Development and Inequality

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, ...

5: Technology | Blood, Sweat and Luxuries

Young British consumers work alongside luxury goods makers in Africa and Asia. In the Philippines they join electronics workers for...

3: 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 p...

1: 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 a...

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 ...

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 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...

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 manufactured.

Trainers | Show Me What You're Made Of

They kick off their incredible trip by working in a trainers factory in Malaysia.

Cosmetics | Show Me What You're Made Of

The kids face two tough days working in a huge international cosmetics factory in Thailand.

Jeans | Show Me What You're Made Of

The kids have a go at making jeans in a Bangkok factory.

Electronics | Show Me What You're Made Of

The kids work in a jaw-dropping electronics factory in Manila.

Jewellery | Show Me What You're Made Of

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

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.

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.

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...

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...

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...

Rapid Chinese development | This World

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

Building boom | This World

An exploration of China's out of control building boom.

Wuhan urban renewal | This World

Development plans for Wuhan in Hubei Province, China.

Economy and employment in the new city | This World

How the economy is developing in the new city and supplying new job opportunities.

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.

Migration to cities | This World

Many young people in rural villages in China move to the cities to earn money and support their families.

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.

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...

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...

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.

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...

Tea Fortunes | Commodities

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

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...

6: The Industrial Landscape | Britain from Above

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

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...

Bikes | Show Me What You're Made Of

Oliver, Rhianna, Michael, Kassia and Mali are set to work in an enormous bike factory.

Technology | Show Me What You're Made Of

It's halfway through the kids epic trip around Brazil and they are in the Amazon rainforest. They attempt to cope living in a floati...

Hats | Show Me What You're Made Of

It's the last leg of the kid's incredible adventure around Brazil and they head to a Brazilian town that is the world's capital of basebal...

Cocoa | Show Me What You're Made Of

The kids have to prove themselves to a village full of cocoa farmers.

E-Waste | Show Me What You're Made Of

The kids work on a toxic e-waste site where old technology can end up.

Pineapple Farm | Show Me What You're Made Of

The kids travel to Nsawam to work on a pineapple farm.

Clothing and Skateboard Factory | Show Me What You're Made Of

The kids fly to South Africa to build skateboards.

Diamonds | Show Me What You're Made Of

The kids head to the diamond-mining capital of Africa.

Strawberries | Show Me What You're Made Of

The kids head to an enormous strawberry farm on the south coast.

Textiles | Show Me What You're Made Of

The kids head to a textiles factory in Leicester.

Buses | Show Me What You're Made Of

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

Fish Factory | Show Me What You're Made Of

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

The Red Nose African Convoy | Comic Relief

Michaela Coel, David Baddiel, Russell Kane, Hugh Dennis, Katy Brand and Reggie Yates lead a Comic Relief convoy through east Afric...

S03E05: America Was Here: Honduras and Panama | Holidays in the Danger Zone

Chemical weapons await reporter Ben Anderson when he visits the resort island Panama. Whose are t...

S03E04: America Was Here: El Salvador | Holidays in the Danger Zone

A gun-carrying ex-gang leader from Los Angeles is reporter Ben Anderson 's guide through the Central Amer...

S03E03: America Was Here: Nicaragua | Holidays in the Danger Zone

The successful left-wing coup in Nicaragua that brought the Marxist Sandinista guerrillas to power led to t...

S03E02: America Was Here: Cambodia | Holidays in the Danger Zone

Cambodia is still recovering from the genocide of the Khmer Rouge regime, yet, 30 years on, no one has been ...

S03E01: America Was Here: Vietnam | Holidays in the Danger Zone

The Americans may no longer be fighting the communists in South East Asia but the mark they left there is ind...

S02E04: Violent Coast: Nigeria | Holidays in the Danger Zone

Ben Anderson 's journey along the troubled West African coast ends in the continent's most populous country, Nig...

S02E03: Violent Coast: Ivory Coast and Benin | Holidays in the Danger Zone

Ben Anderson continues his journey along the hazard-strewn West African coast, an area synonymous ...

S02E02: Violent Coast: Sierra Leone | Holidays in the Danger Zone

Ben Anderson's journey along the traumatised coast of West Africa reaches Sierra Leone, where the grim lega...

S02E01: Violent Coast: Liberia | Holidays in the Danger Zone

Ben Anderson packs his passport to begin a perilous journey along the West African coast, a region marred by the...

S01E04: Meet the Stans: Tajikistan | Holidays in the Danger Zone

Sharing an 800-mile border with Afghanistan, which provides 90% of Europe's heroin, Tajikistan is one of the...

S01E03: Meet the Stans: Uzbekistan | Holidays in the Danger Zone

In Uzbekistan, the most repressive of the "Stans", Reeve finds himself followed by the secret police as he t...

S01E02: Meet the Stans: Kyrgyzstan | Holidays in the Danger Zone

Kyrgyzstan is the only country in the world with both an American and a Russian military base. While there, ...

S01E01: Meet the Stans: Kazakhstan | Holidays in the Danger Zone

In Kazakhstan, Reeve discovers a poorly secured former biological weapons factories with a hundred types of ...

Part 2 | Congo: A Journey to the Heart of Africa

Alastair Leithead takes the first part of an epic journey from the Atlantic Ocean to the far reaches of the Congo river. He ...

Part 1 | Congo: A Journey to the Heart of Africa

Alastair Leithead takes the first part of an epic journey from the Atlantic Ocean to the far reaches of the Congo river. He ...

01: Nepal | Kate Humble: Living with Nomads

In a demanding and emotional journey, Kate Humble travels with the Raute, Nepal's very last nomadic community of just 140 hunter-...

03: South Africa | Africa Rising with Afua Hirsch

Afua Hirsch discovers new art, music and theatre in South Africa's townships as she explores creativity emerging in amapian...

01: Morocco | Africa Rising with Afua Hirsch

Afua explores how a younger generation of Moroccan creatives are transforming old traditions into thrilling new music, art, weav...

1: Power and the People | China

How do the values of the ruling Chinese Communist Party translate into daily life? The Party bases its legitimacy on delivering both stabilit...

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.

4: Trade, Debt and Aid | World 2000

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

Free Markets For Free Men | Commodities

In the 18th century the City of London was the financial centre of the world economy and merchants crowded the coffee houses to plan ...

Leaving Home For Sugar | Commodities

With the decline of the Brazilian sugar-cane industry following the dutch withdrawal in 1654, the caribbean, hitherto the haven for the ...

White Gold, Black Market | Commodities

In 1624, when the Dutch West India Company invaded Brazil and seized control of the Portugese sugar industry, Amsterdam was already th...

4: 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 terri...

British colonialism and Kenyan tea | This World

Simon Reeve investigates the colonial history that has shaped both the landscape and tea trade in Kenya.

Vietnamese coffee | This World

Simon Reeve talks to an coffee consultant about the reasons why Vietnam does not benefit from the profits of the coffee industry.

Lasting impacts of the Vietnam War | This World

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

Toxic Cost of Going Green | Unreported World

Jamal Osman travels to the Democratic Republic of Congo, to investigate the dirty business of cobalt mining and the toxic cost f...

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.

Climate change and the coffee industry | Natural World

Climate change is threatening the future of the coffee industry in Vietnam.