We Are England (2022) Season 2
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".
Bullseye! Our School of Darts 01 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.
10/7/2022
02 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.
10/7/2022
03 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.
10/7/2022
04 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.
10/7/2022
05 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.
10/7/2022
Bradford Church of Wrestling 06 Mental Health: Go behind the scenes as we step into the ring at the Bradford Church of Wrestling.
10/7/2022
07 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.
10/14/2022
From Conflict to Classroom 08 Education: Far from home, young refugees from Ukraine and other countries get a second chance in England's schools.
10/14/2022
09 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.
10/14/2022
Our Big Home Education Family 10 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.
10/14/2022
11 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.
10/14/2022
12 Education: Can working with animals improve behaviour and inspire learning? We follow six Luton teenagers at England's largest zoo.
10/14/2022
13 Farming England: Shot over the summer of 2022, this fascinating film follows the working life of Cotswold farmer and culinary oil producer Charlie Beldam.
10/21/2022
14 Farming England: A third-generation dairy farmer who branched out into cheesemaking on a whim finds himself facing growing global demand.
10/21/2022
15 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?
10/21/2022
Shaking Up Our Sheep Farm 16 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.
10/21/2022
17 Farming England: The large country estate handing hundreds of acres back to nature.
10/21/2022
18 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.
10/21/2022
19 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.
10/28/2022
A1 by Night: Against the Clock 20 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.
10/28/2022
Life in the Fast-Food Lane 21 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?
10/28/2022
22 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.
10/28/2022
The Women Building Nuclear 23 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.
10/28/2022
24 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.
10/28/2022
25 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.
11/4/2022
26 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.
11/4/2022
27 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.
11/4/2022
28 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.
11/11/2022
Making Waves: Building Boats 29 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.
11/11/2022
30 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'.
11/11/2022
31 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.
11/11/2022
32 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.
11/11/2022
33 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.
11/11/2022
34 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.
11/25/2022
35 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.
11/25/2022
England's Greatest Showman 36 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.
11/25/2022
37 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.
11/25/2022
38 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?
11/25/2022
39 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.
11/25/2022
40 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.
1/9/2023
41 Belonging - Mental Health: England football legend Jill Scott inspires the next generation of Lionesses to success at her childhood club in the north east.
1/9/2023
42 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.
1/9/2023
43 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.
1/9/2023
44 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.
1/9/2023
45 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.
1/9/2023
Fighting For Our Homes: What Happened Next 46 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.
1/16/2023
Hanging onto Home: What Happened Next 47 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.
1/16/2023
Knife Angels: What Happened Next 48 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?
1/16/2023
Our Derby Dance School: What Happened Next 49 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?
1/16/2023
The Real Phoenix Nights: What Happened Next 50 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.
1/16/2023
When the Boat Comes In: What Happened Next 51 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.
1/16/2023
