Documentary series exploring Rio's shanty-towns, the favelas. In Cantagalo, delivery man Rocky carries goods up the steep staircases overlooking Co...
How do the values of the ruling Chinese Communist Party translate into daily life? The Party bases its legitimacy on delivering both stabilit...
Young British consumers work alongside luxury goods makers in Africa and Asia. In Addis Ababa the Brits join the locals who rely on th...
A look at Rio's drug-trafficking favelas, being 'pacified' by the government's special forces ahead of the World Cup in increasingly violent incursions.
This episode looks at the resourcefulness of some of Rio's poorest residents, revealing how favela residents exploit their opportunities.
On the Indonesian island of Sumba, Bruce Parry lives in a village where the dead are buried amongst the living and where powerful ancestra...
Three youngsters from Rwanda decide to make the epic 3,000 mile journey from their homes to the World Cup in South Africa on foot.
Comedian Romesh Ranganathan travels to Albania to get an insider's guide to the country and to find out whether his own pre...
How people are adapting to life in Lagos informal settlements, which includes sorting through and recycling everything in the...
Simon Reeves investigates child labour on tea plantations in Uganda.
A look at a typical school in a Ghanaian cocoa village, where students often work after school.
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...
Documentary series which explores life in India. It follows two people as they try to carve out homes - one in Kolkata and the other on a Mumbai...
A look at life in the Olusosun rubbish dump, where around 1,000 people live on top of the rubbish in houses built from scrap.
Ade Adepitan embarks on the second leg of his journey around Africa. This time he is in Central Africa, travelling from Gabon to Uganda,...
This episode follows three people as they attempt to make a living from turning the stuff others would call waste into an opportunity.
This episode follows those who choose to live and work on the waters of Lagos Lagoon, including a father of 18 who lives in a house built on sti...
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...
Simon travels from the ancient city of Machu Picchu in Peru to La Paz in Bolivia, the highest capital city on Earth, visiting c...
This follows three families as they search for a better life today and for generations to come.
This last episode follows Esther, who lives in a scrap house on the beach in central Lagos. Her village has repeatedly been bulldozed by governm...
The last leg of Ade Adepitan's tour sees him travelling from the beaches of Mozambique, through South Africa. At Paradise Island, Ade fi...
Romesh Ranganathan travels to some of the most unlikely places for a holiday. Romesh heads to Ethiopia. Will he find a war...
Simon Reeve visits a Unilever tea plantation and talks to labourers about the exploitative conditions they work under.
Romesh Ranganathan travels to some of the most unlikely places on earth for a holiday. Romesh finds out if there is more to H...
The mass migration to Lagos, Nigeria, is causing ever expanding informal settlements.
Stacey Dooley explores the issue of child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo's civil war, where an estimated 30,000 children have be...
Stacey Dooley's first documentary series explores the global issue of child labour. She visits the Ivory Coast, meeting children working i...
In Madagascar, Rom hikes razor-sharp rocks, encounters alarming delicacies, and comes face to face with the island's leg...
Unregulated farming is threatening the future of the coffee industry in Vietnam.
Vietnam has lost nearly 40,000 square miles of forest since 1972. Simon Reeve visits Yok Don National Park, where wildlife is being protecte...
Migration from rural environments to the Lagos slums.
Romesh travels to Rwanda to discover its unique culture, experience incredible wildlife and find out how the country has hea...
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 ...
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...
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.
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...
Romesh travels around Zimbabwe, gets caught in biblical lightning storms, re-enacts the film Titanic on a Lake Karib...
Romesh Ranganathan travels to Mongolia - a country which he has almost no prior knowledge of, save for the fact that...
Bruce concludes his three-month expedition through a remote African valley, living by Lake Turkana and taking part in a terrifying crocodile hunt.
Romesh spends a week traveling around Colombia. He sees stunning Colonial cities, beautiful Caribbean beaches and, i...
Romesh visits Sierra Leone, a country with a dark past but hopes for the future. With Gwyn Jay Allen as a guide,...
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...
Simon Reeve visits the Salgaa truck and talks to the North Star Alliance that are working to protect sex workers there.
The kids spend their last few days roughing it as farm hands on a remote island.
How the Lagos Megacities Project is impacting people living in the slums.
An exploration of the methods used to improve access to toilets a...
Simon Reeve visits a coffee farm in Vietnam.
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