Al Jazeera back with its 'Correspondent Series'

The award-winning series will air from November 6, bringing a diverse range of stories from across the globe, from the perspective of the network's journalists

BestMediaInfo Bureau | Delhi | October 31, 2014

Travelling from India to America and from Bosnia to Doha, Al Jazeera's correspondents explore subjects that touch upon a diverse range of modern obsessions – digital technology, architecture and photography, yoga, the American dream, fertility and the universal love of comedy. The award-winning 'Correspondent Series' returns to Al Jazeera English on Thursday November 8, at 8 PM, bringing a diverse range of stories from across the globe, from the perspective of the network's journalists.

In the premiere episode 'My Digital Addiction', Al Jazeera's Phil Lavelle will look at the modern phenomenon of digital addiction. While the series will follow Lavelle's personal addiction story, it will also explore the wider issues and problems associated with digital addiction. He will check in to a digital detox camp and the series will follow his progress to see if he has been able to stay off his devices.

'Metropolis', to be aired on November 13, is a film that looks at the relationship we have with modern cities. Like many people, Richard Bentley has a fascination with architecture and uses time lapse photography to take a closer look at some very special buildings that reveal so much of our past, present and future, in a unique and artistic manner.

On November 20, Bhanu Bhatnagar will explore what impact the modern day popularity of yoga has on the world's most ancient physical and spiritual practices. Packaged and commercialised in a myriad different ways over the past decades, yoga has reached millions of people, but its commercialisation also brought with it all the pitfalls of operating in a modern capitalist world.

'A Tale of two Migrations: Chasing the American Dream', to be aired on November 27, features the story of Al Jazeera's correspondent Adam Raney's family. The Mississippi Delta has been through very dramatic demographic changes since the US Civil War, with the ethnic make-up and attitudes towards minorities forced to change with the developing migration patterns, we see how US immigration policy is impacting the lives of millions.

The film 'Motherhood On Ice', to be aired on December 4, explores the personal journey of correspondent Amanda Burrell, who, at 42, may still want to have children and is exploring her options, including oocyte cryopreservation - freezing her eggs. In this film, she explores the medical and social issues surrounding the procedure, as well as the personal struggle for women who try to decide whether or not to freeze their eggs.

On December 11, in 'Bosnian Humour', Senior Correspondent Jackie Rowland will try to reunite the three members of the immensely popular comedy team 'The Surrealist Top Ten' (Topliste Nadrealiste). The Bosnian comedy troupe split acrimoniously in the height of the war. Often described as the Balkans answer to 'Monty Python', the members of the team were from the three main communities in Sarajevo: Nele – the Serbian , Zenit - Bosnian-Muslim and Suco - the Croat. The film will reveal how the Bosnian war has left scars that may never heal.

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