{"id":767912,"date":"2026-09-12T02:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T02:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/767912\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T02:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T02:46:11","slug":"70-up-curtain-falls-on-documentary-that-has-captivated-brits-for-six-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/767912\/","title":{"rendered":"70 Up: Curtain falls on documentary that has captivated Brits for six decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As the series grew in popularity, Apted started receiving push-back from some of the participants, who felt they had been typecast based on their backgrounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At 21, Apted asked Jackie &#8211; who had recently got married &#8211; whether she had met &#8220;enough men&#8221; before she decided to marry. For the rest of the interview, she mostly looked to the floor while Sue and Lynn answered questions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It took her 18 years to fully confront Apted over his questioning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 49 Up, she told him: &#8220;I was really angry\u2026 you wouldn&#8217;t have asked some of the other people in this program that question. You will edit this program as you see fit, I&#8217;ve got no control over that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Recalling the tense exchange, Jackie said she felt Apted could be out of touch, particularly over the changing roles of women in society.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think he still thought we were all in the kitchen, as I mentioned to him at 21. I just thought, &#8216;No, come on, it&#8217;s about time one of us called you out on it, because he never never asked us questions about politics. It was nearly always domestic,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the series grew in popularity, Apted started receiving push-back from some of the participants, who felt they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-767912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}