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Starting in 1964 World in Action made an episode where it chose 14 children all aged 7 to show the different walks of life

It was so well received they decided a follow up 7 years later which too did well so they followed the pattern every 7 years and met up with those in the first episode until the final series starts tomorrow Tuesday 15th September

I am sure over the years some of you would have caught these shows I know I have and I can remember watching 63 Up 7 years ago and thinking it is ages till the next one. Well it has not really seemed that long.

So it is literally 7 till 70 if you catch up on ITVX


ITV 9pm I have a feeling it is going to be emotional

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crm932el3yjo

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Has anyone watched this? another one next week.

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It's not something I'd watch to be honest, I tend not to watch much live TV and if I do it's just background noise of a movie or TV show I've likely seen before.

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I've recorded it. You'll find that, as you get older, life goes quicker and quicker and that the saying 'life is short' really is true.

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I’ve watched it right from the beginning in 1964.

My own problem is that while I’m physically 70, I’m still in my early twenties mentally.

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It must have been interesting following their lives over the years, it would be a good idea to put them all up onto ITVX & the iPlayer.

I remember a late elderly neighbour once telling me that she felt just the same inside, but looks in the mirror and thinks 'whose that old woman'!

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I think that is lifes cruel joke. We are always looking out through young eyes . Just the body lets us down