The aim of this series is to reflect on an event a year after it hits the headlines…

Part of the inherent cruelty of news is that the old news has to make way for the new. Yet the people involved have to go on living with the events that propelled them briefly into the limelight – and the lasting consequences of those events. Some pay a high price; others never recover. Some make a tragically abrupt exit, leaving others to mourn unnoticed. Some people seem to crop up in the news all the time, either because they are part of the media circus, or because they have decided they want to be in the news and have worked hard to get there. For every event which makes headline news, journalists spend time building up personal contacts, amassing knowledge and facts, and thinking how best to express people’s hopes and fears.

“A Year Later” has been created so that these people and their stories should not be forgotten, to find out what happens to them once the news has moved on, and so that the work of those who reported on the events should not be wasted.

Episode 1: Charlotte Washington
Episode 2: Charm El Sheik, A one-way ticket
Episode 3: Darfour, The Devil’s warrior
Episode 4: Sri Lanka, The castaways of the tsunami 
Episode 5: Back to the Baghdad museum
Episode 6: France’s summer of ashes
Episode 7: Vincent Humbert, Euthanasia and after
Episode 8: Winning the peace in Ivoiry Cote 
Episode 9: A Russian Strategy
Episode 10: Bali, Terror in paradise 
Episode 11: The Duplessis orphans
Episode 12: Cormeilles, Betrayal of the innocents 
Episode 13: The Genoa Generation
Episode 14: Murder at the Palace of Kathmandou
Episode 15: Toulouse, Forgotten victims