About this season
Ed Stafford, filmmaker and former army officer who has carved out a career as an explorer and survivalist, spends 60 days in some of the UK's most troubled housing estates to look beyond the tabloid headlines and experience first-hand the daily hardships that locals face.
Episodes (3)
1. Inside Britain's Most Troubled Housing Estates
Aired 28 May 2023 • 47 min
Filmmaker Ed Stafford experiences the hardships that residents face on some of the UK's most troubled estates. In London, Ed encounters Northumberland Park's gun and knife crime and discovers that kids as young as 13 are still getting drawn in.
2. Inside Birmingham's Troubled Inner City Estates
Aired 4 June 2023 • 46 min
In Birmingham, Ed Stafford moves in with a local who for the last 20 years has lived in one of Ladywood's tower blocks. He also meets a mum-of-three who's claiming benefits and resorting to food banks to feed her family.
3. Inside Glasgow's Most Deprived Housing Estate
Aired 11 June 2023 • 46 min
On the sprawling Easterhouse estate in Glasgow, Ed Stafford meets the locals who've been hit hard by the cost-of-living crisis and are facing the daily effects of high levels of drug abuse.