What Britain Buys and Sells in a Day

What Britain Buys and Sells in a Day

Documentary 2019

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Ed Balls, Ade Adepitan and Cherry Healey delve into the hectic world of Britain's imports and exports. As Britain's trading relationships face their biggest change in decades, they explore the science and systems that enable Britain to import and export goods around the world on an unprecedented scale.

Documentary 2019

Starring Ed Balls, Ade Adepitan, Cherry Healey

EPISODE 1

Fruit and Veg

Ed is at DP World London Gateway, a major hub for produce imports, to see how the fruit and veg travels across the globe but arrives on shelves in tip-top condition.

58 min · Sep 29, 2019
EPISODE 2

Seafood

Ed Balls, Ade Adepitan and Cherry Healey look at seafood a commodity the UK buys and sells in huge quantities.

58 min · Oct 6, 2019
EPISODE 3

Cars

Ed is at the Port of Southampton. He'll see how cars are driven off and on vast vessels at speed, look at the exhaustive checks that BMW cars must go through before they reach their owner, get on board a tug boat that's used to gently guide ships safely into the port and learn how to pilot the enormous ships that bring cars to and from our shores in a scale model of the real thing.

58 min · Oct 13, 2019

Ed Balls

Host
Ade Adepitan

Host
Cherry Healey

Host
Diene Petterle

Producer
Donna Clarke

Producer

About

What Britain Buys and Sells in a Day

DOCUMENTARY

Ed Balls, Ade Adepitan and Cherry Healey delve into the hectic world of Britain's imports and exports. As Britain's trading relationships face their biggest change in decades, they explore the science and systems that enable Britain to import and export goods around the world on an unprecedented scale.

Information

Studio: BBC Two
Released: 2019

Languages

Subtitles: English (United Kingdom) (SDH)