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The ERA Video Streaming Platform | Sociology | Work, Poverty and Welfare

The distribution of poverty and wealth

Cathy Come Home | The Wednesday Play

Cathy Come Home | The Wednesday Play

Family and Households | BBC One | 1966 | 1'17'23''

Landmark 1960s TV play about a young couple and their children who are cruelly overtaken by events which lead them into an unrelenting t...

6: Aberdeen – Poverty at Home | Darren McGarvey’s Scotland

6: Aberdeen – Poverty at Home | Darren McGarvey’s Scotland

Family and Households | BBC Scotland | 2019 | 29'03''

Darren travels to oil-rich Aberdeen, where he discovers a city in flux. With the nation's highest numb...

5: Borders – Rural Poverty and Mental Health | Darren McGarvey’s Scotland

5: Borders – Rural Poverty and Mental Health | Darren McGarvey’s Scotland

Gender and stratification | BBC Scotland | 2019 | 28'59''

Darren discovers that levels of ill mental health in the Scottish Borders are above the...

2: Edinburgh – Crime | Darren McGarvey’s Scotland

2: Edinburgh – Crime | Darren McGarvey’s Scotland

Crime and Deviance | BBC Scotland | 2019 | 29'01''

In Edinburgh, Darren examines the link between poverty and crime: how does it impact kids and their future? But...

The Global Financial Crisis | Super Rich: The Greed Game

The Global Financial Crisis | Super Rich: The Greed Game

Distribution of political participation | BBC Two | 2008 | 20'58''

The world's economy brought into crisis as a result of loans to 'sub-prime borrowers'.

The Rise of the Super Rich | Super Rich: The Greed Game

The Rise of the Super Rich | Super Rich: The Greed Game

Distribution of political participation | BBC Two | 2008 | 16'20''

The making of the super rich in the early 2000s through private equity firms and hedge funds.

Understanding Poverty in the UK | Famous, Rich and Hungry

Understanding Poverty in the UK | Famous, Rich and Hungry

Family and Households | BBC One | 2014 | 57'19''

Four different families' experiences of poverty shared, looking at how they cope on benefits, with food poverty and...

S1E01: Identity Crisis | Darren McGarvey’s Class Wars

S1E01: Identity Crisis | Darren McGarvey’s Class Wars

Demographic trends | BBC Scotland | 2021 | 57'59''

As Darren examines how social class shapes our identities and destinies, he meets people moving between the class...

Marcus Rashford: Feeding Britain’s Children

Marcus Rashford: Feeding Britain’s Children

Age and social inequality | BBC One | 2020 | 59'13''

How the England footballer won public and political support for a deeply personal cause. Inside Marcus Rashford's campaign ...

Super Rich: The Greed Game

Super Rich: The Greed Game

Distribution of political participation | BBC Two | 2008 | 58'29''

As the credit crunch bites and a global economic crisis threatens, Robert Peston reveals how the super-rich have made their fortunes, and the rest...

All Work and Low Pay | Panorama

All Work and Low Pay | Panorama

Age and social inequality | BBC One | 2011 | 29'31''

Panorama goes undercover to reveal how some employers exploit loopholes or get round the rules so that their workers are paid below the Natio...

Episode 1 | Famous, Rich and Hungry

Episode 1 | Famous, Rich and Hungry

Family and Households | BBC One | 2014 | 58'53''

Four famous volunteers live with families who can't afford to eat. Theo Paphitis moves in with a working mum who regularly skips meals to...

The Poverty Problem | Bangladesh at 50

The Poverty Problem | Bangladesh at 50

Ethnicity and social inequality | BBC Asian Network | 2011 | 14'58''

British Bangladeshis have one of the highest relative poverty rates of any ethnic group in the UK, with many living in low income hous...

Episode 1 | Britain My Britain

Episode 1 | Britain My Britain

Family and Households | BBC Two | 2003 | 39'10''

Series on how people from other countries adapt to living in Britain. Including young Kurds living in the shadow of armed gangs in North Londo...

Up a Class | Hayley Goes…

Up a Class | Hayley Goes…

Acquiring Culture | BBC Three | 2020 | 35'05''

Hayley Pearce is working-class through and through, but she wants to know how easy it would be to go up a class. Will being posh prove too mu...

Poor Kids

Poor Kids

Demographic trends | BBC One | 2011 | 58'57''

Documentary telling the stories of some of the 3.5 million children living in poverty in the UK. They give their thoughts on their situation and their future prosp...

1: Britain’s Moral Makeover | Ian Hislop’s Age of the Do-Gooders

1: Britain’s Moral Makeover | Ian Hislop’s Age of the Do-Gooders

History | BBC Two | 2010 | 59'24''

Ian Hislop salutes the unsung heroes of Victorian Britain who improved cities, housing and worki...

2: Suffer the Little Children | Ian Hislop’s Age of the Do-Gooders

2: Suffer the Little Children | Ian Hislop’s Age of the Do-Gooders

History | BBC Two | 2010 | 59'18''

Ian Hislop celebrates the dynamic and eccentric Victorian reformers who brought about the most remar...

3: Sinful Sex and Demon Drink | Ian Hislop’s Age of the Do-Gooders

3: Sinful Sex and Demon Drink | Ian Hislop’s Age of the Do-Gooders

History | BBC Two | 2010 | 59'13''

The perils of booze and sex are the focus for the final episode of Ian Hislop's series about Victori...

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