Cheap air travel and the growing ubiquity of digital communications have made the concept of the global village a reality. And yet, it’s arguable that many Britons know less about the world around them than ever before. Channel 4 has always looked beyond the 24-hour news agenda of conflict, unrest and natural disasters to tell more nuanced, detailed stories about different cultures. Films like China’s Stolen Children and Living With Hunger continue the tradition of documentaries like Beyond the Clouds
and The Dying Rooms, while More4’s True Stories continues to give a regular showcase to the world’s best documentaries. Unreported World is British television’s only regular peak time series dedicated to the developing world, while Dispatches features more international stories than other current affairs strands.
In This Chapter
- Introduction
- The Dying Rooms to China’s Stolen Children by Brian Woods
- Surviving Globalisation by Rana Dasgupta
- The Devil and the Stranger by Sorious Samura
- Unreported World by Channel 4 News
- The Beautiful and the Hidden by Sarfraz Manzoor
- Gallery
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