Must watch, highlights wealth division in UK

[Poppytry]

I recommend this program, saw it on Channel 4 earlier .. may only be available to UK.

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/how-the-other-half-live/4od#2929808

No download necessary.

[JohannGE]

Has to be one of the worst examples of patronising, exploitative programing I have ever seen. Makes "The Secret Millionaire" look tastefull.

Vomit inducing!

[Pogue]

What the above poster said. me and my mates were talking about this and it is absolutely disgusting.

[politics student]

Ok it has taken me a while to finally answer this thread.

I was in 2 minds about this.

1. Its great that there are programs informing the people who watch crap TV, that there is a growing wealth divide.

2. It was crap TV and would most likely be horrible.

I watched 2 mins of an ep and then turned it off. Offensive, as well as horrible. :glare:

[JohannGE]

A far more informative, and less exploitative program highlighting inequality is Blood Sweat and Takeaways on BBC1

"Six young British food consumers go to live and work alongside the workers in south east Asian food industries"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00kpd2z

[The Idler]

A far more informative, and less exploitative program highlighting inequality is Blood Sweat and Takeaways on BBC1

"Six young British food consumers go to live and work alongside the workers in south east Asian food industries"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00kpd2z
It was roundly condemned here (http://www.revleft.com/vb/showthread.php?t=108507&highlight=takeaways). Though I did think How the Other Half Live was interesting if only to highlight the interim Prime Minister Mandelson's comment "I'm relaxed about people becoming filthy rich".

[Killfacer]

More weirdly one of the blokes in it was essentially a loan shark. So he's giving money to the kind of people he financially annihilates.

[*Viva La Revolucion*]

I've been watching this. Never know whether to cry at the unfairness of it all, or throw up because it's such a patronising, cheap concept for a TV program. I know there's loads of rubbish on TV and there always will be, but this is just disgusting. The program makers are desperately trying to justify the content by marketing it as 'informative', when it's clearly just entertainment. ''Oooh, let's stare at the rich/poor people.'' Hardly investigative journalism. :rolleyes:

And as for rich sponsoring the poor idea - well, that's nice and there's no doubt that it will help relieve some of the families' financial pressures, but it's not really getting to the root of the problem. It's just tiny handouts.

The people who I can see gaining something from the program are the children. The wealthy ones. One of the girls believed that poor people in this country would live in wooden houses or mud huts! At least it'll give her some idea of the realities of living in poverty.

[JohannGE]

It was roundly condemned here (http://www.revleft.com/vb/showthread.php?t=108507&highlight=takeaways). Though I did think How the Other Half Live was interesting if only to highlight the interim Prime Minister Mandelson's comment "I'm relaxed about people becoming filthy rich".

When I said "more informative and less informative" I did mean reletive to How the Other Half Live.

Obviously as a mainstream, capitalist view it is far from perfect and there will always be a degree of voyerism involved in such programing.