CBBC Brings Back Doc Series My Life

LONDON: Five new films have been commissioned from across the U.K. to be featured in the second installment of the documentary strand My Life for CBBC on BBC Two.

Commissioned from Real Life, Ballet Boys follows three brothers from a working-class area of Liverpool. The boys are trying to make it in the high-brow world of classical ballet. Stammer School follows children at the internationally renowned Michael Palin Centre for Stammering Children as they go through an intensive course of speech and language therapy. Dene Films is producing Stammer School. Boy Racers, an in-house CBBC production, follows the twists and turns of a 15-year-old who is poised on the brink of becoming the British and world junior champion karter life as he attempts to make his fast-moving dream a reality.

Struggling To Stay Awake reveals the real battles faced by children suffering from Narcolepsy and explores how the kids have to deal with falling asleep several times a day without warning. Struggling To Stay Awake is executive produced by Sarah Murch for Blakeway North. The previously-announced Toy Soldiers completes the series. Toy Soldiers goes on the march with children whose lives have been disrupted by having a parent in the armed forces. Commissioned from Walsh Bros, Toy Soldiers is produced by John Walsh and executive produced by Roger James.

Damian Kavanagh, CBBC’s controller, said: "These thought-provoking films show the incredible resilience and determination of the children involved to overcome the obstacles they face in life. Either by managing a physical condition, enduring an enforced separation or realising a burning ambition."