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.
Lenny Henry, Samantha Womack, Reggie Yates and Angela Rippon experience unimaginable poverty as they...

A look at the legacy of Band Aid, Live Aid and Live 8 in reshaping global charity and politics. Feat...

The people, ideas, and events that created our current world economy.

Four famous volunteers try to untangle the complicated reasons and life choices that lie behind Brit...

In the midst of unprecedented national prosperity in the 1960s, poverty was "rediscovered" by Americ...

Alan Bleasdale's five-part series relates the further experiences of unemployed Liverpudlian tarmac ...

The Oblongs are not so much dysfunctional as slightly nonfunctional. Living next to a polluted swamp...

The economic situation is a nightmare: only 20% of the population is employed. The Actives live ins...

Seven British construction workers escape Britain's ever growing dole queues and travel to Germany t...

The show follows the story of Surya, a middle-class youngster struggling to find a decent job but to...

Unencumbered by wives, jobs or any other responsibilities, three senior citizens who've never really...

Hiyori Iki is a normal middle school student until she was involved in a bus accident while trying t...

A loving heart trapped beneath an ugly facade, ignored and unappreciated by those who fail to see be...

The series is based on the award-winning Brazilian film City of God, which itself was nominated for ...

When Zhang Nan was a child, his mother was imprisoned because she had fought with the villagers over...