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A trio of 15 year olds hammer out their rites of passage from childhood to adulthood. The programme belongs to Ying, a Bradford girl whose English mother left her Chinese father when she was two years old. Now living with her grandmother, Ying is determ

rites of passage, children

Documentary about a 15 year old from London who comes into conflict with her parents when she tells them she wants to leave school. She hates everything in her young life, except, of course, her boyfriend, with whom she wants a more physical relationship

Inhabitants of an isolated settlement called Gasadalur

Faroe Islands, North Atlantic

A tunnel is planned to connect them to the rest of the island and they talk about the future impact on their present way of life and living conditions

each episode 55 minutes

1. Individuals recall the post war onset of prosperity that culminated in the consumer society 2. 1947 - Freedom Now - independence struggles 3. 1951 - Asia Rising - how the far east took on western manufacturers

The fight for equal rights

The ongoing fight against segregation and racism despite decades of violence and slaughter, with reference to America and South Africa

Yehuda Amichai, Israel's national poet, reflects on his life in Jerusalem and how the battle for territory has developed since he helped to fight for independence in 1948. An investigation into the escalating violence between liberals and ultra-orthodox

Colombia, South America

Small Hebrew sect who have preserved rituals from time of Moses

racism in Hackney Council, London. Two men were fighting corruption when charges of racism were levelled against them. Both lost their jobs and reputations. an investigation of the morallity of town hall politics and exposes the cynical cries of racism

childhood childrearing

the influence on British life of black people with Caribbean origins

ollowing the transformation from the rioting of 1981 to the emergence of a new black British identity in the nineties, with black peers in the House of Lords and black celebrities making their mark in the fields of entertainment and sport

Central Africa, Africa

Venezuela, Amazonia, South America

Ethnography Villages

Britain, West Europe

Luccombe an Exmoor Village

Ireland, South, West Europe

Problems of emigration and return in Western Ireland - a lady 80 years old looks back. Demography