Season 1 Episodes
8 episodes
1
Four Born Every Second
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
A look at 30 years of Bob Geldof and Bono's campaign against poverty.
3
Stealing Africa
An investigation into the behaviour of multi-national companies in Africa.
4
Park Avenue - Money, Power and the American Dream
How the wealthiest Americans spend their money and how the poorest Americans are shut out.
5
Poor Us - An Animated History of Poverty
Poor people through the ages, beginning in Neolithic times and up to the present.
6
Solar Mamas
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
How rich, land-hungry nations are leasing Mali's land to create agri-business farms.
8
China's Ant People
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.