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...
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...
Robert Peston reveals how shopping in Britain was transformed over the 20th century, focusing on how the high street is coping wi...
The remarkable story of the 1990s and 2000s, when the goods we bought got cheaper, fashion got faster and supermarkets got smarter.
Robert Peston charts how shopping in Britain was transformed from a chore to be endured in the 1950s into our favourite pastime by...
Chris lives and works with the fishermen of Mauritania as they make their daily living battling the ocean swells in the fertile f...
Looking at how the Channel Tunnel was built from an engineering point of view.
The history of tea is now closely associated with the british empire, but only china and japan grew tea indigenously.
Sean Fletcher visits Cornwall to unearth the legacy of the county's renowned tin and copper mining industries. Tom Heap finds out if mining...
Gregg Wallace receives some tea leaves from Kenya and follows them through the factory that produces one quarter of all the tea drunk in ...
Gap and Nike say their top-selling clothes are made under the strictest ethical codes. Paul Kenyon uncovers some disturbing realities.
The teens make their way to a fish-canning plant on the Taiwanese coast.
The teens fly to the island of Taiwan to work on an enormous tea plantation.
The teens get the chance to make onesies in Cambodia.
The kids head off to a remote Cambodian coffee plantation.
Ellie, Alice, Faith, Joe and Sam begin their working journey in Cambodia.
The kids make their way south west, to a clothes-recycling centre in Bristol.
The kids move to London to join the cleaning team at a bus garage.
The kids head to a textiles factory in Leicester.
Oliver, Rhianna, Michael, Kassia and Mali are set to work in an enormous bike factory.
In part two of their Britain trip, our five kids head join Stacey Dooley as she heads to Liverpool to a huge photo proc...
Five kids work alongside the people in the UK who make and do the things they rely on, travelling to an enormous shoe factory i...
Five kids work alongside the people in the UK who make and do the things they rely on, travelling to a cosmetics factory in...
Five kids work alongside the people in the UK who make and do the things they rely on. The kids start their working trip wi...
The kids head to a fish-processing factory in the north eastern port of Grimsby.
The kids head to the diamond-mining capital of Africa.
The kids fly to South Africa to build skateboards.
The kids travel to Nsawam to work on a pineapple farm.
The kids work on a toxic e-waste site where old technology can end up.
The kids have to prove themselves to a village full of cocoa farmers.
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 b...
It's halfway through the kids epic trip around Brazil and they are in the Amazon rainforest. They attempt to cope living in a ...
The kids head to an enormous strawberry farm on the south coast.
Paul Kenyon goes undercover as a cocoa trader in West Africa and discovers children as young as seven working long hours on coc...
Comparing footage of Britain's industrial landscape in the 1940s with today.
Simon Reeve visits one of Burma's main oil-producing regions, where some local people have swapped farming for unofficial oi...
In Mandalay, the second largest city in Burma, Simon Reeve goes to a jade market and explores the trading of the valuable stone.
Simon Reeves visits a tea factory in Uganda.
Simon Reeve visits a Nestle factory, in Ho Chi Minh City.
Simon Reeve visits the Mombasa Tea Auction.
Witnesses and victims of the Rana Plaza disaster tell their stories of the day.
The exploitative working conditions at the Rana Plaza.
Power and connections allowed Sohel Rana to cut corners with his clothing factory complex, the Rana Plaza.
An introduction to the history of the garments industry in Bangladesh.
How the fashion industry keeps us buying more.
Stacey Dooley visits the Aral Sea Basin in Kazakhstan, which has almost entirely dried up due to cotton production.
Industrial work in the Ebute Metta neighbourhood of Lagos.
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