Reporter Tina Daheley lifts the lid on the secrets of the takeaway industry, investigating how planning laws are being subverted and food safety legislation flouted by producers.
A User’s Guide to Cheating Death
Favorite trailer magnet YEAR: 2017-2018 | LENGTH: 2 seasons 12 episodes (47 minutes each) | SOURCE: IMDB description: The anti-aging industry…
The Implant Files
More and more people are dying or suffering injury from unsafe medical devices such as prostheses, pacemakers or breast implants. In Germany, such incidents have tripled over the last 10 years, whilst in the USA it’s five times as many.
Britain’s Drink Problem
With alcohol-related deaths on the rise, Adrian Chiles investigates what we know about the dangers of drinking, and why the alcohol industry isn’t telling us more.
After Death
Behind the scene of Australia’s funeral industry.
The Truth About Vegans
Morland Sanders investigates the increasing popularity of veganism. It’s better for your health, the environment and animals but why do some activists resort to extreme tactics to promote it?
Credit or Control: Social Surveillance in China
China is marrying Big Brother to Big Data. Every citizen will be watched and their behaviour scored in the most ambitious and sophisticated system of social control in history. Matthew Carney reports.
Pangolins – The World’s Most Wanted Animal
Nature documentary following the efforts to save the pangolin, a little-known scaly mammal with an unfortunate tagline – they are the world’s most illegally trafficked animals.
Turning Toxic — The Bayer-Monsanto Merger
A year after Germany’s Bayer Group took over Monsanto, and it’s struggling to deal with the US seed giant’s controversial reputation. Now Bayer is also liable for Monsanto’s legal bills – which are starting to mount alarmingly.
Saving Lives At Sea
Favorite trailer magnet YEAR: 2016-2019 | LENGTH: 4 seasons 34 parts (~60 minutes each) | SOURCE: BBC description: Every day around…
How Poor People Survive in The USA
Homelessness, hunger and shame: poverty is rampant in the richest country in the world. Over 40 million people in the United States live below the poverty line, twice as many as it was fifty years ago. It can happen very quickly.
The Honest Supermarket: What’s Really in Our Food?
We spend 190 billion pounds a year on groceries, but can we trust our supermarkets to tell us the truth about what we’re buying? Dr Hannah Fry and Priya Tew investigate the food we eat.