Synopsis
54 Days tells the story of the events that led to the lockdown and the gulf between what Chinese officials and scientists knew and what they told the world.
- Programme: 54 Days
- Series: 1
- Episode: China and the Pandemic
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2021
- Journalism
Licence: ERA Licence required
UK only
Staff and students of licensed education establishments only
Cannot be adapted
Add Notes
More resources about The Global Context and Development
Cadbury Exposed | Dispatches
Cadbury Exposed | Dispatches
Undercover in Ghana, Antony Barnett investigates Britain's best-loved chocolate brand and reveals for the first time child labour in its supply ...
10 Years Old & Living in Poverty
10 Years Old & Living in Poverty
Brand new documentary following three families coping with very challenging financial circumstances, all told from the unique perspective of...
5: Downfall | Thatcher: A Very British Revolution
5: Downfall | Thatcher: A Very British Revolution
Mrs Thatcher's leadership style and judgement on Europe and the poll tax create splits in her cabinet and public anger, lea...
Britain's Hardest Workers: Inside the Low Wage Economy
Britain's Hardest Workers: Inside the Low Wage Economy
20 volunteers test their skills against some of the jobs in Britain's low-wage sector. In this episode, they do our di...
Cars | What Britain Buys and Sells in a Day
Cars | What Britain Buys and Sells in a Day
Ed Balls, Ade Adepitan and Cherry Healey explore how much we really know about the logistics that enable Britain to buy and sell ...
The Debt Saviours
The Debt Saviours
Access-all-areas documentary following Christians Against Poverty, asking whether the charity's motivation is debt relief or bringing people to Jesus.
After Brexit: The Battle for Europe | This World
After Brexit: The Battle for Europe | This World
The European Union faces the biggest challenge in its 60-year history, with the rise of populist eurosceptic movements acros...
Brexit and Exit | Meet the Lords
Brexit and Exit | Meet the Lords
Brexit hits the Lords with a bang when they vote on leaving Europe and become the centre of the nation's attention, and the Queen pays her a...
Britain's Lowest Paid Jobs - Part 2 | Britain's Hardest Workers: Inside the Low Wage Economy
Britain's Lowest Paid Jobs - Part 2 | Britain's Hardest Workers: Inside the Low Wage Economy
20 volunteers take part in an experiment to test their skills against some of th...
Counting the Cost
Counting the Cost
Climate change, the COVID pandemic and now the crisis in Ukraine, have disrupted supply chains and exacerbated the soaring cost of living, leaving people o...
Italian steel industry | Counting the Cost
Italian steel industry | Counting the Cost
High energy costs are putting steel workers jobs at risk.
Rice Farmers | Counting the Cost
Rice Farmers | Counting the Cost
The high price of fertiliser is pushing up the cost of rice production in Thailand, which has a knock-on effect on the buyers of the rice.
01: Keynes | Masters of Money
01: Keynes | Masters of Money
Stephanie Flanders looks at the life and work of economist John Maynard Keynes, and how his ideas have never been more relevant or controversia...
01: Our Friends in the North | Referendum Documentaries
01: Our Friends in the North | Referendum Documentaries
Allan Little asks whether the Nordic economic model, which marries dynamic, open economies with high public spending ...
02: Hayek | Masters of Money
02: Hayek | Masters of Money
Stephanie Flanders looks at the radical free-market economist Friedrich Hayek's solution to the problems of capitalism - set it virtually totall...
03: Marx | Masters of Money
03: Marx | Masters of Money
Stephanie Flanders examines the revolutionary and controversial ideas of Karl Marx which, as the global financial crisis continues, are once agai...
1: The Disruptors | The Women Who Changed Modern Scotland
1: The Disruptors | The Women Who Changed Modern Scotland
Kirsty Wark reveals how pioneering women of the 1960s and 70s seized the baton from previous generations and surged...
2: Having It All | The Women Who Changed Modern Scotland
2: Having It All | The Women Who Changed Modern Scotland
Kirsty Wark explores the 1980s and 90s, when legislative leaps enshrined new rights for women. But with sexism rife,...
4: That Bloody Woman | Thatcher: A Very British Revolution
4: That Bloody Woman | Thatcher: A Very British Revolution
As Mrs Thatcher's government transforms the British economy, tensions erupt within her inner circle and personal r...
Brexit: Behind Closed Doors: Part 1 | Storyville
Brexit: Behind Closed Doors: Part 1 | Storyville
The untold story of the Brexit negotiations... from the other side, with exclusive access to the EU parliament's representat...