Announces the six finalists who will be performing at the BBC?s Next Big Thing concert on 9 December 2006. Hear from some of the the finalists and judges on what it means to be part of this contest.
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Quentin Balke, the first Children's Laureate, talks about the post and working with Roald Dahl. Also, two young authors from England and Nigeria discuss whether their age means they are not taken seriously.
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The programme looks at the child prodigies of the arts world.
What is it like to be hailed as a genius writer, dancer or musician before you've reached the age to vote? And what becomes of those early stars - do their careers go from strength to strength or is it inevitable that they retire from the spotlight early?
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Culture Shock focuses on trends being driven by the under-18s. As well as our usual trend expert, Sheila Moorcroft, Tim Marlow is also joined by teen trend spotter from New York, Steve Guttbinder.

We hear how in Japan fashion is not being dictated by fashion editors but by teenagers themselves. We find out why abuse of prescription and over the counter drugs among American teenagers has taken off on an unprecedented scale. Visit Hobbo Hotel, a 3D Virtual Online Community almost exclusively for teenagers. Millions use it every day and such a high concentration of teenagers hasn?t gone unnoticed by record companies.
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On Screen
The world?s youngest film director, India?s Master Kishan, aged 10, talks about his debut feature film C/O Footpath. Kishan wrote the story and has already won two state awards for the film as well as for his performance as a child actor.

And we visit London's Sylvia Young Theatre School to find out why and how young children want to become stars and learn to sing, dance and act.
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