3: Revolution | Robert Peston Goes Shopping

1: Seduction | Robert Peston Goes Shopping

Robert Peston charts how shopping in Britain was transformed from a chore to be endured in the 1950s into our favourite pastime by...

2: Addiction | Robert Peston Goes Shopping

The remarkable story of the 1990s and 2000s, when the goods we bought got cheaper, fashion got faster and supermarkets got smarter.

6: The Industrial Landscape | Britain from Above

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

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...

Corruption and the Rana Plaza | This World

Power and connections allowed Sohel Rana to cut corners with his clothing factory complex, the Rana Plaza.

Cotton production and the Aral Sea crisis | Stacey Dooley

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

Environmental impact on the Aral Sea | Stacey Dooley

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

Fast fashion | Stacey Dooley

How the fashion industry keeps us buying more.

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.

How They Built The Channel Tunnel

Looking at how the Channel Tunnel was built from an engineering point of view.

Industrial Work | Welcome to Lagos

Industrial work in the Ebute Metta neighbourhood of Lagos.

Mandalay Jade Market | Burma with Simon Reeve

In Mandalay, the second largest city in Burma, Simon Reeve goes to a jade market and explores the trading of the valuable stone.

Marbale tea factory | This World

Simon Reeves visits a tea factory in Uganda.

Nestle | This World

Simon Reeve visits a Nestle factory, in Ho Chi Minh City.

S1E1: 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 f...

S3E1: Tea Bags | Inside the Factory

Gregg Wallace receives some tea leaves from Kenya and follows them through the factory that produces one quarter of all the tea drunk in ...

Tea Fortunes | Commodities

The history of tea is now closely associated with the british empire, but only china and japan grew tea indigenously.

The garment industry in Bangladesh | This World

An introduction to the history of the garments industry in Bangladesh.

The Mombasa Tea Auction | This World

Simon Reeve visits the Mombasa Tea Auction.

The Rana Plaza Disaster | This World

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