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BBC One is a TV channel that started broadcasting on the 20th April 1964. It replaced BBC Television.

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Until 03/01/2009 BBC Two Wales (analogue) was known simply as BBC Two Wales. BBC Two Wales (digital) was BBC 2W. From 03/01/2009 BBC Two Wales schedules on both analogue and digital became identical

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Following Birmingham Education Authority as it allocates its school places.

A look at the often fraught process of selecting a child's secondary school. The series follows Birmingham Education Authority as it allocates its school places.

Series offering an insight into one of the most important and stressful decisions a family can make - which secondary school to send their child to.

With unprecedented and exclusive access, the series follows Birmingham Education Authority, which is the largest in Europe, as it allocates its school places. And it follows a group of children - and their parents - from across Birmingham as they go through the process and make the move from primary to secondary school.

This is an intimate and revealing account of modern Britain, which brings to the fore a better understanding of the complexity and difficulty of administering a system that has to balance all the choices and find school places for 16,000 children in this year alone.

The first episode introduces five families - in the White family, 10-year-old Thomas would like to go to a more ethnically mixed school; the Khans' daughter Saffiyah is training two hours a day to try to get into the best grammar school; Simone Vassel's son Jamiah is desperate to avoid going to a school where he fears there may be gangs; Ethan Clamp's mum Alison knows he would be certain to get into a school with great sport facilities if only he lived a couple of hundred metres closer to it; and Phoebe McHale lives in the leafy suburbs of Sutton Coldfield and is spoiled for choice with her excellently rated local state comprehensive schools.

Cameras follow the hopes and the dreams of the parents as they confront the reality of choice in education and make their selections. They must list six schools in their order of preference but they know they may not get into their first preferences. There is then a tense six-month wait to find out.

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BBC Two is a TV channel that started broadcasting on the 20th April 1964.

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Series offering an insight into process of selecting a child's secondary school

Series offering an insight into the often fraught process of selecting a child's secondary school

The BBC West region started on 1st September 1957 as part of the BBC Television Service, before becoming BBC One West.

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The BBC South West region started on 20th April 1961 as part of the BBC Television Service, before becoming BBC One South West.

BBC One South West

The BBC South region started on 5th January 1961 as part of the BBC Television Service, before becoming BBC One South.

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London

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BBC One region covering Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire.

BBC One East Midlands

The BBC East region started on 1st May 1959 as part of the BBC Television Service, before becoming BBC One East.

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The BBC North East & Cumbria region started in 1959 (tbc) as part of the BBC Television Service, before becoming BBC One North East & Cumbria.

BBC One North East & Cumbria

BBC One Yorkshire

BBC One Oxfordshire

Formerly part of a wider BBC One South East region that included London and part of the South region. Separated from BBC One London 2001-09-03 following reorganisation of the South East region.

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BBC Northern Ireland region started on 19th April 1955 as part of the BBC Television Service, before becoming BBC One Northern Ireland.

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