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UPDATE: Too Much Tourism? The Lake District

50 mins, 2016 [wpdm_package id=’5110′] This updates the original 1996 film, going back to the original issues and finding out the new ones. The Lake District is one of Britain’s most popular tourist honeypots. The basic challenge: how to encourage tourists without spoiling the natural beauty they come to see. MAN-MADE VERSUS NATURAL The speed… Read more »

Pig Business: The Cost of Cheap Food

30 mins, 2009 In this shocking and provocative film, Tracy Worcester sets out to discover who’s paying the true price for the cheap pork for sale in Britain’s supermarkets. WHERE IT ALL STARTED: Industrialised pig farming was pioneered in America, and it’s the way most supermarket pork is produced. Critics here argue the factory farms… Read more »

Refugees And Migrants

50 mins, 2007 The plight of refugees and migrants is a major global problem. Two films provide dramatic case study material from the US and Bangladesh. Film 1: BANGLADESH In the early 1990s, members of the Rohingyas people fled persecution in Burma to seek a new life in neighbouring Bangladesh. But instead they found government… Read more »

Always Coca-Cola

29 mins, 2006 For years the huge multinational Coca-Cola company has sold itself through an image of love and global harmony. But what’s the reality behind the image? COKE IN GERMANY: Coke got over 10 million euros in government grants to come to a region of high unemployment in East German. But now it’s closed… Read more »

Impact Of Tourism: Gambia

33 mins, 2001 Gambia seems ideal for holidays. With plentiful sunshine and long, white beaches, tourism has become a major source of income. But tourism in a developing country is a double-edged sword. Despite swelling numbers of visitors, little money ends up with local people. Holidays are run by foreign tour operators and tourists stay… Read more »