March 27th is census day, and what we say about ourselves will be kept under lock and key for a century. But how has Britain changed in the past 100 years? It's a remarkable story. It's the history of all of us.
As part of Opera on the BBC, Choirmaster Gareth Malone has been given the task of finding 50 teenagers from across East Sussex, to sing on the main stage of one of the world’s most prestigious opera houses, Glyndebourne.
Celebrity dancers Anton Du Beke and Erin Boag select a team of dance rookies aged 14-16 from a inner city comprehensive and have just four weeks to train them up to perform at a major gala event.
Gareth Malone has proved that singing can take a group of kids who had never sung before all the way to the Choir Olympics. He has proved that boys can sing, take pride in it, and perform at the Royal Albert Hall. But can singing lift the spirits of an entire community?
Featuring the highs and lows of the ever patient choirmaster Gareth Malone, the series follows Gareth as he tackles, in his usual head-on way, the task of teaching choral singing in Lancaster School - a large boy’s only state school in Leicester.
In this daring new reality format twelve opinionated teens are all on a mission. They want to prove that they can run one of the most difficult institutions there is - a school. What’s more they want to run it their way.
Choirmaster Gareth Malone is a man on a mission. He believes Britain's schools are bursting with untapped singing talent and he's determined to prove it.
This Royal Television Society award-winning living history format, sees thirty 18-24 year olds from different social backgrounds enduring a regime, which half way through the last century was known to turn boys into men: National Service (The UK Military Draft).
Have standards in modern education dropped? Are exams getting easier? Could old educational methods teach today’s kids a thing or two?
Can six abandoned dogs turn six dysfunctional, unmotivated, introverted teens into well-adjusted and responsible young adults? The Underdogs follows six teenagers, each with their own behavioral problems, for a month as they attempt to train six rescued dogs in time to be shown at Crufts – the world's greatest dog show.
Thursdays, 9pm on Channel 4
Channel 4 follows seven transgender men and women as they come together to share their intimate and on-going experiences of changing gender in a new four-part series.