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Why Poverty?
Stealing Africa
- Broadcast
- 2012 (58 mins)
Ruschlikon is a village in Switzerland with a very low tax rate and very wealthy residents. There is so much money in the public coffers that Mayor can’t spend it all, largely thanks to the contribution...
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?
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....
Why Poverty?
Four Born Every Second
- Broadcast
- 2012 (59 mins)
Four Born Every Second puts the spotlight on birth and infant mortality around the world. 130 million babies are born each year, but the circumstances - and country - of their birth will determine their life...
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...
Living With Poverty
Country Kids
- Broadcast
- 2012 (29 mins)
Holt, a beautiful market town in North Norfolk, known as prosperous and well-heeled, turns out to be a hot spot of child poverty on the quiet. We follow the travails of local charity leader, Julie Alford, as...
Sectioned
Sectioned
- Broadcast
- 2010 (59 mins)
Fly-on-the-wall documentary following the stories of three men who entered the mental health system as they struggle to regain control of their lives.
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