Storyville · SEASON 23
Defying the Cutting Season
Episode 4 · 2019-02-26
- Documentary
Episode overview
Every year during the December school holidays the ‘cutting season’ takes place in Tanzania. Even though Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is illegal, thousands of young girls are forced to undergo an ordeal that could cost them their lives. Defying the Cutting Season follows the brave and courageous girls fighting against a tradition that goes back thousands of years and reveals the one safe place they can escape to. Rhobi Samwelly, who was herself a victim of FGM, now valiantly runs a safe house and works with the local police to rescue and protect girls at risk while arresting parents and cutters. But they have a tough and dangerous job and old customs die hard.
85 minutes
Season 23 episodes
1. Waco: Madman or Messiah (1)2019-01-02
2. Waco: Madman or Messiah (2)2019-04-22
3. Under the Wire2019-02-11
4. Defying the Cutting Season2019-02-26
5. The Internet's Dirtiest Secrets: The Cleaners2019-03-19
6. The Trial of Ratko Mladic2019-04-01
7. Pervert Park2019-04-08
8. Brexit: Behind Closed Doors (1)2019-05-08
9. Brexit: Behind Closed Doors (2)2019-05-09
10. A German Life: Goebbels' Secretary Remembers2019-05-13
11. The Raft2019-06-02
12. Tiananmen: The People V the Party2019-09-30
13. The PM, the Playboy and the Wolf of Wall Street2019-10-21
14. On the President's Orders2019-10-24
15. Inside Lehman Brothers: The Whistleblowers2019-10-28
16. Maiden2019-11-11
17. One Child Nation2019-11-18
18. Murder in the Bush: Cold Case Hammarskjöld2019-11-25
19. Facing Franco's Crimes: The Silence of Others2019-12-02
20. Avicii: True Stories2019-04-20
