The most ambitious documentary series in television history concludes this week. 7Up, tracing the lives of 14 British people across the class spectrum, from childhood to pension, is a unique and deeply moving record.
Tens of millions of viewers over seven decades have followed the journeys of Tony, Jackie, Symon, Neil and their friends, all thrown together aged seven for a Granada TV show.
What almost no one realised, as the show became a national obsession, was that it had a twin, a second documentary that mirrored its findings… but with a group of subjects whose average age was 79. This other
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