Making a living

Owen Bennett-Jones has been an anchor of the BBC World Service News Hour since the early 1990’s. But in these documentaries, he samples the daily working lives of people in very different professions.
PART 1




Owen Bennett-Jones tries his hand at being a real estate agent in Bremen, a small town in Georgia. He finds that it’s not as easy as it may look to try to sell a house.
PART 2






In this program, the BBC’s Owen Bennett-Jones experiences life as a film extra in Bollywood – India’s answer to Hollywood. We listen as he struggles with his lines, takes a dance class, cuts his hair – and gets his paycheck.



Click here to listen to another documentary in this series. Owen Bennett-Jones learns about the legacy of apartheid in South Africa, as he learns how to cook salmon in a Cape Town restaurant.
   


 


   
     










THE CHANGING WORLD is the sister documentary series of PRI's The World. Each week, we offer American radio listeners two in-depth documentaries from the BBC World Service that probe issues critical to our understanding of our evolving world.
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