Airdate: Brian Cox: How The Other Half Live

This could be one for fans of Succession.

SBS screens two part documentary Brian Cox: How The Other Half Live sees as the Succession star explore the complicated relationship with money and wealth, across both sides of the Atlantic.

Throughout the programme he will tell his own story, from growing up in poverty to becoming a highly paid Hollywood actor, playing one of the richest and most bloodthirsty capitalists on TV. This is his mission to remove his fear of poverty and to untangle the knotty issue of money and happiness.

With his wry humour and intrepid curiosity, Brian rolls up his sleeves in a soup kitchen in the Bronx, mingles with supermodels on Miami Beach, and drops in on a billionaire in London’s most expensive house. His blunt questioning and passionate anger exposes a world in which the richest one percent own half of the world’s wealth and the safety net for the poorest is being swept away on both sides of the Atlantic. The series will shine a light on one of the most misunderstood and mysterious aspects of our everyday life – money.

Episode One:
‘Brian, do you see yourself as rich?’ It’s clear from the start that this series isn’t going to be an easy ride for celebrated actor Brian Cox, star of the hit TV show Succession. This episode opens in Miami – playground of the rich, where Brian is meeting two women whose lives have been upended by the recent property boom. Senada, who used to work for Donald Trump, makes millions on every luxury house she sells, while Elsa is being evicted to make way for luxury condos. Brian is trying to come to grips with how the growing wealth gap is polarising us. And for him it is a personal journey.

Wednesday, 26 April at 8.30pm on SBS.