Being young

A young police cadet from Norwich is the first in the region to gain a gold award, and former Everest expedition leader Sir John Hunt talks about the value of this new scheme for young people, particularly because of the ‘teenage problem’.

A holiday camp for children with diabetes in Culford, Suffolk. Although diet and food intake is carefully monitored, it doesn’t stop the young people enjoying the outdoor life and sharing the chores.

A new word has entered the language – but do members of the public know what it means? One man thinks it may have something to do with shoemaking.

Interviews with children and teenagers reveal a wide disparity in how much pocket money they get, and what they spend it on.

A group of schoolboys discuss comic character Billy Bunter, the ‘ Fat Owl of the Remove’. Does he still have any relevance to their lives or is he just an outdated stereotype?

Summerhill School in Suffolk, founded in 1921, was the original alternative ‘free’ school where all decisions were made democratically and pupils could decide what lessons they wanted to attend. This edited extract is assembled from rushes made for an Anglia TV documentary about the school and features its founder, A S Neill, and his wife, Ena.