SEX, LIES AND SOAPS
PROGRAMME 4: APPEARANCE
LINKS
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Clip 1: Attractive actors and adoring audiences 03.14 – 07.43
- Opens: 'The teen audience is hugely important…'
- Closes: '…aspire to be the young person in that soap.'
Clip 2: Role models, mags and marketing 08.53 – 13.05
- Opens: 'Having fashionable characters…'
- Closes: '…these people have been specifically chosen for that.'
Clip 3: Soap's effect on self-image 13.20 – 16.59
- Opens: 'Soap opera producers are caught in a dilemma …'
- Closes: '…their body image is affected by what they see in soaps.'
Clip 4: Pressurised or patronised? 17.39 – 19.13
- Opens: 'For girls the influence of soaps is much deeper…'
- Closes: '…get to that unrealistic weight or whatever.'
Clip 5: Different stories 20.30 – end
- Opens: 'But are pretty faces and perfect bodies on screen enough …'
- Closes: '…It's nice, it's very nice.'
Related websites
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www.channel4.com/health/microsites/
0-9/4health/food/abe_index.html
Really useful and accessible source of information and support from Channel 4 on a range of eating disorders, with useful examples, research and links.
www.channel4.com/entertainment/t4/
microsites/M/makingfaces/index.html
Channel 4 website with light-hearted interactive games raising issues about body image and appearance.
www.channel4.com/health/microsites/
0-9/4health/teenlife/index.html
The 'Mind Matters' part of this Channel 4 website offers advice and tips on body image and self-esteem
www.edauk.com
Website of the Eating Disorders Association.
www.thesite.org.uk
Run by the charity YouthNet UK, this website offers young people information, support and guidance on a range of issues, including body image and self-esteem
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.
www.blissmag.co.uk
Bliss magazine's website.
