Development and Inequality

Jeans | Show Me What You're Made Of

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

Cosmetics | Show Me What You're Made Of

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

Trainers | Show Me What You're Made Of

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

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.

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...

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...

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 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.

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...

Climate change and the coffee industry | Natural World

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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...

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...

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.

Fish | Show Me What You're Made Of

The teens make their way to a fish-canning plant on the Taiwanese coast.

Tea | Show Me What You're Made Of

The teens fly to the island of Taiwan to work on an enormous tea plantation.

Onesies | Show Me What You're Made Of

The teens get the chance to make onesies in Cambodia.

Coffee | Show Me What You're Made Of

The kids head off to a remote Cambodian coffee plantation.

Bags | Show Me What You're Made Of

Ellie, Alice, Faith, Joe and Sam begin their working journey in Cambodia.

Clothes Recycling | Show Me What You're Made Of

The kids make their way south west, to a clothes-recycling centre in Bristol.

Fish Factory | Show Me What You're Made Of

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

Buses | Show Me What You're Made Of

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

Textiles | Show Me What You're Made Of

The kids head to a textiles factory in Leicester.

Strawberries | Show Me What You're Made Of

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

Diamonds | Show Me What You're Made Of

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

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

The kids fly to South Africa to build skateboards.

Pineapple Farm | Show Me What You're Made Of

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

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

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

Cocoa | Show Me What You're Made Of

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

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...

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...

Bikes | Show Me What You're Made Of

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

Photo Factory | Show Me What You're Made Of: UK

In part two of their Britain trip, our five kids head join Stacey Dooley as she heads to Liverpool to a huge photo processing...

Shoes | Show Me What You're Made Of: UK

Five kids work alongside the people in the UK who make and do the things they rely on, travelling to an enormous shoe factory in Wigan.

The Kids from Kibera | My Life

Kibera in Kenya is one of the largest slums in Africa and it is home to thousands of children, living and playing on the streets. It can be a ...

Silk | Show Me What You're Made Of

The kids spend their last few days roughing it as farm hands on a remote island.

The Megacity Project | Welcome to Lagos

Slum Clearance | Welcome to Lagos

How the Lagos Megacities Project is impacting people living in the slums.

Rural to urban migration | Welcome to Lagos

Migration from rural environments to the Lagos slums.

Informal settlements | Welcome to Lagos

The mass migration to Lagos, Nigeria, is causing ever expanding informal settlements.

Challenges and opportunities | Welcome to Lagos

How people are adapting to life in Lagos informal settlements, which includes sorting through and recycling everything in the...

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...

3: Marapu | Tribe with Bruce Parry

On the Indonesian island of Sumba, Bruce Parry lives in a village where the dead are buried amongst the living and where powerful ancestra...

S3E4: Akie | Tribe

Bruce Parry spends time with the Akie people of Tanzania, one of the last groups of hunter-gatherers to live on the African savannah. He is forced to face...

S2E3: Dassanech | Tribe

Bruce concludes his three-month expedition through a remote African valley, living by Lake Turkana and taking part in a terrifying crocodile hunt.

S2E1: Nyangatom | Tribe

His first stay is with the Nyangatom whose warriors are feared by their neighbours. Parry wants to find out what they've done to deserve their fearso...

S1E5: Darhad | Tribe

The Darhad herders of Mongolia are some of the last nomadic people on the planet. Explorer Bruce Parry joins a family for their arduous winter migration.

S1E3: Kombai | Tribe

The jungles of West Papua were once famed for their head-hunters and cannibals. Explorer Bruce Parry lives with the Kombai people to discover whether ca...

S1E2: Suri | Tribe

Explorer Bruce Parry spends time living with the Suri people of Ethiopia. Living in an unstable region of Ethiopia, the Suri are self-sufficient and have ...

Episode 4 | Africa with Ade Adepitan

The last leg of Ade Adepitan's tour sees him travelling from the beaches of Mozambique, through South Africa. At Paradise Island, Ade fi...

Episode 2 | Africa with Ade Adepitan

Ade Adepitan embarks on the second leg of his journey around Africa. This time he is in Central Africa, travelling from Gabon to Uganda,...

Episode 3 | Africa with Ade Adepitan

Ade begins this leg of his journey in Tanzania, in Selous Game Reserve. He is on the lookout for elephants but numbers in this park have...

Episode 1 | Africa with Ade Adepitan

Ade Adepitan embarks on the first leg of his journey around Africa. He travels from Cape Verde to Senegal and the Ivory Coast, before fi...

3: Ingenuity | Welcome to Rio

This episode looks at the resourcefulness of some of Rio's poorest residents, revealing how favela residents exploit their opportunities.