
No judgement, no agenda. Ashley Cain enters a different world with different rules, in some of the most brutal, intense places to be a young man. What does it take to survive?
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Ashley Cain explores issues that affect young men born into a life of criminality.

2025-04-01
Aired 2025-04-01
Ashley travels to Brazil to meet young men living in some of Rio’s most notorious favelas who are caught between the deadly grip of drug cartels and heavily armed criminal militia.

2025-04-08
Aired 2025-04-08
Ashley is in South Africa exploring illegal poaching and the rhino horn trade, discovering how young men from deprived communities are being enticed into this deadly business.

2025-04-15
Aired 2025-04-15
Ashley visits Marseille to meet police, street dealers and hitmen all caught up in bloody drug wars that are ravaging France’s second-largest city.

2025-04-22
Aired 2025-04-22
Colombia is known for cocaine production, but Ashley uncovers another highly priced product that’s funding deadly organised crime groups – gold.

2025-04-29
Aired 2025-04-29
Sweden has been a European hotspot for gang-related shootings and bombings. Ashely spends a week meeting young men who don’t flinch from carrying a gun and using it if necessary.

2025-05-06
Aired 2025-05-06
Ashley heads to the Philippines to find out if joining a gang is the only way to survive in the extreme poverty that affects so many in the capital, Manila.
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