Channel 4 Learning


Sex, Lies and Soaps

SEX, LIES AND SOAPS

PROGRAMME 1: SEX

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Clip 1: Realism or romance? 3.10 – 4.43

  • Opens: 'Quite frankly, if TV producers...'
  • Closes: 'No protection, just candles.'

Clip 2: Does soap influence your sex-life? 5.50 – 8.60

  • Opens: 'Soap may not show how teenagers really behave…'
  • Closes: '…people accepting you.'

Clip 3: The etiquette of soap sex 10.25 – 12.40

  • Opens: 'On the Holloyoaks set...'
  • Closes: '…very strange positions.'

Clip 4: Guidelines and consequences 14.51 – 16.12

  • Opens: 'It's not just...'
  • Closes: '…consider the consequences.'

Clip 5: Moral responsibiities 17.36 – 18.55

  • Opens: 'We have to be really careful not to...'
  • Closes: 'Very sensitively.'

Clip 6: Do soap stories convince you? 21.10 – end

  • Opens: 'London teens Jade and Vivian…'
  • Closes: '...more going on than on a soap.'

Related websites

This web page contains links to other websites that are not under the control of and are not maintained by Channel 4 Television. Channel 4 Television is not responsible for the content of these sites and does not necessarily endorse the material on them.

www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/
editorialguidelines/edguide/

The BBC's editorial guidelines for producers. Includes a section at the end showing Ofcom's guidelines for commercial broadcasters.

www.mediarelate.org
MediaRelate is an EU-funded e-learning project designed to investigate what young people learn from the media about love, sex and relationships. The website contains research findings and some teaching resources for use in the PSHE curriculum.

www.ruthinking.co.uk
R u thinking about it? is the website for Sexwise, a confidential, free helpline offering advice on sex, relationships and contraception. Well-designed, informative and un-threatening.

www.channel4.com/health/microsites/
0-9/4health/teenlife/rel_index.html

Channel 4's Teen Life website has a wealth of health info for young people, particularly Sex Stuff and Relationships microsites.

www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/
microsites/H/hollyoaks/index.html

www.hollyoaks.com
Hollyoaks websites.

www.itv.com/emmerdale
www.emmerdale.net
Emmerdale websites.

www.bbc.co.uk/eastenders
EastEnders website.

www.itv.com/coronationstreet
Coronation Street website.


Channel 4's Citizenship and PSHE website
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