CBBC's new docu series to take children around the world

MUMBAI: UK pubcaster the BBC has announced that five children from the UK will be travelling across the world to find out how the everyday items they take for granted are made, in a new CBBC documentary series - Show Me What You‘re Made Of.

The programme, which is presented by Stacey Dooley and is due to air this year, follows the kids as they travel to Indonesia and the Philippines to work in the factories that make gadgets, toys and clothes.

Through five episodes, the kids report to genuine bosses, sleep in the homes of real workers and see the reality of life for the people who actually make their favourite things.

The children stuff soft toys in an Indonesia factory, join a vast clothing production line, try their hand at intricate jewellery making, and experience the extraordinarily controlled working conditions of a high-tech electronics factory, which makes tiny components for some of the electrical goods that British kids enjoy.

After their working day is finished the kids return home and stay with the workers, and find the poverty outside the factory gates is a real shock. But will their experience make them think twice about the things they take for granted?

CBBC executive producer Melissa Hardinge said, "In the run-up to Christmas, children are often most concerned about ensuring that the latest must-have items are on their wish-list, but this programme illustrates what other people go through to make the things that they take for granted.

"At CBBC one of our goals is to challenge children‘s perceptions of the world around them and make them think differently about the things they see. This programme certainly fits this bill and the children involved in the show have had a once in a life-time experience that they will never forget."