Alfred arrives in Xi’an in the province of Shaanxi. The Silk Road caravans used to end their long journey in this millenary city. He comes by stylist Fan Yanyan’s studio and visits the great mosque of Xi’an, the oldest in China, in the neighborhood inhabited by the Muslim Hui minority. Ideas and religions travelled the Silk Road as well as valuable goods. Professor Yue Yu tells Alfred the story of Xuan Chang, a seventh-century sage who went...

The village of Camembert in the Normandy region of northern France produces one of the world's most popular cheeses. From the dairy of Monsieur Durand, the last farmhouse Camembert producer in region, to the cooperative of Isigny St Mere, one of the country's most respected producers of traditional raw milk Camembert; Will learns the processing secrets that have been used for generations. Finally, on a visit to the Paris cheese shop of Roland Barthelemy,...

In Chile, Jonathan discovers a nation transformed since the demise of General Pinochet, but still working to heal the scars left by his rule. He meets the editors of a satirical magazine, rides with Chile's first female rodeo rider, crosses the Atacama Desert to a ghost town where he visits with poet Jorge Monteleagre - who says that under Pinochet the town was turned into a concentration camp where he was detained - then reaches the ocean, where...

Kenya, a country that struggles to feed its population, is Jimmy Doherty's destination in this program. He meets farmers who use ingenious new ways to combat pests, and scientists who produce bananas in a lab. As he travels across the country, Jimmy picks roses, milks camels, and discovers how Maasai sheep could save farmers around the world billions of dollars. But will Kenya ever be able to feed itself?

Nothing is more crucial to a nation's success-as well as its survival-than effective leadership. Broadcast from the United States Military Academy at West Point, this CNBC program assembles some of America's best experts on the subject. Their task: to examine the qualities needed most in those who will guide our nation and its economy forward. Management visionaries featured in the program include General Wesley Clark, former NATO Supreme Commander;...

Every year, thousands of people fleeing poverty in Ethiopia and Somalia hire smugglers to ferry them across the Gulf of Aden to look for work, but nearly half don't survive the three-day passage. Journalist Daniel Grandclément boarded a 30-foot boat with 120 refugees and shared their journey through hell - with the understanding that the smugglers would kill him if he pointed the lens in their direction - to learn more about the plight of these migrants....

As globalization gains momentum, industrialized and developing countries are, to a greater or lesser extent, becoming increasingly similar, with middle-class luxury and abject poverty coexisting side by side. This program explores the repercussions of globalization as well as a growing resentment toward the G8 countries and nongovernmental organizations. Concerns over third-world debt, environmental degradation, biodiversity, the concentration of...

Cheeses from Spain have recently gained popularity on the international market; with one particular cheese becoming very well known. In this episode, host Will Studd travels to the land of Don Quixote to learn about a rich sheep's milk cheese called Manchego. He then visits a cheese fair in the medieval city of Trujillo to savor another sheep's milk cheese, Queso de la Serena which is set with thistles. Finally, Will drives to the magnificent Picos...

For decades Greek islanders have migrated to the mainland in search of economic opportunity. But now, due to long-term unemployment and increasingly constrictive austerity measures, many of these city-dwelling professionals are moving back to their home villages, bringing with them ideas that they hope will solve not just their own financial problems but their country's as well. This program introduces some of the men and women in the vanguard of...

In the shadow of an increasingly interconnected and globalized economy, many of the world's poor are worse off than ever before. This classic documentary travels to Tanzania, Mali, India, Brazil, and Bosnia to present some practical solutions offered by poor people themselves as they face the challenge of improving their living conditions. Slum residents who have formed community activist groups explain why having sewage systems and permanent housing...