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Teens and TV

Michael Rosen discusses writing for teenage characters on TV, with Phil Redmond, E20's Jeff Povey, Arinze Kene and Emer Kenny, and Laura Hunter from Skins.

Michael Rosen explores the portrayal of teens on TV, and speaks to Phil Redmond, creator of Grange Hill about how approaches have changed over the years, and the battle Grange Hill faced to stay on the air.

He visits Albert Square and speaks to writer/cast-members of E20, Emer Kenny and Arinze Kene. Together with senior writer Jeff Povey they discuss how they developed the character of Fatboy to parody people who over-use slang, and Emer talks collecting words on buses.

What programme about young people and TV would be complete without mention of Skins? Writer Laura Hunter and cast talk about how they coined the phrase "Amazeballs."

We also hear from Paul Parry, the self-styled "literally tsar" about the way the use of the word has changed. Why is it, like, literally everywhere?

Producer: Toby Field.

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28 minutes

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Mon 30 Jan 2012 23:00

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