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Toughest Place To Be a Binman S2E1

Project Summary

Toughest Place To Be A … 2 Poster
Genre
Documentary
Featured Content
Human Interest, Waste Management
Islands
Java
Regions
Jakarta
Talent

Wilbur Ramirez

Imam Syaffi

Producers

Simon Watts-Davies

Sam Bagnall

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FORMAT

TV Series

RELEASED

2011

EPISODE

S2E1

TITLE

Toughest Place to be a Binman

Overview

Toughest Place To Be A... is a BBC Two television documentary which offered various working or retired professionals in the United Kingdom a different and more challenging working environment in the same profession they worked in. These individuals travel to a foreign country to learn and work under the new environment for ten days. First broadcast in February 2011, a total of fifteen episodes were produced since.

In This Episode

Jakarta binman Imam Syaffi is one of a small army of rubbish collectors tackling the huge waste problem facing the Indonesian capital.

Wilbur Ramirez, a London binman, has travelled 7,000 miles to spend 10 days working with Imam and experience the harsh reality of Imam's working life - from dragging his rubbish cart by hand through the sweltering streets to cleaning out the open drains.

Jungle Run Production Services

JRP inserted London binman Wilbur into the hard life of Imam, a plastic collector in Jakarta. The result was heart-breaking, earned the series the highest viewership to date as well as a One World Media Award.

Video

Gallery

Locations

Java

Jakarta

Guntur

Production Companies

BBC Two
BBC Two

Distributors

BBC Two
BBC Two