Radio Times

Review by:

David Butcher

Be careful how you watch this. As the best documentaries do, Michael Apted’s masterpiece has a way of repeating on you. A day or two later parts of it will bubble into your consciousness – moments or images or things people said. Apted’s shooting style is simple but the ordinariness of it can make it piercing. As when Lynn, the librarian badly affected by government cuts, talks about the consolations of her marriage: “Thirty seven years. Gone extremely quickly. We’ve just grown together.” Or when cabbie Tony insists, “I’m very, very lucky, Michael.”

About this programme

3/3. Documentary update profiling people first filmed in 1964, when they were seven years old, revealing how their views and aspirations have changed with the passage of time. Director Michael Apted revisits them to explore their lives and find out how they are facing up to the challenges of middle age. Last in the series.

Cast and crew

Cast

Presenter

Michael Apted

Crew

Director

Michael Apted

Executive Producer

Alexander Gardiner

Producer

Claire Lewis

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