Name: What Britain Buys and Sells In A Day
Released: 2019-09-30T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Ed Balls, Ade Adepitan, Cherry Healey

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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 · 59 min

Starring Ed Balls , Ade Adepitan , Cherry Healey

EPISODE 1

Fruit and Veg

Ed is at London Gateway, a huge port on the Thames, to see how fruit and veg travels across the globe and arrives on the shelves in tip-top condition. Ade travels the world looking at how Britain's changing tastes for fruit and veg are impacting farmers everywhere. Meanwhile, Cherry meets British producers.

58 min · 30 Sept 2019
EPISODE 2

Seafood

Ed Balls, Ade Adpeitan and Cherry Healey look at seafood, a commodity the UK buys and sells in huge quantities. Surprisingly, the fish caught off British shores is largely dispatched abroad as exports, whereas the fish eaten here tends to be imported.

58 min · 7 Oct 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 · 14 Oct 2019

Ed Balls

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Ade Adepitan

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Cherry Healey

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Diene Petterle

Producer
Donna Clarke

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