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Episode 2

This week’s episode showed the disruption caused by Romanian arrivals. Fourteen Romanians living in one house started a metal collection business. They rooted through everyone else’s bin bags looking for scrap and left a mess the council refused to clean up. Emotions were running high and we saw Fungi abusing a Romanian woman. It made distressing viewing, especially since last week he was more loveable rogue than bigot. Contrary to what its critics allege, though, the programme does not present people as simple stereotypes.

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  • Originally Aired January 13, 2014
  • Runtime 50 minutes
  • Content Rating United States of America TV-14
  • Network Channel 4
  • Created January 14, 2014 by
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