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

A series of films which ask what it means to live in poverty in the 21st Century.

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

Hayman is an orphan who was adopted thanks to a cripple's genuine kindness. He enjoyed a impoverishe...