Work, Poverty and Welfare

01: Justice | Darren McGarvey: The State We're In

Darren McGarvey sets out to explore the UK's justice system through the eyes of the people who live and work in it.

How to Break into the Elite

Amol Rajan investigates how much class still matters in Britain's elite professions. What does it take for bright working-class youngsters to bre...

Episode 1 | 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, th...

All Work and Low Pay | Panorama

Panorama goes undercover to reveal how some employers exploit loopholes or get round the rules so that their workers are paid below the Natio...

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...

Episode 1 | How to Crack the Class Ceiling

How can working class students break through the barriers to landing Britain's elite jobs? Amol Rajan investigates the tips and tr...

Paying Less Than the Minimum Wage | Panorama

An insight into work sectors that often do not pay the minimum wage and how some workers are being exploited.

Britain's Lowest Paid Jobs - Part 4 | Britain's Hardest Workers: Inside the Low Wage Economy

20 volunteers take part in an experiment to test their skills against some of th...

Britain's Lowest Paid Jobs - Part 3 | Britain's Hardest Workers: Inside the Low Wage Economy

20 volunteers take part in an experiment to test their skills against some of th...

Britain's Lowest Paid Jobs - Part 1 | Britain's Hardest Workers: Inside the Low Wage Economy

20 volunteers take part in an experiment to test their skills against some of th...

Episode 2 | Britain's Hardest Workers: Inside the Low Wage Economy

Volunteers test their skills against some of the jobs in Britain's low-wage sector. This time, they are wo...

Episode 2 | How to Crack the Class Ceiling

Amol Rajan looks at solutions to Britain's class inequality problem. How can employers and policy makers ensure a level playing fi...

Our Northern Jacket Empire | We Are England

Waxed jackets have been handmade in a north east factory for over 100 years. We meet the workers keeping these traditional skills...

Au Pairing And Domestic Labour | Thinking Allowed

Laurie Taylor explores the sociology of housework and the lived experience of au pairing. With Ann Oakley and Rosie Cox.

Fly by Night | Working in the Night

Adrian Chiles profiles five workers from a range of professions. Today he joins the cabin crew of a packed British Airways 747 flight fro...

Poor Kids

Documentary telling the stories of some of the 3.5 million children living in poverty in the UK. They give their thoughts on their situation and their future prosp...

02: Edinburgh - Crime | Darren McGarvey's Scotland

In Edinburgh, Darren examines the link between poverty and crime: how does it impact kids and their future? But soon Darre...

Marcus Rashford: Feeding Britain's Children

How the England footballer won public and political support for a deeply personal cause. Inside Marcus Rashford's campaign for fr...

S01E01: Identity Crisis | Darren McGarvey's Class Wars

As Darren examines how social class shapes our identities and destinies, he meets people moving between the classes on...

06: Aberdeen - Poverty at Home | Darren McGarvey's Scotland

Darren travels to oil-rich Aberdeen, where he discovers a city in flux. With the nation's highest number of food ...

All Work and Low Pay | Panorama

Panorama goes undercover to reveal how some employers exploit loopholes or get round the rules so that their workers are paid below the Natio...

02: Suffer the Little Children | Ian Hislop's Age of the Do-Gooders

Ian Hislop celebrates the dynamic and eccentric Victorian reformers who brought about the most remarkable...

01: Britain's Moral Makeover | Ian Hislop's Age of the Do-Gooders

Ian Hislop salutes the unsung heroes of Victorian Britain who improved cities, housing and working conditio...

Understanding Poverty in the UK | Famous, Rich and Hungry

Four different families' experiences of poverty shared, looking at how they cope on benefits, with food poverty and...

S02E02: Up a Class | Hayley Goes...

Hayley Pearce is working-class through and through, but she wants to know how easy it would be to go up a class. Will being posh prove to...

Cathy Come Home | The Wednesday Play

Landmark 1960s TV play about a young couple and their children who are cruelly overtaken by events which lead them into an unrelenting t...

Super Rich: The Greed Game

As the credit crunch bites and a global economic crisis threatens, Robert Peston reveals how the super-rich have made their fortunes, and the rest...

05: Borders - Rural Poverty and Mental Health | Darren McGarvey's Scotland

Darren discovers that levels of ill mental health in the Scottish Borders are above the national a...

The Rise of the Super Rich | Super Rich: The Greed Game

The making of the super rich in the early 2000s through private equity firms and hedge funds.

The Global Financial Crisis | Super Rich: The Greed Game

The world's economy brought into crisis as a result of loans to 'sub-prime borrowers'.

Episode 1 | Famous, Rich and Hungry

Four famous volunteers live with families who can't afford to eat. Theo Paphitis moves in with a working mum who regularly skips meals to...

The Poverty Problem | Bangladesh at 50

British Bangladeshis have one of the highest relative poverty rates of any ethnic group in the UK, with many living in low income hous...

Episode 1 | Britain My Britain

Series on how people from other countries adapt to living in Britain. Including young Kurds living in the shadow of armed gangs in North Londo...

03: Sinful Sex and Demon Drink | Ian Hislop's Age of the Do-Gooders

The perils of booze and sex are the focus for the final episode of Ian Hislop's series about Victorian re...

01: Dundee - Drug Death Capital | Darren McGarvey's Scotland

In 2018 Dundee was the drug death capital of Europe - Darren McGarvey goes behind the headlines to find out why....

No Place to Call Home | Newsround Specials

With record numbers of families living in temporary accommodation, Newsround reporter Shanequa Paris investigates how children are...

Episode 1 | How the Other Half Live

The show features a wealthy family providing 'sponsorship' for a family living in poverty in the UK.

Gaskin

Drama based on the case history of a Liverpool boy, Graham Gaskin, who spent most of his youth in care. Graham Gaskin says it is not just his story - 'It's all the ot...

Episode 2 | How the Other Half Live

The show features a wealthy family providing 'sponsorship' for a family living in poverty in the UK.

Episode 3 | How the Other Half Live

The show features a wealthy family providing 'sponsorship' for a family living in poverty in the UK.

One Year On | How the Other Half Live

The show features a wealthy family providing 'sponsorship' for a family living in poverty in the UK.

Learning to survive: The School Fighting the Cost of Living Crisis | File on 4

The story of one primary school doing more than most to make sure children are fed, warm and h...

Episode 2 | Death Of Respect

Journalist John Ware examines the broken bits of Britain and questions whether they can be put back together again. He hears about the damage ca...

02: Edinburgh - Crime | Darren McGarvey's Scotland

In Edinburgh, Darren examines the link between poverty and crime: how does it impact kids and their future? But soon Darre...

Growing Up Skint | Born Survivors

Documentary about child poverty. In Glasgow, Mansfield and London, children show the courage and determination to rise above their circumst...

Benefits Street; future of the BBC | The Media Show

A major inquiry into the future of the BBC begins, and does Channel 4's Benefits Street reinforce harmful stereotypes or ...

Episode 1 | 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, th...

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...

Made in Dagenham (2010)

Comedy drama charting the fight of female factory workers at the Ford Dagenham plant for equal pay. In 1968, one determined factory worker leads her ...

Grenfell

Documentary filmed throughout the year following the Grenfell Tower fire, hearing from those directly affected by the most devastating tower block fire in British h...

The Old Oak (2023)

A pub landlord in a previously thriving mining community in County Durham struggles to hold on to his pub and keep it as the one remaining public space pe...

Versus - The Life and Films of Ken Loach

Ken Loach reflects on his often controversial career, with comments from colleagues, friends and family.

Britain's Lowest Paid Jobs - Part 4 | Britain's Hardest Workers: Inside the Low Wage Economy

20 volunteers take part in an experiment to test their skills against some of th...

Britain's Lowest Paid Jobs - Part 3 | Britain's Hardest Workers: Inside the Low Wage Economy

20 volunteers take part in an experiment to test their skills against some of th...

Britain's Lowest Paid Jobs - Part 1 | Britain's Hardest Workers: Inside the Low Wage Economy

20 volunteers take part in an experiment to test their skills against some of th...

Episode 2 | Britain's Hardest Workers: Inside the Low Wage Economy

Volunteers test their skills against some of the jobs in Britain's low-wage sector. This time, they are wo...

The State of Welfare

Jane Garvey and Julian Worricker present a special programme marking the 70th anniversary of William Beveridge's ground-breaking report which founded th...

02: A Great Society? | Wheeler on America

Charles Wheeler charts origins & decline of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programme, looking at how it changed the lives of poor p...

Episode 1 | Melvyn Bragg on Class and Culture

Melvyn Bragg explores the relationship between class and culture, starting with 1911 to 1945 and telling the story of how a rig...

01: Dundee - Drug Death Capital | Darren McGarvey's Scotland

In 2018 Dundee was the drug death capital of Europe - Darren McGarvey goes behind the headlines to find out why....

British Family Life in the 1980s - Part 1 | The British Family

Describes the impact of money and wealth on women's place in the family. Working women and a rise in single pa...

On Call to a Nation

Casting real doctors instead of actors, this film uses scripted scenarios and interviews to see the National Health Service through their eyes. The docum...

The Town That Thread Built

Documentary telling the story of J & P Coats, initially a cotton mill opened in Paisley in 1826 that went on to become one of the world's three bi...

Cathy Come Home | The Wednesday Play

Landmark 1960s TV play about a young couple and their children who are cruelly overtaken by events which lead them into an unrelenting t...

Episode 2 | Universal Credit: Inside the Welfare State

At Toxteth jobcentre, manager Gemma is under pressure to ensure her staff meet new claimants every week until they get...

Episode 3 | Universal Credit: Inside the Welfare State

This final episode follows staff and claimants at Bolton Jobcentre. New claimant Paula is stunned to realise that she ...

Episode 1 | Universal Credit: Inside the Welfare State

At Peckham Jobcentre in London, Rachel has recently moved onto Universal Credit after leaving her 27-year NHS career t...

Jobs for the Boys? | Panorama

Former England and Arsenal footballer Sol Campbell investigates why the unemployment rate for young black British men is roughly double that of...

British Family Life in the 1980s - Part 2 | The British Family

Describes the increase in single parent families.

Poverty In Britain; Unemployment As A Choice | Thinking Allowed

Laurie Taylor discusses the largest ever survey of UK levels of deprivation. Plus new research on people who ...

05: I'm On The Pavement Thinking About The Government | Almost Grown

This episode looks at the teenager as a force for political change, including black consciousness, femin...

03: Money | The British Family

Kirsty Young explores the impact of money on British families. She charts the 1980s and 1990s when our pursuit of cash and career had a deep e...