Coffee Show Me What You're Made Of

Last time on Show Me What You're Made Of...

Oh, my days!

..Ellie, Alice, Sam, Faith and Joe started their first job in Cambodia.

They joined the workforce in a massive bag factory.

And go straight. Stop.

On the stitching lines, Faith got competitive.

I'm really happy cos it looks like one of the professional ones.

-And Ellie failed.

-I'm bored now.

-You're bored?

-I can't do it.

When they had to live like a local, there was trouble.

-This is your toilet.

-No.

No, that's going too far.

Back at the factory, Alice, Joe and Ellie all bagged a wage.

Congratulations.

-Today...

-Sam, just get in the hole.

..our team struggle with some of the toughest work there is in Cambodia.

I actually hate it here.

Can they come together as a team?

I'm kind of not liking that side of Faith.

What do you mean you don't like it?

Face their fears.

-So brave.

-And me.

I was thinking I might as well talk to this plank of wood.

We've left Phnom Penh behind and driven eight hours east

into the countryside.

And a quick lunch stop gives our teams a chance to try some

of the local delicacies.

Some fried spiders.

Crickets, I'm guessing.

-Maybe not.

-I can deal with the dead spiders.

I can't deal with the live ones.

-Faith, your one's alive!

-No!

Our five clearly don't fancy eating spiders, crickets and grubs,

but I've got something else that could interest them.

In the UK alone,

we enjoy around 70 million cups of coffee every single day,

making it one of Britain's most loved drinks.

They are about to discover just how much effort

goes into producing every single drop.

I absolutely hate coffee.

You don't like it?

The smell, taste, everything. It's just disgusting.

Alice, the only person who looks more gutted than Ellie is you.

Farmers. I can't farm.

What are you most concerned about?

-Ants.

-It is the bugs?

Yeah. Just biting me.

Most of them aren't coffee drinkers yet,

but it is an emerging business here,

and I know one person who is a big fan.

I can't go a day without coffee.

So you drink it every day?

Every single day.

That's a lot of caffeine, Sam.

But he's in good company because coffee shops are springing up

all over Cambodia.

And we're headed to a coffee plantation

in a remote province called Mondulkiri

to meet their new boss, one of Asia's top baristas.

Over to Mr Coffee, himself.

If you could show us first hand what the coffee should look like,

a perfect cup of coffee?

Sophorn is from Feel Good Coffee and is a champion barista.

Before he sets our five to work in the fields,

he wants them to appreciate how good Cambodian coffee is.

I like it.

Too strong.

That is so nice.

That's the best coffee ever.

Ellie, talk to me, what are you thinking?

Nothing. I just didn't want to try it.

OK. So all of us bar one have now tasted the coffee.

Cambodian coffee beans are so highly prized for their delicate flavour,

they sell for a higher price than coffee from neighbouring countries.

You understand that the bean is paramount,

it is so important that it is a quality bean to start with.

Really try as hard as you possibly can and do him proud.

OK, let's get a wiggle on.

You have to be tough to work on a coffee plantation.

The workers are outside in the blazing hot sun

and tropical rains all day.

This entire field is your office.

-Oh, wow.

-Wow.

Boss Sophorn is starting our teams off picking the delicate beans,

which at this stage are called cherries.

The idea today is to pick up the ripe cherry.

This is the ripe one.

You see, it's ripe, it's turning a little bit darker.

It's these dark ones that you're after.

The aim is to pick as many of these as you possibly can.

Cool. All right, do you want to grab yourselves a basket?

OK, guys, off you go.

Our five pickers will have two hours to pick as many perfectly ripe

cherries as they can, and the boss will be watching.

It's absolutely critical they don't damage the cherries

or pick the wrong ones.

If they do, they could ruin both the plant and the coffee.

They're all green.

-There's, like, none on here.

-It's just annoying.

They were nervous about fried insects at the lunch stop,

now there are live ones to deal with!

Oh. There's, like, a perfect one, but it's in a spider web!

SHE WHINES

SHE SCREAMS

-So brave.

-A bug just came out.

-There was a hole in it.

-I'm getting so annoyed with these bugs.

I pick one and there's just a load of animals on it.

At home in Berkshire,

the only wild thing about 14-year-old Joe

is how much he loves technology.

I do feel like I'm quite addicted to my gadgets.

Whatever someone else has got is what he wants.

I really like spending money.

Joseph likes spending OUR money.

He doesn't like spending his own money.

And there's something else he's not keen on.

Joseph doesn't help me around the house at all.

I think my parents would like me to do more.

It is so painful to get him to do anything.

You have to keep reminding him all the time.

"Joseph, do this, Joseph, do that."

I want him to pick his pants up.

I want him to just make his bed.

His parents are hoping that Cambodia will open his eyes a little.

Now that he's 14, I would just like him to start realising that

it is a lot of effort that happens around him to make the things

that he takes for granted.

Back in Cambodia,

Joe's attitude to a bit of hard work has taken a turn for the better.

I definitely prefer doing outdoor tasks like this

because here it is quite open

and it makes me feel a lot more comfortable.

But Ellie is having a bad time.

Just really boring.

Sore back and just everything is aching.

The boss, Sophorn, must decide who will be promoted

and who will be demoted during this job.

The stakes are high for all of them.

I'm struggling.

I don't want to pick the bad ones.

You have got the heat. You've got the bugs.

You've got the sharp trees.

Quality, not quantity.

The problem is nobody knows what cherries to pick.

Are they good?

This is not yet ripe.

That's not good. If you keep picking up the unripe one and next year,

the crop would be less.

-Yes. OK.

-With everyone picking the wrong coloured cherries,

Sophorn does a spot check on all the baskets.

-So is this all right?

-Green one.

-Or too light?

Yes, still too light.

Just a few that we don't want.

I didn't want to pick it up.

While Alice, Faith and Sam are still working out which cherries to pick,

Ellie and Joe have paired up at the bottom of the field.

We were wondering,

we've been working together, so can we combine both of our things

to make one product for both of us?

That's a good idea. I'm fine with working together.

-Thank you.

-Thank you.

-Thanks very much.

Oh, my gosh, there's loads!

-How is it going?

-Really good.

-Great.

Oh, my God. WOW!

We found a little secret place not that the rest of them know.

We're forming a little alliance.

When you're in a team, you get so much more done.

There's two sets of eyes, four sets of hands, no.

-Four hands.

-Four hands, there we go.

-Two sets.

-Two sets of hands, yeah.

-All out.

-All out!

-Come on, Joe.

-That's a turn up for the books.

Ellie, who was losing focus, said she wasn't enjoying it,

seems to have teamed up with Joe.

He's really enjoying the outdoors vibe

and that seems to have rubbed off on her.

I think we definitely hit the jackpot with this tree.

We've found loads. If we found this tree earlier,

we could have stayed here for quite a while.

I think we've got over 200 in here.

But at the other end of the field,

teamwork isn't making the dream work.

Sam, he has been really annoying cos he keeps on cheating and

stealing my tree. Every time I find a good tree,

-he's like, "I'm coming over," and then he takes them all.

-No, I don't.

-I keep going on the same tree as you.

-You keep on coming over

and you're stealing my berries.

So I'm saying, "This tree is awful," so you won't.

Well, you shouldn't tell me that you found a good tree, then,

-should you?

-I'm not laughing.

I'm angry.

The girls have got the hump with Sam because they believe he's following

them, not finding his own plant and pinching all their berries.

And Sophorn has spotted the disagreement between them.

I've not stole out of your basket.

-That's not cheating.

-Oh, I got two.

Even with time running out, Sam, Alice and Faith continue to bicker.

Stealing all the berries!

Two people you've done it to.

OK, gang. Time.

Whose pickings are going to pass quality control?

It is up to the boss.

OK, so I want to talk about who's going to be promoted

and who's going to be demoted.

Sophorn has checked the standard of all the cherries

and one outshines the others.

This basket looks really good.

So uniform - red and dark.

It might be one basket,

but it is the work of two people, and both are being promoted.

Joe and Ellie. Well done.

You worked as a team.

That's really good. That's what we are looking for.

I'm feeling really good.

I'm feeling really, really happy that we both got promoted together.

Three of you have been demoted.

This was the weakest basket, in your opinion.

Some of the cherries is overripe.

So, guys, this is Sam's.

Sam, what happened?

That's actually really, like, upsetting because coffee

is like my favourite thing, but I did not know it was like this.

I didn't know it was grown on trees and things like that.

Second from last.

-This is Alice.

-It is still a lot of yellow.

Too many discoloured cherries in here.

-Yes.

-As we were coming to the end and I sort of just rushed it a bit.

-Panicking?

-Yes.

-Faith.

Getting more bright red cherry.

We find ourselves in a unique situation

in where one of you is going to

become the boss of the three demoted individuals.

And that's because you did so well, Faith.

So you are in charge...

-Oh, God.

-..of making sure that Alice and Sam can deliver.

Sam, how do you feel about your new supervisor, Miss Faith?

I'm happy, actually.

Oh, my days!

Faith as a supervisor!

-I'll treat you nicely, don't worry.

-Oh, please do.

Our demoted group have had a very small taste of what working in the

coffee industry in Cambodia is like.

So I've arranged for them to meet Lo Som,

who knows the business inside out.

He lives in this house on the plantation with his wife and family.

Hello. Hi. Thank you.

I want them to understand just how hard life can be on a farm.

How long have you been working here?

-TRANSLATION:

-I have been here over 20 years.

I planted most of the trees that you see on the plantation.

And my salary is 900,000 riel a month.

That's around £170 per month.

What, kind of, are the bad and the good lengths

that you go through every day?

For me, every day is hard.

It's the nature of the work.

It is a hard and busy day.

And we don't get enough breaks.

It seems that I finish something and then it's time to start again.

So what do you hope for your children to do in the future?

Yes, yes. Let me explain.

I have no other way of making a living.

I'm not qualified to do any other job.

But as a parent,

I have to labour on the fields to make money,

and I do it to support my children.

I don't know the future,

but hopefully they will have better prospects than me.

It's really sad that I've basically not done a good job

and he's doing this every day of his life.

I kind of feel a lot, like, really, really spoilt right now.

He is here supporting his family with a really low amount.

See you later. Bye.

As Sam, Alice and Faith head back,

they have much to think over before their task tomorrow.

It is the second day here in rural Cambodia.

What I'm keen for our five to take from their time here

is the fact that, you know,

it isn't just these huge factories with these long production lines

that keep Cambodia ticking over.

One of their other main industries is agriculture.

Coffee boss Sophorn has asked our demoted workers

to help Lo Som plant new coffee trees.

Sophorn, what do we have here?

The coffee plant.

We need to carry them down to the field, keep going and plant it.

You heard your boss. Grab some coffee plants and follow him.

# Hi-ho, hi-ho It's off to work you go! #

Our teams will be planting the delicate coffee seedlings.

The first thing, you need to put the dirt into the burrow.

Sophorn gives them a demo.

Step like this.

OK, this is fairly straightforward.

It just requires hard work.

Yes? Good old elbow grease, Sam?

I can't wait to get started(!)

We've got this entire field that needs planting. Get going.

Ten tonnes of coffee is produced here every year, and the plants

must be planted regularly to keep up with demand.

Right, so let's get cracking.

Boss Sophorn has appointed Faith supervisor

so she can make sure the others do a good job.

Sam, just get in the hole.

-I am in the hole.

-I saw you out.

That's not...

Sam, you need to use your feet to pat it down.

-Look.

-What have I done?

Leaves are coming off the plant.

Seriously, you need to stop stepping on them and don't pull on it.

-OK?

-Yeah.

They've only just started and it is a real dressing-down for Sam

from his supervisor.

I feel very kind of upset because I don't like being bossed around.

-Oh, God.

-But Alice is really putting in the effort.

I'm finding it very hard, but I've overcome my fear of, like,

dirt in my nails.

So Sam, listen, Alice is on her third

and you're still on your first.

This is actually a really hard job.

And I really didn't want to get dirty.

I feel like that's why I'm still on my first.

I know you're panicking about getting your trainers dirty

-and your hoody.

-Yeah.

But, you know, you're coming to work on a farm.

You shouldn't be in your best outfit.

No.

At home in Liverpool, 13-year-old Sam is absolutely obsessed with...

Looking gorgeous in front of people.

If you're meeting someone for the first time,

you want first impressions to be, like, 100%.

Sam has a massive collection of trainers.

His most expensive pair are a whopping £600.

Clothes are one of the most important things about me.

I can't wear the same clothes more than once

because I don't want people to think that I don't have money

to buy new clothes.

But his mum thinks he could do with a reality check.

I think Sam is a very, very spoilt child.

He hasn't got a clue of the value of money and how much, how hard you

have got to work to earn it.

He thinks it must grow on trees.

But when it comes to mucking in and getting the work done,

his mum is not sure how he'll cope.

As for being dirty,

that will be a bit of an eye opener as well for him.

Back in Cambodia, Sam is still worried about the mud.

-What are you on, Sam?

-My second one.

Right, you don't seem to understand the urgency of it.

You need... Cos they have to do it in rainy season so that they can get

water. So get your foot in there.

-OK.

-So, Sam, I'm not trying to give you a hard time,

I'm just genuinely curious, why have you come in your best gear?

I really don't know. I feel like I've brought all my normal clothes

here with me. I don't have any old clothes.

All of it is really expensive and, like, designer and things like that,

and I don't really want to get it wrecked.

Look, Alice is covered in mud.

-She doesn't mind.

-Well, I thought I would, but...nah.

I hope Sam can get his priorities straight soon.

Up the road, I've sent our promoted pair, Joe and Ellie,

to do a job with another group of agriculture workers.

-Hello.

-Hello.

It's a tribe called the Bonang people.

The Bonang people live entirely off the land

and their way of life hasn't changed in 2,000 years.

They are one of ten tribes in the Mondulkiri region

and depend on their animals and produce they grow

to feed their families.

Ganie, one of the tribespeople,

would like Joe and Ellie to help out...

-There you go.

-Thank you.

..weeding pumpkins.

I really like these kind of farming jobs.

Like, I liked the rice fields

and I liked the coffee beans yesterday,

and I'm really enjoying this now.

Joe is in the thick of it again,

but Ellie is not happy.

I don't like the look of it -

it's all muddy and there's ants everywhere.

It is so stingy and horrible.

Ellie, how about we incorporate some of our teamwork again so maybe I'll

-do the chopping?

-It is not my thing.

Yesterday in the coffee fields, Joe helped Ellie,

but today he'll have his work cut out.

Ellie is not moving a muscle.

How important is it to you, all of this farming?

Very. This garden provides food for my family.

What Ellie isn't getting is the fact these vegetables mean the

difference between eating and going hungry.

She is still not mucking in.

This is very much what life would have been like before all of the

factories came around.

At home, we'd mainly buy things from a supermarket and we'd never

really go outside and pick our own crops.

Before Ellie lifts a finger,

the heavens open and everyone has to down tools.

It's raining.

I absolutely hate it here.

It is just too wet and muddy.

It is not very nice when it's raining.

Ellie is still refuse to go budge,

but Joe isn't giving up on his team-mate.

I think she kind of struggled,

but hopefully...hopefully, knowing Ellie,

she will get back up and shine.

I've heard Ellie could do with some motivating, so I've decided to come

down to the tribe myself.

We are just in here.

If I can get Ellie talking to a family here,

maybe she'll start working like yesterday.

Nice to meet you. Cool.

Ganie lives here with her mother

and 16 other members of her family.

Altogether, how many children do you have?

-TRANSLATION:

-I have ten children.

-Wow.

-So how many grandchildren would you say you have altogether?

Altogether, I have 50 grandchildren.

Five zero?!

-Wow.

-Did you and your family build this house?

Yes, the whole family built it together,

but it was hard work and it took us six months to finish.

Amazing.

80% of the people in this area are from a tribe, and many live in

these traditional houses with their extended families.

Do your kids help you around the house or the farm, and if so,

what do they do?

Yes, they help with weeding and farming

and they can help take care of the animals.

In our culture, you have to help your family.

Ganie, you now have two adopted children.

Anything you need them to do, you just let them know.

I hope this chat has given Ellie the boost she needs.

There is one more job to do, and it's even dirtier than the first!

Feeding the pigs. And finally, Ellie seems to be taking an interest.

Pigs everywhere!

Why do pigs look so cool?

Who wants the leftovers?

You could obviously see, out of these three, who's boss.

Go.

Back on the plantation, it is also very clear that Faith is the boss.

But motivating Sam is proving harder than she thought.

It is quite frustrating.

Alice has been brilliant, but Sam just seems reluctant to do anything.

Yes, it is a bit difficult being a boss at the moment.

She is being way too bossy.

I know she is the supervisor,

but I'm kind of not liking that side of Faith.

What do you mean you don't like it?

If you're doing something wrong, I've got to correct you.

I can't let you do it wrong.

I don't even mind if you don't like it because it has to be done.

How do you think Faith has taken to her new role, Alice?

I think she has taken the role, like, really well

because that's probably a role she loves.

I feel like being a boss isn't all hunky-dory.

You do have to take in mind that these are your friends

and you don't want to affect the relationship,

but at the same time,

you've got to get the job done,

so it is quite difficult to keep a balance.

Oh, dear. Between them, they had 150 plants to dig in

and they've only managed a handful.

OK, guys. That's a wrap!

Sophorn, the boss, has one final task for our five.

The red outer fruit on the coffee cherries

has been stripped off and the bean left inside has been dried.

Now our teams need to sort them into good and bad coffee beans,

ready for roasting.

My favourite five.

Shoes off. Jump in.

This will be the last chance anyone gets to impress the boss and

potentially bag themselves a wage.

So the idea is to sort the bad bean, it tastes sour.

-So we don't want that.

-We don't want sour coffee.

-Yes.

-When you think you've finished,

call us over and your boss will check through them all.

Make sense?

It is a painstaking job and they have an hour before the light goes

to get through 2kg of beans each.

OK, good stuff, grab your tray and get going.

No talking, please.

After his earlier job in the fields, Sam is just glad they're inside.

Yeah, I feel like this is more my thing because

I'm sorting things out and I'm not getting muddy.

But Ellie is back on a downer.

Just really boring and it is quite stressful because all these beans,

they are all different.

And the complaints just keep coming.

I just thought they'd grind them all together

and they would taste the same. It's a bean, for God's sake.

This is a bit pathetic, to be honest.

So it sounds like it hasn't taken them very long to get bored.

They're talking. They were told to stay silent.

Sometimes it can be quite frustrating -

information in one ear and out the other.

After 20 minutes, things haven't improved.

It is becoming, like, my worst nightmare -

sitting down, like, not moving.

-Hello.

-Hiya.

There is a lot of moaning going on.

Ellie, what are you moaning, girl? Talk to me.

It's just really boring.

-Who realistically is going to love doing this?

-No-one.

Very few people, but they get on and they do it.

If no-one did this, you wouldn't have the coffee back home.

I'm hoping my chat reminds them that this is what other people do,

day in, day out.

Someone just threw it! Stop it!

Ellie, stop. Ellie, stop it.

Ellie, stop it.

It's not going well, is it?

# Try your best, but you don't succeed. #

The singing is the last straw for boss Sophorn.

So we cannot continue, and it's...

it's already dark now.

-We must stop.

-OK, guys. You're not doing the job well enough.

We're going to have to stop now. OK? Do you want to follow me?

Time to find out if anyone will get a wage now.

I'm going to hand over to Sophorn, and he's going to give you a general

idea of how he thinks you've done collectively.

When you're doing a job, you're doing quite well.

Just a little bit disappointing for the last task.

It was like it was opposite day.

It was like I was saying,

"Guys, don't talk," so you're talking.

"Don't sing," so you burst into song.

I was thinking I honestly might as well talk to this plank of wood.

So I don't want to focus too much on the last task.

Sophorn, if we could start with Joe.

I think he is doing really good.

He had a plan and some ideas and did a really good job.

Ellie, how has Ellie done?

The first task, you're doing quite well.

-How has Alice done?

-You tried.

You really tried. She was doing quite well.

Faith. Can we talk about Faith?

You're responsible.

-I'm quite happy with that.

-Thank you.

Sam, how has Sam done?

So to start, I was thinking Sam is my boy.

He really loves coffee. The same as me.

Sam, I felt like you were going to smash this

and then as soon as it was time to work, it sort of

fell apart, in all honesty.

I was trying, and it may not have been my best, but I still tried.

Well, we know what comes next.

We've had a chat. We've had a conversation behind closed doors.

-Yes.

-Four of you are going to receive a wage.

And I don't know how you've wangled this, by the way.

You've got the nicest boss in the world cos I wouldn't have paid you.

Joe, congratulations.

Alice, congratulations.

Well done, Ellie.

-Well done.

-Thank you.

The last person to receive a wage is...

Faith.

So, Sam, you have to walk away empty-handed.

-I'm going to cry.

-I don't want you to cry.

What I want you to do is realise how awesome you could be and the

potential that you have to just come in and show these bosses that you're

the guy that's got this going on.

Next time on Show Me What You're Made Of,

they go to a onesie factory.

The boys get ironing.

It is way too hot!

And the girls go back to school.

Back home we've got everything.

These don't have anything.

It's just very overwhelming.