Many people strive to be perfect parents. Dr. Mike Fitzpatrick (GP) argues that putting children first and adults last could be damaging to b...
Stories of home birth and the strict rigors of infant care methods in the first half of the 20th century (1900-1950).
Series looking at teenagers from after the war onwards. This episode compares the economic status of the teenager from the ...
This program looks at discipline, class rules and the different rules for boys and girls.
The teens are often years of extreme emotion. Daily life at school and home can be boring, but the teens can also be great. Do we...
The first holiday camps, hop picking, bonfire night, and trips to the countryside were ways families enjoyed themselves together in the earl...
Kirsty Young looks at how children have come to dominate family life in the last decade and reveals just how far we have come from the 'seen...
This program deals with the exhausting burden caused by the disruption of everyday routines that mothers faced during the Second World...
Program looks at the heart-rending experience of substitute parents - nannies, foster mothers, step-parents and housemothers as well as ...
The babies are between nine and ten months old and are beginning to explore their world, react to danger and new faces. Also consider...
Documentary about a new generation of pre-teen girls ,aged between 7-11 years old but who possess the confidence ,sense of st...
An eight-week-old baby is rush ed to hospital bruised and with a broken arm. Her mother has admitted to "shaking her". Dr Danya Glaser explores the f...
Six weeks after Baby Jane is taken into hospital her parents are fighting for possession. The family show why the right decisi...
Film in which singer-songwriter Ashley John Batiste looks at children growing up in the UK care system with little chance of adoption and no...
Landmark 1960s TV play about a young couple and their children who are cruelly overtaken by events which lead them into an unrelenting t...
Fifteen pupils and three teachers embark on a time-travelling adventure to discover how much life at school has changed. The class start ...
Four famous volunteers live with families who can't afford to eat. Theo Paphitis moves in with a working mum who regularly skips meals to...
Pupils and teachers embark on a time-travelling adventure. The class enters the interwar years. They learn bizarre new languages, test th...
During the 1970s and 1980s, Mary's campaigns against pornography and 'video nasties' raise her profile still further. But new m...
Pupils and teachers embark on a time-travelling adventure. The class enters the 40s and 50s - deportment, debate and even dancing are on ...
Pupils and teachers embark on a time-travelling adventure. In the swinging 60s, the class experience bricklaying, typing, cooking and eve...
The class enters the experimental 1970s. They rewrite the rule book and learn weird and wonderful lessons as the free spirit of the era c...
The class embrace the new world of the 1980s. With robots, early computers and synths, the kids get to grips with Britain's new high-tech...
The pupils and teachers arrive in their final time-travelling decade, the 1990s, ready to embrace girl power, Brit pop, Oasis and Blur, M...
Our class return for one final adventure. Reflecting on the past 100 years, they venture beyond, into a future filled with virtual classr...
In the wake of questions over parenting raised by the riots, Mariella asks if we have lost the ability to control and d...
Drama based on the case history of a Liverpool boy, Graham Gaskin, who spent most of his youth in care. Graham Gaskin says it is not just his story - 'It's all the ot...
Robert Kilroy-Silk presents a discussion on growing up in a violent family.
Documentary about child poverty. In Glasgow, Mansfield and London, children show the courage and determination to rise above their circumst...
A look back over the last decade. During the Noughties, an ageing Britain became obsessed with recapturing its you...
Series looking at changing Britain examines how childhood and families have transformed over the last decade. But from the scramble ...
An exploration of the emergence of hip hop in America, its association with violence and how it influenced the mus...
Series set in Vinney Green secure unit for children follows three of the youngest boys, who started getting into trouble wh...
A never-before-seen look at the incel community, an online subculture to which multiple mass murders and hate crimes against women have bee...
One couple travel to China to bring home a baby they know only via photographs, a woman wants to save a child from Romania, and a nurse goes t...
The story of one primary school doing more than most to make sure children are fed, warm and h...
How the England footballer won public and political support for a deeply personal cause. Inside Marcus Rashford's campaign ...
The first of two films traces the way care of disowned and disabled children changed in the decades after the Second World War, us...
Tamzin Outhwaite and David Morrissey star in Dominic Savage's harsh drama. When teenagers hit the streets, one winds up in a young offenders' prison. Adult co...
Anne Robinson delves into different areas of contemporary British life. She tackles parenting, looking at some...
John, a boy in Uganda describing his year living with monkeys when he was 4-5 years old.
Documentary telling the stories of some of the 3.5 million children living in poverty in the UK. They give their thoughts on their situation and their future prosp...
An exploration asking does violence online lead to violence offline?<br><br><strong>(Contains sensitiv...
A personal insight into the British care system, presented by David Akinsanya. Placed into care at just ten days old, Akinsanya assesses whether the care...
Part 2 - Preparing for life on the outside and rebuilding relationships with their children.
How have the Romanian orphanage babies, adopted 21 years ago, recovered from their appalling early treatment? Claudi...
Reggie Yates visits Siberia to meet the young girls who are going to extreme lengths to attract the international...
Professor Robert Winston and professor Tanya Byron discover how teenagers' changing brains means that what they choose to do at six...
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