Real Life - Season 4

First aired: 9/4/2001 7 episodes

Episodes

1. Our Child Needs a Heart

Aired: 9/4/2001

The fortunes of two 12-year-old girls who need heart transplants to save their lives and the stories of youngsters whose deaths have given others a second chance.

2. The Psychic Detective

Aired: 9/12/2001

Keith Charles was a copper for 30 years before retiring to take up his new career as a psychic.

3. Our Daughter Won't Eat

Aired: 10/2/2001

Nine months in the life of a family struggling to cope with their sixteen-year-old daughter Vicki Carter's anorexia.

4. The Fattest Men in Britain

Aired: 10/9/2001

The lives of two contenders for The Fattest Men in Britain: Jack Taylor, aged 54, who hasn't left his Bradford flat for over 25 year following the death of his mam, gran and girlfriend, and 33-year-old Barry, who defies the image of the sad, fat bloke.

5. Pets on Holiday

Aired: 11/6/2001

Report on how the new pets passport scheme works in practice, following two families as they travel abroad with their beloved dogs.

6. Celebrity Villain

Aired: 11/26/2001

Profile of former East End villain Dave Courtney, a one-time associate of the Kray brothers who turned his back on the underworld after seeing a friend murdered on the Old Kent Road.

7. Football Hopefuls

Aired: 12/1/2001

Follows five 14-year-olds football hopefuls over 6 years at Lilleshall, England's school of excellence for footballers.