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A bright and idealistic young man steels himself for the dog-eat-dog business world, only to flounder in a job market packed with thousands of other hopefuls.

The documentary explores its history and includes testimony from people who have climbed its forbidding slopes and those who live in its shadow.

Bruce Parry visits native and modern people who live under Arctic conditions in Siberia, Greenland, Alaska, Canada, Nordic Russia, Norwegian Lapland and Spitzbergen. He shares for one summer and considers the locals' natural hardship, economic and conservation prospects, including the effects of modernization and global warming.

Four aspiring writers from Hay-on-Wye travel to Timbuktu on a trip of a lifetime. Their epic adventure involves a 2500-mile journey from Wales into the Sahara desert.

Former cricketer Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff and environmental writer Rob Penn cycle 1,200 km of the world's most controversial mega-road, the Trans-Amazonian Highway in Brazil, to find out about the different ways in which man is destroying the Amazon.

Surprisingly boring TV documentary charting global warming in Alaska.

A team of young Hip Hop dancers hope to take on the world by entering a Hip Hop contest in London, which leads to the World Hip Hop final in Las Vegas. They are taught by their strict but passionate dance teacher Liara Williams.

A portrait of children living under threat of eviction on the largest Irish traveller site in Britain.

Bruce visits two 'brigades' of the 540 native tribes in Russia's vast Arctic Siberian wilderness. Since the Soviet collapse, much has changed, much remained. The Sakha breed a very tough local horse breed. The Eveni keep reindeer. Bruce is fascinated by shamanism, which originated here, but can't be revived after the Soviet persecution.

In Greenland, Bruce joins a dog sled hunt with one of the last traditional Inuit hunting parties. He learns about their views on the effects on global warming, conservation measures, modern life and technology. Next he visits a town, where everything is imported at crushing prices, and a metal mine run by an Australian firm in layers made accessible by a retreating glacier.

Bruce starts his visit to Alaska with the cabana family, which makes a fortune by fishing salmon three months a year in a smart, allegedly ecologically sustainable way. Next the hazardous adventurers who 'mine' gold by diving for it in coastal water near Nome. Finally he joins an Inuit village's annual semi-traditional, controversial whale hunt and ponders its crucial cultural and pragmatic value.

Bruce joins Canadian Gwich'in Indian-Mountie Stephen Frost's family on the annual caribou hunt during the herd's spring migration over the Crow river, to calve in Alaska. Their tribal ways are in respectful harmony with nature. In total contrast, southern-more Alberta is world champion in tar sands, an extremely energy-consuming way to win oil from soiled soil, yet also of great economic value, also to local tribes.

Bruce visits a Russian Artic Circle village. In Norway, Bruce visits Lapland, where the Samen people still practice ancient reindeer herding. Finally he board a ship to Spitsbergen, the northernmost 'inhabited' European territory, extremely inhospitable but rich in natural resources.

Besides homes and transport, population growth itself requires humanity to change its home planet ever more drastically. Food production has increased and mutated as never before, with new techniques allowing previously barren areas to become world class exporters of major produces. Key to all engineered activities however is mining and energy, where we finally start switching from frightfully finite and polluting fossil fuels to eternal powers sources, like wind.