With the cost of living rising and one third of British workers receiving a pay rise of less than 1% in 2016, Broke followed nine families during a critical year as their financial future hung in the balance. In this series we see what it really means to be in work, but still only ‘just about managing’.

Working with series director Gavin Searle and fellow PD Abi Mowbray, I spent a year filming the stories of four of the nine families in the series. I followed an Uber driver, McDonalds worker, care worker and office cleaner taking on exhausting jobs nobody else wants to do. A humbling and heart-breaking series about those at the bottom fighting to stay afloat.