We are a company specialising in social history programmes based on the life stories of the elderly - our Channel 4 series Green and Pleasant Land is going out at the moment and we have made a number of award winning series like Veterans for BBC1, The Call of the Sea for BBC2 and The Roses of No Man's Land on nurses during the Great War for Channel 4.
We are researching a BBC1 documentary on the experience of childhood at the beginning of this century and are interested in stories from readers, now in their nineties or hundreds, of growing up in the 1900s.
An Edwardian childhood was very different from today. For many it meant poverty, strict discipline, a seen and not heard attitude from adults and going out to work at a very young age.
Boys and girls had few toys and had to invent many of their own games and entertainments.
A huge gulf separated the classes; at the top rich children led pampered lives while at the very bottom 50,000 boys and girls had a tough institutional childhood in the nation's orphanages.
If you have vivid, personal stories of the 1900s or know an elderly relative who has, please write to Susan Tilley, Testimony Films, 12 Great George St, Bristol BS1 5RS.
Susan Tilley