Episode 2 | Burma with Simon Reeve

Episode 2 | Burma with Simon Reeve

Development and Inequality | BBC Two | 2018 | 59'18''

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

4: Trade, Debt and Aid | World 2000

Development and Inequality | BBC Two | 2000 | 29'14''

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

White Gold, Black Market | Commodities

White Gold, Black Market | Commodities

Development and Inequality | Channel 4 | 1986 | 51'30''

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

Leaving Home For Sugar | Commodities

Leaving Home For Sugar | Commodities

Development and Inequality | Channel 4 | 1986 | 51'16''

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

Free Markets For Free Men | Commodities

Development and Inequality | Channel 4 | 1986 | 51'43''

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

Toxic Cost of Going Green | Unreported World

Toxic Cost of Going Green | Unreported World

Development and Inequality | Channel 4 | 2021 | 24'14''

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

This is Congo | Storyville

Development and Inequality | BBC Four | 2018 | 1'25'01''

A raw and unfiltered insight into the bloodiest conflict since the Second World War - the civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

4: Gold and E-waste | Blood, Sweat and Luxuries

4: Gold and E-waste | Blood, Sweat and Luxuries

Development and Inequality | BBC Three | 2010 | 57'14''

Young British consumers work alongside luxury goods makers in Africa and Asia. In Ghana they mine gold and discover the terri...

Climate change and the coffee industry | Natural World

Climate change and the coffee industry | Natural World

Development and Inequality | BBC Two | 2014 | 1'52''

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

Vietnamese coffee | This World

Vietnamese coffee | This World

Agriculture and farming | BBC Two | 2014 | 1'58''

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

British colonialism and Kenyan tea | This World

British colonialism and Kenyan tea | This World

Development and Inequality | BBC Two | 2014 | 5'46''

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

Lasting impacts of the Vietnam War | This World

Lasting impacts of the Vietnam War | This World

Agriculture and farming | BBC Two | 2014 | 5'50''

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