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Interview: Paul Almond on Starting the ‘Up’ Series and Watching It Grow for Half a Century
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Interview: Paul Almond on Starting the ‘Up’ Series and Watching It Grow for Half a Century

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Christopher Campbell
Apr 12, 2015
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This interview was originally published on the Documentary Channel Blog on January 10, 2013.

Almost 50 years ago, Canadian filmmaker Paul Almond, while employed by Granada Television in the UK, interviewed a bunch of young children for an episode of World in Action. The one-off special, titled Seven Up!, wound up spawning a very popular series of documen…

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