Teenage Kicks Episode Guide

Episode Guide

• Drinking Girls

  As concern rises over women's increasing consumption of alcohol, this programme investigates why teenage girls are drinking more than ever before and explores the consequences of over-indulgence : from unplanned pregnancies to A&E admissions and long-term health problems

• Drugs Are Us

  Three young people relate their very different views on recreational drugs, explaining the confusion presented by conflicting messages : the terrifying statistics of death by drug abuse published by the Government, and the real-life experiences of peers who appear to indulge without ill-effect

• Girls' Gangs

  The new nationwide trend toward girl gangs who go around in tight-knit groups, looking out for each other and often using physical and verbal violence in the process. In Southend a posse of teenage friends spend many of their days playing truant from school and their nights hanging out in town : will this bond be able to survive the pressures of parental control and the necessity of growing up?

• The Joy of Teen Sex

  British teenagers discuss their sexual experiences. In the age of Aids young people are supposed to be experts on safe sex, yet statistics show that underage pregnancy and sexual diseases have reached an all-time high. Thom and James reveal they don't like using condoms, believing it's down to their partners to take precautions, while 16-year-old Kirsty has been left pregnant and infected with chlamydia

• Lock Up Your Daughters

  Young people discuss the ups and downs of growing up in a world increasingly obsessed with sex, and three girls who got involved with older men talk about the consequences of their actions

• Skin Deep

  Mixed-race relationships, following the fortunes of white woman Tina and black man Ray, who have been together on and off for five years but are going through a particularly rocky patch. A blazing row in the street causes Tina to walk out, and for a while she has great fun playing the field : but will her history with Ray be so easy to forget?

• The Story of the Boy Band
• Teenage Dwarf

  Three 18-year-old dwarves explain what it's like to be less than 4ft tall and trying to form relationships in a world where they're looked down on literally and figuratively. The youngsters travel to the Dwarf Athletic Games in Birmingham in search of sport, beer and girls

• The Witch Craze

  Inspired by the stories of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Harry Potter, many youngsters have turned to the occult in the hope of sorting out their problems. Here three Essex girls explain why they regard witchcraft as a religion and try to live by its rules, while a would-be vampire from Peckham searches for a job to pay for new fangs

• Young and Loaded

  Profiles of wealthy youngsters, including Miki, the daughter of Formula One boss Eddie Jordan, who divides her time between shopping and revising for her A-Levels on the family's luxury yacht in Barcelona, and Dominic, who made a million importing micro-scooters before he reached the age of 15