Development and Inequality

03: Coffee | Blood, Sweat and Luxuries

Young British consumers work alongside luxury goods makers in Africa and Asia. The Brits travel south to work on the Ethiopian coffee ...

Clothes to Die For | This World

Documentary about survivors of the 2013 collapse of the Rana Plaza, an eight-storey commerical building in Bangladesh, and the safety of the ...

Episode 1 | Blood, Sweat and T-Shirts

Six young fashion lovers swap shopping for the factories and backstreet workshops of India to learn how the clothes they wear are manuf...

01: Gems | Blood, Sweat and Luxuries

Six British consumers work alongside luxury goods makers in Africa and Asia. In Madagascar, James, Alexandria and Lucy learn where gems ...

Episode 4 | Blood, Sweat and T-Shirts

Six young fashion lovers visit India to learn how the clothes they wear are manufactured. The group are put to work in the backstreet f...

05: Technology | Blood, Sweat and Luxuries

Young British consumers work alongside luxury goods makers in Africa and Asia. In the Philippines they join electronics workers fo...

Episode 3 | Blood, Sweat and T-Shirts

Six young fashion lovers visit India to learn how the clothes they wear are manufactured. They join the thousands of migrant labourers ...

Episode 2 | Blood, Sweat and T-Shirts

Six young fashion lovers visit India to learn how the clothes they wear are manufactured. In Delhi, they must live and work alongside t...

S02E01: Trainers | Show Me What You're Made Of

They kick off their incredible trip by working in a trainers factory in Malaysia.

S02E03: Jeans | Show Me What You're Made Of

The kids have a go at making jeans in a Bangkok factory.

S01E02: Clothes | Show Me What You're Made Of

Stacey Dooley takes the kids to their second job in Indonesia, in a vast, high-tech clothing factory.

03: Stealing Africa | Why Poverty?

With reference to Zambian copper mines, Christoffer Guldbrandsen investigates the dark heart of the tax system employed by multi-nationals...

Sierra Leone | Newsnight

A decade ago Britain sent troops to Sierra Leone to intervene in the country's brutal civil war. That intervention was decisive - the rebel forces w...

S01E01: Toys | Show Me What You're Made Of

The kids are put to the test in one of Indonesia's biggest toy factories, stuffing toy pigs.

S02E02: Cosmetics | Show Me What You're Made Of

The kids face two tough days working in a huge international cosmetics factory in Thailand.

S01E04: Electronics | Show Me What You're Made Of

The kids work in a jaw-dropping electronics factory in Manila.

02: Give Us the Money | Why Poverty?

Documentary, using archive footage and interviews with key players, which looks at 30 years of Bob Geldof and Bono's campaign against po...

The Trouble with Aid

Documentary which tells the story of what really happened during the major humanitarian disasters of the last 50 years, from the Biafran War to Ethiopia...

Coffee Is The Gold Of The Future | Commodities

With an export value of some $15 billion a year coffee is the 2nd most valuable commodity after oil, providing ten countries, ...

S01E03: Jewellery | Show Me What You're Made Of

The kids learn to make the sort of jewellery for sale on British high streets.

Famous, Rich and in the Slums: Part 1 | Comic Relief

Lenny Henry, Samantha Womack, Reggie Yates and Angela Rippon experience unimaginable poverty as they spend a week living...

Famous, Rich and in the Slums: Part 2 | Comic Relief

Lenny Henry, Samantha Womack, Reggie Yates and Angela Rippon experience unimaginable poverty as they spend a week living...

Migration to cities | This World

Many young people in rural villages in China move to the cities to earn money and support their families.

Building boom | This World

An exploration of China's out of control building boom.

Rapid Chinese development | This World

The vast scale of Chinese development plans, and the role of state-owned enterprise.

Economy and employment in the new city | This World

How the economy is developing in the new city and supplying new job opportunities.

Urbanising rural environments in China | This World

Life in a rural community in China, that will soon become a city due to government urbanisation plans.

08: China's Ant People | Why Poverty?

Film looking at the realities of Chinese education through the lives of a private college tutor, a graduate jobseeker and a high school...

Wuhan urban renewal | This World

Development plans for Wuhan in Hubei Province, China.

Migrant workers | This World

150 million people from rural communities in China leave their families to work in cities.

Impact of the new city | This World

How the new city has impacted different families from White Horse village.

Captain Phillips (2013)

Film drama based on the true story of the hijacking by pirates of the MV Maersk Alabama off the coast of Somalia and the bravery of her crew in a des...

Fast fashion | Stacey Dooley Investigates

How the fashion industry keeps us buying more.

Chocolate - The Bitter Truth | Panorama

Paul Kenyon goes undercover as a cocoa trader in West Africa and discovers children as young as seven working long hours on cocoa far...

S01E01: Recycling | Show Me What You're Made Of: UK

Five kids work alongside the people in the UK who make and do the things they rely on. The kids start their working trip ...

Cotton production and the Aral Sea crisis | Stacey Dooley Investigates

Stacey Dooley visits the Aral Sea Basin in Kazakhstan, which has almost entirely dried up due to cotto...

Episode 1 | Scots in China

Neil Oliver explores the role of Scots in the reinvention of China. In this episode, he explores the contradiction between China's embrace of both...

S05E05: Clothes Recycling | Show Me What You're Made Of

The kids make their way south west, to a clothes-recycling centre in Bristol.

04: Chicken | Blood, Sweat and Takeaways

Six young British food consumers go to live and work alongside people in south east Asia's poultry industry.

Gap and Nike: No Sweat? | Panorama

Gap and Nike say their top-selling clothes are made under the strictest ethical codes. Paul Kenyon uncovers some disturbing realities.

S06E03: Onesies | Show Me What You're Made Of

The teens get the chance to make onesies in Cambodia.

06: The Industrial Landscape | Britain from Above

Comparing footage of Britain's industrial landscape in the 1940s with today.

03: Rice | Blood, Sweat and Takeaways

Six young British food consumers go to live and work alongside the workers in Thailand's rice industry, where they must survive on a ty...

S06E05: Fish | Show Me What You're Made Of

The teens make their way to a fish-canning plant on the Taiwanese coast.

S06E02: Coffee | Show Me What You're Made Of

The kids head off to a remote Cambodian coffee plantation.

S04E01: Cocoa | Show Me What You're Made Of

The kids have to prove themselves to a village full of cocoa farmers.

Industrial Work | Welcome to Lagos

Industrial work in the Ebute Metta neighbourhood of Lagos.

Environmental impact on the Aral Sea | Stacey Dooley Investigates

Stacey Dooley visits the Aral Sea Basin in Kazakhstan, which has almost entirely dried up due to cotton pro...

01: Tuna | Blood, Sweat and Takeaways

Six young British food consumers go to live and work alongside the workers in Indonesia's tuna industry, enduring the heat in the canne...

S01E01: Blood in the Sea | Living on the Edge

Chris lives and works with the fishermen of Mauritania as they make their daily living battling the ocean swells in the fertile...

Underground Britain | Countryfile

Sean Fletcher visits Cornwall to unearth the legacy of the county's renowned tin and copper mining industries. Tom Heap finds out if mining...

01: Peace | Welcome to Rio

Documentary series exploring Rio's shanty-towns, the favelas. In Cantagalo, delivery man Rocky carries goods up the steep staircases overlooking C...

Episode 1 | Welcome to Lagos

A look at life in the Olusosun rubbish dump, where around 1,000 people live on top of the rubbish in houses built from scrap.

02: War | Welcome to Rio

A look at Rio's drug-trafficking favelas, being 'pacified' by the government's special forces ahead of the World Cup in increasingly violent incursi...

Kids with Guns | Stacey Dooley Investigates

Stacey Dooley explores the issue of child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo's civil war, where an estimated 30,000 chi...

Episode 1 | Africa with Ade Adepitan

Ade Adepitan embarks on the first leg of his journey around Africa. He travels from Cape Verde to Senegal and the Ivory Coast, before fi...

Slums | Welcome to Lagos

The mass migration to Lagos, Nigeria, is causing ever expanding informal settlements.

Episode 1 | Welcome to India

Documentary series which explores life in India. It follows two people as they try to carve out homes - one in Kolkata and the other on a Mumbai...

03: Ingenuity | Welcome to Rio

This episode looks at the resourcefulness of some of Rio's poorest residents, revealing how favela residents exploit their opportunities.

Episode 2 | Welcome to Lagos

This episode follows those who choose to live and work on the waters of Lagos Lagoon, including a father of 18 who lives in a house built on sti...

Rural to Urban Migration | Welcome to Lagos

Migration from rural environments to the Lagos slums.

Rubbish Heap | Welcome to Lagos

How people are adapting to life in Lagos informal settlements, which includes sorting through and recycling everything in the Olusosun rubbis...

The Kids from Kibera | My Life

Kibera in Kenya is one of the largest slums in Africa and it is home to thousands of children, living and playing on the streets. It can be a ...

Episode 3 | Africa with Ade Adepitan

Ade begins this leg of his journey in Tanzania, in Selous Game Reserve. He is on the lookout for elephants but numbers in this park have...

Episode 2 | Africa with Ade Adepitan

Ade Adepitan embarks on the second leg of his journey around Africa. This time he is in Central Africa, travelling from Gabon to Uganda,...

S03E02: Sierra Leone | The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan

Romesh visits Sierra Leone, a country with a dark past but hopes for the future. With Gwyn Jay Allen as a guid...

S02E01: Zimbabwe | The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan

Romesh travels around Zimbabwe, gets caught in biblical lightning storms, re-enacts the film Titanic on a Lake Kar...

The Megacity Project | Welcome to Lagos

Part 1 | Congo: A Journey to the Heart of Africa

Alastair Leithead takes the first part of an epic journey from the Atlantic Ocean to the far reaches of the Congo river. He ...

Episode 4 | Africa with Ade Adepitan

The last leg of Ade Adepitan's tour sees him travelling from the beaches of Mozambique, through South Africa. At Paradise Island, Ade fi...

Slum Clearance | Welcome to Lagos

How the Lagos Megacities Project is impacting people living in the slums.

Breadline Kids

Sobering documentary following families in Dumfries, Glenrothes, Glasgow and Aberdeen who are struggling to make ends meet.

02: KS3 | Human Planet: Change and Sustainability

Linked to the KS3 geography curriculum, this programme looks at how humans have learnt to live with extremes and covers fiv...

04: Trade, Debt and Aid | World 2000

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

Lasting impacts of the Vietnam War | This World

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

04: Park Avenue - Money, Power and the American Dream | Why Poverty?

Film looking at inequality in the US through the prism of two near-adjacent Park Avenues - one an exclus...

British colonialism and Kenyan tea | This World

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

03: Stealing Africa | Why Poverty?

With reference to Zambian copper mines, Christoffer Guldbrandsen investigates the dark heart of the tax system employed by multi-nationals...

Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

An orphan from the slums of Mumbai makes it all the way to the final question of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. The police think he must be cheati...

04: 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 terr...

05: Poor Us - An Animated History of Poverty | Why Poverty?

Ben Lewis's funny, sinister animated odyssey takes us through the changing image of poverty - helping us define w...

Reality of cobalt mining society | Panorama

The society surrounding the mines in Kolwezi, DRC are severely impoverished and many of the children rely on handouts from the mi...

Kolkata with Sue Perkins

Sue Perkins immerses herself in the complex life of Kolkata and sees how it is reinventing itself as a megacity with a reputation for eccentricity, ...

08: China's Ant People | Why Poverty?

Film looking at the realities of Chinese education through the lives of a private college tutor, a graduate jobseeker and a high school...

07: The Great Land Rush | Why Poverty?

Documentary looking at how rich, land-hungry nations like China and Saudi Arabia are leasing Mali's land in order to turn large areas ...

06: Solar Mamas | Why Poverty?

Documentary following the story of a Jordanian mother who challenges the status quo of her traditional marriage by travelling to India to trai...

02: Give Us the Money | Why Poverty?

Documentary, using archive footage and interviews with key players, which looks at 30 years of Bob Geldof and Bono's campaign against po...

01: Four Born Every Second | Why Poverty?

Documentary exploring the effects of contemporary poverty on children and infant mortality rates around the world, from the UK to A...

Evicting the miners | Panorama

Tesla's supplier of cobalt, Glencore, says it has bought the land that houses the artisanal mines in Kolwezi and plans to evict all the ''ille...

Mining leaks | Panorama

Tesla's mining provider is Glencore who have come under large scrutiny due to deaths of miners as well as chemical spills.

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.