Adolescence

The hit Netflix show, Adolescence, has prompted a global conversation on toxic masculinity.

The series is based in the north of England and centres on a 13-year-old boy, Jamie, accused of murdering a teenage girl. In our conversations we explore some of the issues the series has raised, including the role of social media in promoting online misogyny and bullying.

We hear from a group of boys who tell us what they have been viewing online, one girl we speak to wonders if she would be better off not being friends with boys at all, and we bring together teenagers and their parents.

“The theme it was highlighting was recognisable to any parent of a son now,” Brent in Chicago tells us. “I was immediately reeling back in my mind to when [my son] Gabriel was 13 and then, frankly, going did I do it right!”

We also speak to educators who give us a sense of the challenges they face in tackling misogyny in schools.

Presenter: Mark Lowen
BBC producers: Virginia Kelly, Isabella Bull and Laura Cress
Boffin Media producer: Richard Hollingham

An EcoAudio certified Boffin Media production in partnership with the OS team.

(Photo: Gabriel with his parents. Credit Gabriel/Brent)