Frontline/World Episodes on PBS

Included: a report on Nigeria in the wake of the November 2002 Miss World fiasco and the controversy over the death sentence given to a woman convicted of adultery under the Islamic Shariah law imposed in the northern part of the country. Reporters Alexis Bloom and Cassandra Herrman interview the woman, Amina Lowal, and visit the northern city of Kaduna just as rioting that eventually killed 200 people was taking place. Also: the BBC's Ben Anderson tours North Korea, accompanied by two ever-mindful (if unthreatening) government “minders”; and Public Radio International's Marco Werman explores Iceland's pop-music scene to determine “why it's so hot,” as series editor Stephen Talbott puts it. Werman follows a group known as the Operat Organ Quartet (it's actually a quintet).