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Series 1

Episode 1: Paramedic

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC Two ScotlandLatest broadcast: on BBC HD

Angie Dymott, a paramedic from Cardiff, spends two weeks with ambulance workers in Guatemala City - a place with one of the world's highest violent crime rates. Show more

Contributors

Director:
Kevin Jarvis
Producer:
Kevin Jarvis
Series Producer:
Simon Watts-Davies
Executive Producer:
Sam Bagnall

Toughest Place to be a...

Series 1

Episode 2: Bus Driver

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC Two ScotlandLatest broadcast: on BBC HD

London bus driver Josh West heads to Manila, the world's most densely populated city, where, with his host Rogelio Castro, he braves the chaos of the streets in a Jeepney. Show more

Toughest Place to be a...

Series 1

Episode 3: Midwife

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC Two ScotlandLatest broadcast: on BBC HD

Midwife Suzanne Saunders-Blundell abandons the maternity unit at Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield to work in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia. Show more

Toughest Place to be a...

Series 2

Episode 2: Fisherman

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC Two ScotlandLatest broadcast: on BBC HD

Cornish fisherman Andy Giles gives up his state of the art trawler to travel to the coast of Sierra Leone, where the fishing is done from a dugout canoe. Show more

Contributors

Director:
Kevin Jarvis
Director:
Kevin Jarvis
Producer:
Kevin Jarvis
Producer:
Kevin Jarvis
Series Producer:
Simon Watts-Davies
Series Producer:
Simon Watts-Davies
Executive Producer:
Sam Bagnall
Executive Producer:
Sam Bagnall
Participant:
Andy Giles
Participant:
Andy Giles

Toughest Place to be a...

Series 2

Episode 3: Train Driver

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC Two ScotlandLatest broadcast: on BBC HD

Train driver Simon Davies, who usually drives the high speed Pendolino between London and Manchester, faces one of the highest railway lines on earth in Peru. Show more

Contributors

Series Producer:
Simon Watts-Davies
Series Producer:
Simon Watts-Davies
Executive Producer:
Sam Bagnall
Executive Producer:
Sam Bagnall
Participant:
Simon Davies
Participant:
Simon Davies

Toughest Place to be a...

Series 4

Episode 2: Farmer

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland HD

Dairy farmer Richard Gibson swaps the damp surroundings of Devon to live and work with Samburu tribesmen in the parched and desolate mountains of northern Kenya. Show more

Contributors

Executive Producer:
Sam Bagnall
Executive Producer:
Sam Bagnall
Executive Producer:
Simon Watts-Davies
Executive Producer:
Simon Watts-Davies

Toughest Place to be a...

The Return

Episode 1: Bus Driver

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC Two HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland

London bus driver Josh West returns to the chaotic streets of Manila in the Phillipines. In 2010, Josh spent two weeks driving a jeepney there with his host Rogelio Castro. Show more

Toughest Place to be a...

The Return

Episode 2: Fisherman

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC Two HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Scotland

Cornish fisherman Andy Giles returns to Sierra Leone to see what has happened to a fishing community whose survival was under threat from illegal trawlers. Show more

Toughest Place to be a...

The Return

Episode 3: Binman

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC Two HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland

Wilbur Ramirez revisits Jakarta, where he lived and worked as part of the army of semi-destitute binmen who collect rubbish in one of the world's fastest growing cities. Show more

Toughest Place to be a...

Series 3

Episode 1: Miner

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC Two ScotlandLatest broadcast: on BBC HD

Safety conscious Staffordshire mine worker Craig Notman travels to Mongolia to dig for gold in a precarious and dangerous network of tunnels deep in the Mongolian steppe. Show more

Contributors

Director:
Simon Muriel
Director:
Simon Muriel
Producer:
Simon Muriel
Producer:
Simon Muriel
Executive Producer:
Sam Bagnall
Executive Producer:
Sam Bagnall
Series Producer:
Simon Watts-Davies

Toughest Place to be a...

Series 3

Episode 2: Ferryman

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC HDLatest broadcast: on BBC HD

57-year-old Colin Window, the bridge officer of the Woolwich Ferry, travels to Dhaka in Bangladesh to train and work as a sampan ferryman on the Buriganga River. Show more

Contributors

Director:
Simon Muriel
Director:
Simon Muriel
Producer:
Simon Muriel
Producer:
Simon Muriel
Executive Producer:
Sam Bagnall
Executive Producer:
Sam Bagnall

Toughest Place to be a...

Series 3

Episode 3: Nurse

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC HDLatest broadcast: on BBC HD

Emergency nurse Maria Connolly leaves the A&E department of the Royal Preston Hospital to work in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico - the centre of a violent drug war. Show more

Contributors

Director:
Victoria Bell
Producer:
Victoria Bell
Executive Producer:
Sam Bagnall
Executive Producer:
Sam Bagnall
Series Producer:
Simon Watts-Davies
Series Producer:
Simon Watts-Davies

Toughest Place to be a...

Series 2

Episode 1: Binman

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC Two ScotlandLatest broadcast: on BBC HD

London binman Wilbur Ramirez spends ten days working in Jakarta as part of the army of semi-destitute binmen who collect rubbish in the Indonesian capital. Show more

Contributors

Series Producer:
Simon Watts-Davies
Series Producer:
Simon Watts-Davies
Executive Producer:
Sam Bagnall
Executive Producer:
Sam Bagnall

Toughest Place to be a...

Series 4

Episode 1: Taxi Driver

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland

London cabbie Mason McQueen heads to Mumbai to test his skills on some of the busiest and most chaotic streets in the world. Show more

Contributors

Executive Producer:
Sam Bagnall
Executive Producer:
Simon Watts-Davies
Director:
Simon Muriel
Producer:
Simon Muriel

Toughest Place to be a...

Series 4

Episode 3: Firefighter

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two England

Firefighter Neil Fairhall is leaving his fire station in Hayward's Heath and heading to the Amazon to fight some of the biggest forest fires in the world. Show more

Contributors

Executive Producer:
Sam Bagnall
Executive Producer:
Sam Bagnall
Series Producer:
Simon Watts-Davies
Series Producer:
Simon Watts-Davies
Director:
Karen Walsh
Director:
Karen Walsh
Producer:
Karen Walsh
Producer:
Karen Walsh