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Lenny Henry, Samantha Womack, Reggie Yates and Angela Rippon experience unimaginable poverty as they spend a week living it for real in this ground-breaking, two-part documentary for Comic Relief.
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Episode 1 - Part 1
March. 03,2011
Lenny Henry, Samantha Womack, Reggie Yates and Angela Rippon experience unimaginable poverty as they spend a week living it for real in this ground-breaking documentary.
Episode 2 - Part 2
March. 10,2011
Documentary series exploring life in Africa's largest slum. Lenny Henry, Samantha Womack, Reggie Yates and Angela Rippon spend time living with residents of Kibera.
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