Writer and comedian Sara Pascoe is learning how to do the world’s most endangered jobs, from ice-carving in Finland to climbing trees to making sweets in Cuba.
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Episode 1
Cuba
Writer and comedian Sara Pascoe travels to Cuba to learn and try out the unique jobs put at risk by the country’s increased exposure to commercialism. Among the workers she meets are a mattress magician, a cigar factory reader and a family who climb giant coconut trees to make a local sweet.
Episode 2
Georgia
Writer and comedian Sara Pascoe heads to Georgia to learn about its unique jobs, which include polyphonic singing and reluctantly guiding tourists in the Stalin Museum.
Episode 3
Finland
Sara Pascoe travels to Finland, where the changing climate is affecting traditional workers. Sara tries her hand at ice carving, tree felling and being Santa’s elf in Lapland.
Sara Pascoe
Self - Presenter
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