We Are England
We Are England was a regional current affairs documentary programme shown on BBC One. The programme was made by six teams around England, based in London, Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Newcastle and Norwich. It explored the issues people cared about, as told by them from across the country. It replaced the long running BBC programme "Inside Out".
Episodes
Mental Health: One in ten dads in the UK struggles with post-natal depression, yet it often goes unacknowledged. This film follows Elliott Rae's campa...
Mental Health: Cold water swimmer Jacqui inspires two new recruits with personal life challenges to join her tribe and feel the benefits. Can the sea...
Mental Health: Young dad Rob has grappled with social phobia his entire life, now he’s going into the boxing ring to fight in front of hundreds of peo...
Mental Health: A group of key workers and veterans with mental health problems sleep under the stars and learn bushcraft skills as they explore the he...
Mental Health: Caroline Flack’s former performing arts school puts mental health in the spotlight as dancer Mia, and TV star Vicky Pattison reveal the...
Mental Health: Ex-soldier Darren supports other veterans struggling with life on civvy street. He retrains them as HGV drivers, helping them overcome...
The Night Shift: Bristol Port Company brings in huge cargo ships from around the world 24 hours a day. We meet the team working through the night maki...
The Night Shift: Blood donation fell with Covid-19, now the NHS is on its biggest blood drive ever. And one NHS staffer is inspired to give even more...
The Night Shift: When the rest of the world is sound asleep, the nurses battle to keep their patients alive. We follow them on a night shift at one of...
The Night Shift: A night shift at Grimsby Fish Market where the race is on to get the catch ready to sell. The team are part of the two-million-strong...
The Night Shift: The street pastors are a group of Christian volunteers who give up their free time to help the poor, the sick and the intoxicated dur...
The Night Shift: What actually happens to our waste once it's gone in the bin? This film goes behind the scenes with the men and women who collect, so...
Bossing It: Like most black entrepreneurs, Kalkidan was refused a loan to start her business. Today her brand is a big success and she now has a new i...
Bossing It: Conor has photographed everyone from Calvin Harris to David Attenborough. As he prepares to work again after the pandemic, he revisits the...
Bossing It: Steffi sells her handmade chocolate on social media. When Joe Wicks gave her a shout out, her business trebled. Can she keep up with deman...
Bossing It: Ama went into the pandemic unemployed. A year later, her new wellness business had made its first million. Can she keep it growing amid mo...
Bossing It: Jake left school with two GCSEs but now runs a growing cargo business. He's going back to school to share his story of success against the...
Farming England: Last winter the pig industry faced a crisis like no other. Labour shortages created a backlog of animals on farms - we follow farmers...
Farming England: Thirty years ago, an Oxfordshire cattle farm invited a group of autistic children through its gates. Now it's a haven for people on t...
Farming England: Jenny and Lenny have put every penny of their life savings into a new Cumbrian farm at a time when agriculture is at a crossroads. Wi...
Farming England: Young farmer Izzi comes up with new ways to make money and keep her family farm going in a post-Brexit world.
Farming England: Mark and Sean are farmers whose background is growing and selling potatoes. Together, they're making their own environmentally friend...
Farming England: The oystermen of the River Fal estuary have been knocked sideways by Brexit. With their future under threat they must battle to save...
Belonging: It's race day at the United Downs stock car track. But beyond the rivalries on the circuit, a bigger battle is being fought by a passionate...
Belonging: Nadia opened a dance studio in Derby 20 years ago, not realising that it would become a refuge and safe haven for youths. The studio helps...
Belonging: Nathan runs a mixed martial arts academy in Middlesbrough. He believes the training he offers to people from disadvantaged backgrounds give...
Belonging: Riders in Hastings prepare for one of England's top BMX competitions. Will their captain, Stu, be able to take the heat and take his team t...
Belonging: John has run the Clacton Railway Working Men's Club for decades. It's a local institution. Now, supported by his two daughters, he tries to...
Belonging: Leah and Sarah are trainee vicars in the north of England. How will they settle into their new parishes as they prepare for their first ser...
A Place Called Home: Neighbours on a Leeds housing estate fight to keep their community together. They are faced with eviction from their privately re...
A Place Called Home: Yacob owns his home on an estate, but the council wants to knock it down and build a new development. Now they're the last family...
A Place Called Home: A Nottingham charity are putting homeless people into their own properties. But adjusting to living in a house is harder than it...
A Place Called Home: Jess can't get on the property ladder, so she's bought a 30 foot boat. Will life on England's waterways work out for her?
A Place Called Home: Once a quiet residential suburb on the outskirts of Newcastle, Jesmond is being taken over by students and anti-social behaviour...
A Place Called Home: Van Life follows the people escaping soaring living costs by living in vehicles on the streets of Bristol as they navigate the di...
Sporting Heroes: Underdog wheelchair basketball team the Bath Romans take on one of the best squads in the country. But with many new and inexperience...
Sporting Heroes: Portsmouth boxer Ebonie gets back in the ring after a relationship that knocked her confidence, and starts living her sporting dreams...
Sporting Heroes: Three overweight Carlisle men take to the football pitch. Their goal is to shed the lockdown pounds and feel better about their bodie...
Sporting Heroes: Young horse riders from under-represented communities take the reins to pursue their dreams of being top jockeys at a new academy ins...
Sporting Heroes: A man from Liverpool walks 2,500 miles around Britain in a pair of swimming trunks to give back to the charities who helped him throu...
Sporting Heroes: Swim tutor Annalize is determined to get more people from the black community to enjoy swimming and be safer in the water.
Made in England: Can apprentices learning the traditional welding technique of brazing stand the heat as they join an iconic folding bike company duri...
Made in England: After a year when the pandemic brought the aviation industry to a standstill, Derby's famous Rolls-Royce factory is investing in tech...
Made in England: We meet the people behind a family-run ice cream van factory, seeing how they hand-build the vans and how they're innovating to deal...
Made in England: Waxed jackets have been handmade in a north east factory for over 100 years. We meet the workers keeping these traditional skills ali...
Made in England: It's one of England's last family-run traditional shoemakers and it has just dressed James Bond. But can it survive the trainer trend...
Made in England: We meet the workers behind the two Mini factories that run 24/7, producing nearly 1,000 cars a day
True Crime: Michelle disappeared from Norwich's red light district. Her body was discovered two days later. Twenty years on, her killer hasn't been fo...
True Crime: With stabbings on the rise, Barney Green, a vascular surgeon in Middlesbrough, and the Madgin family from Wallsend, who lost their daughte...
True Crime: Four years ago, Adam Ellison was killed on a night out. We follow his family as they continue to raise awareness about his case in the hop...
True Crime: On 28 April 2010, 68-year-old grandfather Barry Rubery returned home from an evening out at a Masonic dinner, where he was subjected to a...
True Crime: On April 22, 1986, Peter Thurgood and Lindy Benstead were found dead near their car just off the A3 in Rake, Hampshire, near the Sussex bo...
True Crime: In 2001, Damean Vernon was found dead by his mother near a Birmingham canal. He was frozen, half naked, with multiple superficial cuts and...
My Home Town: Celebrity drag queen Bimini Bon Boulash returns to their childhood hometown of Great Yarmouth on a nostalgic journey, exploring a story...
My Home Town: MOBO-winning rap artist Graft has seen a rapid rise to fame after winning the Rap Game. Now he's embarking on a new journey to trace his...
My Home Town: Jassa Ahluwalia has mixed Indian and English heritage, and he looks white. He goes on a journey to explore his identity to try and answe...
My Home Town: Jayde Adams has made a name for herself in comedy, but what's the secret of her success? She goes back to her hometown of Bristol to fin...
My Home Town: Kema Kay takes a journey through his hometown of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, looking at the way in which immigration and race impacted his iden...
My Home Town: Investigative journalist Livvy Haydock reveals how her past led her to chase down violent criminals.
Broadcast cancelled at last minute. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/feb/10/bbc-cryptocurrency-documentary-pulled-from-air-at-last-minute
Broadcast cancelled. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/feb/14/bbc-pulls-another-episode-of-we-are-england-current-affairs-show
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