Following last week's update on the British participants of 42 Up, a progress report from the American version.
Seven years on, the kids are growing up. They're not children anymore, nor adults, but the issues they are coping with makes them old before their years. The poor kids are afraid of the violence around them; the rich kids are afraid of becoming the poor. Mark Radcliffe narrates a personalised sketch of the world's most influential country.
A follow up documentary on 20 children in the Soviet Union - Born in the USSR: 14 Up will be shown Wednesday at 10.30pm.
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