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The ERA Video Streaming Platform | Geography | Development and Inequality

Aid and trade

Sierra Leone | Newsnight

Sierra Leone | Newsnight

Aid and trade | BBC Two | 2010 | 13'14''

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...

Coffee Is The Gold Of The Future | Commodities

Coffee Is The Gold Of The Future | Commodities

Aid and trade | Channel 4 | 1986 | 51'25''

With an export value of some $15 billion a year coffee is the 2nd most valuable commodity after oil, providing ten countries, ...

Jeans | Show Me What You’re Made Of

Jeans | Show Me What You’re Made Of

Aid and trade | CBBC | 2012 | 27'45''

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

Cosmetics | Show Me What You’re Made Of

Cosmetics | Show Me What You’re Made Of

Aid and trade | CBBC | 2012 | 28'11''

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

Trainers | Show Me What You’re Made Of

Trainers | Show Me What You’re Made Of

Aid and trade | CBBC | 2012 | 28'09''

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

Electronics | Show Me What You’re Made Of

Electronics | Show Me What You’re Made Of

Aid and trade | CBBC | 2011 | 28'10''

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

Jewellery | Show Me What You’re Made Of

Jewellery | Show Me What You’re Made Of

Aid and trade | CBBC | 2011 | 27'49''

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

Clothes | Show Me What You’re Made Of

Clothes | Show Me What You’re Made Of

Aid and trade | CBBC | 2011 | 28'11''

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

Toys | Show Me What You’re Made Of

Aid and trade | CBBC | 2011 | 28'33''

The kids are put to the test in one of Indonesia's biggest toy factories, stuffing toy pigs.

5: Technology | Blood, Sweat and Luxuries

5: Technology | Blood, Sweat and Luxuries

Aid and trade | BBC Three | 2010 | 57'10''

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

3: Coffee | Blood, Sweat and Luxuries

Aid and trade | BBC Three | 2010 | 57'05''

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

1: Gems | Blood, Sweat and Luxuries

Aid and trade | BBC Three | 2010 | 57'31''

Six British consumers work alongside luxury goods makers in Africa and Asia. In Madagascar, James, Alexandria and Lucy learn where gems a...

Episode 4 | Blood, Sweat and T-Shirts

Episode 4 | Blood, Sweat and T-Shirts

Aid and trade | BBC Three | 2008 | 56'36''

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 3 | Blood, Sweat and T-Shirts

Episode 3 | Blood, Sweat and T-Shirts

Aid and trade | BBC Three | 2008 | 56'54''

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

Episode 2 | Blood, Sweat and T-Shirts

Aid and trade | BBC Three | 2008 | 56'38''

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

Blood, Sweat and T-Shirts

Aid and trade | BBC Three | 2008 | 56'58''

Six young fashion lovers swap shopping for the factories and backstreet workshops of India to learn how the clothes they wear are manufactured.

The Trouble with Aid

The Trouble with Aid

Aid and trade | BBC Four | 2012 | 1'58'56''

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...

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