Cutting Edge

Cutting Edge investigation into the world of gambling in 'Casino'. The documentary focuses on the trails and tribulations of the members of the Clifton Casino Club in Lytham St Annes. Broadcaster:

A 'social experiment' fly-on-the-wall documentary following 10 12-year girls left alone to fend for themselves in a house without adult supervision.

On a holiday to the then Yugoslavia, Alison met and fell in love with a man. They moved back to the UK together where they married and had two children. However, after turmoil in his home country, her husband became radicalized by his Muslim faith, and the couple divorced. Alison was granted custody of the children, but her ex-husband fled with them. Now Alison must track them down on a journey which takes her not just to what is now Bosnia, but also to the tumultuous patriarchy of Iran, where the father's rights trump all else.

In any society a mother's love for her child is thought to be sacred. Late in 2003 in an American court that most universal of instincts was being called into question. A jury had to decide if Terri Milbrandt had violated the trust of her daughter and perpetrated a sadistic fraud, deceived a caring community.

After six years of struggling to control their seven-year-old daughter, Georgina, parents Diane and Fred resolve to give parenting one last try before putting her into care. They track down Warwick Dyer on the Internet and apply his unique system of child behaviour management. In doing so it quickly emerges that the blame for Georgina's unacceptable behaviour lies squarely with her parents.

Two boys, blown apart by US bombs, were among some of the very few war casualties to be evacuated from the devastation of the Allied attacks on Baghdad. They were both flown, close to death, to a hospital in Kuwait, to be treated by the same team of plastic surgeons. One is six, the other 13: they are both named Ali. Ali Abbas lost his arms and most of his family. He became known as one of the press icons of the conflict, and received messages of support, donations, and offers of medical assistance from all around the world. He is now in Britain. The other Ali, Ali Hussein, had also lost many family members and had severe facial injuries that transformed his appearance. But he and the other Iraqi children evacuated to Kuwait were not singled out for any press attention.

The story of Natallie Evans who had IVF before having her ovaries removed after discovering she had cancer. Her ex-boyfriend is now applying to have the embryos destroyed and she is taking her case to the courts to protect them.

David Henshaw uses undercover reporters to produce a film about child sex trafficking in Europe.

The story of the Miss World fiasco in Nigeria. Broadcaster:

The story of two Australian brothel madams who arrived in England in 1996 and began passing themselves off as aristocratic ladies before being caught by the police.

A look at what it is like to be an ethnic minority in Britain from a child's point-of-view.