Unreported World

CHANNEL 4, 7.30PM

A troubling alliance of religion and nationalism is uncovered by Marcel Theroux in Russia, where state-sponsored TV and the Orthodox church promote an agenda of homophobia, anti-abortion and barely concealed misogyny in the guise of faith and “family values”. He meets Father Osyak, an Orthodox priest whose wife has borne 18 children – leading to the family being awarded a medal by Vladimir Putin for “exemplary fertility”.