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Award-winning investigations - revealing secrets, rooting out injustice, and exposing crime, corruption, and abuse. The biggest stories from BBC correspondents all over the world.
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Carine Torbey
Jean Mackenzie
Nawal Al-Maghafi
Anna Holligan
Waihiga Mwaura
Will Grant
Diyva Arya
Sammy Awami
Stephanie Hegarty
Camila Mota
Anna Foster
Shawn Yuan
Seasons
A weekly programme from the BBC World Service, bringing forensic journalism from all corners of the world by BBC Eye, the World Service’s critically acclaimed investigative unit. It features expert global correspondents getting to the heart of the biggest international stories.
1.08/09/2025: Ukraine Under Fire & Sudan’s Crisis
08-09-202529mIn the first episode, we hear from residents in Ukraine's Kharkiv and Nawal Al-Maghafi reports on the escalating crisis in Sudan.
2.15/09/2025: Syria’s Lost Children & South Korea’s Martial Law
15-09-202528mIn this week’s episode: an investigation into the disappearance of children under the Assad regime in Syria and Jean Mackenzie reports on the political turmoil in South Korea follo...
3.22/09/2025: Fake News Network & Melting Alaska
22-09-202529mIn this episode, a BBC undercover reporter exposes a fake news operation in a European country about to go to the polls and Anna Holligan is in Alaska, America's last frontier, whe...
4.29/09/2025: Kenya’s Protest Killings
29-09-202527mIn this week’s episode, an investigation exposing members of the security forces who shot dead protesters at Kenya's parliament last year. And reporting from Nairobi, Waihiga Mwaur...
5.06/10/2025: Missing Leader Mystery & Cuba’s Economic Collapse
06-10-202529mIn this week’s episode, significant new evidence that may hold the clue to the fate of a Middle Eastern political leader missing for more than 40 years, and Will Grant reports from...
6.13/10/2025: Opioid Crisis in West Africa & Report from Kashmir
13-10-202529mThis week, an investigation into unlicensed opioids that have been driving a major public health crisis in West Africa and Diyva Arya is in Indian Administered Kashmir.
7.20/10/2025: Spies in Hong Kong & Lebanon's Uncertain Future
20-10-202529mIn this week’s episode, BBC Eye uncovers a growing culture of surveillance and informants in Hong Kong in the wake of the so-called “patriots law” and Carine Torbey reports from Be...
8.27/10/2025: Gen Z Uprisings and the Fall of Two Leaders
27-10-202529mIn this week’s episode we explore the rise of gen Z protests around the world. The Eye team uncovers what really happened during the popular youth uprising that led to the downfall...
9.03/11/2025: Dubai’s Hidden Sex Trade – and the Threat Facing Peru’s Uncontacted Tribes
03-11-202529mIn this episode, the Eye team goes undercover to expose an illegal prostitution ring in Dubai, and Stephanie Hegarty is in Peru to report on the plight of one of the world’s larges...
10.10/11/2025: Wildlife in Colombia’s River Magdalena in Peril as Brazil Prepares for UN Climate Summit
10-11-202529mIn this episode, BBC Eye investigates a disturbing trend of wildlife deaths along Colombia’s lifeblood, the River Magdalena, and Camilla Mota reports from Brazil ahead of the lates...
11.17/11/2025: New Evidence Challenges U.S. Probe into 2005 Haditha Killings
17-11-202529mIn this episode, Anna Foster reports from Iraq and BBC Eye uncovers new evidence raising serious doubts about the American investigation and trial for the 2005 killings of 24 Iraqi...
12.24/11/2025: Palau’s Role in the World’s Largest Bitcoin Seizure
24-11-202529mIn this week’s episode, BBC Eye tells the incredible story of the Chinese woman behind behind the scam that led to the world's biggest bitcoin seizure and Shawn Yuan reports from t...
13.01/12/2025: Georgia Police accused of using chemical agent as Russia’s Shadow war expand
01-12-202529mIn this week’s episode, BBC Eye investigates allegations that police in the former former Soviet republic, Georgia used a chemical weapon against protestors and Elizaveta Fokht re...
14.08/12/2025: South Africa’s G20 - Housing Woes & Trump’s Refugees
08-12-202529mNomsa Maseko reports from South Africa in the wake of the first-ever G20 on African soil. In two exclusive reports, Eye Investigations hears from residents of abandoned and hijacke...
15.15/12/2025: The Deceit Behind Cancer Charity Scams in Conflict Areas
15-12-202529mBBC Eye’s Simi Jolaoso reports on a global scam network that claims to raise millions of dollars for children with cancer in war zones and deprived areas, but none of the funds rai...
16.05/01/2026: Greenland’s Stolen Children & The Future of the French Republic
05-01-202629mIn this week’s episode, how Greenlandic parents across Denmark are fighting to be reunited with children forcibly taken into care. Andrew Harding reports from Paris on whether the...
17.12/01/2026: Silicon Valley and the Future of AI
12-01-202629mAI is changing everything – from how we work to how we live. The World Service’s cyber correspondent Joe Tidy is in Silicon Valley, California, the beating heart of the AI revoluti...
18.19/01/2026: Jerusalem, Bethlehem and the Impact of War
19-01-202629mIn this week’s episode, Emir Nader reports from Jerusalem on the impact of the Israel-Gaza war and there’s a special report from the BBC Eye team who spent a year at the Holy Famil...
19.26/01/2026: Russia Accused Over Interpol as Trump Targets Greenland
26-01-202629mIn this week’s episode, BBC Eye reveals allegations that Interpol’s systems are being abused by Russia in order to repress dissidents abroad, and Katya Adler reports from Greenlan...
20.02/02/2026: Russia’s Foreign Fighters and the Struggle to Rebuild Syria
02-02-202629mIn this week’s episode, the foreigners lured to fight on the front line for Russia, and more than a year on from the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Lyse Doucet reports from Damascus on t...
21.Ukraine: Growing Up Without Dad
23-02-202629mIn this episode, Zhanna Bezpiatchuk reports from Kyiv on four years of war, death, destruction, resilience and hope. Has the war of attrition - attacking Ukraine's energy infrastru...
22.The Untold Story of Nepal's Mass Protests
02-03-202629mIn this week’s episode, Norberto Paredes reports from Venezuela on the future of Venezuela’s oil sector. President Trump sees it as a big business opportunity for the US oil secto...
23.The Week That Changed The Middle East
09-03-202629mThis week Carine Torbey is in Lebanon reporting on the impact of the US-Israel war with Iran and Nawal Al-Maghafi looks at the events of an extraordinary week when longstanding ten...
24.Battling Islamic State group in Somalia
16-03-202629mThis week, the Eye team follows Puntland forces on the front line in far-eastern Somalia, examining how the Islamic State group has expanded its influence across Africa, and Kalkid...
25.Inside Australia's Big Social Experiment
23-03-202629mThis week, the accounts of some of the women brutally repressed by the Iranian government during the 2022 Women, Life, Freedom protests and Katy Watson is in Australia examining th...
- Ep 26
26.The global trade fuelling one of the world’s biggest wildlife crimes
30-03-202629mThis week, the Eye team reveals how soaring global demand for eel has fuelled a vast illegal trade worth billions, exposing criminal networks, trafficking routes and controversial...
- Ep 27
27.06/04/2026
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