← Eye Investigations

2023

22 episodes · 2023

  1. 1Sex for Work: The True Cost of Our Tea

    20 Feb 2023 · 1 hr 0 min

    BBC investigation reveals the secrets behind some of the world's biggest tea companies.

  2. 2The Pig Butchering Romance Scam

    07 Mar 2023 · 47 min

    Investigation into a highly sophisticated scam involving criminal gangs, modern-day slavery and victims around the world who have lost millions of dollars.

  3. 3Uganda's Stolen Innocence

    29 Apr 2023 · 1 hr 0 min

    Africa Eye investigates a rise in child sexual abuse and incest in northern Uganda.

  4. 4FGM: For the Love of Fatmata

    01 May 2023 · 1 hr 0 min

    Africa Eye investigates cases of FGM in Sierra Leone.

  5. 5Kito: Blackmailing LGBT Nigeria

    27 May 2023 · 27 min

    Africa Eye investigates how members of the LGBT community in Nigeria are targeted by criminal gangs who pose as potential dates on popular apps.

  6. 6Catching a Pervert

    08 Aug 2023 · 52 min

    BBC Eye investigates websites selling thousands of videos of men sexually assaulting women on trains, buses and other crowded public places across East Asia.

  7. 7The Monkey Haters

    20 Jun 2023 · 52 min

    The story of a disturbing online community, the internet sleuths that hunted down the perpetrators and the race to save baby monkey Mini.

  8. 8Syria: Addicted to Captagon

    24 Jun 2023 · 52 min

    How Syria's military elite and its fragile wartime economy got hooked on amphetamines.

  9. 9Sickle Cell: The Enemy Within

    01 Jul 2023 · 28 min

    Lea has become a beacon of hope for sickle cell sufferers across Africa, battling the stigmas surrounding the disease and the authorities who fail to provide adequate care.

  10. 10The Night They Came for Our Children

    10 Jul 2023 · 1 hr 0 min

    Africa Eye investigates a leading anti-slavery charity and their West African operation.

  11. 11Blood Brothers: The pro-Russian Serbians

    22 Jul 2023 · 26 min

    With unprecedented access, BBC Eye explores the world of pro-Russian ultra-nationalists in Serbia, which has long been torn between East and West.

  12. 12Betrayed: Elderly Care Exposed

    07 Aug 2023 · 27 min

    With life expectancy increasing, many African families are turning to care homes for help. Are the elderly getting the care they need?

  13. 13Fear and Loathing in South Africa

    23 Sep 2023 · 52 min

    BBC Africa Eye investigates the rise of xenophobia in South Africa and the violent targeting of migrants. Reported by Ayanda Charlie.

  14. 14The Trap: India’s Deadliest Scam

    14 Oct 2023 · 44 min

    Your phone is private. Or is it? A BBC investigation exposes the blackmail scam causing misery in India.

  15. 15Predators on the Pitch

    14 Oct 2023 · 28 min

    Africa Eye's Khadidiatou Cissé, travels to Gabon to investigate one of the biggest sexual abuse scandals in the history of football.

  16. 16Lady of the Hills: The Thai Wife Killing

    28 Oct 2023 · 23 min

    Nearly twenty years ago the half-naked body of a Thai woman was found by walkers in a remote part of the Yorkshire Dales in England. The autopsy proved inconclusive.

  17. 17Taught to Fear

    30 Oct 2023 · 28 min

    Corporal punishment in Kenyan schools has been banned for over twenty years. Yet teachers are beating their students on a daily basis and the consequences can be fatal. BBC Africa Eye’s Tom Odula goes on a journey to investigate the extent of the problem and what can be done to address it.

  18. 18What Happened to the Baby Stealers?

    04 Nov 2023 · 28 min

    BBC Africa Eye revisits Nairobi to find out what impact the broadcast of the 2020 investigation 'The Baby Stealers' had in Kenya's fight against child trafficking.

  19. 19Gaza Diaries

    09 Nov 2023 · 22 min

    Five people from Gaza document their struggle to survive the war, using their phones to record stories of loss and resilience in a worsening humanitarian crisis.

  20. 20Ukraine's Draft Dodgers

    25 Nov 2023 · 23 min

    Thousands of Ukrainian men have joined the call to fight for their country since Russia's invasion. But what of those who decided military service was not for them?

  21. 21Breaking the Silence: Abortion Rights in Kenya

    27 Nov 2023 · 45 min

    An estimated seven women die every day from unsafe abortions in Kenya. BBC Africa Eye investigates the battle for abortion rights in a country where unregulated terminations are a leading cause of maternal deaths, claiming the lives of over 2000 women each year.

  22. 22Breathless

    09 Dec 2023 · 28 min

    How the hidden toxic air pollution of the oil giants is spreading hundreds of kilometres, putting the health of millions of people at risk in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Iran and Iraq.