We Are England

We Are England

2022
We Are England
We Are England

We Are England

8.2 | en | Documentary

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".

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Seasons & Episodes

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EP51  When the Boat Comes In: What Happened Next
Jan. 16,2023
When the Boat Comes In: What Happened Next

Almost a year on since the original programme aired on BBC1, We Are England returns to see if Martin’s shellfish business is surviving with the continued implications of Brexit.

EP50  The Real Phoenix Nights: What Happened Next
Jan. 16,2023
The Real Phoenix Nights: What Happened Next

A year on since the original programme aired on BBC1, We Are England returns to the club to find out how they are getting on.

EP49  Our Derby Dance School: What Happened Next
Jan. 16,2023
Our Derby Dance School: What Happened Next

20 years ago, Nadia opened a dance studio that became a safe haven where some youths were able to overcome social and mental health issues. Six months on, how have things been?

EP48  Knife Angels: What Happened Next
Jan. 16,2023
Knife Angels: What Happened Next

Teesside is one of the worst places for knife crime, so how should £3.5 million of new government cash be spent tackling the problem?

EP47  Hanging onto Home: What Happened Next
Jan. 16,2023
Hanging onto Home: What Happened Next

Almost a year on since the original programme aired on BBC1, We Are England returns to this south Acton estate to find out how Yacob and his family have fared.

EP46  Fighting For Our Homes: What Happened Next
Jan. 16,2023
Fighting For Our Homes: What Happened Next

Neighbours on a Leeds housing estate fight to keep their community together when faced with eviction from their privately rented homes. We join the residents of the estate one year later as they adapt to new living situations.

EP45  Riding the Waves
Jan. 09,2023
Riding the Waves

Belonging - Mental Health: A paramedic, a firefighter and a police officer head to north Devon for a day of ‘surf therapy’ in the hope it can help process trauma from their demanding jobs.

EP44  Our Toxteth Cycle Club
Jan. 09,2023
Our Toxteth Cycle Club

Belonging - Mental Health: With 74% of people from ethnic minority groups having never cycled, one Liverpool-based organisation aims to get more diverse groups interested and active in cycling.

EP43  My Body: No Limits
Jan. 09,2023
My Body: No Limits

Belonging - Mental Health: Disabled model Sian Green explores the barriers to amputees getting active. She’ll face a new challenge – going to the gym on her own for the first time as an amputee.

EP42  Let Us Entertain You
Jan. 09,2023
Let Us Entertain You

Belonging - Mental Health: With staycations on the rise, we follow two touring tribute acts over the summer, ‘Elvis’ and ‘Jessie J’, as they navigate the ultra-competitive world of holiday park entertainment.

EP41  England's Next Lionesses
Jan. 09,2023
England's Next Lionesses

Belonging - Mental Health: England football legend Jill Scott inspires the next generation of Lionesses to success at her childhood club in the north east.

EP40  Born to Race, Part 2
Jan. 09,2023
Born to Race, Part 2

Belonging - Mental Health: Ruben and Lewis have been racing since the age of four, with hundreds of trophies between them. Now, with advice from their idol, they face the most important race of their careers.

EP39  Born to Race, Part 1
Nov. 25,2022
Born to Race, Part 1

Belonging - Mental Health: Ruben and Lewis have been racing since the age of four and dream of making it in Formula 1. Now, they’re facing a race that could make or break their careers.

EP38  Weston-super-Mums
Nov. 25,2022
Weston-super-Mums

Family: The mums on a mission to get back into work. We follow the unique 12-week course helping mums on benefits get back into employment. But can they secure a job?

EP37  My Walking Family
Nov. 25,2022
My Walking Family

Family: Founder of the largest online community of Muslim hikers, family man Haroon is on a quest to make the outdoors more inclusive to all as he leads them on a trek to Scafell Pike.

EP36  England's Greatest Showman
Nov. 25,2022
England's Greatest Showman

Family: Eighty-year-old Nipper is fairground aristocracy, the head of East Anglia’s largest family of showmen. We join them on the road, seeing the challenges they face.

EP35  Dementia, Music and Us
Nov. 25,2022
Dementia, Music and Us

Family: Innovative music therapy is helping families to live with dementia and create new memories. We follow Keith and Joan as they prepare for a group holiday to Llandudno.

EP34  Athletes of the Sky
Nov. 25,2022
Athletes of the Sky

Family: Nine-year-old Harry isn't like his friends at school. While they are playing computer games at home, he is down the allotment looking after his pigeons.

EP33  We Make Supercars
Nov. 11,2022
We Make Supercars

Made in England: The people behind McLaren's latest model, and how over a hundred new jobs have been created with a brand-new state of the art factory in South Yorkshire.

EP32  Pots About Pots
Nov. 11,2022
Pots About Pots

Made in England: A day with the factory workers, engineering staff, management and design team to get a glimpse of the challenges inside Denby Pottery’s Derbyshire factory.

EP31  Our Big Beauty Business
Nov. 11,2022
Our Big Beauty Business

Made in England: A rare look inside a major cosmetics factory. We join one of the UK’s last family-owned beauty brands in their 40th anniversary year, and see how they’re beating big-name rivals.

EP30  Northern Sole
Nov. 11,2022
Northern Sole

Made in England: This year, New Balance celebrated 40 years of Cumbrian manufacturing by producing a special set of trainers to commemorate its milestone. The tongue proudly says 'Made In England'.

EP29  Making Waves: Building Boats
Nov. 11,2022
Making Waves: Building Boats

Made in England: Building the superyachts of tomorrow. Rare access to a pioneering Ipswich boat yard whose yachts marry classical wooden design with cutting edge sustainability.

EP28  Greetings From Guernsey
Nov. 11,2022
Greetings From Guernsey

Made in England: Moonpig print and send tens of thousands of cards from their Guernsey factory every day. We go behind the scenes meeting the characters who keep the factory running, ensuring cards are ready in time for the last plane off the island, sometimes when the odds are stacked against them.

EP27  Our Money-Saving Story
Nov. 04,2022
Our Money-Saving Story

Money and Me: Having grown up in poverty, money guru Emmanuel Asuquo is on a mission to solve people’s money issues during the cost of living crisis.

EP26  Bellies Not Bins
Nov. 04,2022
Bellies Not Bins

Money and Me: A single mum of five from Sheffield and a café in Chester-le-Street are both finding ways of tackling the cost-of-living crisis by stopping food from going to waste.

EP25  A Home without Bills?
Nov. 04,2022
A Home without Bills?

Money and Me: Property developers Scott and Cameron find out ways to keep the cost of bills down for their tenants by learning about carbon-efficient methods of powering homes.

EP24  We Are Firefighters
Oct. 28,2022
We Are Firefighters

Serving England: A unique insight into the heart of the modern-day fire and rescue service. We meet the Midland firefighters who work around the clock to keep their communities safe.

EP23  The Women Building Nuclear
Oct. 28,2022
The Women Building Nuclear

Serving England: 24 hours inside Europe’s biggest construction site with some of the women building it, challenging long-established myths about the building industry and careers in STEM.

EP22  Saving Lives by Air
Oct. 28,2022
Saving Lives by Air

Serving England: Grappling with cardiac arrests, road traffic accidents and even a wasp attack, the medics and aviators of the East Anglian Air Ambulance stand ready to fly, 24/7.

EP21  Life in the Fast-Food Lane
Oct. 28,2022
Life in the Fast-Food Lane

Serving England: Bassam, Henry and Viktória all rely on food courier work to financially support them, but just how hard is it to earn a living in this fast-growing industry?

EP20  A1 by Night: Against the Clock
Oct. 28,2022
A1 by Night: Against the Clock

Serving England: Night workers adding an extra lane to the A1 battle machine breakdowns, tiredness and danger traffic as they race to get the road open by 6am.

EP19  A Night at the Market
Oct. 28,2022
A Night at the Market

Serving England: Meet the night workers at the UK's largest wholesale market racing against time to get thousands of tonnes of fresh fruit and veg from pallets onto our plates.

EP18  Trouble at Sea
Oct. 21,2022
Trouble at Sea

Farming England: After thousands of crabs wash up dead on the North East coast, struggling local fishermen attempt to get to the bottom of the devastating environmental event.

EP17  To the Manor Farm
Oct. 21,2022
To the Manor Farm

Farming England: The large country estate handing hundreds of acres back to nature.

EP16  Shaking Up Our Sheep Farm
Oct. 21,2022
Shaking Up Our Sheep Farm

Farming England: James is a sheep farmer with a big vision: he’s taken over the family farm and is making exciting changes using modern breeding and farming techniques.

EP15  Our Family Cucumber Farm
Oct. 21,2022
Our Family Cucumber Farm

Farming England: Tony fears his third-generation family cucumber farm won't survive the season, thanks to rising energy costs. Will this be their last year in business?

EP14  Our Cheese Farm
Oct. 21,2022
Our Cheese Farm

Farming England: A third-generation dairy farmer who branched out into cheesemaking on a whim finds himself facing growing global demand.

EP13  Farming Fields of Gold
Oct. 21,2022
Farming Fields of Gold

Farming England: Shot over the summer of 2022, this fascinating film follows the working life of Cotswold farmer and culinary oil producer Charlie Beldam.

EP12  Zoo School
Oct. 14,2022
Zoo School

Education: Can working with animals improve behaviour and inspire learning? We follow six Luton teenagers at England's largest zoo.

EP11  The Classroom Revolution
Oct. 14,2022
The Classroom Revolution

Education: It's difficult to pay attention in class when successful people in textbooks don't look like you and unsuccessful ones do. Chaz and Lawrence are on a mission to change that.

EP10  Our Big Home Education Family
Oct. 14,2022
Our Big Home Education Family

Education: During the pandemic, schools closed leaving parents to home educate. With home education on the rise, we find out why two families chose to home educate their children pre-pandemic.

EP9  Make Me a Paramedic
Oct. 14,2022
Make Me a Paramedic

Education: Hina and Sarah are student paramedics, going through a rigorous three-year undergraduate degree whilst learning on the job with the North West Ambulance Service.

EP8  From Conflict to Classroom
Oct. 14,2022
From Conflict to Classroom

Education: Far from home, young refugees from Ukraine and other countries get a second chance in England's schools.

EP7  Educating Blyth
Oct. 14,2022
Educating Blyth

Education: We follow the reality of school life with staff and students of one forward-thinking secondary school in the industrial port town of Blyth.

EP6  Bradford Church of Wrestling
Oct. 07,2022
Bradford Church of Wrestling

Mental Health: Go behind the scenes as we step into the ring at the Bradford Church of Wrestling.

EP5  The Barbershop
Oct. 07,2022
The Barbershop

Mental Health: After the suicide of a loved one, the owners of a Bedford barbershop take a mental health course to help tackle the issue of male suicide.

EP4  Hip Hop Family
Oct. 07,2022
Hip Hop Family

Mental Health: Can hip-hop, rap and breakdancing help mental health? We look behind the scenes at a unique community project in Plymouth as they build up to one of their biggest shows to date.

EP3  Free Falling
Oct. 07,2022
Free Falling

Mental Health: Peter, a professional skydiver based in County Durham, has climbed back from suicidal depression and is now on a mission to help others reach new highs with their mental health.

EP2  Coping in Construction
Oct. 07,2022
Coping in Construction

Mental Health: Alfie and his scaffolding gang have seen first-hand the mental health struggles of colleagues in construction. Now they're joining forces with other workers to make a difference.

EP1  Bullseye! Our School of Darts
Oct. 07,2022
Bullseye! Our School of Darts

Mental Health: The Midlands darts academies improving teenagers' mental wellbeing and shaping stars of the future, such as Henry from Derbyshire who's battling it out to be world number one.

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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".

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