Dear Friends,
The Up Series is a British documentary series that for the last 49 years has tracked the lives of a group of children every seven years as they have aged. It is placed 26th in a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes compiled by the British Film Institute. The first show in 1964 showed the fourteen children at the age of seven. They had intentionally been selected from both rich and poor backgrounds, with the underlying sociological assumption that class structure was so strong that a person’s life path would be set at birth. Over the last 49 years this has largely been borne out. Read the rest of this entry »
