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Series 25, episode one
This is the twenty-fifth series of C4’s evergreen Friday evening buzz-killer ‘Unreported World’. Which can hardly be considered auspicious news for the human race – evidently we keep on churning out an inexhaustible supply of grim news stories with our usual facility. Still, we’re glad someone keeps reporting them even if, as always, the scheduling seems peculiar.
Tonight, Krishnan Guru-Murthy is in Afghanistan, sadly one of ‘UW’s’ most reliable sources of material. He’s visiting a women’s refuge which is in constant danger – from the sadistic lunkheads whose battered wives and daughters it’s protecting, but also from idiotic theocrats such as MP Qazi Hanafi, who considers them ‘places of ill-repute’. The stories are, as you’d expect, utterly horrifying, but well done to C4 for keeping this show on the road; someone’s got to tell them.