 • Hollywood or Bust

In previous recessions, as the economy got tough, people flocked to the movies. Now competition is stiff from DVD and video sales and downloads. David Willis talks to people in the film industry to find out whether Hollywood is recession-proof or in debt.

Première diffusion : 26 septembre 2009

S2009 E37 • Spain's Dark Past

Spanish society is struggling to come to terms with its fascist past as General Franco's victims are exhumed from mass graves across the country. Sue Lloyd-Roberts travels to Spain to report on a nation still bitterly divided over the legacy of its past.

Première diffusion : 3 octobre 2009

S2009 E38 • Politics of Thirst

With hundreds of thousands of people fleeing the drought-stricken areas, Our World looks at the impact that water scarcity has on security in the already fragile Middle East.

Première diffusion : 10 octobre 2009

S2009 E39 • Mine Games

The BBC's Southern Africa Correspondent Karen Allen reports from the conflict zones of Eastern Congo, to trace the minerals that make it into global electronics goods and mobile phones.

Première diffusion : 17 octobre 2009

S2009 E40 • Hunger to Learn

Around the world, millions of children are not getting proper education because their families are too poor to send them to school. Barriers to education across the globe from poverty and war to gender and natural disasters are examined by the Our World reporters.

Première diffusion : 31 octobre 2009

S2009 E41 • Fall of the Wall

Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Brian Hanrahan returns to interview some of the most prominent people around at the time.

Première diffusion : 7 novembre 2009

S2009 E42 • Sharia UK

The word 'sharia' conjures up images of draconian punishments under strict Islamic regimes. The reality of sharia in Britain is very different. In a film for Our World, Emily Buchanan examines some of the myths behind sharia.

Première diffusion : 14 novembre 2009

S2009 E43 • Return to Sobibor

Several hundred prisoners at a Nazi concentration camp launched an uprising and broke out of the camp. Steve Rosenberg talks to survivors and revisits the site of one of the most extraordinary acts of resistance during the Holocaust in Return to Sobibor.

Première diffusion : 28 novembre 2009

S2009 E44 • Climate Countdown

David Shukman reports on climate issues from around the world in the lead-up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.

Première diffusion : 5 décembre 2009

S2009 E45 • The Perfect Storm

California's traditional fire season is now a year-round threat. So what is being done to try to prevent these catastrophic fires? Peter Bowes looks at how some residents are taking matters into their own hands.

Première diffusion : 12 décembre 2009

S2009 E46 • Tar Wars

This film investigates why a small band of Cree Indians in Canada are taking on the world's oil companies, and being bankrolled by a high street business in the UK.

Première diffusion : 19 décembre 2009

S2009 E47 • Inside MI5

Three former heads of MI5 chart the changing face of spying. In exclusive interviews with the BBC's Security Correspondent Gordon Corera, they show how MI5 changed from chasing Cold War subversives to hunting down terrorists.

Première diffusion : 24 décembre 2009

S2009 E48 • Saving India's Dancing Bears

A British-led coalition of international animal rescue groups has made history by taking the last dancing bears off the streets of India. This brings an end to a centuries-old tradition that inflicted terrible cruelty on thousands of highly endangered sloth bears. BBC reporter Claudia Sermbezis was given exclusive access to the work being done to care for the bears and retrain their handlers.

Première diffusion : 25 décembre 2009

S2009 E49 • Mission Makers

Rachel Burden takes one small step into the space business, and discovers the part that Britain is playing in the search for life on Mars.

Première diffusion : 26 décembre 2009

S2009 E50 • Dancing with the Devil

Humphrey Hawksley retraces Graham Greene's journey across Liberia and Sierra Leone and finds that despite huge amounts of international aid, the countries are still beset with a multitude of problems.

Première diffusion : 22 août 2009