60 Days on the Estates

2023 - 2023

Inside Britain's Most Troubled Housing Estates

28th May 2023

Episode 1

Filmmaker Ed Stafford experiences the hardships that residents face on some of the UK's most troubled estates. In London, Ed encounters Northumberland Park's gun and knife crime and discovers that kids as young as 13 are still getting drawn in.

Inside Birmingham's Troubled Inner City Estates

4th June 2023

Episode 2

In Birmingham, Ed Stafford moves in with a local who for the last 20 years has lived in one of Ladywood's tower blocks. He also meets a mum-of-three who's claiming benefits and resorting to food banks to feed her family.

Inside Glasgow's Most Deprived Housing Estate

11th June 2023

Episode 3

On the sprawling Easterhouse estate in Glasgow, Ed Stafford meets the locals who've been hit hard by the cost-of-living crisis and are facing the daily effects of high levels of drug abuse.

Top Cast

Ed Stafford

Documentary Reality

Ed Stafford, filmmaker and former army officer who has carved out a career as an explorer and survivalist, spends 60 days in some of the UK's most troubled housing estates to look beyond the tabloid headlines and experience first-hand the daily hardships that locals face.