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August 2015
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Taxi Driver - London cabbie Mason McQueen is heading for Mumbai to test his skills on some of the most chaotic streets in the world. He's swapping his high-tech, air-conditioned black cab for the boiling heat of a Mumbai taxi. His host is Pradeep Sharma, who lives with his extended family in a tiny two bedroom house and ea...
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Farmer - Dairy farmer Richard Gibson is swapping the damp surroundings of Devon to live and work with Samburu tribesmen, who herd their cattle in the parched and desolate mountains of northern Kenya. British farmers have suffered from low milk prices and squeezed margins but it is nothing compared to the struggles of Richa...
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Firefighter - The award-winning series returns, as firefighter Neil Fairhall leaves his fire station in Hayward's Heath and heads to the Amazon to fight some of the biggest forest fires in the world. While a lot of a British firefighters' time is spent attending small fires and false alarms, during the dry season in Mato G...
April 2015
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Nurse - Maria Connolly, an emergency nurse from Preston, spends two weeks working at a hospital in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Located on the American border, the city is at the centre of a drug war that has claimed more than 50,000 lives, and has one of the highest murder rates in the world. Working alongside local nurse Pablo...
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Ferryman - 57-year-old Colin Window, the bridge officer of the Woolwich Ferry, travels to Dhaka, Bangladesh to train and work as a ferryman on the Buriganga River. Hosted by 70-year-old Muhammed Loteef in one of the city's slums, Colin is introduced to his new vessel, a small wooden rowboat known as a Sampan. In temperatur...
March 2015
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Miner - Three more ordinary people with ordinary jobs take on an extraordinary challenge: clocking on with their local counterparts in some of the toughest destinations on the planet. In the first episode, Staffordshire mine worker Craig Notman travels to Mongolia to dig for gold in some of the most demanding conditions on...
February 2015
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Train Driver - Simon Davies usually drives a high speed train between London and Manchester, but now he faces a very different challenge as he travels to Peru and one of the highest and steepest railway lines on the earth. Mining is the life blood of Peru and every day trains carry thousands of tons of metal ores down from...
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Fisherman - Cornish fisherman Andy Giles gives up his state-of-the-art trawler to travel to the coast of Sierra Leone, where the fishing is done from a dugout canoe. Living in a small community of mud huts, Andy discovers a very different way of life where a bad day's fishing means a hungry family. Even this precarious lif...
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Binman - Three ordinary people with ordinary jobs take on an extraordinary challenge: clocking on with their local counterparts in some of the toughest destinations on the planet. Tonight, London binman Wilbur Ramirez heads to Jakarta, the vast mega-city that is the capital of Indonesia. For ten days Wilbur works with Imam...
September 2014
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Bus Driver - London bus driver Josh West heads to Manila, the capital of the Philippines and the most densely populated city on Earth. Josh will be driving a Jeepney, a colourfully decorated, adapted jeep which has no power steering, dodgy lights and an uncomfortable seat. It's a hair-raising and often hilarious ride, but ...
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Midwife - Midwife Suzanne Saunders-Blundell abandons the high tech maternity unit at Good Hope Hospital in Birmingham to work in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia in Africa. This is the third poorest country on earth, where one in twelve women dies in childbirth. Suzanne, a fan of natural childbirth back in Britain, soon le...
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Paramedic - This series takes three ordinary people with ordinary jobs, and asks them to clock on with the locals in places that are wildly different from those they are used to. In the first episode, Angie Dymott is leaving her job as a paramedic in Cardiff, South Wales, to join the Bomberos of Guatemala City, capital of ...
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