70 Up - ITV teaser for "later this year"

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This looks fabulous!

My favourites Neil, Symon and Bruce are mentioned, Suzy and Charles return to the programme and tributes to the lovely Nick, Lynn and of course Michael Apted.

Placemark here for sharing the latest news?

I agree. I find a lot of it very uncomfortable to watch now I’m older. A lot of the questions asked to many of the children/adolescents were unkind and designed to make them feel slightly negative about themselves. As Jackie (I think she was called?) pulled him up on a couple of occasions. The producer was very much using them as an experiment.

Yes picking on Tony and asking him about not sticking at things.

The compilation of Neils interviews on YouTube make for very uncomfortable viewing. No one involved saw how accessible all this would be id say and looking at it now they shouldn't have continued Neil's interviews once they knew he had mental health issues. Wonder also if the producers were more focused on the experiment than the kids. When 7Up and 14Up were made kids were seen and not heard so different times and different questioning to now. You'd hope it wouldnt happen now but im not certain.
Its a fascinating window into how society has changed in every way. Some good. Some not so good.

Suzy landed on her feet despite leaving school at 16. I guess his experiment was proved right, although nick was a curved ball, I imagine he pigeon holed him into following the farming tradition

Watched 70 up the other night and really enjoyed it so Iv had to go back to the beginning to catch up. There’s lots of repeated footage but I have really enjoyed it, so I have persevered. I am 42 years old and it has made me really reflect on my own life and the life of others. Life is so very short 🥹

suzy left school at 16 but got to go to secretarial school in Paris no doubt funded by her clearly loaded parents. I don’t think there was much chance she wouldn’t land on her feet !

Yes, Suzy didn’t land on her feet because she was never falling.

My main takeaway from 70 Up is that in the end the most important thing is family. Quite sobering for someone who doesn’t have much family left.

good point
they made their own families on the whole

I felt that too. Very classist and judgemental . 'You could do better, why are you doing this' type thing. I really disliked it . Found it judgemental and intrusive. The girls were treated in a very condescending way. It was uncomfortable to listen to.

Likewise. Once my parents go, it’s just me. I have relatives but they are older than my parents (their cousins) and don’t have contact with others as fallen out. All because of family not doing much when others died.

My parents are 76 and 78.

Just to point out to avoid confusion it was Sue that left school at 16 and was always filmed with lyn and Jackie
Suzie was the one who married Rupert went to boarding school
Whose father had a large estate in Scotland .

I loved it and am looking forward to the rest tonight.

Agree that some of the questions were rather harsher than would now be put to an ordinary person and didn't really need to be asked- the viewer can form their own view of whether eg Tony had actually achieved all his dreams etc. I also don't think an interviewer would ask 7yos about their boyfriends/girlfriends now (Nick had the right idea).

I imagine that a lot of the storytelling must be in the edit, which must be very frustrating if you feel misrepresented.

That's a very snide way of looking at things, you can have clearly loaded parents and still go completely off the rails - proof of that is all around us. As she said she was probably "saved" by meeting and marrying a nice, solid guy and being able to provide her kids with a loving, secure upbringing

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It's quite true though - we had two girls from wealthy families at school. Both were not academically gifted and one was sent to a Swiss finishing school and one off to be a nanny.

I think Suzy left school at 16 too. In last week's episode she said she had squandered her (no doubt expensive) education.

Thoroughly enjoyed this and sobbed my way through the last half hour. I feel as though I’m losing touch with friends. I have watched all of them and I am a couple of years older, so can relate to them.

i went to a single sex grammar school and left at 16, and became a nursery nurse/nanny. Got married and divorced with 2 young children, went back to higher education, became a teacher after getting my degree. I was lucky enough to be able to do this and loved my changing careers. I changed careers again when I was 57 because I was computer literate and had my own website.

I did want to be a teacher when I was about 7, but it took me another 33 years to realise it. Children in the 60s and 70s had quite definitive job prospects, but now children of that age might be working at jobs which haven’t yet been created. Twenty years ago no-one had any ideas about being an influencer or YouTuber. Who knows what is coming next? I wonder what today’s youngsters would say about their prospective careers.

WRT Neil….yes he had mental health issues but (and I speak as a qualified and experienced mental health nurse) he has always had capacity to make his own decisions. He could have said no. It was useful to see that mental illness can affect anyone.

I thought Symon was so, so lovely. He had such a tough start in life but clearly wanted to make things better for other kids in care.

I've watched it and found it more emotional than the first episode, especially Nick's interview. But there was still too much past footage.

i watched it before i did all the catching up so it was all new to me, not brand new because I am sure i might have watched it in the past, but i couldnt remember

For various reasons I’ll be catching up every time rather than watching ’live’, but I’ve finally seen episode 1. I’ve faithfully followed this series through all the previous iterations (not from the very start as I was too young, but it’s always been a must-watch for me).

It took seconds, and the first sight of Neil, for me to lose it 💔 He gets me every time. Such a carefree, innocent little boy, and such a tormented man wrestling with so many demons. I hope he can find some peace.

And Nick 😭😭😭

Havent watched this but am currently watching 70 up The Victorians. Senior citezens filmed in 1965 They were born in Victorian times and were the first generation to grow old inside the welfare state without the fear of the workhouse. Although some MNers would quite happily see todays pensioners back in the latter.

I'll have to watch that.

It was amazing wasn’t it? Really thought provoking.