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The Wednesday Documentary

Documenting the lives of ordinary people

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Making a Living, Estate Agents in the USA, Part One
Owen Bennett-Jones experiences what it's like to be an estate agent in Georgia, USA
22 mins16 Jan 2007
Making a Living, Restaurant Cook in South Africa, Part Two
Owen Bennett-Jones is in Cape Town working as a restaurant cook
22 mins23 Jan 2007
Making a Living, Bollywood Film Extra in India, Part Three
Owen Bennett-Jones discovers what the new working day is like in new frontiers
26 mins30 Jan 2007
Feeding the World, Growing Pains, Part One
Charting the recent history of food production
22 mins27 Mar 2007
Feeding the World, The Taste of Excess, Part Two
The way we eat food and its effect on the global food supply
22 mins04 Apr 2007
Feeding the World, The Future Test, Part Three
Investigating the potential consequences of environmental pressures
22 mins11 Apr 2007
Is Nigeria a Black Superpower?
Nigeria has by far the biggest population on the continent
22 mins18 Apr 2007
For Richer For Poorer, Globalisation and the Super Rich, Part One
Examining people at the very top of the pile, and those at the bottom
22 mins16 May 2007
For Richer for Poorer, The Big Banks, Part Two
Has globalisation really been a relentless tale of woe and misery?
22 mins23 May 2007
Top of The Class, Finland, Part One
Finland which has been judged to have the best educational system in the world
22 mins18 Jul 2007
Top of The Class, USA and UK, Part Two
A look at two of the worlds leading educational establishments
22 mins19 Sep 2007
A Dollar a Day, Kenya, Part One
In Kenya, poverty was a key issue following the 2007 elections
22 mins09 Jan 2008
A Dollar a Day, Peru, Part Two
The Peruvian, government gives incentives for school attendance
22 mins16 Jan 2008
A Dollar a Day, India, Part Three
Capitalism is in full swing and there is strong economic growth thanks to the tech boom
22 mins23 Jan 2008
A Dollar a Day, Ghana, Part Four
Why do families struggle to provide an education?
22 mins30 Jan 2008
A Dollar a Day, China, Part Five
Examining China's spectacular economic growth
22 mins31 Jan 2008
Pain and Power, Part One
Andrew North takes a personal journey through his experience of pain, and that of others
22 mins06 Feb 2008
Pain and Coping, Part Two
Exploring strategies to survive pain, through expression and suppression
22 mins13 Feb 2008
The Kremlin and the World, Part Four
In April 2007 Estonia experienced by Cyberattacks, some looked to Russia to blame
22 mins26 Feb 2008
The Kremlin and the World, Part Two
Tim Whewell talks to those who were at the centre of a fuel crisis
22 mins28 Feb 2008
Pirates, Part One
Nick Rankin takes a look at Pirates past, present and future
22 mins04 Mar 2008
Pirates, Part Two
90% of the world's trade is by sea
22 mins11 Mar 2008
Pirates, Part Three
Investigating intellectual pirates in the digital age of cyberspace
22 mins19 Mar 2008
Return to Kurdistan, Liberation
Examining the liberation of Iraqi Kurdistan
22 mins02 Apr 2008
The Message from China
Chinese Communist party propaganda has modernised
22 mins09 Apr 2008
Virginia Tech Shooting, One Year On
Award winning poet Fred D'Aguiar describes the scene of a mass shooting
21 mins15 Apr 2008
The My Lai Tapes, Part One
March 16, 1968, in the village of My Lai in South Vietnam, a massacre took place
22 mins23 Apr 2008
The My Lai Tapes, Part Two
Hear the taped recordings from the US Army's internal inquiry into My Lai
22 mins30 Apr 2008
Philosophy in the Streets
Demonstrations and general strikes strangled France in May 1968
22 mins07 May 2008
Living with Chico Mendes
Chico Mendes has become synonymous with the preservation of the rainforests of Brazil
22 mins14 May 2008