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BBC One · Ended
Skint
2005
Last aired: S2 E5, Episode 5 · 2006-10-10
Skint is an observational documentary series that examines the little-known world of pawnbrokers and "buy-back" shops, and those who use them to survive.
Season 2
E1
Episode 1
2006-09-12 · 30 min
The critically acclaimed docusoap returns to the "buy-back" stores, pawn shops and streets of Birmingham and Bristol. Indomitable Big Issue seller Vernon Burgess is homeless again, so he's off to seek refuge with the Salvation Army.
E2
Episode 2
2006-09-19 · 30 min
A Big Issue seller wants a change of career, while a couple are deep in debt and facing a court summons for assault. Meanwhile, Tara [text removed] has changed dramatically since the last series: she has taken her children away from Birmingham and their alcoholic father.
E3
Episode 3
2006-09-26 · 30 min
Christmas is coming and Vernon is skint. Will busking help? Heroin addict Gaz wants to spend his first Christmas in years out of prison with his mum, and Nick has a gambling addiction that even his pawn shop connection finds unsettling.
E4
Episode 4
2006-10-03 · 30 min
The stress of debt is taking its toll on Tony, while Nick gets lucky when a woman gives him two free televisions that he can flog to the pawn shop.
E5
Episode 5
2006-10-10 · 30 min
Tony is on his own after being assaulted by his girlfriend, but manages to find a job for the first time in 11 years.
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David Morrissey
Narrator
Dean Lennox Kelly
Narrator