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  • Inside the Foreign Office

    Ep1 - Keeping Power and Influence

    Broadcast
    2018 (59 mins)

    That is the priority task of Sir Simon Macdonald, the Permanent Secretary - the chief civil servant - in a Foreign Office headed, for the moment, by Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson. Politicians may come and...

  • Inside the Foreign Office

    Ep2 - Brave New World

    Broadcast
    2018 (58 mins)

    As diplomats prepare for the post-Brexit world, film-maker Michael Waldman eavesdrops on uninhibited discussions in Whitehall, in far-flung embassies in Nigeria and Mongolia and on the Foreign Secretary’s...

  • Inside the Foreign Office

    Ep3 - Brits in Trouble

    Broadcast
    2018 (59 mins)

    The way most Britons come into contact with the Foreign Office is when they get into trouble overseas. We follow three diplomats as they try to aid Brits who unexpectedly find themselves in serious trouble...

  • Don’t Panic: How To End Poverty in 15 Years

    Don’t Panic - The Truth About Population

    Broadcast
    2015 (59 mins)

    With the world’s population at 7 billion and still growing we often look at the future with dread. In ‘Don’t Panic - The Truth About Population’, world famous Swedish statistical showman Hans Rosling...

  • Why Poverty?

    Give Us The Money

    Broadcast
    2012 (58 mins)

    Give Us The Money takes an in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at 30 years of Bob Geldof and Bono’s campaign against poverty. Their work has made them icons of aid and even garnered them Nobel Peace Prize...

  • Why Poverty?

    Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream

    Broadcast
    2012 (59 mins)

    740 Park Avenue- an exclusive apartment building in Manhattan - is currently home to more billionaires than any other building in the United States. Less than five miles to the north is another Park Avenue...

  • Why Poverty?

    Poor Us: An Animated History

    Broadcast
    2012 (58 mins)

    Do we know what poverty is? Throughout human existence, the poor have always been with us. Beginning with the Neolithic age, Ben Lewis’ funny and sinister animated odyssey through time takes us through the...

  • Why Poverty?

    China’s Ant People

    Broadcast
    2012 (59 mins)

    What does an education get you? Education is the only way out of poverty, as it has been sold to the Chinese population since ancient times. China’s economic boom and talk of the merits of hard work have...

  • Why Poverty?

    The Great Land Rush

    Broadcast
    2012 (58 mins)

    75% of Mali’s population are farmers, but rich land-hungry nations like China and Saudi Arabia are leasing Mali’s land in order to turn large areas into agribusiness farms. Many Malian peasants do not...

  • Why Poverty?

    Solar Mamas

    Broadcast
    2012 (58 mins)

    Solar Mamas follows the remarkable story of Rafea - a mother-of-four from Jordan who challenges the status quo of her traditional marriage by travelling to India to train as a solar engineer for six months....