Living with Poverty

Supporting Content

• OU on the BBC

  • Listen to an audio discussion to discover more about the language used to describe poverty

  

• Living with Poverty - Mind the Gap—Mind the Gap

  Duration: 0:54

• Meet the 'Queen of North Shields'—The Queen of North Shields

  Duration: 1:45

• Peas and Pay Packets—Peas and Pay Packets

  Duration: 1:35

• Meet the 'Queen of North Shields'—The Queen of North Shields

• About Living with Poverty

  This new series of hard-hitting documentaries offers insights into the nature and extent of contemporary poverty.

  Each film explores an area of England and records the stories of people who live on or close to the so-called breadline. 

  Some contributors live in fear of slipping into debt and poverty; others are already struggling to make ends meet.

  We hear powerful personal testimonies and witness lives that can often go unnoticed by the media and wider society. 

  The films cover different forms and ideas of poverty including rural hardship, relative poverty, the working poor, child poverty, geographical poverty, plus poverty of ambition and expectations.