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Duration: 54 minutes

Care-leaver Charlotte eats just one meal a day. It's all she can afford, so she starves herself till evening. Sandra, middle class mother of five, is embarrassed that all she can give her son for his school packed lunch is bread and butter. Middle manager Kelly, mother of two, hasn't eaten for two days. Meet Britain's hidden hungry - and they're not what you'd expect.

As of 2012, more than 170,000 people are believed to be dependent on a chain of 300 foodbanks run by a Christian charity, the Trussell Trust. Bafta award winning film-maker David Modell has spent six months at the Coventry foodbank following the stories of Charlotte, Sandra and Kelly to find out how, in 2012, so many Britons are suffering genuine and prolonged bouts of real hunger.

Last on

Tuesday 23:35 BBC One only on Scotland

Credits

Presenter
David Modell
Director
David Modell
Producer
David Modell
Executive Producer
David Henshaw
Executive Producer
Lesley Bonner

Broadcasts

  • Tue 30 Oct 2012 22:35 BBC One except Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland HD, Scotland, Wales

  • Tue 30 Oct 2012 23:05 BBC One only on Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland HD, Wales

  • Tue 30 Oct 2012 23:35 BBC One only on Scotland

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