White Gold, Black Market | Commodities

4: Gold and E-waste | Blood, Sweat and Luxuries

Young British consumers work alongside luxury goods makers in Africa and Asia. In Ghana they mine gold and discover the terri...

This is Congo | Storyville

A raw and unfiltered insight into the bloodiest conflict since the Second World War - the civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Toxic Cost of Going Green | Unreported World

Jamal Osman travels to the Democratic Republic of Congo, to investigate the dirty business of cobalt mining and the toxic cost f...

British colonialism and Kenyan tea | This World

Simon Reeve investigates the colonial history that has shaped both the landscape and tea trade in Kenya.

4: Trade, Debt and Aid | World 2000

Global creation and distribution of wealth, effect of fair trade and international debt.

Climate change and the coffee industry | Natural World

Climate change is threatening the future of the coffee industry in Vietnam.

Episode 2 | Burma with Simon Reeve

Simon visits Mandalay and travels to a conflict zone to meet a rebel army who have been fighting the Burmese military for decades.

Free Markets For Free Men | Commodities

In the 18th century the City of London was the financial centre of the world economy and merchants crowded the coffee houses to plan ...

Lasting impacts of the Vietnam War | This World

Simon Reeve investigates the continued impacts of the Vietnam War on rural communities in Vietnam.

Leaving Home For Sugar | Commodities

With the decline of the Brazilian sugar-cane industry following the dutch withdrawal in 1654, the caribbean, hitherto the haven for the ...

Vietnamese coffee | This World

Simon Reeve talks to an coffee consultant about the reasons why Vietnam does not benefit from the profits of the coffee industry.