Duration: 29'21''
Comparing footage of Britain's industrial landscape in the 1940s with today.
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1: 24 Hour Britain | Britain from Above
Andrew Marr goes on a journey through a day in the life of Britain as seen from the skies.
2: The City | Britain from Above
Comparing exhaustive footage of London in the 40s with the city of today.
3: Man Made Britain | Britain from Above
Andrew Marr discovers how some of Britain's greenest landscapes were shaped by humans.
4: The Land | Britain from Above
Comparing exhaustive footage of East Anglia in the 1940s with the countryside of today.
5: Untamed Britain | Britain from Above
Andrew Marr microlights and paraglides to get a bird's eye view of our untamed landscape.
Docklands regeneration | Britain from Above
Andrew Marr details how the London Docklands went through regeneration, turning it into a financial centre of the globe.
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.
3: Revolution | Robert Peston Goes Shopping
Robert Peston reveals how shopping in Britain was transformed over the 20th century, focusing on how the high street is coping wi...
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
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...
S2E2 | Sea City
A look behind the scenes at the Port of Southampton and at a few of the people who keep the port running. Plus, the sailors who enjoy the annual cricket matc...
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.
1: Living in the City | Andrew Marr's Megacities
Documentary in which Andrew Marr looks at how people live in five of the world's biggest megacities: London, Dhaka, Tokyo, M...
2: A Brave New World | New Elizabethans with Andrew Marr
Andrew Marr explores how Britain since 1952 has coped with the loss of empire, America's cultural and political hege...
Adolf Hitler's rise to power | Andrew Marr's History of the World
Andrew Marr discusses Hitler's rise to power from the end of the first world war.
3: Life and Death | Andrew Marr on Darwin's Dangerous Idea
Andrew Marr discovers how Darwin's ideas are helping mankind to save life on earth from extinction. He explains Da...
5: Little Britain | Andrew Marr's The Making of Modern Britain
The Wall Street Crash and the rise of fascist politics in Europe caused chaos in 1930s Britain.
2: The Land of Lost Consent | Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain
The 1950s were a period of apparent calm, order and prosperity for Britain, but much of the populace wa...
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