56 Up

56 Up is the eighth installment in Granada Television’s Up series, which documents the lives of fourteen British children beginning in 1964 when they were seven years old, up to today. Since the original episode, every seven years the camera crew has returned to catch up with the participants on where their lives have taken them since the last episode and to ask them a routine round of questions about their lives—the answers to which predictably vary wildly with the passing of time....  read more

Listen Up: Seven Up, Minus the Pop

In 1964, some British filmmakers rounded up a group of fourteen seven-year-old kids from across the country—boys and girls, rich and poor, black and white—an interviewed them for a BBC program called Seven Up...  read more