Travelling man

Ed Stafford experiences life as a modern-day Gypsy

- HANNAH DAVIES, IAN MACEWAN, SEAN MARLAND

NEW FACTUAL

60 Days with the Gypsies Monday, C4 HD, 9 pm

Romani Gypsies and Irish Travellers are some of the most marginalised groups in British society, and in this new two-part series Ed Stafford will be living with them to find out what life on the road is really like.

Across the UK there are an estimated 300,000 Gypsies and Travellers, but these communities are coming under threat from new legislation that gives police increased powers to move them on, fine them, confiscate their property, and even imprison them.

In a bid to find out what effect these laws will have, explorer and former soldier Stafford is hitching up his caravan to find out more…