Fast Food: A Love Story

London has a love-hate relationship with fast food. Public health campaigns and celebrity chefs vilify it and warn it could kill us; yet, as this film shows, we’ve never had it so good. This programme provides...

Fact Finder: Unemployment in London

Did rising unemployment and poverty  coincide with the start of the recession? Tom MacInnes, Research Director at the New Policy Institute, unpacks the facts and suggests that job losses, unemployment and...

Job Camp

As unemployment figures soar, the UK government comes up with a cunning plan to show lazy, useless, benefit scroungers a trick or two.  Job Camp is the latest government scheme aimed at the unemployed.  A...

Skint not Idle: Carol & Ruje’s Story

In this short report, two friends explain their situation.  Carol has been living on benefits for five years and talks about the difficulties of surviving on so little money.  Recent university graduate...

Tales from the Missionary Hut: Floating Gardens

How do you find food when your village is flooded?  According to the NGO Hands on Help for the Poor, you can simply grow it on the flood water.  These floating farms can also be created on ponds and...

Tales from the Missionary Hut: Pedal Power Nutter

In this month’s Tales from the Missionary Hut, our globally concerned inventors lend the poor in the developing world a hand with the help of much vaunted pedal power.  Based on a design by Nottingham...

Freedom to film

WORLDbytes’ crews of young volunteers learning to shoot alternative news programmes are regularly stopped from filming on the streets of London. Yet it is not against the law to film in public spaces, to...

Aliens are flummoxed by our ethical shopping habits

Reporting on the humanoid ethical shopping phenomenon that makes us both happy and smug, alien correspondent Asbo hits the streets to find out more. He is physically sick over a fair trade cappuccino, shop lifts...

The Obama drama

Like a new season of The West Wing, it seems we are intoxicated by the drama of the US election and its result. ‘Change’ seems to be the keyword, but what exactly is going to change? Just two days before the...

Join the crew for the Battle of Ideas 2008

The Battle of Ideas is a two-day festival of high-level, thought-provoking debates organised by the Institute of Ideas and hosted by the Royal College of Art in London. With over 250 speakers from across the world...

“Don’t shout at the telly, change the message on it”

A feisty line up of young volunteers pick on topical news stories and get stuck in. This month’s round up includes Bono’s latest bed net for Africans campaign and a challenge to those who thinks inoculating...

Localised Global warming exclusive

This months Panic Room report uncovers a sizzling story of ‘hot-spots’ in tiny areas of London where commuters and residents alike are left traumatised from the unbearable heat caused by global warming....

The women who ran for Open Borders

Volunteers made freedom of movement the issue on the 5k women's challenge. If you find immigration laws as backward, restrictive and repulsive as we do, you can join our Open the Borders campaign, support the...

Ferraris For All

In this report economist and journalist Daniel Ben Ami, discusses what he calls “Caveman Equality.” He reminds us that in the Stone Age we were “all pretty equal …and dirt poor”. This caveman logic needs...

London Behind the Scenes

Transporting you through time from the creation of the docks to the present day, the Docks and Dockers tour tells the truth about trade and the changing nature of production. This is an exclusive preview of the...