We Are England

We Are England

2022 2 Seasons 112 Episodes ⭐ 0.0 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".

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".

Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

Becoming Dad

Mental Health: One in ten dads in the UK struggles with post-natal depression, yet it often goes unacknowledged. This fi

EP 2

Cold Swim - Tynemouth

Mental Health: Cold water swimmer Jacqui inspires two new recruits with personal life challenges to join her tribe and f

EP 3

Fighting My Phobia - Coventry

Mental Health: Young dad Rob has grappled with social phobia his entire life, now he’s going into the boxing ring to f

EP 4

Nature on My Mind – Somerset

Mental Health: A group of key workers and veterans with mental health problems sleep under the stars and learn bushcraft

EP 5

Unfiltered - Cambridge

Mental Health: Caroline Flack’s former performing arts school puts mental health in the spotlight as dancer Mia, and T

EP 6

Veterans Road to Recovery

Mental Health: Ex-soldier Darren supports other veterans struggling with life on civvy street. He retrains them as HGV d

EP 7

Down at the Docks

The Night Shift: Bristol Port Company brings in huge cargo ships from around the world 24 hours a day. We meet the team

EP 8

Life Blood

The Night Shift: Blood donation fell with Covid-19, now the NHS is on its biggest blood drive ever. And one NHS staffer

EP 9

Night Nurses - Birmingham

The Night Shift: When the rest of the world is sound asleep, the nurses battle to keep their patients alive. We follow t

EP 10

One Night at the Fish Market - Grimsby

The Night Shift: A night shift at Grimsby Fish Market where the race is on to get the catch ready to sell. The team are

EP 11

One Night in Newcastle

The Night Shift: The street pastors are a group of Christian volunteers who give up their free time to help the poor, th

EP 12

Our Bin Lorry Life

The Night Shift: What actually happens to our waste once it's gone in the bin? This film goes behind the scenes with the

EP 13

Fighting for Fashion

Bossing It: Like most black entrepreneurs, Kalkidan was refused a loan to start her business. Today her brand is a big s

EP 14

Photo Me Famous

Bossing It: Conor has photographed everyone from Calvin Harris to David Attenborough. As he prepares to work again after

EP 15

Steffi and the Chocolate Factory

Bossing It: Steffi sells her handmade chocolate on social media. When Joe Wicks gave her a shout out, her business trebl

EP 16

The Beauty Boss

Bossing It: Ama went into the pandemic unemployed. A year later, her new wellness business had made its first million. C

EP 17

The Container King

Bossing It: Jake left school with two GCSEs but now runs a growing cargo business. He's going back to school to share hi

EP 18

Crisis on the Farm

Farming England: Last winter the pig industry faced a crisis like no other. Labour shortages created a backlog of animal

EP 19

Farming on the Spectrum - Oxfordshire

Farming England: Thirty years ago, an Oxfordshire cattle farm invited a group of autistic children through its gates. No

EP 20

First Time Farmers

Farming England: Jenny and Lenny have put every penny of their life savings into a new Cumbrian farm at a time when agri

EP 21

My Norfolk Farm

Farming England: Young farmer Izzi comes up with new ways to make money and keep her family farm going in a post-Brexit

EP 22

The Crisp Farmers - Hereford

Farming England: Mark and Sean are farmers whose background is growing and selling potatoes. Together, they're making th

EP 23

When the Boats Come In

Farming England: The oystermen of the River Fal estuary have been knocked sideways by Brexit. With their future under th

EP 24

Cornwall's Last Raceway

Belonging: It's race day at the United Downs stock car track. But beyond the rivalries on the circuit, a bigger battle i

EP 25

Our Derby Dance School

Belonging: Nadia opened a dance studio in Derby 20 years ago, not realising that it would become a refuge and safe haven

EP 26

Our Fight Club - Middlesbrough

Belonging: Nathan runs a mixed martial arts academy in Middlesbrough. He believes the training he offers to people from

EP 27

Our Skate Park Life

Belonging: Riders in Hastings prepare for one of England's top BMX competitions. Will their captain, Stu, be able to tak

EP 28

The Real Phoenix Nights

Belonging: John has run the Clacton Railway Working Men's Club for decades. It's a local institution. Now, supported by

EP 29

The Real Vicars of Dibley

Belonging: Leah and Sarah are trainee vicars in the north of England. How will they settle into their new parishes as th

EP 30

Fighting for our Homes

A Place Called Home: Neighbours on a Leeds housing estate fight to keep their community together. They are faced with ev

EP 31

Hanging on to Home

A Place Called Home: Yacob owns his home on an estate, but the council wants to knock it down and build a new developmen

EP 32

Homes for the Homeless - Nottingham

A Place Called Home: A Nottingham charity are putting homeless people into their own properties. But adjusting to living

EP 33

Staying Afloat

A Place Called Home: Jess can't get on the property ladder, so she's bought a 30 foot boat. Will life on England's water

EP 34

Students in Suburbia - Newcastle

A Place Called Home: Once a quiet residential suburb on the outskirts of Newcastle, Jesmond is being taken over by stude

EP 35

Van Life

A Place Called Home: Van Life follows the people escaping soaring living costs by living in vehicles on the streets of B

EP 36

Bouncing Back

Sporting Heroes: Underdog wheelchair basketball team the Bath Romans take on one of the best squads in the country. But

EP 37

Fighting for Me

Sporting Heroes: Portsmouth boxer Ebonie gets back in the ring after a relationship that knocked her confidence, and sta

EP 38

Football Fat Fighters

Sporting Heroes: Three overweight Carlisle men take to the football pitch. Their goal is to shed the lockdown pounds and

EP 39

Make Me a Jockey

Sporting Heroes: Young horse riders from under-represented communities take the reins to pursue their dreams of being to

EP 40

Mick Walks For England

Sporting Heroes: A man from Liverpool walks 2,500 miles around Britain in a pair of swimming trunks to give back to the

EP 41

Swim School

Sporting Heroes: Swim tutor Annalize is determined to get more people from the black community to enjoy swimming and be

EP 42

A Very British Bike Factory

Made in England: Can apprentices learning the traditional welding technique of brazing stand the heat as they join an ic

EP 43

Inside the Jet Engine Factory - Derby

Made in England: After a year when the pandemic brought the aviation industry to a standstill, Derby's famous Rolls-Royc

EP 44

Make Mine a 99 - Crewe

Made in England: We meet the people behind a family-run ice cream van factory, seeing how they hand-build the vans and h

EP 45

Our Northern Jacket Empire

Made in England: Waxed jackets have been handmade in a north east factory for over 100 years. We meet the workers keepin

EP 46

The 007 Shoe Factory

Made in England: It's one of England's last family-run traditional shoemakers and it has just dressed James Bond. But ca

EP 47

The Biggest Smallest Car Company

Made in England: We meet the workers behind the two Mini factories that run 24/7, producing nearly 1,000 cars a day

EP 48

Finding Michelle Bettles

True Crime: Michelle disappeared from Norwich's red light district. Her body was discovered two days later. Twenty years

EP 49

Knife Angels

True Crime: With stabbings on the rise, Barney Green, a vascular surgeon in Middlesbrough, and the Madgin family from Wa

EP 50

Our Adam

True Crime: Four years ago, Adam Ellison was killed on a night out. We follow his family as they continue to raise aware

EP 51

Who Killed Barry Rubery

True Crime: On 28 April 2010, 68-year-old grandfather Barry Rubery returned home from an evening out at a Masonic dinner

EP 52

Who Killed Dad

True Crime: On April 22, 1986, Peter Thurgood and Lindy Benstead were found dead near their car just off the A3 in Rake,

EP 53

Why Did My Brother End Up Dead?

True Crime: In 2001, Damean Vernon was found dead by his mother near a Birmingham canal. He was frozen, half naked, with

EP 54

Bimini Bon Boulash: Homecoming Queen

My Home Town: Celebrity drag queen Bimini Bon Boulash returns to their childhood hometown of Great Yarmouth on a nostalg

EP 55

Graft: Uncovering My Roots

My Home Town: MOBO-winning rap artist Graft has seen a rapid rise to fame after winning the Rap Game. Now he's embarking

EP 56

Jassa Ahluwalia: Am I English?

My Home Town: Jassa Ahluwalia has mixed Indian and English heritage, and he looks white. He goes on a journey to explore

EP 57

Jayde Adams: Coming Home

My Home Town: Jayde Adams has made a name for herself in comedy, but what's the secret of her success? She goes back to

EP 58

Kema Kay: My Hometown

My Home Town: Kema Kay takes a journey through his hometown of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, looking at the way in which immigrat

EP 59

Livvy Haydock: My Hometown

My Home Town: Investigative journalist Livvy Haydock reveals how her past led her to chase down violent criminals.

EP 60

The Crypto-Millionaire

Broadcast cancelled at last minute. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/feb/10/bbc-cryptocurrency-documentary-pulled

EP 61

Bodyworks Dance School - Cambridge

Broadcast cancelled. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/feb/14/bbc-pulls-another-episode-of-we-are-england-current-

EP 1

Bullseye! Our School of Darts

Mental Health: The Midlands darts academies improving teenagers' mental wellbeing and shaping stars of the future, such

EP 2

Coping in Construction

Mental Health: Alfie and his scaffolding gang have seen first-hand the mental health struggles of colleagues in construc

EP 3

Free Falling

Mental Health: Peter, a professional skydiver based in County Durham, has climbed back from suicidal depression and is n

EP 4

Hip Hop Family

Mental Health: Can hip-hop, rap and breakdancing help mental health? We look behind the scenes at a unique community pro

EP 5

The Barbershop

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

EP 6

Bradford Church of Wrestling

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

EP 7

Educating Blyth

Education: We follow the reality of school life with staff and students of one forward-thinking secondary school in the

EP 8

From Conflict to Classroom

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

EP 9

Make Me a Paramedic

Education: Hina and Sarah are student paramedics, going through a rigorous three-year undergraduate degree whilst learni

EP 10

Our Big Home Education Family

Education: During the pandemic, schools closed leaving parents to home educate. With home education on the rise, we find

EP 11

The Classroom Revolution

Education: It's difficult to pay attention in class when successful people in textbooks don't look like you and unsucces

EP 12

Zoo School

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

EP 13

Farming Fields of Gold

Farming England: Shot over the summer of 2022, this fascinating film follows the working life of Cotswold farmer and cul

EP 14

Our Cheese Farm

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

EP 15

Our Family Cucumber Farm

Farming England: Tony fears his third-generation family cucumber farm won't survive the season, thanks to rising energy

EP 16

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 cha

EP 17

To the Manor Farm

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

EP 18

Trouble at Sea

Farming England: After thousands of crabs wash up dead on the North East coast, struggling local fishermen attempt to ge

EP 19

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 ton

EP 20

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

EP 21

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 har

EP 22

Saving Lives by Air

Serving England: Grappling with cardiac arrests, road traffic accidents and even a wasp attack, the medics and aviators

EP 23

The Women Building Nuclear

Serving England: 24 hours inside Europe’s biggest construction site with some of the women building it, challenging lo

EP 24

We Are Firefighters

Serving England: A unique insight into the heart of the modern-day fire and rescue service. We meet the Midland firefigh

EP 25

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 le

EP 26

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

EP 27

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 du

EP 28

Greetings From Guernsey

Made in England: Moonpig print and send tens of thousands of cards from their Guernsey factory every day. We go behind t

EP 29

Making Waves: Building Boats

Made in England: Building the superyachts of tomorrow. Rare access to a pioneering Ipswich boat yard whose yachts marry

EP 30

Northern Sole

Made in England: This year, New Balance celebrated 40 years of Cumbrian manufacturing by producing a special set of trai

EP 31

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

EP 32

Pots About Pots

Made in England: A day with the factory workers, engineering staff, management and design team to get a glimpse of the c

EP 33

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 bran

EP 34

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

EP 35

Dementia, Music and Us

Family: Innovative music therapy is helping families to live with dementia and create new memories. We follow Keith and

EP 36

England's Greatest Showman

Family: Eighty-year-old Nipper is fairground aristocracy, the head of East Anglia’s largest family of showmen. We join

EP 37

My Walking Family

Family: Founder of the largest online community of Muslim hikers, family man Haroon is on a quest to make the outdoors m

EP 38

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 ba

EP 39

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. N

EP 40

Born to Race, Part 2

Belonging - Mental Health: Ruben and Lewis have been racing since the age of four, with hundreds of trophies between the

EP 41

England's Next Lionesses

Belonging - Mental Health: England football legend Jill Scott inspires the next generation of Lionesses to success at he

EP 42

Let Us Entertain You

Belonging - Mental Health: With staycations on the rise, we follow two touring tribute acts over the summer, ‘Elvis’

EP 43

My Body: No Limits

Belonging - Mental Health: Disabled model Sian Green explores the barriers to amputees getting active. She’ll face a n

EP 44

Our Toxteth Cycle Club

Belonging - Mental Health: With 74% of people from ethnic minority groups having never cycled, one Liverpool-based organ

EP 45

Riding the Waves

Belonging - Mental Health: A paramedic, a firefighter and a police officer head to north Devon for a day of ‘surf ther

EP 46

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 privatel

EP 47

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 o

EP 48

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 tacklin

EP 49

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 me

EP 50

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 gettin

EP 51

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 busin

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