Live Aid at 40: When Rock ’n’ Roll Took on the World

  • Premiered: Jul 2025
  • Episodes: 3
  • Followers: 3
  • Ended
  • BBC Two
  • Sunday at 21
  • Documentary

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Season 1
1x1
The Price of Life Is a Piece of Vinyl
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 06, 2025
After watching a BBC report on Ethiopia's 'biblical famine,' Bob Geldof puts a band of rock stars together and records a song that sparks a global response, inspiring millions.
1x2
The Greatest Show on Earth
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 06, 2025
Live Aid becomes the biggest global fund-raising concert, drawing Geldof into charity politics in Africa as he navigates fundraising, controversy and celebrity.
1x3 Season finale
It's Happening Again
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 13, 2025
In 2005, Geldof and Bono team up to stage Live 8, a global concert to pressure the world's richest leaders to confront the root causes of poverty in Africa.

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