The five kids go to Indonesia and are put to the test in one of Asia’s most successful toy factories. The work is hot and there are strict rules in place – will they impress their new bosses or will some of them be shown the door?
Stacey takes the kids to their second job in Indonesia, in a vast, high-tech clothing factory, which occupies a site the size of eleven football pitches. The kids find the poverty outside the factory gates difficult to stomach and they finally get the chance to grill a factory boss about workers’ wages.
The kids move on to the Philippines as they visit a jewellery factory on the island of Cebu. The conditions in the factory are hotter than anything they’ve experienced before and tempers begin to fray within the group of kids. They are also taken into the interior of the island to stay in a remote village where many of the people support their families by making the jewellery.
The kids works in a jaw-dropping electronics factory in Manila which makes millions and millions of parts for the electronic gadgets that they rely on at home. The targets in the factory are seriously high and the overall aim is to get a human being to be as efficient as any machine. How will the kids cope with the sterile work environment, the head-to-toe protective suits and working at the fastest of speeds in total silence?
The kids spend the last few days of their trip roughing it out as farm hands on a silk farm in the Philippines. Here they have to handle and process the big fat live bugs needed to make luxury silk – and some of the group have to face deep-seated fears to be able to do the job.
Documentary series where British kids experience work in factories in Asia. They kick off their incredible trip by working in a trainers factory in Malaysia.
Documentary series where British kids experience work in factories in Asia. The kids face two tough days working in a huge international cosmetics factory in Thailand.
Documentary series where British kids experience work in factories in Asia. The kids have a go at making jeans in a Bangkok factory.
Documentary series where British kids experience work in factories in Asia. The kids move to Indonesia to a factory processing tinned tuna for the international market.
Documentary series where British kids experience work in factories in Asia. It's on to the final workplace and every kid's dream come true - a chocolate factory.
Five kids go to work and live with the people who make their favourite things. Oliver, Rhianna, Michael, Kassia and Mali are set to work in an enormous bike factory.
Five kids go to work and live with the people who make their favourite things. The kids move to the north east coast of Brazil to work in a prawn farm and processing factory.
It is halfway through the kids' epic trip around Brazil and they are in the Amazon rainforest. They attempt to cope living in a floating village.
Stacey Dooley takes the kids to the heart of the Brazilian beef industry, where they see for themselves how meat gets to our plates.
It is the last leg of the kids' incredible adventure around Brazil and they head to a Brazilian town that is the world's capital of baseball cap manufacturing.
Five children work and live with the people in Ghana who make their favourite things. The kids have to prove themselves to a village full of cocoa farmers.
Five kids work and live with the people in Ghana who make their favourite things. The kids work on a toxic e-waste site where old technology can end up.
Five kids work and live with the people in Ghana who make their favourite things. The kids travel to Nsawam to work on a pineapple farm.
Five kids work and live with the people in Africa who make their favourite things. The kids fly to South Africa to build skateboards.
Five kids work and live with the people in Africa who make their favourite things. The kids head to the diamond-mining capital of Africa.
The kids head to an enormous strawberry farm on the south coast.
The kids head to a thriving British textiles factory in Leicester.
The kids are taken aback to discover that they are joining the cleaning team at a big bus garage in south London. It's hard physical work, and the shift goes on long into the night, requiring them to sweep, mop and wash each double-decker bus by hand. As the job goes on, the youngsters are shocked to discover what passengers have left behind for them to clean up.
The kids head to a fish-processing factory in the north eastern port of Grimsby.
The children visit a Bristol clothes recycling centre where a lot of throwaway fashion ends up, and are shocked by the scale of the operation.
We are taking teenagers Ellie, Alice Faith, Joe and Sam to two amazing countries in Asia - Cambodia and Taiwan. They begin their working journey in the bustling capital of Cambodia, Phnom Penh. As they start their first job in an enormous bag factory manufacturing for the world export market, who will succeed and who will fail in this place of exacting standards and strict rules? At night, as they get their first taste of living like a local, will our teens settle in or decide that it's all too much for them?
In episode two, our five UK kids head off to a remote Cambodian coffee plantation. In the countryside, they get the chance to try some of the local delicacies - deep-fried spiders, crickets and grubs! On the coffee farm some of them struggle with one of the toughest jobs there is in Cambodia - field work in the heat and the rain. Can they come together as a team and bring in the coffee harvest? And what happens when some of them go off to work with the Bunong people - one of the many local tribes in this region?
The five pampered teens make their way back to one of the thousands of factories in the capital of Cambodia, Phnom Penh. They get the chance to make one of their favourite things - onesies! - but it's much more difficult than it looks. In the very strict onesie factory it's boys v girls and one team comes unstuck very quickly. Can they get back in the boss's good books? Outside the factory gates, the team also have to come to terms with the poverty they find there, and the girls have to go back to school - in a slum.
The teens leave Cambodia to fly further east to the island of Taiwan. Here they head straight to an enormous tea plantation where they grow the tea for the British export market. It's been a tough trip for our five teens and within minutes of arriving at the tea factory one of them feels unwell. With a man down, how will the other four cope with the very physical work involved? Their boss is the strictest one yet, and he is not a man to be messed with. At the end of their first shift the boss proves that he is very serious about tea when he sacks one of the team. They may be shocked, but can they pull together as a team to turn this situation around?
It's the teens' last factory in Asia and they make their way to a fish-canning plant on the Taiwanese coast. If they thought factory work would get any easier, they were sadly wrong! Some of them find the fish smell overwhelming and are horrified to discover that one job is boxing up fish heads and guts after the choice meat has been canned. Can they face their worst nightmare? Will they be able to finally show their last factory boss that they can manage a day's work even though they might not want to? As they finish up in Taiwan and fly home to the UK, will they be able to show their families that their incredible trip has really changed them?
The kids start their working trip with one of the UK's biggest recycling firms Suez, who sort the waste of 12 million homes. The kids are heading to Bristol to a Mixed Recycling Facility, known as MRF, where what we throw away is sorted by hand on fast-flowing conveyor belts. The kids are amazed to see 250 tonnes of waste being processed each day and they are shocked when they realise they will be expected to join the teams of people going through our waste. Are they all willing to get their own hands dirty to dig out?
Tom, Eloushka, Lucas, Maddie and Madz travel to a massive sandwich factory in London where they make 700,000 sandwiches a week. Adelie Foods has very high hygiene standards and productivity rates and their workers are disciplined and incredibly fast. Will our five being able to demonstrate the focus needed to succeed here? When the boss starts them off making a cheese and pickle ploughman's sandwich, it becomes clear that this work is considerably more difficult than they had anticipated. As they all compete for a promotion, who has the skill to keep up with the production lines and make sandwiches of the quality that their boss expects?
Tom, Eloushka, Lucas, Maddie and Madz head to a cosmetic factory in the south west of England. They work at Lush, where they make 77 million cosmetics every year. Can they succeed in an enormous factory that makes face masks, bath bombs and bubble bath by hand? With one of the team made the boss very quickly, how will the rest of the team cope with being told what to do by a friend?
Tom, Eloushka, Lucas, Maddie and Madz make their way to do a day's work in an enormous shoe factory in Wigan. Here the kids meet Joan, their toughest boss yet who runs a tight ship and expects every one of her team to follow all the rules all the time. A lot of the work is done by robots and what's left requires concentration, focus and first class hand-to-eye coordination. When one of the group quickly impresses on Joan that they are supervisor material, how will the other kids react to be bossed around by one of their own?
Tom, Eloushka, Lucas, Maddie and Madz make their way to their final stop on their tour of the UK, to one of the biggest free-range egg farms in the country. You can't produce eggs without getting on well with chickens, and on this farm they have 135,000 birds living in huge sheds with wooded areas and fields to freely roam around in. There is no room for heavy-handedness in this job, so how will our five cope working with live animals and fragile eggs?
Stacey Dooley takes five kids to join the workforce behind the scenes of a theme park and zoo.
The kids join Stacey Dooley as she heads to a huge photo processing factory in Liverpool.
The kids head with Stacey Dooley to Aberystwyth in Wales, to one of the UK's most prestigious bee farms and honey factories.
The kids travel to Hull, to an enormous gourmet sausage factory where millions of the nation's poshest bangers are made.
On the last leg of their tour around Britain's workplaces, Stacey Dooley gives the kids a last chance to prove they're on track at the new Elizabeth Line train depot in London.