1. From Cumbria to Ambridge

Author and journalist Grace Dent locks herself in her teenage bedroom and rifles through the BBC Radio archives to celebrate the awkward, emotional, and unfortunately inevitable adolescent experience.

She reminisces about the heartbreak and arguments that were an everyday part of her own teenage years growing up in Carlisle in the 1970s

Then Grace discovers what it was really like for the teenage boys she thought had it so easy, asking BBC Radio 5 Live presenter Nihal Arthanayake to paint a portrait of his own formative years.

In the first of three episodes, Grace also features programmes from the BBC archives.

* ‘TOO OLD TO ROCK AND ROLL, TOO YOUNG TO DIE’

* A documentary made by Sara Conkey in 1995, featuring the reminiscences of people who were teenagers during the Blitz.

* Teenage traumas and tantrums from ‘THE ARCHERS’.

Producer: Jessica Treen

Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in October 2017.