When I was doing a course on how to be a teacher, we watched a tv documentary called Seven Up!.
It came from 1964, and met a group of fourteen seven year olds to talk about their lives, their families, their aspirations and so on. It was originally designed as a one off, but in recent years, the group have been re-visited, so we have had things like 42 Up.
Over the years, some of the original group have left, either because they no longer wished to be associated with the project, or they fell out with the director, or they died.
So tomorrow we come to 70 Up. The probability is that this will be the last, though no-one expected this to happen after director Michael Apted died in 2021.
It’s ITV, believe it or not.
