Four famous volunteers agree to swap their fame and fortune for a world of joblessness, job-hunting and surviving on the poverty line and benefits
A series of films which ask what it means to live in poverty in the 21st Century.
In the midst of unprecedented national prosperity in the 1960s, poverty was "rediscovered" by Americ...
Lenny Henry, Samantha Womack, Reggie Yates and Angela Rippon experience unimaginable poverty as they...
The people, ideas, and events that created our current world economy.
A look at the legacy of Band Aid, Live Aid and Live 8 in reshaping global charity and politics. Feat...
Four famous volunteers try to untangle the complicated reasons and life choices that lie behind Brit...
Alan Bleasdale's five-part series relates the further experiences of unemployed Liverpudlian tarmac ...
Unencumbered by wives, jobs or any other responsibilities, three senior citizens who've never really...
The Oblongs are not so much dysfunctional as slightly nonfunctional. Living next to a polluted swamp...
After her divorce, Kariya Mako returned to work as a contract editor for an economics magazine. Ther...
A loving heart trapped beneath an ugly facade, ignored and unappreciated by those who fail to see be...
In the "Lilypad House," a small run-down house, lives Simala, a young woman who is raised to be ambi...
A story about an aspiring writer who lives off of unemployment checks while chasing her dream. She r...
Mayuko Chigasaki is an ordinary girl from the countryside, who now is attending university in big ci...
The daily troubles of the people who work in a busy West Midlands Job Centre, and the people who don...
Two seasoned drug dealers return to the gritty street of London, but their pursuit of money and powe...