Boys and Girls Alone
February
With endless headlines about the dangers faced by kids today, there are fears that parents, obsessed by their children's safety, are raising a generation of 'cotton-wool kids', restricted and protected from the real world in a way that was unthinkable a generation ago. Boys and Girls Alone sets out to test the wisdom of those fears by constructing a world without grown-ups – a world ruled by children.
In this new documentary series, 10 boys and 10 girls, aged between eight and 11 years old, are given the chance to experience life without adults.
Living in two 'villages' and separated on gender lines, they decide everything about how they live – what they do, what they eat, when they get up, whether they clean and wash and how they organise and entertain themselves.
Who will cope best without mum and dad? Do girls really grow up quicker? Are boys naturally more aggressive? And who will build the better world – boys or girls?
Contacts
Press Contact
Matthew Robinson
mr.pr@virgin.net
Picture Publicist
Becky Allin
rallin@channel4.co.uk
Production Company
Love Productions
Commissioning Editor
Dominique Walker
Matthew Robinson
mr.pr@virgin.net
Picture Publicist
Becky Allin
rallin@channel4.co.uk
Production Company
Love Productions
Commissioning Editor
Dominique Walker