Bruce Parry’s Tribe is just great for illustrating ‘traditional cultures’ -(the Hamar episode is especially good for how ‘cultural barriers’ may prevent ‘western style development’) –  the web site has a wonderful overview of the two dozen tribes Parry’s stayed with over the three series, including a nice map that zooms in on the specific area. Annoyingly enough I’ve presently mislaid by DVD box set, especially annoying as, being a law abiding citizen, I can’t download the entire first and second series for free from here.

Unreported World is just terrific for illustrating ‘problems of development’ – it selects the the most awefully harrowing case studies  from around the developing world –  I subject my tutees to these once a week – so far this term we’ve covered child rape in Liberia and Child gang Killers in El Salavador. Next week we look at Child Labour in India and Toxic pollution in the Amazon. Perfect for depressing the crap out of 18 year olds. Just be careful not to fall into the trap of thinking that these case studies are in anyway representative!

Some of the episodes have unfortunately gone missing from 4OD – once again it’s a shame I can’t use this link to download the entire 21 GB back catologue for free