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My New Best Friend

Documentary

Three-part documentary series about the importance and nature of friendship among children, told from their point of view. Shot over eight months and told entirely from their perspective, it is an intimate and moving insight into how children think and feel as they journey into a new world.

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Episodes & Seasons

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Season 1

3 Episodes

EP 01

EP 1

01.Cheltenham

2008-05-21

01.Cheltenham

Aired 2008-05-21

Four 11-year-old girls leave the familiarity of their prep schools to join one of the most prestigious girls' schools in the country, Cheltenham Ladies' College. For the three new boarders and one day girl, a new school is as daunting as it is exciting.

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EP 02

EP 2

02.Scotland

2008-05-28

02.Scotland

Aired 2008-05-28

Bryony, Galen, Jessica and Ruairidh must leave their tiny primary schools on remote north-west Scotland islands to start secondary school together on the mainland at Mallaig High School. Each has a different journey into this new world, but they the share universal challenges of finding their own identities, making new friends and trying to belong.

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EP 03

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03.Islington

2008-06-04

03.Islington

Aired 2008-06-04

Four London children make the transition from their familiar primary schools to the grown-up world of an inner-city secondary school. The two boys, Demian and Azad, are best friends from the start, while girls Semra and Katriye are twin sisters. Playground politics and rivalries come to affect all of them profoundly.

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