Channel 4 (UK) Documentaries

Extraordinary Teens: School of Life and Deaf (2017x111)

Air date: Dec 14, 2017

Documentary following a year in the life of pupils at Mary Hare residential school for the deaf in Newbury, Berkshire. Fifteen-year-old Lewis decides he wants to be fitted with a cochlear implant to help him hear, although there is no guarantee of success. Sixth-former Fae is nervous about leaving for university and facing the hearing world without her deaf twin sister, while Andrew aims to become Britain's first deaf prime minister. His first step is to apply for the head boy role at Mary Hare. Will this finally help him fit in with his peers?