Crossing Continents Episodes Episode guide
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Colombia’s Kamikaze Cyclists
Simon Maybin spends time with the young men who race down the steep roads of Colombia.
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Marawi: the story of the Philippines’ Lost City
The Philippine city that was besieged by Islamic State supporters.
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Kazakhstan: Port in the Desert
China's New Silk Road is changing lives in Kazakhstan.
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Romania's killer roads
Can one man's campaign for motorways in Romania make a difference and save lives?
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Barbuda: Storms, Recovery and ‘Land Grabs’
Who will shape the future of the hurricane-hit, tropical isle of Barbuda?
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Genoa's Broken Bridge
An icon of Italian design; a centrepiece of a community; a tragedy waiting to happen?
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America's Hospital Emergency
A small town goes on life-support after its lone hospital closes.
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The Undercover Migrant
A young Ghanaian man goes undercover on the perilous migrant trail, with a hidden camera.
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Bolivia's Mennonites, Justice and Renewal
In 2009, Mennonite women in a far-flung Bolivian colony reported mass rape.
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Abandoned in the Amazon
The dangers of flying in the great wilderness of the Brazilian rainforest.
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Empty Spain and the Caravans of Love
How does a lonely, Spanish shepherd find love when single women have left for the city?
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Bangladesh versus Yaba
Thousands of Bangladeshi addicts are hooked on Yaba, a mix of methamphetamine and caffeine
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Restoring Brazil's National Treasure
Can the treasures lost when Brazil's National Museum burnt down be salvaged or replaced?
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Poland's Partisan Ghosts
For some in Poland the Cursed Soldiers are national heroes; for others they are murderers.
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Nepal Fights Foreign Paedophiles
Hunting western paedophiles is a priority for a new police unit in Nepal.
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Unrest in Ukraine’s Little Hungary
Tensions are rising on Ukraine's western border
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Japan's Elderly Crime Wave
Elderly pensioners in Japan commit petty crimes so that they can be sent to prison.
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Balkan Border Wars - Serbia and Kosovo
Old enemies Serbia and Kosovo discuss what for some is unthinkable - an ethnic land swap.
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The Brazilian Footballer Who Never Was
How one boy’s dream was cut short by the beautiful game’s ugly prejudice in Brazil.
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Armenia: Return to a Town That Died
Two British firefighters revisit the scene of Armenia's devastating earthquake in 1988.
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DNA, Me and the Family Tree
How home DNA testing kits are revealing more than some people bargained for.
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China's Hidden Camps
The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ gains rare access to a region of China where Muslims are being held without trial.
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Inside Burundi’s Killing Machine
An investigation into repression in Burundi, one of Africa's most secretive countries.
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A Stark Choice for Cambodia's Surrogates
Locked up for renting out their wombs, mothers in Cambodia must make an agonising choice.
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Nigeria's Patient 'Prisoners'
Nigerian patients held in hospital because they can’t pay their medical bills.
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Generation Identity
Simon Cox investigates a new far right youth organisation in Europe, Generation Identity.
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Chile - Sexual Abuse, Secrets and Lies
The dark secrets of Chile's Catholic Church.
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Nevada's Brothels Face the Axe
Nevada's legal sex trade faces a campaign for reform.
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Uganda's Prison Farms
'He was using prisoners like oxen' - an ex-convict recalls life on a Ugandan prison farm.
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'Gone to Foreign' from Jamaica
A life in limbo for two Britons. Not wanted in the UK and not wanted in Jamaica.