The World Uncovered is a powerful international current affairs strand, which confronts strong, hard-hitting stories that affect people's lives around the world, including exclusive investigations into the most contentious global issues.  This week, the programme focuses on India, where poor and illiterate patients are being used to test new drugs for the West and some are unaware they are even taking part in clinical trials.  Paul Kenyon, a senior BBC reporter uncovers the disturbing truth behind India's boom in clinical trials and follows the stories of Devassy Kutty in Kerala and a psychiatric patient in Gujarat.


(Duration: 50 minutes)

Saturday 25th November at 1410

Repeated: Saturday 25th November at 2210; Sunday 26th November at 0410, 1010 & 1910 

A unique, nomadic way of life is under threat in Africa, because of intense, prolonged drought.  The Turkana tribe has survived Kenya's extreme climate for centuries but now its pastures are vanishing and livestock dying.  This programme follows the BBC's Foreign Affairs Correspondent Fergal Keane and cameraman Darren Conway, as they spend a remarkable week with the Turkana people, meeting nomads struggling to build a better future for their children, and others who have turned to fishing on Lake Turkana as they fight to protect their way of life.  Living and travelling with them, they experience a way of life unchanged for centuries, but now threatened by drought and political misrule.


(Duration: 30 minutes)

Saturday 25th November at 1030

Repeated: Saturday 25th November at 1730; Sunday 26th November at 0330, 1430 & 2230 

Villages On The Frontline focuses on Morocco this week, where the main threat to the scarce Saharan grazing lands is not drought but tourism.  With over nine million tourists per year in Morocco and Tunisia alone, and the craze for rallies brought on by the Paris-Dakar race, hundreds of thousands of vehicles travel all over the Moroccan Sahara each year.  The nomads' way of life, so finely attuned to the desert, appears doomed as the desert itself becomes 'desertified'.  Born to a nomad family, Ali Sbai makes a passionate case for the creation of a network of cross-border reserves to enable the nomads to take pressure off the limited grazing ground and escape the effects of off-road vehicle damage.


(Duration: 30 minutes)

Friday 1st December at 2230

Repeated: Saturday 2nd December at 0830; Monday 4th December at 1230;

Tuesday 5th December at 1730 & 2130 [S.As]; Wednesday 6th December at 0430~+ & 1030

Each week, Dateline London speaks to foreign correspondents currently posted in London who look at events in the UK through outsiders' eyes and discuss how the issues of the week are being tackled around the world.  Hosted by Gavin Esler (pictured), this week the programme features Bruce Anderson, conservative political columnist from UK newspaper The Independent; Jeff McAllister, Time Magazine's London bureau chief; Dr. Saul Zadka, former Haaretz European correspondent; and Abdel Bari Atwan, editor in chief of Al-Quds Al Arabi, a London-based daily newspaper. 

(Duration: 30 minutes)

Sunday 26th November at 1730

Repeated: Monday 27th November at 0030~+ & Monday 27th November at 0330~+ 

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