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00:07So why are we cutting up cardboard?
00:10We're making a video booth.
00:12What's a video booth?
00:13We've got a big picture in.
00:17I want you all to record a video for Mum about what you want to be when you grow up.
00:23Good morning!
00:24Hello, sisters!
00:26I want to be...
00:28I want to be a...
00:29I want to be a...
00:32Finny!
00:33I want to be a firefighter.
00:36I want to be a gymnast.
00:38Watching 22 kids grow up, despite how different they are,
00:43there's one thing they all have in common.
00:45I want to be a teacher.
00:47Be a hairdresser.
00:49They all have a dream.
00:50I'd like to be a show jumper when I'm older.
00:53A dancer, a singer.
00:55I want to be a footballer so I can really get Man United.
00:58But kids don't dream about being accountants or shop assistants.
01:02They dream big.
01:05My dream is to build huge pieces of engineering,
01:08like jets, tanks and nuclear submarines.
01:11If he doesn't get this exam result that he needs for English,
01:14it's game over before he's even started.
01:17I just can't read the text and extract information.
01:20It just doesn't happen.
01:21I find it really difficult to put it onto paper.
01:25I can't do this.
01:26It's not making any sense.
01:28That's the point of going to see this English tutor.
01:30I quite understand it.
01:31And to accountants, I can't believe it but understanding it.
01:33So I'm going to go back upstairs.
01:35Goodbye.
01:35Goodbye.
01:36If I fail, my dream of designing the next Concorde is over.
01:44The End
01:44The End
02:0716-year-old Max Radford has a scientific mind and ambitions to match.
02:14Is that an engine at the back then, poking out the tail end or not? Well, that's not a jet
02:19engine, is it?
02:20Jet engines, it's intake for combustion. It takes it in, blows up effectively and then takes it out.
02:28His dream is to work on large-scale engineering projects.
02:32I just like building stuff to be quite honest, whether it's jets, tanks, nuclear submarines or a power station.
02:38Like massive things, huge pieces of engineering, just because they're just so cool.
02:44Navy ships that are larger than some continents. There's planes that can have planes on them.
02:49These are all basic lines. I'm a fan of the absolute extreme of planes.
02:54The end goal is for me to get a degree apprenticeship at TAA.
02:58I'd quite like to go into a field of chemistry, like rocket fuels and stuff like that.
03:05The thing is though, Max, I can't understand how something it weighs and they must say hundreds of tons can
03:10fly.
03:12It's just that they produce more updraft than like down. Well, they can't like gravity with it.
03:17It's mad, isn't it? Max has definitely got an engineering brain.
03:21It's almost like your x-ray vision looking inside, how it's been put together.
03:27To set Max's engineering cogs whirring, Noel has a surprise for him, a treat.
03:33He wants to show Max one of the greatest engineering achievements of the 20th century.
03:40Concorde.
03:42Look at it. It's a thing of beauty that, isn't it? Jeez.
03:46Fast play.
03:48Going on board? Yes, please.
03:52Dreaming big is risky. That's why I wanted to show Max Concorde.
03:57It's such a feat of engineering.
03:59Somebody dreamt that and it paid off.
04:01Do you want to have a quick look in the flight deck, guys?
04:04I'd love to, yeah. What do you think of this then, Max?
04:06So many buttons.
04:07Where do you even start?
04:10Concorde is quite mind-blowing for just what it is.
04:12A commercial aircraft that can move at the speed of sound.
04:15It was kind of shocked to see all the buttons and different, like, levers and the like.
04:19It was very cool.
04:20The centre section is all about fuel management.
04:23Concorde used fuel to bounce the aeroplane.
04:25Ah.
04:26There's 13 fuel tanks that can move the fuel round.
04:28It just pumps it from one to another time, I think.
04:30That's cool with the fuel management.
04:32Now, would that be done by a computer?
04:33Yes.
04:34It's all very, very cool.
04:36It's quite a privilege, to be honest, because this is, like, a part of history.
04:40Oh, to see Max's face light up when he was surrounded by all that technology,
04:44he could just see it. It was all being absorbed.
04:47What's this? What does that do?
04:49I really hope it has inspired Max, and, you know, who knows?
04:52He could be involved in the next engineering revolution.
04:56Where as kids are the younger, they dream these things
04:58and they forget about it and move on.
05:00That's not Max.
05:01I can just see him going on in his life, living his childhood dream.
05:07If I could be alive while this was being built, that would have been great.
05:10I would have loved to build one of these.
05:15Before Max can realise his ambition, his first challenge to overcome, his exams.
05:21It's just fun just to make, like, little models of stuff.
05:24I've just got to do my GCSEs, which is very stressful.
05:28To get where he wants to be in life, he's got to get a score of seven
05:32in maths, physics and chemistry, and fives in other subjects.
05:38Two scores.
05:40Physics and chemistry are just fun.
05:44Maths, I like it more than the other subjects.
05:48Totally right up Max's street.
05:50Like, he loves anything like that, doesn't he?
05:52Yeah.
05:52He's always excelled in doing stuff like that.
05:54It's not the sevens he's worried about, it's getting fives in the other subjects
05:58that he's worried about.
05:59I'm very bad at a lot of the other subjects.
06:03Like, English, I'm horrible at that.
06:06English GCSE can be a stumbling block for many students,
06:10particularly those with autism.
06:12I think around year six is when I realised that my mind worked differently than others.
06:16With my autism, I see the world, like, differently to everybody else.
06:23Many autistic people can interpret written words very literally,
06:27which can make it difficult to read between the lines
06:30and understand hidden meanings.
06:35What do you think of that?
06:42My weakest subject is English just because there's no way to really revise it.
06:46It's not, like, a set material that you have to learn.
06:50Maths is a lot better than English
06:51because of the definitive right answer and a definitive wrong one.
06:55Maths, science, he gets.
06:57Maths has always been absolutely brilliant.
07:00Two plus two is always going to be four,
07:02but English, describing a summer scene,
07:05you can describe it one way and I can describe it another.
07:07It's never going to be the same.
07:09Because he finds it really difficult to put it from here onto paper.
07:15Because there's not a direct answer.
07:17There's not a formula to it.
07:19I really need to get the right grades,
07:21otherwise I can't attend the college.
07:23Everything's stacked against match, you know,
07:25and if he doesn't conquer his English,
07:27his dreams will be crushed before he's even started.
07:38In life, most of us dream about finding the perfect partner.
07:42It's something that Ellie Radford and boyfriend Stephen
07:45hope they have found at the first time of asking.
07:48We met from my sister Sophie.
07:52Sophie works in the same place that I work.
07:54Sophie posted a picture of me on her Instagram.
07:57Yeah, and then I told Sophie to put in a good word for me.
08:00And then a few weeks later, I went on a dog walk.
08:03It was like we had known each other for quite a while, wasn't it?
08:07I'd say sparks flew quite quickly, yeah.
08:11So quickly, in fact, that they moved in together after just a few months.
08:15You was lovely when I first met you.
08:17I still am now.
08:18We don't have many disagreements though, do we?
08:21No.
08:21Maybe that's why we worked so well then.
08:25Ellie and Stephen are living the dream,
08:28where everything feels exciting.
08:30Finish each other's sentences, it's almost perfect.
08:34I mean, I remember when we first started going out,
08:37everything feels really special, new,
08:40and the other person can never do any wrong, can they?
08:42No, exactly that, so...
08:44And you think the other person always wants to do
08:46the same things as what you want to do?
08:48We used to write little letters to each other.
08:50You used to write them to me,
08:52so I felt obliged that I had to write one back.
08:54Oh!
08:55It's all coming out now, isn't it?
08:58When you're in love, you do crazy things,
09:00like heading off on a mountain hike.
09:02At least that's what Ellie's told Stephen.
09:05I quite like hiking and going up mountains and stuff.
09:08So what stuff have you got planned Ellie?
09:11So, today we're doing an adrenaline activity,
09:15where we are walking along a rope between two mountains.
09:21That's gone down well.
09:23Yeah, when I heard about it, I panicked a little bit.
09:29It'll be interesting to see how I cope,
09:32because I'm not big on that sort of stuff.
09:36Unfortunately, Stephen, Ellie is.
09:38When it comes to being a daredevil, she's got history.
09:42Oh, my gosh! She jumps!
09:44She jumps!
09:44I did a skydive once, loved it.
09:47Ellie, wait!
09:48I really enjoy adrenaline activities
09:51and that's one thing that I was attracted to Stephen with.
09:54I thought he liked doing the same things as me,
09:57but by the look on his face, I've definitely got that wrong.
10:01Yeah, I'm really looking forward to it.
10:04Who are you trying to kid, Stephen?
10:06You better close your eyes.
10:08The mountains in Honister reach more than 2,000 feet high.
10:12I think I'm just going to go for it.
10:14I'm not even going to think about it.
10:15Best way, honestly.
10:16Yeah, yeah.
10:16Are you scared, Ellie?
10:18No.
10:20How does my bum look in this harness?
10:24I love this type of thing.
10:25This is up my street.
10:26I'm quite excited, actually.
10:28More than can be said for Stephen.
10:34It's very windy.
10:36Oh, wow, we are high.
10:38Whoa!
10:39You all right, Steve?
10:41Yes.
10:42Are you sure?
10:44Don't look down.
10:46How strong is the wire?
10:49If you're a bit worried today,
10:52don't start shuffling sideways.
10:54That would just keep you worried for longer.
10:56So just one foot in front of the other.
10:58And when you're ready, off you go.
11:02Oh, what the hell.
11:05It's nice.
11:07It just doesn't fit very safe, Ellie.
11:09I know.
11:10I'm enjoying myself, though.
11:13I really started to panic.
11:15I think I looked down too long.
11:20Should we at home with a cup of tea?
11:23I was enjoying myself until I was on that bridge.
11:28I was trying to whack brave.
11:30It's not my ideal Sunday, to be honest.
11:33What the hell.
11:34We don't have to go back down that to get back, do we?
11:37No, no, no.
11:38No, Stephen, there's a quicker way off the mountain.
11:41Ellie has another surprise in store for you.
11:44We're going to do a bungee jump.
11:46You what?
11:48The bungee jump was definitely another level.
11:49I think I just about managed the bridge.
11:52I didn't really think it could get much worse than that.
11:55You don't like bungees, then?
11:57No, absolutely not.
11:59We're going to just hide that.
12:00I'll do it.
12:01If you do it first, I'll do it.
12:03I'll do it straight after you, I think.
12:05Stephen, ever the gentleman.
12:08Ladies first.
12:11I'm usually quite the daredevil with stuff like that,
12:14but stood on the edge, even my knees were wobbling a little bit
12:18because it was quite high.
12:19Hang on, where's my strap?
12:22Oh, this is high.
12:23When he started counting down from three,
12:25I could feel the adrenaline running through my body.
12:30When counting through, you're not going to think about it,
12:32you're just going to go for it.
12:34Three, two, one.
12:37One, two, one.
12:40One, two, one.
12:41One, two, one.
12:44Just think, you live once.
12:46If I got to, like, 80 and I hadn't done this,
12:49would I regret it?
12:50Probably.
12:52Her jumping made it even worse that she actually did it.
12:55Ellie did it, I've got to do it.
12:58Walking out is like walking to your death.
13:01That's what it felt like.
13:02I was terrified.
13:03Explain to me how safe this is.
13:05Tell me.
13:05Never had anything going wrong before.
13:08But I wasn't having that.
13:09I didn't want to listen to the word he had to say.
13:11Are you ready?
13:12No, I'm not.
13:13This is horrible.
13:14Like, I think I'm going to be sick.
13:16I hope no-one's down there looking up.
13:19I don't want to do it, mate.
13:20I don't want to do it.
13:23See, you can do it!
13:24How did you find it?
13:26Close your eyes!
13:27Was it all right?
13:28Yeah, it's fine, I promise.
13:30Right, I'll do it.
13:30I'm doing it.
13:31Ready?
13:32Three, two...
13:33Oh, no, no, no!
13:34This is horrible!
13:35The worst thing ever!
13:37Do you know where you get that feeling?
13:38You d***!
13:39Can't say adieu, Stephen.
13:41Come on, you can do it!
13:42I know Ellie was trying to help me, but honestly, it was just making it worse.
13:47I don't want to do it!
13:48I don't want to do it!
13:49This is horrible!
13:50It's fun, I promise!
13:52Stop smiling at me!
13:53I'm not!
13:54I just know you can do it!
13:55Come on!
13:56You'll be proud when you've done it!
13:58I promise you!
14:00You'll do anything for your dream partner, won't you?
14:05Three, two, one!
14:07Do it!
14:08Oh, you f***ing f***ing f***ing!
14:10No, I'm bailing!
14:12I'm bailing!
14:13I'm bailing!
14:14I've done it!
14:14I wish she'd have told me before, because I'd probably have said no.
14:18So I'm not particularly happy about that.
14:20Good for Ellie.
14:22I'm not doing it for anyone.
14:23Like they say about finding the perfect relationship,
14:26look before you leap.
14:28Maybe this isn't a match made in heaven after all.
14:31Get me off!
14:32Get me off!
14:33Get me off!
14:34I think maybe he was just a bit annoyed that his body wouldn't let him jump off it.
14:39I'm not happy.
14:40That's really high up.
14:42I did feel kind of bad for arranging to do something that I thought he'd like for him to not
14:48end up actually enjoying.
14:56Back at Radford Towers, it's business as usual with 15 kids at home today, and one of them is trying
15:03to revise.
15:04Good luck, Max.
15:09It's very hard to get peace and quiet in the house.
15:11They can't go in a single room and it be quiet.
15:15It's always loud.
15:16It's impossible to concentrate in this house.
15:21Shut up!
15:23I'm on question one.
15:27I'm on question one.
15:39I'm trying to advise.
15:40Please get help.
15:43No!
15:44No!
15:46No!
15:50With Max struggling to focus in the madhouse, Noel has packed him off to Chloe's.
15:55Not just for some peace, but also extra English tuition.
16:01Well, we asked Chloe to get involved because she's been to uni and she did really well in English at
16:06school.
16:06You know, with it being his sister, it might be a bit easier for him to just sit down, have
16:10a chat with her, take it in a bit better.
16:13I'm happy to be getting some tutoring from my big sister.
16:16She's quite smart.
16:17I hope that she can help.
16:19Do you want a drink?
16:20No, I'm all right.
16:21No?
16:22OK.
16:22How are you feeling about your English exam coming up then?
16:25It really doesn't feel like it's going to go well.
16:27I struggle with primarily the reading, what I've read and, like, information about what I've read.
16:33So you just kind of read it as, like, one tone?
16:35Yeah.
16:36You can't read, like, how someone might be feeling and what they're saying.
16:40Yeah, I don't understand tones.
16:41You don't.
16:41I just can't read the text and extract information.
16:44It just doesn't happen.
16:45OK.
16:46So with Max's autism over the years, I have more experienced it when he was younger.
16:51And we'd go out shopping and he would get really overwhelmed and he would hide in, like, the clothing rails
16:57and things.
16:58Right.
16:59I've got an idea, Max.
17:00Let's compare these two poems and you can write the similarities and the differences that the two poems describe
17:08feelings of watching someone they love grow up.
17:12Yeah.
17:12Yeah.
17:13Also still playing hopscotch.
17:14Admire the neat hop and skips of her not overstepping the line.
17:23And no complaints going on.
17:25I taught you at eight to ride a bicycle, loping along beside you as you wobbled away on two
17:31round wheels.
17:32Chloe's doing her best, but it's not sinking in.
17:35Pull the head down the curved path of the park.
17:37And some people with autism have difficulties with dealing with long or complicated stories because it can feel overwhelming.
17:44It's just too much information to process.
17:47I don't see where it shows her growing up.
17:49I'm not good at these.
17:53It's not actually the reading that he struggles with.
17:56It's kind of trying to get the context of it and, like, how it might be said and coming across.
18:02It's quite difficult to make yourself understand that, isn't it, I suppose, if you can't process that.
18:10I've read it about three times now.
18:12I still don't know what the tone is.
18:14I know everybody knows the skill, but I don't know how they know the skill.
18:17I genuinely have no clue what I'm doing.
18:19When I have to do this in the actual exam.
18:23I can't do this.
18:24It's not making any sense.
18:29This has been quite difficult, to be honest.
18:31Because I'm not a teacher either.
18:33This is definitely above my pay grade.
18:35I have no clue what's going on.
18:37I only started deteriorating.
18:39Max's attention to the task in hand is wavering.
18:44He's lost focus.
18:46The pen's having an aneurysm.
18:48It's annoying me.
18:49Max, can you stop doing that, please?
18:52What?
18:52I don't know why I'm doing this.
18:54I can't be bothered.
18:54It's just not making any sense whatsoever.
18:57I'm going.
18:59Lesson over.
19:05Hiya, Glow.
19:06Hiya.
19:07Erm, it's not gone very well.
19:09He has stormed off.
19:11Oh, you're joking.
19:12I mean, personally, I think that you need to be probably getting a professional in.
19:17Someone that has experience with neurodiverse students, I think.
19:21Oh, well.
19:22Thanks for trying anyway, love.
19:23No, bye.
19:25So, minus.
19:27B.
19:29Plus.
19:31Or minus.
19:32At his wits' end, a frustrated Max can't find the key to unlock GCSE English.
19:38And he can see his dream job as an engineer fading fast.
19:43Yep, expanding brackets.
19:45So, negative B plus or minus the square root of B squared, take 4AC, all over 2A.
19:53Maths, I love maths.
19:54It's all, it's all numbers.
19:56They all have definite answers.
19:57You can prove everything.
19:58This is the quadratic formula.
20:00This is great.
20:01This will work.
20:01Okay, in the real world, I can use this.
20:05I am never going to use Macbeth.
20:07If English was like this, I could get a 9.
20:10English isn't like this.
20:11You don't prove anything.
20:12You interpret.
20:13And you try to find proof for what you've interpreted.
20:16What I want to do is a big dream.
20:18And I know the competition is vast and tough.
20:20And I know good maths is only going to get me so far.
20:23If I can't understand my reading and don't know what to write, then I'm done.
20:28If I fail, my dream of designing the next Concorde is over.
20:33I have completely given up on English.
20:35I've got no hope for it.
20:48Ellie and Stephen have been together now for 11 months.
20:51But they are only just discovering the realities of what makes each other tick.
20:57Can you tell Stephen done the last wash?
20:59And now my wash bottle looks like that.
21:01That's men.
21:02Every relationship, doesn't it?
21:04When they've gone through the honeymoon period.
21:06It's the buffers, doesn't it? Yeah.
21:08Testing tea. Yeah.
21:09How far they can go.
21:10He's been doing a lot of hours at work.
21:15More than he usually would.
21:17So I'm by myself more than I usually would be as well.
21:21When he's not at work, he's down at the gym.
21:24Well, at least that's what he says he's doing.
21:26Being in the flat on my own is very boring.
21:29I thought Stephen would be home a lot more, but he's out.
21:33So it gets very lonely.
21:35I thought moving out into a flat would be a bit more exciting and be with each other all the
21:40time.
21:41But it's not like that.
21:44It feels like I've not spoke to anyone for, like, hours.
21:49First romances can be difficult.
21:52When you're young, you're growing up, like, quite quickly, aren't you, really?
21:57So what you might have wanted a year into your relationship as opposed to, like, two, three years,
22:04it could be, like, really different.
22:06In that aspect, that can be quite difficult when you're trying to grow with somebody,
22:10but you may be growing in different directions.
22:13No, I wouldn't say it's common to meet someone young and then stay together forever.
22:19Busy lives and differences of opinion have started to have an effect,
22:24and one thing has brought things to a head.
22:28I want to get some more tattoos, but Ellie's not a fan.
22:32She says, er, enough's enough.
22:35I wanted to get the side of my neck done,
22:37because then it connects my chest and my shoulder.
22:41There it is. Something like that.
22:43It's not necessarily subtle, but it's not like it's covering my entire neck.
22:48Stephen is learning that being in a couple means that you are no longer piloting the plane alone.
22:54She said, if you get it done, don't expect me to like it.
22:58That was her last words to me.
23:00I just think they look cool.
23:02I'd rather he didn't get a neck tattoo.
23:05Sometimes they can look a little bit tacky.
23:08Neck tattoos are just not for me.
23:10It's not so much as having to ask, it's having to suggest the idea.
23:15Well, she did actually say, er, no, you're not getting that.
23:19Because I got all my tattoos before I met Ellie.
23:21Obviously, I don't want any conflicts in my relationship,
23:23but I don't really like people telling me what I can or can't do.
23:26It sounds like the battle for who wears the trousers in the house
23:29has well and truly begun.
23:32I'm going to do it.
23:33It's my body.
23:35I'm going to get it done.
23:37So I'm just going to have to put up with her not liking it.
23:41They've been together for nearly a year now,
23:43but I think they've got to that stage now
23:45where they're starting to see each other's faults.
23:48Yeah, it's like them waking up from their dream
23:50and seeing them for who they are, warts and all.
23:53That's when the little arguments start
23:55and we're worried that their relationship is hitting the rocks.
24:07It's not long till Max's GCSE exams.
24:11But because of his autism,
24:12he still can't get to grips with English
24:14and he has to pass it to take the next step.
24:18Max!
24:19Just come in the living room a sec, will you?
24:21With his dream career in engineering hanging by a thread,
24:24Noel is refusing to let Max give it all up.
24:27I've lined up an English tutor
24:28who specialises in neurodivergent students.
24:32I'm hoping she'll be able to help Max crack his exam.
24:35We've got to do all we can.
24:37We can't let him chuck the towel in.
24:38He's got to persevere.
24:40I've just got to get him on board first.
24:42You need your English, don't you?
24:44I know I do, but I don't know how to revise it.
24:47That's the point of going to see this English tutor.
24:49She'll hopefully give you some revision guidance.
24:51I've kind of just given up with it.
24:53I don't even really get the point of English.
24:55I can speak English and I can understand it.
24:57At some point, you're going to have to put things down on paper, aren't you?
25:01Just to be on your engineering course,
25:02you're going to be having to write things, aren't you?
25:05Essays and whatever else.
25:06I think you're just trying to convince yourself
25:07you don't really need this English, but you do.
25:09I've done a mighty good job of it so far.
25:11I'm just reminding you, you need this English.
25:13I hate for you to get everything else...
25:15And not that.
25:16...then you can't move on to do what you wanted
25:17just because of this damn English.
25:19I don't quite understand it.
25:20I can't really bother understanding it.
25:22So I'm going to go back upstairs.
25:24Goodbye.
25:25Well, that went well.
25:27There's no talking to him at the moment.
25:29He's just totally disengaged.
25:30We're running out of time.
25:31He needs this tutor to make him see sense.
25:37Time to get their thinking caps on.
25:39So what could we do to make him go?
25:41We thought and thought and we brainstormed.
25:43What the heck can we do?
25:45Dangle him out the window.
25:47Don't tempt me.
25:48Take his computer off him.
25:50Doesn't work when they're this age.
25:52They'll just face you off.
25:54Clean the camper van toilet.
25:55We could maybe pay him.
25:57No, maybe not that.
25:59Make him share a room with Oscar and Casper.
26:01Oh, yeah.
26:02Then we had a brainwave.
26:04Temptation.
26:05We need to remind Max what he could be missing out on
26:08and if he doesn't, put his mind to it.
26:10Bit like he is what you could have won.
26:11Yeah.
26:18Time for Noel to put their bright idea into action,
26:21reminding Max about his dream job,
26:24working with extreme machines.
26:27I decided to take Max to a BAE careers day.
26:31They manufacture everything that Max dreams about
26:34and would love to work on.
26:37Submarines, aircraft.
26:38That's just Max all over.
26:40It's like a very large fish.
26:42If it works for a fish, it might work for a sub.
26:45Max was on such a downer about his English exam,
26:47I just felt like he needed a pickup.
26:49Something to inspire him, knuckle down
26:51and help him with his English revision.
26:53But this is my last throw of the dice.
26:55If we can't engage him here,
26:57then there's not much more we can do.
27:00Hello.
27:01How are you doing there?
27:01How are you doing?
27:02Yeah.
27:03Right, let's go then.
27:05Now for the guided tour,
27:07courtesy of Connor and Rachel from BAE.
27:10This is the mechanical bench,
27:12and you've got different things that you make with machinists.
27:15Although we're always learning in here,
27:18it's not just getting your head down,
27:20do the work.
27:21We try and make it as appealing and as fun as possible.
27:24I think he's finding it very interesting, is Max.
27:26He's listening.
27:26He's wanting to get involved and learn all about it.
27:30Connor has a test for the wannabe apprentice.
27:33This what we've got here,
27:34it's an isometric drawing.
27:35I'm going to give you a piece of wire.
27:36I want you to bend what you see.
27:40Don't worry.
27:41You're getting it wrong.
27:42But if you get it right,
27:43I'll be being pressed.
27:44There you go, right?
27:5190 degrees for the last.
27:53180.
27:54We always thought,
27:55he's a clever lad,
27:56he knows a lot of stuff.
27:57Just turn it around,
27:58no matter which direction.
28:00I can see why he wants to get into the type of job
28:03that he wants to get into.
28:04That's what I got.
28:06Let's have a look at it compared to that.
28:08That's right.
28:09Are you doing it right?
28:10That's right.
28:10Put it down there, Max.
28:11Oh, my God.
28:13You're well done.
28:14I'm just that good.
28:15You are just that good.
28:17My life is pies.
28:19The pies you eat,
28:20not pies in maths and all the rest of it.
28:22So, it's nice to have such a clever lad in the family,
28:25but he's way above my pay grade of understanding what he's doing.
28:30Max has passed that test,
28:31but getting into BAE will not be easy.
28:35It's always competitive.
28:36Yeah.
28:37Everyone is always trying to fight to get into this place.
28:40We need maths, English, science.
28:42Different trades require different levels of passes.
28:47What's your concern?
28:48English in general,
28:49because I'm not very good at that.
28:50I struggled with my English as well coming out of school.
28:53It wasn't until the job was offered that I actually knuckled down
28:58and did what I need to do to get around here.
29:02Today has been a resounding success.
29:05Looking at all this has inspired me,
29:07because I want to get into it, but it's hard to get in.
29:10I've got to focus and get the grades I need.
29:12Right.
29:13Thanks very much.
29:14Thanks for your time.
29:14Good luck, Max.
29:15See you.
29:16Does this make you want to knuckle down even more, Max, for your exams?
29:20Especially English, you really need to focus on that.
29:23I already wanted to get good grades,
29:24but now, like, I really do feel like I've got to.
29:27If you want to get in here...
29:28You've got to take quite a lot of effort.
29:30If it's a career that you want...
29:33It seems Max is going to engage, but is it too little too late?
29:38Right, do you want to head home?
29:39I do, I want some food. I would not mind a Greg's.
29:43Are you sure that's brain food, Max?
29:53Stephen is absent again.
29:55Where did he go?
29:56He's supposed to be at the gym, but I don't know.
30:00Fearing their dream is drifting away,
30:02Ellie wants to take Stephen on another adrenaline-fuelled weekend
30:06and has called in favourite sister Amy to help with some shopping.
30:10Look, it actually says two-person capacity.
30:12Double skin tent.
30:14We're here today to find some bits for the day I've planned.
30:19So I'm planning, like, an adventure day.
30:22I like camping, kind of hoping he'll like it as well.
30:26Make sure he can make his coffee.
30:29I imagine that would have more weekends away,
30:32but there's always something that gets in the way.
30:35Our one-year anniversary is coming up,
30:37and I do want it to be special because it's a long time, one year.
30:41I have said to him that I've planned something, but...
30:44You're not telling him what?
30:45I'm not telling him what? No.
30:46So I'm hoping he likes it and he's not like,
30:49Oh, I've been saying to him for a while, Amy.
30:51He lived once.
30:52When Ellie and Stephen first met, they just bounced off each other.
30:56Love's young dream.
30:57Recently there's just been a few things that we've disagreed on.
31:00So Ellie's trying to push Stephen to do the bungee jumping,
31:03pushing him towards not getting the tattoo that he wants.
31:07So there's just been a little bit of disagreement within the relationship,
31:10which isn't like them two.
31:14Ellie's got the weekend all booked and planned.
31:16Time to tell Stephen.
31:25I was really looking forward to a weekend away.
31:27I was very disappointed.
31:29I have no idea what he's playing at, but he's been mysterious.
31:39Nolan Sue's plan to inspire the young engineer has worked,
31:43and Max has agreed to meet Olivia,
31:45an English tutor and neurodivergent specialist.
31:49The thing I worry about with Max is he's going to fail his exam.
31:52And if he doesn't get this exam result that he needs for English,
31:55it's game over before he's even started.
31:58Hello.
31:59Hi, Max.
32:00Lovely.
32:01Nice to meet you. Are you all right?
32:02I'll probably leave you to it with Max and then...
32:04Yeah, no problem. Do you want to come and sit down, Max?
32:06Yeah, sure.
32:07So, English literature.
32:08We're going to focus on A Christmas Carol today.
32:11Max is working with Olivia on the lead up to his exams.
32:14It's now or never.
32:17I struggle with connecting quotes,
32:19like what they mean, where they are in the text,
32:22and putting them into a sentence. I can't really do it.
32:24Olivia realises that Max thinks in terms of formula and rules,
32:28so she's got a clever method of getting him to think of English in the same way.
32:33This process that I'm going to show you today is really going to help you do that.
32:36So, the chunking process takes that big task,
32:40splitting it up into manageable pieces.
32:43Breaking down information into smaller parts
32:46makes it less overwhelming and easier to remember new material.
32:50What you need to do is chunk that and split it into small manageable pieces.
32:55Take two of these that you think happens during the story.
33:00Internal monologue.
33:01Do you think that's something that Scrooge does?
33:02Yeah, he does it when he's talking to Ghost of Marley.
33:06Absolutely.
33:07He says,
33:08You're no more graver than gravy when that Tricardy shiver into his bone.
33:11So that works.
33:12Cliffhangers.
33:13I mean, you can kind of say Tiny Tim, but it gets resolved at the end.
33:16Yeah.
33:17And then Flashback and Flashforwards is the ghosts.
33:19Yeah, absolutely.
33:20So Flashback and Flashforwards is a really obvious one for us to use.
33:24So it just gives that a circle.
33:26Lovely.
33:27You've just got a very unique set of skills and unfortunately,
33:33you have some skills that are just incredibly difficult for you to master.
33:37The repetition and the...
33:39Yeah, Olivia seems really good and helpful towards Max.
33:42This is really his last chance saloon.
33:44You've done really, really well there, Max.
33:46Do you feel like this has been useful?
33:48I do feel like this has been useful.
33:49I can definitely answer questions better than what I did before.
33:52Yeah.
33:53I think that will help me quite a lot during the exam.
33:55How did he get on?
33:56He's absolutely brilliant.
33:57He's really open about his autism and things that he's found difficult.
34:01So now all these little extra tools and tips from Max.
34:04Mm-hm.
34:05What are his chances of passing, do you think?
34:06At the end of the day, these GCSEs are not guaranteed
34:10and Max is a borderline kid.
34:13He needs to change mindset to, I can do this.
34:18Okay.
34:20I'm glad he's engaged.
34:21I just hope it's not too late.
34:32It has been a testing time for Ellie and Stephen's dream relationship.
34:37And now they seem to have hit the rocks.
34:45We should have been going to the lakes today after work, but Stephen blew me out.
34:49I'm annoyed, to be honest, and the bus is late.
34:53I've been waiting for the bus for ages and then this nice BMW starts driving towards me, beeping its horn.
35:05What are you doing?
35:07I need to leave.
35:08Why are you in the driver's seat?
35:11Stephen has been keeping a secret that explains exactly why he hasn't been around.
35:19I passed my driving test.
35:21Buzzing.
35:22I was pretty nervous this morning.
35:23I've been up since four in the morning.
35:25But it went pretty smooth, to be fair.
35:27Quite happy with myself.
35:29I was over the moon.
35:30Best feeling ever.
35:32One of the biggest motivators, so me and Ellie could go out and do things.
35:35Like going to lakes and stuff like that.
35:37Mr. Romantic.
35:38Aww.
35:39See me car.
35:44What does Ellie know?
35:45Ellie doesn't know a right lot.
35:47I've just been smashing lessons like three times a week, so I'm going to surprise her and pick her up
35:51from work.
35:52I was a bit shocked when I seen him drive.
35:54I couldn't believe he was doing secret driving lessons.
35:58I didn't tell Ellie in case I failed.
36:00I was at home a lot on my own, so I was like, what's going on?
36:03I'm very bad at lying as well, so it was quite difficult for me to lie about doing my driving
36:09lessons.
36:10I'm really happy for him.
36:11I just got away with saying I was going to the gym.
36:14Well, then you usually send me a Snapchat when you're in the gym and you didn't.
36:17What did you think I was doing then?
36:18Well, I don't know.
36:20I'm not getting up to mischief.
36:22No.
36:24Never.
36:25I think it is quite hard getting into a relationship when you're young and just starting to get used to
36:30each other.
36:30Hating to know each other, how each other tick and, you know, it's easy to misunderstand each other.
36:34Do you understand me, Noel? Do you know how I tick after 37 years?
36:38Well, we should do. We've got 22 kids.
36:40So now that you can drive, we can go anywhere.
36:43We can go for a drive cruise now.
36:45We can go to Windermere.
36:46And we can even go to Big Asda now.
36:49We can go to Little Asda as well. Sound, innit?
37:05The day of reckoning has arrived.
37:09Today, Max is taking his English exam.
37:22We've been through GCSEs a lot.
37:25And you would think that it would get easier, but it's still just as stressful.
37:29How many times have we been? Are you counting?
37:3212.
37:33Well, Max is number 13, so hopefully it's a lucky 13, not an unlucky one.
37:39Lucky 13? Never heard of that before, Noel.
37:58Now that Stephen's got a set of wheels, he's whisking Ellie away for a surprise.
38:05Right, close your eyes. Watch your head. Stay that way.
38:09You can't see through my fingers, can you?
38:11No.
38:12I can't wait to surprise Ellie, she really deserves it.
38:16Right.
38:18Voila.
38:19Oh!
38:20This is nice.
38:22Wow.
38:24I like it.
38:25I do.
38:25Stephen proving what an old romantic he really is.
38:29Impressed with yourself? Yeah.
38:30It's good.
38:32To celebrate their first year as a couple, Stephen has taken Ellie for a mix of romance and rambling.
38:39It's going.
38:40It's getting going.
38:42It's going.
38:42It's nice.
38:43We have fire.
38:44Oh, I love fires.
38:46Do you?
38:46Having successfully navigated the little blip in their relationship, they can now carry
38:51on living the dream.
38:53I never doubted him.
38:55It's quite relieving for me now, because it was in the back of my mind a little bit that
38:58she was wondering what I was up to.
39:00It was a misunderstanding, but we still love each other, yeah.
39:03I got you a little surprise.
39:05Oh, okay.
39:08There you go.
39:10Scrapbook.
39:11It's got loads of photos in it.
39:14Oh, that's cute.
39:15Prince Charming strikes again.
39:17Stephen's exactly what I wanted in her boyfriend.
39:20I just got carried away wanting everything to be perfect.
39:22Now I realise dreams are made for two of you.
39:26Prague.
39:27And this one's in Paris.
39:29For my birthday, I like that one.
39:30And this is our first Christmas.
39:32It's nice to look back on, isn't it?
39:34Yeah.
39:34All the stuff we've done.
39:35We've actually done quite a lot in just a year, haven't we?
39:38Like, moving in.
39:39We're on our first holiday, like, two and a half, three months in, didn't we?
39:42Yeah.
39:43It's been a good first year.
39:45I'm very glad I got to do all this stuff with you and nobody else.
39:48Aww.
39:49That's so cute, isn't it?
39:52Even after a year, there's still a spark.
39:55Yeah, we still keep the fire going.
39:59Where's it going next?
40:01Definitely going to buy a house.
40:04Yeah.
40:04I think that's reasonable.
40:05We've both said we want a house before I'm 25.
40:08Before children as well.
40:09Yeah.
40:10I'm not having a child without having a house.
40:12They're such a lovely couple, aren't they?
40:14They really are.
40:15They both are.
40:15They both got their heads screwed on.
40:17But up for a bit of fun as well, aren't they?
40:19Yeah.
40:19Well, they are, yeah, they are.
40:20But I think they'll make for a good, longer relationship.
40:23Marshmallows.
40:23Marshmallows.
40:24It's been a good year.
40:27Ain't it?
40:28Yeah.
40:29Love ya.
40:30Love ya.
40:40Today is a big day for the Radford family.
40:43Decorations are here.
40:44Kate's here.
40:45Yay!
40:46Specifically for Max.
40:49Max gets his GCSE results today, so we're going to decorate the kitchen,
40:53and hopefully he's going to get the result that he really wants.
40:57Maths and science, I think if he'll do okay, it's just the English.
41:00If I'm honest, I'm not convinced he's going to pass his English.
41:04He did put some effort in towards the end, but he's had a lot of struggles along the way.
41:09The odds are properly stacked against him.
41:11While the party planners are in full swing, Max is on tenterhooks.
41:17I'm not sure how long, but soon my results email should come in.
41:23You always want the best for your kids, but sometimes some things really tie you in knots.
41:28And the thing is, if Max doesn't get his English result that he needs,
41:31I don't know what he's going to do.
41:35Oh, it says, let's celebrate.
41:38Oh, it says grass.
41:41No, now, Max is not a brat.
41:44Oh, no, this is just unbearable.
41:46I don't know who it's worth for, Max or us.
41:59Come on, Max.
42:02Right, okay, I've got the email.
42:04What time do the results come in?
42:06About 11 o'clock.
42:07It's quarter past 11 now.
42:09No.
42:09It's not looking good, is it?
42:10I think we should take the decorations down.
42:23Max doesn't look happy.
42:25Do you think he's passed?
42:27I think he has.
42:28I'm quite confident that.
42:30If he hasn't, I think we all need to be there for him.
42:32Give him his bit of support, because it obviously means a lot to you.
42:36I passed.
42:40Well done.
42:41English as well?
42:42Yeah.
42:45What did you get in your science?
42:47Physics is an eight.
42:48Biology, chemistry are sevens.
42:51Maths is a seven.
42:52Sevens and eights?
42:53That's really amazing.
42:54Well done.
42:55Happy celebration was all day too.
42:57You can smile, Max.
42:59Woo!
43:01Right, who wants some cake?
43:03Yay!
43:04As parents, we are extremely proud of Max.
43:07He's done absolutely amazing.
43:10Reaching the exam results that he needed, there's nothing going to hold him back.
43:13So now it's the sky's the limit.
43:15For Max, the dream was worth fighting for.
43:19Quite proud of myself for being able to accomplish what I needed to accomplish in GCSEs.
43:24Now that I've started A Levels, I don't need to worry about Dickens, Shakespeare,
43:28and just learn about what I want to learn about.
43:30Like planes.
43:31Max has realised if you want something bad enough, you've got to put the grafting to
43:35reach your ambitions, no matter what life throws at you.
43:38You definitely do have to believe in yourself to make your dreams come true.
43:41I feel excited for what the future will hold in engineering.
43:46What's this?
43:47Family crest.
43:49Next time.
43:49One of these ones that likes to think about family history, know where we've all come from.
43:54You should have a wager on who's going to have the most interesting family.
43:58He ends up in the machine gun core.
44:00Front line.
44:01Absolutely front line.
44:02The most notorious crime of the 15th century.
44:06Oh my God.
44:08My great grandfather.
44:10I was probably the first person to go and visit his grave.
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