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1 online resource (streaming video file) (1 hr. 5 min.) ; 341199737 bytes |
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*Adult Themes**This program contains graphic and distressing images of victims*In April 2013 more than a thousand people were killed when the Rana Plaza, a factory building in Bangladesh, collapsed. Over two thousand workers were injured and many were rescued by ordinary local people who risked their own lives crawling into the rubble to save them. Many of those who died in the building were making clothes for western companies.In Clothes to Die For, some of the survivors tell their remarkable story of survival and escape. Recalling the moments before the building collapsed and the agonising hours spent trapped inside waiting for help, their vivid accounts are a moving reminder of the worst industrial disaster of the 21st century.The program also charts the origins and growth of the Bangladeshi clothing industry which now accounts for almost 80 per cent of the country's exports, and the greed and high level corruption that led to the Rana Plaza tragedy. An army of cheap labour ensured that the country would become the second largest supplier of clothes in the world, second only to China in providing employment for millions of people - most of them young women.As the personal stories of survivors reveal, in Bangladesh even a wage as low as #1.50 a day can be life-changing, and many don't want that opportunity taken away. As the tragedy sent shock waves around the world about the safety of the Bangladeshi garment industry, the programme also looks at how certain things have changed in the industry since the disaster.PRODUCTION DETAILS: Quicksilver Media for BBC2; Series Producer Sarah Waldron; Executive Producer Sam Bagnall and Eammon Matthews; Director Zara Hayes; Producer Sarah Hamilton; Narrator Katy Cavanagh |
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Closed captioning in English |
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Broadcast 2015-09-23 at 21:20:00 |
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Classification: M |
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Building failures.
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Disasters -- Social aspects.
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Work clothes.
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Employees -- Death.
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Survival -- Psychological aspects.
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Bangladesh.
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Streaming video
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Hayes, Zara, director
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Doyle, Susannah, cast
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