This is Fear of Missing Out: young people living in the UK talking about the stuff we wish we learnt at school. Dundee-based Tom and Mikaela are 20 and 21 years old, meaning they were too young to vote in the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum. As the debate rages over a second Referendum on Scottish Independence, Tom and Mikaela look back at Scotland’s recent political history - the 1979, 1997 and 2014 referendums - to try and work out how they might vote in the future. Tom and Mikaela...

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This is Fear of Missing Out: young people living in the UK talking about the stuff we wish we learnt at school. India is a 21 year old student, content creator and activist from Bath. India is passionate about her activism, which focuses on anti-racism and intersectional feminism. But, often, India kind of feels like they're just making things up as they go along? India interviews four activists involved in actions in the 1980s - the Greenham Common Peace Camp, The Miners Strike, Lesbians...

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This is Fear of Missing Out: young people living in the UK talking about the stuff we wish we learnt at school. Beth is 16 and goes to a Catholic Secondary School in Ballymena, Northern Ireland. Recently, Beth found out that the history she’s taught is different to that taught in the Protestant secondary school down the street. Beth looks into the history of education segregated by religion in Northern Ireland. Beth speaks to Matthew Milliken, Tony Gallagher, Clare Bailey and Bernadette...

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This is Fear of Missing Out: young people living in the UK talking about the stuff we wish we learnt at school. In March 2022, a report came out about Child Q: a 15 year old black secondary school student from London, who was strip searched by the police in her own school.  22 year old Halima moved to England from Ireland when they were 14. Hearing about Child Q felt like a breaking point for their own resilience to racism in the UK. Halima looks into the history of the criminalisation of...

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This is Fear of Missing Out: young people living in the UK talking about the stuff we wish we learnt at school. Felix is a 20 year old playwright, poet and performer from Liverpool. He came out as trans when he was 14 and, in his words, it has become harder, not easier,  to be a young out  trans person in the public eye. Felix looks at the history of how queer people have been presented in the UK media, to try and contextualise how trans people are spoken about in the media today. Felix...

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This is Fear of Missing Out: young people living in the UK talking about the stuff we wish we learnt at school. 17 year old Atlanta spent the first few years of her life living in Uganda, where her mum is from. Now she lives in Glasgow, Atlanta feels like the version of British History she’s learnt paints the UK in a pretty positive light? Loads of her friends don’t even know about the British Empire - they didn’t learn about it in school. Atlanta asks: Is it possible to know the truth of...

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This is Fear of Missing Out: young people living in the UK, talking about the stuff we wish we'd learnt in school. Every episode, a new presenter goes on a personal journey through the bits of British history that people aren't talking about enough. Coming soon...