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Show Me What You're Made Of

Series 4

2014 · 5 episodes

Five British kids travel to Ghana and South Africa to work and live alongside the people who make their favourite things.

  1. 1. Cocoa

    2014-12-15

    Five British children work in a cocoa plantation in Ghana.

  2. 2. E-Waste

    2014-12-16

    The kids are in Accra, the capital of Ghana, to work on a toxic e-waste site.

  3. 3. Pineapple Farm

    2014-12-17

    The kids travel to the countryside to work on a pineapple farm.

  4. 4. Clothing and Skateboard Factory

    2014-12-18

    The kids fly to South Africa and to the country's beautiful surfing centre of Jeffreys Bay. They are working with a major surfing and skateboarding brand and immediately start the tricky job of building skateboards.

  5. 5. Diamonds

    2014-12-19

    For the final few days in South Africa, the kids head north to the diamond-mining capital of Africa, Kimberley. The kids cannot believe it when they start work at the world-famous De Beers diamond-processing plant and actually get to touch real diamonds.

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