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Family Life

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Lifestyle magazine series for all the family, featuring items on teenagers and exams, and crying babies.

Presenter Helen Mark gives an overview of what is coming up on this edition of the weekly family and lifestyle magazine show. In this first programme, Helen introduces the reporters and researcher who will be working on the series alongside her - Gillian Ievers, Laura Francis and Jacqui Berkley.

Feature on revision time for teenagers facing exams. David Lambon of Bruce College makes suggestions on revision. Various UTV presenters give their own advice. Brian Mooney, a guidance counsellor, suggests how to help children at home during this time.

Jacqui Berkley presents a report on the stress of dealing with newborn children. Brian Richmond from advertising discusses a new ad campaign on the subject. Colin Reid of the NSPCC talks in studio along with Rita Hughes, a midwife. Interviews with young mothers on stresses of crying babies. Interview with Valerie McGuffin of Home Start. Gillian Ievers reports on the story of Courtney Donaghy, one of the smallest premature babies ever to survive in Northern Ireland. Interview with Courtney's mother, Evelyn.

Dr Raman Kapur talks in studio about the benefits of families getting out and doing things together as well as having family support structures.

Family Life (later renamed The Family Show) was a weekly magazine style series presenting reports and in-studio features on family matters, from young children, education, mothers, fathers and issues for the elderly, as well as items on cooking, shopping and leisure.


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The Family Show

Consumer, health and family issues combine in this UTV magazine series from the early 2000s.
Helen Mark presented this eclectic weekly show for Ulster Television, which embraced all aspects of family life from the home and garden to healthcare; from retail to education; from consumer protection to organisations providing care for those in need. Originally called Family Life before morphing into the Family Show, the series provides a warm snapshot of the times as it deals with the issues affecting everyone from young children to the elderly in the early days of the new century. And it was also to provide a platform for a young rising star in the shape of Stephen Nolan, who embarked upon his award-winning broadcasting career as a roving consumer reporter for the series.

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