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Toughest Place to Be a... - Episode Guide

Season 1

Paramedic

Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Feb 13, 2011

Paramedic

Angie Dymott, a paramedic from Cardiff, spends two weeks with ambulance workers in Guatemala City - a place with one of the world's highest violent crime rates.

Bus Driver

Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Feb 20, 2011

Bus Driver

London bus driver Josh West heads to Manila, the world's most densely populated city, where, with his host Rogelio Castro, he braves the chaos of the streets in a Jeepney.

Midwife

Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Feb 27, 2011

Midwife

Midwife Suzanne Saunders-Blundell abandons the maternity unit at Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield to work in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia.

Season 2

Bin Man

Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Jan 29, 2012

Bin Man

London binman Wilbur Ramirez spends ten days working in Jakarta as part of the army of semi-destitute binmen who collect rubbish in the Indonesian capital.

Fisherman

Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Feb 5, 2012

Fisherman

Cornish fisherman Andy Giles gives up his state of the art trawler to travel to the coast of Sierra Leone, where the fishing is done from a dugout canoe.

Train Driver

Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Feb 12, 2012

Train Driver

Train driver Simon Davies, who usually drives the high speed Pendolino between London and Manchester, faces one of the highest railway lines on earth in Peru.

Season 3

Miner

Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Aug 19, 2012

Miner

Safety conscious Staffordshire mine worker Craig Notman travels to Mongolia to dig for gold in a precarious and dangerous network of tunnels deep in the Mongolian steppe.

Ferryman

Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Aug 26, 2012

Ferryman

57-year-old Colin Window, the bridge officer of the Woolwich Ferry, travels to Dhaka in Bangladesh to train and work as a sampan ferryman on the Buriganga River.

Nurse

Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Sep 2, 2012

Nurse

Emergency nurse Maria Connolly leaves the A&E department of the Royal Preston Hospital to work in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico - the centre of a violent drug war.

Season 4

Taxi Driver

Episode: 4x01 | Airdate: Mar 10, 2013

Taxi Driver

London cabbie Mason McQueen heads to Mumbai to test his skills on some of the busiest and most chaotic streets in the world.

Farmer

Episode: 4x02 | Airdate: Mar 17, 2013

Farmer

Dairy farmer Richard Gibson swaps the damp surroundings of Devon to live and work with Samburu tribesmen in the parched and desolate mountains of northern Kenya.

Fireman

Episode: 4x03 | Airdate: Mar 24, 2013

Fireman

Firefighter Neil Fairhall is leaving his fire station in Hayward's Heath and heading to the Amazon to fight some of the biggest forest fires in the world.

Bus Driver

Episode: 4x04 | Airdate: Mar 31, 2013

Bus Driver

London bus driver Josh West returns to the chaotic streets of Manila in the Phillipines. In 2010, Josh spent two weeks driving a jeepney there with his host Rogelio Castro.

Fisherman

Episode: 4x05 | Airdate: Apr 7, 2013

Fisherman

Cornish fisherman Andy Giles returns to Sierra Leone to see what has happened to a fishing community whose survival was under threat from illegal trawlers.

Binman

Episode: 4x06 | Airdate: Apr 21, 2013

Binman

Wilbur Ramirez revisits Jakarta, where he lived and worked as part of the army of semi-destitute binmen who collect rubbish in one of the world's fastest growing cities.

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