When I Grow Up on BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 has made a five-part documentary series about the NCDS. Called ‘When I grow up’, it focuses on essays that cohort members wrote when they were 11 years old on the topic ‘Imagine you are 25’. The 15-minute episodes were broadcast every Tuesday morning at 9.30 a.m. from 16 February 2010.
The episodes are available for you to listen to below. The series has also generated a considerable amount of media coverage.
The documentary series included interviews with 12 cohort members about how their lives have turned out with reference to their essays. A range of people from across the country, chosen from those who had recently taken part in a sub-study on social participation, were invited to be interviewed.
This is the first time that a documentary maker has been granted direct access to cohort members. Raising the profile of NCDS in this way should help to ensure important evidence generated from the study makes a difference to peoples’ lives through informing policy and practice. As you know, we would never release the names and addresses of cohort members to anyone without their permission.
Listen to Programme 1 - recorded 16th February 2010
Listen to Programme 2 - recorded 23rd February 2010
Listen to Programme 3 - recorded 2nd March 2010
Listen to Programme 4 - recorded 9th March 2010
Listen to Programme 5 - recorded 16th March 2010
