Identity Crisis
Documentary series with Professor Robert Winston following the lives of 25 children born in 2000.
Documentary series with Professor Robert Winston following the lives of 25 children born in 2000. In this programme, he looks at how much the children's lives are already mapped out in the genes they were born with.
Can Tyrese's Mum help him weather life's storms by giving him a positive black identity? Or are children, even at this age, picking up on racial discrimination? James lives on one of the country's poorest council estates. Fears about his Mum's ex-boyfriend have turned his world upside down. What tough lessons is he learning about being poor? William's from a well-off, professional family but what he is really bothered about is proving he's a boy. Can our obsession with appearance really start at five?
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- Wed 4 Apr 200719:00
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