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The Adult World

Children from a choir, a debating club and a boxing club explore what they think of adults and what would be different if kids ruled the world.

Adults' views of the world dominate social media and column inches, but in this innovative and entertaining series, 70 children aged between six and 11 across the UK tell us what they really think of the world, with insightful, funny and moving results. Equipped with cameras at home, they film their own lives through major events, while their after-school clubs are rigged with cameras and a number of tasks devised by philosophers shake through the big issues of the day offering an intimate insight into how children think.

Children from a choir in Liverpool, a debating club in Bradford and a boxing club in Hackney explore what they think of adults and what would be different if kids ruled the world. Eleven-year-old Salim wants to ban all bookies so adults can't gamble their life away, ten-year-old Sahar comes face to face with rising Islamophobia while wearing her hijab, whilst tensions flare in Liverpool as Jade tells her friends she would save her dog from a sinking ship before any of them.

For this series, Gordon Poad and a team of philosophers have developed a collection of real-life dilemmas and challenges to find out what children really think. There is a suitcase of cash in the street - should they walk away, keep the money or call the police? Who deserves to get on the lifeboat of a sinking ship if there aren't enough places for everyone? What new law would they bring in if they were mayor for the day? Each challenge is brought to life not just by the children's ideas, but more revealingly, by how they convince their friends to get on board with their choices.

59 minutes

Last on

Sat 6 Jul 2019 09:00

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Executive Producer Rachel Arnold
Executive Producer Samantha Anstiss
Series Producer Tom Williams

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