Development and Inequality

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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.

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

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

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.

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...

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, ...

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.

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...

Rapid Chinese development | This World

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

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.

Fast fashion | Stacey Dooley Investigates

How the fashion industry keeps us buying more.

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...

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 ...

06: The Industrial Landscape | Britain from Above

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

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

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

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.

S01E03: Cosmetics | 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, travelling to a cosmetics factory ...

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...

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...

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

The teens get the chance to make onesies in Cambodia.

The Rana Plaza Disaster | This World

Witnesses and victims of the Rana Plaza disaster tell their stories of the day.

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...

Cuba with Simon Reeve | This World

Simon Reeve heads to Cuba to find a communist country in the middle of a capitalist revolution and asks if the new economic openness could...

S06E01: Bags | Show Me What You're Made Of

Ellie, Alice, Faith, Joe and Sam begin their working journey in Cambodia.

S05E03: Buses | Show Me What You're Made Of

The kids move to London to join the cleaning team at a bus garage.

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...

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.

S05E04: Fish Factory | Show Me What You're Made Of

The kids head to a fish-processing factory in the north eastern port of Grimsby.

S05E02: Textiles | Show Me What You're Made Of

The kids head to a textiles factory in Leicester.

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.

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 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...

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.

Slums | Welcome to Lagos

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Rural to Urban Migration | Welcome to Lagos

Migration from rural environments to the Lagos slums.

Episode 3 | Welcome to Lagos

This last episode follows Esther, who lives in a scrap house on the beach in central Lagos. Her village has repeatedly been bulldozed by governm...

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...

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,...

The Megacity Project | Welcome to Lagos

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...

Kids with Machetes | Stacey Dooley

Stacey Dooley's first documentary series explores the global issue of child labour. She visits the Ivory Coast, meeting children working i...

Haiti | The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan

Romesh Ranganathan travels to some of the most unlikely places on earth for a holiday. Romesh finds out if there is more to H...

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...

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...

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.

04: Trade, Debt and Aid | World 2000

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

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...

Lasting impacts of the Vietnam War | This World

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

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...

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...

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, ...

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...

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...

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.

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...

Breadline Kids

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

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.

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...

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...

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...