56 Up

Synopsis: The original SEVEN UP, broadcast in 1964 as a WORLD IN ACTION special, featured children from widely different social backgrounds sharing their hopes and dreams for the future. Inspired by the Jesuit saying: ‘Give me the child until he is seven and I will show you the man’, and 1960s Britain’s rigid class system, the series set out to discover how far the children’s lives were pre-determined by their background. Director Michael Apted has returned every seven years to chart the group’s progress, documenting the participants as they have become adults and entered middle-age. 56 UP, broadcast in 2012, returns to visit the people whose lives have been publicly tracked since they were seven, and sees more members of the original line-up taking part than ever before, with one participant, Peter, deciding to re-join the series after almost 30 years.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Notes: Broadcast on ITV1 in three hour-long programmes on 14/5/2012; 21/5/2012 and 28/5/2012
Subjects: Social Studies; Media studies
Keywords: child development; developmental psychology; social anthropology; social change; social class; social psychology

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