About this season
A series of films which ask what it means to live in poverty in the 21st Century.
Episodes (8)
1. Four Born Every Second
Aired 19 November 2012 • 58 min
Revealing the shocking lottery of child birth across the globe. The life chances of newly born babies in the rich world and the poor world.
2. Give Us the Money
Aired 25 November 2012 • 58 min
A look at 30 years of Bob Geldof and Bono's campaign against poverty.
3. Stealing Africa
Aired 26 November 2012 • 58 min
An investigation into the behaviour of multi-national companies in Africa.
4. Park Avenue - Money, Power and the American Dream
Aired 27 November 2012 • 58 min
How the wealthiest Americans spend their money and how the poorest Americans are shut out.
5. Poor Us - An Animated History of Poverty
Aired 28 November 2012 • 58 min
Poor people through the ages, beginning in Neolithic times and up to the present.
6. Solar Mamas
Aired 2 December 2012 • 58 min
A Jordanian mother's successful struggle to pull herself and her family out of poverty by travelling to India to train as a solar engineer.
7. The Great Land Rush
Aired 4 December 2012 • 58 min
How rich, land-hungry nations are leasing Mali's land to create agri-business farms.
8. China's Ant People
Aired 5 December 2012 • 58 min
Getting an education and a life in contemporary China. A look at Chinese education through the lives of a tutor, a student and a jobseeker.