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Help me find this 90s documentary...

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HarrietBasset · 25/01/2020 11:56

Posting for traffic as telly addicts haven't had much response
I remember watching a British documentary in the early 90s about a young teenage girl bought up in a housing estate in East London (Hackney I think) she was a raver and the follow up documentary showed her as a young mum.
Can't remember what it was called but I was fascinated by it as a teenager myself at the time. I have a feeling the girl was perhaps called Gemma?
Help me mumsnetters

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Everley · 25/01/2020 12:18

Summer on the Estate? It’s from the 90s and is about residents on a Hackney estate.

ActualHornist · 25/01/2020 12:30

Can’t really help but she was definitely called Gemma if it was in the 90s! I think about 10% of girls in my year were called Gemma! Grin

HarrietBasset · 25/01/2020 13:28

Everley - not summer on the estate 😔 it was very much focused on this one girl and the follow up was a couple of years later when she had moved into her own flat with a child, she talked to the female documentary maker throughout and it was narrated by a female.
AH - Gemma's everywhere 😃

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Bitsnbobs78 · 25/01/2020 14:17

It wasn't the Lowdown on cbbc? Featured a young girl who became pregnant but cannot remember if she had a flat 🤔

sparepantsandtoothbrush · 25/01/2020 14:23

No idea but this list might help trigger something!

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:1990s_British_documentary_television_series

CripsSandwiches · 25/01/2020 14:29

I remember the exact documentary, she described how she had been raped on a camping trip and she lives in flat number 69 on a large estate. When they updated she was being supported by social services but during the course of the documentary was removed from their lists.

CripsSandwiches · 25/01/2020 14:29

Sorry don't remember the name though!

TweetUsOnFacebook · 25/01/2020 14:42

Could it have been a World in Action episode?

HarrietBasset · 25/01/2020 15:54

Crispsandwiches - Yes!!
Definitely don't think it was a CBBC thing. I remember watching it quite late at night and they showed her smoking joints etc

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yogo · 25/01/2020 16:05

I remember it but no idea of the name.

keo8260 · 25/01/2020 16:13

www.imdb.com/title/tt1423567/

Not sure if this will help, mentions a film documentary called fifteen (1999) and the follow up cutting edge Kimberley, young mum ten years on. Filmed in london and talks about social sevices.

TweetUsOnFacebook · 25/01/2020 16:49

Sorry, about the Fifteen show that keo8260 posted

HarrietBasset · 25/01/2020 17:17

I think that might be it!!!

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HarrietBasset · 25/01/2020 17:23

Thanks so much, definitely Kimberley not Gemma 😃

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HarrietBasset · 25/01/2020 21:12

ps, doesn't appear to be a way of watching the documentaries?

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