Show Me What You're Made Of Toys CBBC S 1 Episode 1 - Part 1

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• published: 27 Jan 2012
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Five children travel across the world to live and work alongside the people who make the everyday items they take for granted. Stacey Dooley presents this new CBBC documentary series, which follows five British kids as they travel to the other side of the world to work in factories making their much-loved gadgets, toys and clothes. But do they have the backbone to swap places with the workers of Asia? Through five eye-opening episodes, the kids report to genuine bosses, sleep in the homes of real workers and see the reality of life for the people who actually make their favourite things. On Monday, 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? In Tuesday's episode, 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. On Wednesday 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. Thursday's episode sees the kids working 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? Friday's final episode of the series sees the kids spending 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. After three weeks in Asia can they show that they now have the inner strength to tackle whatever is thrown at them? Or will any of them fall at the final hurdle? ------------- "Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use"