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The Friendship File

Do you ever wonder how your friends really see you? What would life be like if they weren't around? Parents, partners, children all come and go, but our friends stay - witnesses, cheerleaders, therapists, playmates. Each friendship is unique. But what makes it work? Two friends answer 17 questions about each other - on their own and without conferring. Each episode is a combination of those answers, flipping open the blueprint of one of the world's most valuable things - a friendship.
Weekly English United Kingdom Relationships · Documentary
24 Episodes
12 – 24

13. Hailey and Sarah

College roommates end up on opposite sides of the world. How can you be there for each other when you're so far apart?
22 Sep 2020 20 min

12. James and Nathan

In bedrooms 500 miles apart, two nerds discover a virtual connection. Could it ever become a real world friendship?
15 Sep 2020 21 min

11.Richard and Sukhthi

There was an argument by a swimming pool. Or was there? Either way there was football, food, yoga ... and a friendship that would become more important than anyone could ever have imagined.
8 Sep 2020 21 min

10. Grace and Sarah

Two very clever - and very different - girls. One song that suddenly bridges the gap.
20 Aug 2020 16 min

9. Engel and Mackenzly

Two determined, ambitious boys dislike each other on sight. But then ... things begin to change.
12 Aug 2020 12 min

8. Annabel and Rachel

A 13-year-old cuckoo arrives in another 13-year-old's nest. A machete is involved. Surely these two will never be friends?
6 Aug 2020 15 min

7. Megan and Rudy

A lecturer and a student hit it off. A meeting of creative minds. But what happens after graduation?
4 Aug 2020 18 min

6. Celia and Ange

Navigating the maze of 21st Century life? What you need is a friend with a ball of string and a megaphone … and a bottle of really good wine.
30 Jul 2020 19 min

4. Elizabeth and Marge

What do they say? You can choose your friends but you can't choose your family. What if they're both?
30 Jul 2020 20 min

3. Os and Tony

The people you meet on your first day of university. Sometimes you spend the rest of the year trying to get rid of them. Sometimes you’re friends for life. How long might that be?
30 Jul 2020 16 min

2. Simon and Mary

Newish friends. Can an English man and a South African woman find their shared ground?
30 Jul 2020 19 min
 trailer  

1. What is The Friendship File?

There's not really any 'presenting' in the files themselves, so here's a quick introduction to the The Friendship File - how it came about, what it's trying to do and why, if you have friends you really like (and we hope you do), you should take a listen and, of…
24 Jul 2020 6 min
12 – 24