Name: 60 Days on the Estates
Released: 2023-05-28T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Ed Stafford

TV Show · Documentary

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, including 21 days in the notorious Northumberland Park estate in Haringey, north London, where armed gang warfare is rife and a third of the households qualify as "deprived", to look beyond the tabloid headlines and experience first-hand the daily hardships that locals face.

2023 · 46m

Starring Ed Stafford

Director Tom Cross

EPISODE 1

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.
EPISODE 2

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.
EPISODE 3

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.