Synopsis
Reggie Yates visits the Middle East to spend a week living and sleeping in the largest refugee camp in Iraq alongside 30,000 Syrian refugees.
- Programme: The Insider: Reggie Yates
- Series: 2
- Episode: 2: In a Refugee Camp
- Channel: BBC Three
- Broadcast year: 2017
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