{"id":3922,"date":"2025-08-23T17:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T17:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/indian-village-midwives-make-a-shocking-confession-bbc-world-service-documentaries\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T17:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T17:20:10","slug":"indian-village-midwives-make-a-shocking-confession-bbc-world-service-documentaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/indian-village-midwives-make-a-shocking-confession-bbc-world-service-documentaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian village midwives make a shocking confession &#8211; BBC World Service Documentaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uSuMOh_d9oc?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Warning: Includes content some viewers may find distressing.<br \/>\nThirty years ago, in the Indian state of Bihar, a group of village midwives confessed on camera that they routinely took the lives of newborn baby girls. <\/p>\n<p>Click here to subscribe to our channel \ud83d\udc49\ud83c\udffd https:\/\/bbc.in\/3VyyriM<\/p>\n<p>Using archive footage that has never been seen before, this #BBCEye documentary &#8220;The Midwife&#8217;s Confession&#8221; 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Amitabh Parashar<br \/>\nAssistant Producer &#8211; Purnima Mehta<br \/>\nProducer &#8211; Neha Tara Mehta<br \/>\nResearcher &#8211; Shwetika and Archi Raj<br \/>\nFilmed by Syed Safi Ahmad and Omkar Phatak<br \/>\nAdditional Camera &#8211; Gaurav Lodhi Rajpoot<br \/>\nFilm Editor &#8211; Abhinav Tyagi<br \/>\nAssociate Editor &#8211; Hriday Rao Chauhan<br \/>\nSound Recordist and Editor &#8211; Debangshu Roy<br \/>\nImpact Producers &#8211; Baya Cat, Emaan Warraich, Anusha Kumar, Tom Donkin and Mark Shea<br \/>\nDirector, Development &#8211; Hemal Trivedi<br \/>\nDevelopment Exec &#8211; Emma Whitlock<br \/>\nTranslations &#8211; Devanshu Jha, Soumya Jha, Sona Singh, Ratan Priya, Komal Kumbhar, Tanuja Jha, Ifath Arwah<br \/>\nLighting &#8211; Selak Ram<br \/>\nColourist &#8211; Robin Doelly<br \/>\nGraphic Design &#8211; Asher Kaye Isbrucker<br \/>\nProduction Coordinator &#8211; Varsha Garg<br \/>\nProduction Manager &#8211; Dawn Macdonald<br \/>\nProduction Executive &#8211; Nayantara Gauba<br \/>\nSpecial Thanks &#8211; Indian Air Force, Kavita Parashar, Ravindra Kumar, Dinanath Kesari, Asita Maldahiyar, Abhay Anand, Parvaz Ahmad Lone, Parvez Ahmad<br \/>\nHead of Longform &#8211; Liz Gibbons<br \/>\nIndia Series Producer &#8211; Ankur Jain<br \/>\nDirected by Amitabh Parashar and Syed Ahmed Safi<br \/>\nExecutive Producers &#8211; Anubha Bhonsle and Daniel Adamson<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\nThis is the official BBC World Service YouTube channel.<br \/>\nIf you like what we do, you can also find us here:<br \/>\nInstagram \ud83d\udc49\ud83c\udffd https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bbcworldservice<br \/>\nTwitter \ud83d\udc49\ud83c\udffd https:\/\/twitter.com\/bbcworldservice<br \/>\nFacebook \ud83d\udc49\ud83c\udffd https:\/\/facebook.com\/bbcworldservice<br \/>\nBBC World Service website \ud83d\udc49\ud83c\udffd https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/worldserviceradio<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for watching and subscribing!<br \/>\n#GirlChild #India #GenderEquality #Dowry #Midwife #Adoption #BBCWorldService #WorldService #BBC100Women #Documentaries<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uSuMOh_d9oc\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warning: Includes content some viewers may find distressing. Thirty years ago, in the Indian state of Bihar, a group of village midwives confessed on camera that they routinely took the lives of newborn baby girls. Click here to subscribe to our channel \ud83d\udc49\ud83c\udffd https:\/\/bbc.in\/3VyyriM Using archive footage that has never been seen before, this #BBCEye [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4155150479,"featured_media":3923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8059,6592,8057,369,8036,4163,8035,7977,8054,8061,772,21,8041,8042,8044,8043,4619,8052,193,623,6978,565,8037,1366,8047,8055,8058,6604,8046,8038,8045,8060,8040,8049,8050,8048,8051,8039,8053,5731,8056],"class_list":["post-3922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie","tag-adopted","tag-adoption","tag-amitabh-parashar","tag-bbc-documentary","tag-bbc-eye-investigations","tag-bbc-india","tag-bbceye","tag-bihar","tag-caste-system","tag-daughters","tag-documentaries","tag-documentary","tag-dowry","tag-gender","tag-gender-equality","tag-girl-child","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-history","tag-india","tag-india-documentary","tag-india-news","tag-indian-documentary","tag-investigations","tag-katihar","tag-kosi-river","tag-male-privilege","tag-midwife","tag-midwifery","tag-midwives","tag-motherhood","tag-newborn","tag-ngo","tag-nurse","tag-nursing","tag-pune","tag-rural-healthcare","tag-rural-india","tag-upper-caste","tag-women","tag-womens-rights","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4155150479"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3924,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922\/revisions\/3924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}