Chances are, you’re already familiar with Stacey Dooley documentaries. Because let’s be honest, there’s a hell of a lot of them over the years.
You see, Stacey has been travelling the world to investigate the issues that affect young people for a while now. Oh and she's also writing a book which no doubt will give some sort of overwhelming insight into what it's really been like following so many difficult stories over the years. So as we wait patiently for the another episode of Stacey Dooley Investigates and for that book to make it's way over to Amazon, we’re taking a look back at some of the programmes that we’ve watched over the last nine years.
So as we wait patiently for the another episode of Stacey Dooley Investigates and for that book to make it's way over to Amazon, we’re taking a look back at some of the programmes that we’ve watched over the last nine years.
Stacey Dooley On Blood, Sweat And T-shirts
First, here’s some background for ya: prior to kicking off her own series, Stacey appeared on the BBC Three series Blood, Sweat and Tears. Remember when BBC Three was still a channel on the actual television? Yeah, it was waaaay back then.
Stacey, along with five other young fashion fans, went over to India to learn all about how their clothes were manufactured. They learn to sew, work in a cotton mill and live the lives of unskilled workers earning about £1.50 per day. Safe to say it was an eye opener.
Stacy Dooley Investigates Child Labour
This was a two-part series where Stacey explored child labour over in Nepal and the Ivory Coast. The first episode, Kids for Sale, aired in 2009 and sees Stacey try to get to the bottom of how and why child labour became such an issue in Nepal. In the second episode, Kids with Machetes, Stacey heads to West Africa’s cocoa plantations where kids are having to work for pretty much no money at all.
This was the beginning of the Stacey Dooley Investigates series and not long after its initial couple of episodes, the Child Labour series was commissioned for a second season and so Stacey then went over to the Congo to film Kids with Guns, where she met some of the ex-child soldiers who had grown up around violent conflict and then on to Cambodia where she looked at the huge issue of underage sex trafficking.
Stacey Dooley Investigates Tourism & the Truth
Welcome to Holiday Hell, you guys. We're talking about the dark side of tourism that sees hotel workers working unimaginable schedules for very little wage.
In this series, Stacey heads over to Thailand and works as a chambermaid to understand what it’s like over there. For the second episode, she makes her way to Kenya and witnesses how the tourism industry has had an effect on a community’s access to fresh water.
Stacey Dooley Investigates Luton in My Hometown Fanatics
This one got a lot of attention. In 2013 Stacey made a documentary to look at why her hometown of Luton was known as ‘the extremist capital of Britain’. She meets members of the of the English Defence League as well as a group of Muslim Extremists to try and work out if there’s any legitimacy to the claims that were being made about Luton, or if it was just all talk.
Stacey Dooley Investigates Young Sex For Sale in Japan
Stacey was detained by police while she filmed this one. Yeah, things got real. She was held for two hours when she was filming on JK Alley in Tokyo (which translates to high school girls alley) where two guys said she wasn't allowed to film shortly before police arrived on the scene. By the sounds of it things didn't get too messy but it really rather disturbingly highlights the controversial issue that Japan seems to have with child sexual exploitation.
Stacey Dooley Investigates Canada's Lost Girls
And so we arrive at the latest in the long list of the Stacey Dooley Investigates series. The episode takes a long hard look into the mystery around Amber Tuccaro, a 20-year-old single mum who went missing back in 2010. Her body was found two years later but her killer wasn't found and so no-one was ever punished for her murder.
The number of women who have gone missing or been murdered in Canada is pretty high, the Canadian police thinkits about 1200 while some estimates say about 4000. You can watch Stacey try to get to the bottom of it all on iPlayer here.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.