70 up (7 up series) will be going ahead later this year

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I always thought the plan was for them to end with Michael Apted but ITV have commissioned 70 Up.

Apted’s style was quite distinct, I wonder who will run with it and how many participants will join (at least two have died since the series started).

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Goodness me. I was only thinking about this the other day and wondering if there would be anymore.

I am so pleased. I watched 63 up on Youtube last year and also the 'making of' documentaries/interviews that the producers did. I can't wait for the new series.

I wondered if they would do this after watching 63 Up. I remember seeing the first two series in Social Studies class when I was at school and have always been interested in the characters and how their lives have developed.

Good news! I’ve seen every one of those programmes and can’t believe it’s been 7 years since the last one.

I've seen all of these - the early ones were shown to us on my teacher training course. I'm a couple of years younger than the participants and recognise the world they grew up in.

Will also be looking forward to this series. So many changes in the world since it started. It’s fascinating. I think they should start a new one too.

Love this show. Fascinating piece of social history: time capsule of the lives of late 20th century kids - and what we can learn from them.

So brave of the participants to share their lives with us. Should never be viewed with judgement. But with interest at what the participants choose to tell us (or not at all) - and what wisdom we can learn from them.

Haven’t read the ins and outs, but IMHO, would be fitting to end it at 70. Last swan song as a tribute to Apted, participants and crew. Would create a bookend to the series: as he didn’t direct the first one either, though did work on it.

I know they’ve done it a bit before. But would be good to hear a final summing up from the participants (or their family reps) about what they got out of it, how much agency they feel they had and memories of working with Michael. It has potential wisdom to share (in an age of ‘working with people with lived experience’) on how people should be assisted in telling their stories with strong agency and on their terms. And the potential risks.

Given people are now documenting, and sharing, their lives as never before, it has the potential to provide very pertinent early lessons on the long-term pros and cons of documenting and sharing your life. From the pioneers.

So brave of the participants to share their lives with us. Should never be viewed with judgement. But with interest at what the participants choose to tell us (or not at all) - and what wisdom we can learn from them.
I did slightly judge the taxi driver who left Britain because there were too many immigrants and became an immigrant in Spain himself. I think he acknowledged that a bit in the next programme. He did seem like a very loving family man though.

They were hardly “late 20th century kids”. More like mid 20th century. They would have been born in the late 50s.

I liked the story of the very posh public schoolboy who went on to do great work teaching in an inner city school. The one I felt sad about was the boy from Liverpool who seemed such a lovely child full of potential who lost his way and struggled with life for many years.

I think they were about my age. I was born in 1955.

I mean in the sense of the second (later) part of the 20th century. They were all born after 1950 and lived their younger lives in late 20th century (1950-2000). When I say ‘kids’ I mean in the broader sense of ‘people’. Better than ‘boomers’ IMHO (derogatory).

Love this show. Fascinating piece of social history: time capsule of the lives of late 20th century kids - and what we can learn from them

It is fascinating, even though each episode is obviously edited within its time. Apted regretted in interviews that his cohort was both too male and too white to fully reflect the changing society of the day and changes that were happening but it remains a fascinating snapshot of individuals’ lives (and the attitudes when this was all started).

I’m not sure how much we can compare with people sharing their lives online today or the modern celeb for five minutes type culture. The risks of appearing in the media were much less for children than they would be now - one tv programme and maybe an appearance in tomorrow’s chip paper.

I have a vague memory of seeing a fly on the wall documentary of a family from the 60s or 70s - my DM said it attracted huge news coverage at the time. I think it was one of the first of the fly on the wall type programmes.

They are 70 now apparently. I’m 65. I was born in 1961 so they must have been born in the 50s.

I love this series so much! Glad it’s coming back.

Love it. Wish they’d do an update on Child of our Time with Robert Winston. I loved that too.

That’s exactly who sprang to my mind too. Sat there going on about all the immigrants who don’t learn the language and only eat their own food. Then cut to him living in Spain buying baked beans in Tesco and drinking a pint outside a British pub. Sorry, but I will judge that.

I remember that. It was shown again about ten years ago. It was a very ordinary family with a daughter about to get married. Fascinating watching the planning of a 70s wedding! (And it shocked me because the dad was 40, as was I, and he had a daughter getting married)