Belief The World According to Kids

When you're young, everything's an adventure.

Wheeee!

We're growing, bursting with ideas.

And facing fresh challenges every single day.

Stand back and make sure you're wearing your goggles.

I'm from one of six groups of children all over the country

who are filming their lives.

Eoin! Eoin!

Oliver, are you all right?

From high-rise tower blocks...

Hi! Bye! My room is so big.

..to our remotest island.

I love Mull!

Stop it! Stop it!

We were only kissing.

I know, but stop it!

For six months, we've had cameras in our homes, clubs.

We've even filmed ourselves.

Whoa!

-To share moments of love...

-You all right, darling?

..loss and drama.

I told her I'm not saying a word.

-Through our own eyes...

-GUNSHOT

..giving us a big voice.

-CLASS: Whoa!

-Let me count. Let me count this!

To tell you what we really think of the world.

Wow, my mum's the tooth fairy. That's shocking.

This week, how we see belief in ourselves and what's around us.

Faith is needed before a big challenge.

Imaginations run wild.

I think heaven is made out of clouds.

Wait, what are the toilets made out of?

SHE GIGGLES

And some of life's mysteries are revealed.

-This is his heart.

-Eurgh!

I believe in cheese.

First thing came into my head.

I believe that women should, like, always be thought of before men.

Sometimes you believe in nice things

and sometimes you believe in not nice things.

I believe in space.

Actually, I do believe in space.

Actually, I don't know.

I think maybe adults are a bit boring,

so they stop believing in things and go and work and things like that.

Ready? Go, one, fast, two, three. Go on!

Four! Swing! Five!

In East London, members of Pedro's boxing gym have met

for their weekly training session.

All right, shake, shake, shake.

The club is dedicated to keeping kids off the streets

and costs members just £1 a class.

I love boxing cos when I saw

Prince Naseem and that,

there's all dancing and all of that.

It looked like a fun sport

and for me, it keeps me fit, it keeps me out of trouble.

Ow, you idiot!

Two of the club's regulars are local lads

and good friends Dilan and Idrees.

Oh, man, you do it so hard!

Remember that time, like, when you... Oh, you idiot!

You're not supposed to hit me in my belly. I just had food.

OK, I won't hit you in the belly then.

-Not in my face either.

-No. Come on, hit me.

Oh, you idiot!

-DILAN LAUGHS

-Come on then.

11-year-old Dilan started boxing when he was just five years old

and has dreamed of one thing ever since.

My ambition is to be a world champion.

I want to make everyone proud. I want everyone to support me.

I was born to be a champion.

Tell me what to do, like, jab or something like that.

Yeah, yeah, OK. Get to your corner.

In two weeks' time, Dilan's self-belief will be put to the test,

as he is stepping into the ring for his very first bout.

I think Dilan can be a champion boxer because, like,

he knows how to do everything properly and he's good at it.

'When you have a boxing fight or something,

'it's not easy to go through it.'

You get nervous to do it.

Today, the young fighters have taken a break from training

to discuss some rather philosophical questions.

Today is all about belief -

what we believe about the world, what we believe about ourselves,

what we believe about everything, really.

So, what sort of things might you believe?

I believe that I can become a spy.

I believe that I can become like Lionel Messi.

I believe that, um, I have super speed

and I believe that I have super strength

and my mum will get me back-to-the-future shoes.

LAUGHTER

To help kick-start the discussion, the group have been given

a number of different statements about the world.

-Who believes that money...?

-Brings me happiness.

Each member must choose one they believe is true...

Got the cash.

..and then try to convince their club mates to agree with it.

I believe that money brings you happi...happiness

because if you have money,

you can buy stuff and then have your fun.

I'm caught in the middle because you need your money

so you can pay for your electricity bills

but, on the other hand,

people need it so they can have a...

so they can buy a house and have a happy life with their family.

I think money's not important. Because, like,

a lot of people find money, like, the best thing,

but I don't think it's the best thing because if I had...

Imagine when you win boxing fights, yeah, and you get money,

I would give half of my money to charity and that.

They need it more than us.

'Boxing's not just about fighting.

'Boxing teaches you discipline. It keeps you out of trouble.'

I always try to do the right things in life because it's correct.

You get somewhere in life if you do the right things.

DILAN GRUNTS WITH EACH PUNCH

Dilan's strong beliefs extend beyond just money.

I believe in Guru Nanak.

He is our god. This is the Sikh symbol.

It's called a khanda and if you believe in God, he helps you.

Religion means a lot to me because I'm proud to be a Sikh

cos all Sikhs stick by each other and it's like a big family.

With his first fight in two weeks,

Dilan's putting in extra gym sessions,

but his training and faith will only take him so far.

I don't pray to God to be better than Muhammad Ali.

He's the greatest of all times.

No-one can be better than Muhammad Ali.

-Could you?

-Nah!

Dilan's a great child. He comes home, all he's doing boxing.

He talks about boxing.

People are saying he's a brilliant boxer, he's got good movement.

It teaches him discipline, staying out of trouble.

He's not mixing with the wrong crowd, which make me happy,

you know, cos I want him to do something, not be on the street.

He might be a champion one day,

so I hope he'll be something in life one day.

Mum, can you make me something to eat, please?

I've made chicken and rice. If you fancy having that, let me know.

-OK, can I have that, please?

-OK.

-Are you taking me boxing today, Mum?

-After we've had something to eat.

-OK.

-Yeah, I'll take you there.

My dream is to be the world champion for England,

but I want to represent my country at the same time,

like make all the Sikhs proud and English boxers,

so all boxers can respect me.

Back at the club,

Dilan's friend Idrees also holds strong convictions.

Idris, let's hear what you have to say.

I believe when you are older, you're wiser,

because when you're a child,

you make funny choices and silly choices, but when you're older,

like, you're more sensible and you make more of the right choices.

I disagree because you do know sometimes, like,

when people get very old, yeah,

you can't walk around that properly and stuff

and you have to get big people's nappies.

Yeah, it's true.

When you get older, you become a grandpa or granny,

you lose more brain cells

because you can't really remember what you've been taught.

That's why I think some grannies can go back to some uni thing

or, I can't remember,

and you can learn more, but it's, like, a granny uni kind of thing.

Adults are not always wise, because they go to the pub and stuff.

When you drink too much alcohol and wine,

you get...acroholis, I think.

Drunk, where you start acting all...

Yeah, and you start moving like this.

But it's a disease. I think it's called acroholis.

Alcoholic.

Who thinks that they will never, ever, ever go to the pub?

-Me!

-Me, I would never.

I'm a boxer, so I'm not going to be drinking in a pub.

Do we believe that being older makes you wiser?

-CHILDREN: No!

-Sometimes?

I don't believe!

Sometimes adults do silly things,

because look at it now - some people might be in the pub.

That's silly. Ouch.

The silliest thing that adults do is, well...

A lot of adults are silly in different ways.

Main thing is dance at home.

Let me just tell you something. If your parent can't dance,

just walk away and act like you don't know them.

Simple.

I'm just saying.

Nine-year-old Rex lives in the countryside

with his mum, dad and little sister...

..and enjoys a free run of his local village.

I'm very adventurous. I love nature.

Scoot! Scoot! Scoot!

I would basically stay outdoors for the whole year if I could.

I would climb trees, I would abseil down mountains,

I would do anything outdoors really.

He's a boysy boy.

He's always been like that ever since he was tiny,

sitting on the patio of our old house,

scrabbling around looking for worms and things under stones.

Oh, ah. Oi, oi, oi.

Rex believes in a country ethos

and takes responsibility for the family chickens.

Yes, hello, ladies.

Yes, I got your eggs.

My favourite's Snowy and Gracie.

Hello, she says.

Every day after school, I can go and check the eggs

and run in and just pick up the chicken, have a little cuddle.

They're soft. They just peck around and we've had all these ones,

except for the one with the grey neck and the two white ones,

since we were a bit... We had them as chicks.

-Gracie.

-We brought them up.

Although Rex adores his pet chickens,

there is one animal he feels quite differently about.

I would never in a million years have a fox

because they're just an evil creature and they eat your chickens.

He takes the threat of fox attacks very seriously.

Just outside the window, out there, are the chickens.

I feel that they're part of the family.

When I see the fox, I jump up and I run out the door,

grab a log or something or a stone and then I just throw it

at whatever's moving and I don't care what it is,

I just throw it at it.

Then, when I see it's a cat, I'm just, like, "Oh."

-Come on, chop chop, cos we need to go.

-I was about to...

Mummy's nearly here.

Rex and his sister Kitty both own horses...

That's good. Now, I want you to track to your left.

..and ride with the Old Berkshire Hunt Pony Club.

Now, keep together, keep together.

Watch the people behind you.

Established in 1933, its members are all riding fanatics,

who spend countless hours in the saddle each week.

I love riding my pony because my pony's really good...

..and he's always there for me.

I love my horse riding probably really, like, fast

and going for it, like, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll do that. I'll jump it.

"I don't care if I fall off. I just want to try and do it."

Rex, start to turn now.

-Guys, come on.

-Just keep together, don't panic.

After the morning trot,

the group have been asked to discuss things they believe in.

-ALL:

-I believe!

For some of the younger members, it's a magical conversation.

Oh, Tegan, great stuff.

OK, tell us loudly and clearly all the reasons you believe in fairies.

I believe in fairies

because sometimes my sister sees the tooth fairy at night

and he's the tooth fairy collecting her tooth

and giving her money.

Once I lost my fifth tooth.

I lost it on Sunday and when I put it under my pillow,

the tooth fairy didn't come. She came on Monday.

So, in our house, the tooth fairy doesn't come on Sundays.

LAUGHTER

'Once I went to sleep but then I heard this jingling.'

I woke up and suddenly, um, I saw this, like, shadow,

this really small shadow fly through the window.

It might have just been a fly, but it might have been the tooth fairy.

I think it has a bit of feathers on some part of its body.

And maybe a couple of helpers.

When it comes, instead of having to carry something,

eats the tooth and poos out the coins.

The tooth fairy's actually my mummy.

Cos one day, I lost one of my teeth and then the next day,

-I found it on my mummy's bedside table.

-Oh, dear.

And then the next time I found my tooth,

I found it again on her bedside table

and then Kitty found hers on the bedside table.

Maybe the tooth fairy left it for a special memory there.

-Oh! What, three times?

-LAUGHTER

Because she's my little sister,

I don't really want to spoil it for her

because she can still believe in it if she wants to.

-Do you really believe your sister saw one?

-Yeah.

I don't think it's that sad when you stop believing in something

but it's a little bit sad.

Hands up if you believe in fairies.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

LAUGHTER

It is sad when you find out these things aren't real.

It's just not as exciting when you lose a tooth.

When I realised the tooth fairy wasn't real, I was, like,

"Is my mum the tooth fairy for everyone?"

And I was, like, "Wow, my mum's the tooth fairy. That's shocking!"

I had this weird dream where the Easter Bunny came into my room

and I was, like, "Oh, look, it's the Easter Bunny.

"Are you going to give me an egg?"

And then they fell over and then their head came off

and they were just...

And it was this really ugly fat man. He was just like...

"Hi, I'm the Easter Bunny."

And I thought, "No! No!" And then I woke up and thought,

"I'm not going to believe in the Easter Bunny ever again!"

INTRO TO RHYTHM OF LIFE

One, two, three, four.

# When I started down the street last Sunday

# Feeling mighty low and kind of mean... #

In the heart of Merseyside,

the Liverpool Cathedral Junior Choir practise once a week

and put on concerts in the main hall.

The group is made up of young singing enthusiasts

from across the city.

# ..and strife

# Spread the religion of the rhythm of life... #

I always love singing and in the choir, we do a lot of singing,

so it's just getting ready for when I get older.

I want to be a singer.

I like singing a lot. It's kind of...

It's quite fun because you... cos, like, you know songs.

Like, if someone just says, "Do you know a song?",

you can just go, like, # Da, da, da, da, da. #

-# Spreading the religion of life. #

-Eve.

# For the rhythm of life is a powerful beat

# Puts a tingle in your fingers and a tingle in your feet... #

Eight-year-old Eve is one of the youngest members...

# The rhythm of life is a powerful beat. #

Well done, OK. Here we go.

..and as an only child,

she spends much of her time playing in a world of make-believe.

Lie down! OK.

Let's kiss. Mwah.

Eurgh!

Stop it, stop it, stop it!

We were only kissing.

I know, but stop it!

'I have a brilliant imagination'

and I quite like having an imagination

cos people without imaginations, I think...

.."Seriously, how can you live like that?"

Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!

What time is it?

Two o'clock!

Oh, my God, I'm late for school!

I seriously need to do my hair up.

Why?

It's plait day at school.

Before we start, what are your names?

Lightning Bolt.

'Once I had, like, this weird imaginary friend'

which, for some reason, it was a bowl and it had a face on it.

This is my bedroom, where I play

and I have all my many books here and I love jumping on my bed.

This is my mum's living room.

Eve lives with her mum and granny.

-Say hello, Mummy.

-Hello.

-Say hello, Granny.

-Hello, Eve.

This is my Granny.

And having no siblings means that she usually gets what she wants.

I don't really know what it's like to have a brother and sister

but I think that I wouldn't have such a nice room

and there would be less toys given to me.

It's very hard, in a way, not to spoil an only child

because the toys in the house are theirs and you're not going to say,

"You've got to share them with someone else,"

cos there is no-one there to share them with.

I think it's very important to talk to children and make them understand

that they're lucky to have the things that they have

and that not everybody has that.

But playing alone also has its drawbacks.

Wheeeee!

'Sometimes I think, "Well, since I'm not playing with anybody else,

'"I would really like to have a sister."'

This is Amanda.

She's seven years old.

One of my other dolls, Violet, who's five.

I made them be my adopted sisters who are dwarfs.

I think that all of the people with sisters I've ever seen,

they're all quite sweet and nice and I'd quite like it

cos I could be, like, "No, I'm older! I get to boss you about!"

-Bread stick?

-Oh!

-Oh, I'm eating one of those.

-Snack time.

-I have to be able to eat one of those. I love cream buns.

Today, in a break from rehearsals, the group have been set a challenge.

The good news is that you've got some delicious snacks.

Do they believe in keeping everything equal amongst friends

or putting their own satisfaction first?

Either six people get their buns and I take the bread sticks away

or 13 people get the breadsticks and I take the buns away.

We have to make a good campaign to make people want buns.

I reckon we should go for the breadsticks, you know,

because everyone will get one.

-Cream buns!

-OK, but if we all have breadsticks,

then none of us will be sad because no-one will have cream buns.

I believe in happiness.

If we all had the breadsticks, it will really be fair on everybody.

No-one got something better than anybody else.

Buns! Buns! Buns! Everybody, listen to me.

The reason we need the cream buns - they're tasty,

they're beautiful and everybody loves them.

But, but we could end up with no cream buns,

so we may as well go for the breadsticks.

Put your hand up if you agree with creams.

Cream buns it is.

I believe that I'm more important than most of the kids in my class.

Buns!

I'm brilliant!

That's why I think I'm more important,

but I suppose everybody's important in a different way.

This is a real choice.

What happens in the end is you either really get your breadsticks

or some of you really get your cream buns and some go without.

I think cream buns.

I vote cream buns too.

Well, one, they're delicious.

Two, they're really pretty because they are really pretty.

And also, like, people really like to eat them.

They like everything that's in them.

If we all had a breadstick, no-one would be really sad

because no-one gets the cream buns.

Right, I think we're ready for a vote.

So, if you vote for cream buns, please can you stick your hand up.

Five, six, seven, eight, nine. Nine people.

And if you vote for breadsticks, put your hand up.

One, two, three, four.

Uh-oh! Oh, my goodness, what a quandary this is.

So, now we've got a really difficult dilemma.

Only six people are going to have these.

To make it more fairer,

we can put everyone's name in a hat and pick out six.

-Am I there? Am I being put in the hat?

-You are.

-Good.

Please say mine will be pulled out of the hat. Please, please.

I need mine to be pulled out of the hat.

Right, I've got my legs crossed.

-Drumroll, please.

-Yeah.

-One.

-OK.

Number one is...

..Stevie.

APPLAUSE

Second one.

Maisie.

MAISIE SQUEAKS

LAUGHTER

Thank you. It smells so good.

Number three.

Me, me, me, me, me.

Amelia.

I have to get one!

Number four.

Holly G.

Thank you.

Two to go.

I have to be one of them.

-Jade.

-Yes!

One more. Last one.

Argh!

Jessica.

APPLAUSE

Bad luck to the cream bun losers.

Eve, it's OK. Lots of people didn't get it.

-These are so nice.

-Give me some at break.

No, sorry.

Eve's sad.

Eve, you don't look happy. Are you not happy?

Do you think the group made the right choice

about going for breadsticks or buns?

(Don't know. I don't know.)

She doesn't know.

Oh, dear.

I would have give mine to her if I hadn't have bit it.

Oh, this is so good!

I thought it could be, like, they would be, like,

"OK, everybody, you've got those, so you can go out and eat them."

And then they brought from behind

trays and trays and trays of them for all of us to eat.

INDISTINGUISHABLE

HE GRUNTS WITH EACH PUNCH

One, two, three.

In East London, training is in full swing at Pedro's boxing gym.

One, two, three.

And for 11-year-old Dilan, every second counts.

I love punching. I punch in my sleep.

He dreams of being a world champion

and tomorrow, he has his very first club fight.

DILAN GRUNTS WITH EACH PUNCH

'When I get in the ring,

'I think there's going to be a lot of flashlights

'and a lot of people screaming out my name and a lot of banners.

'I might be good at boxing,'

but sometimes I'm going to lose a fight

because there are better people than me but I'm going to try my best

and have self-belief I'm not going to lose.

This is my headgear for sparring and stuff.

There's my boxing gloves.

There's the Pedro boxing shorts and it says, "2Bad".

That's my boxing name on the back.

If I lose, it's "too bad", if he loses, it's "too bad".

-All right, Dilan, are you ready?

-Yeah, I'm ready.

-That's good.

-Like usual, make sure you train hard.

-Yeah.

-I've put your gum shields in here in case you have a spar today.

-Yeah.

Dilan and his dad are on their way to the barber's

to get his image as polished as his punches.

-How do you feel for tomorrow?

-Can't wait.

-I just want to get in the ring.

-I know.

You've had loads of spars so, you know,

you've had a taste how it is and got a lot of crowd coming tomorrow,

lots of my friends, your family.

Everybody's going to be there supporting you.

For me, it's a big day too. This is for your future.

-You always wanted to be a boxer.

-Yeah.

-Hello.

-Hello.

-How are you?

-All right? He's fighting tomorrow.

-Yes.

'When we were growing up, it was rough, it was tough, you know.'

And you get up to naughtiness and whatever,

but we don't want to go down that road.

We don't want to teach our kids what we've done.

I've made mistakes in my life

but I don't want my son to make mistakes like that,

so I put him on the right track

and I hope that right track makes him become a champion one day,

which I believe he will.

I do feel emotional

because, obviously, it's his first fight, you know,

and he's going to walk in there like a champion tomorrow.

'I reckon boxing can give me a future

'because all the hard work I done, like,

'I will be better when I get older.'

-OK?

-Thank you?

-OK?

-Yeah, thank you.

-Thank you very much.

'When you have a boxing fight or something,'

it's not easy to go through it.

It's nervous, you get nervous to do it.

Cos I've got a fight on Saturday and it's really, it's nervous,

cos it's one of my biggest fights and a big crowd. Um, yeah...

'When I speak to God tonight, I'm going to ask him,

'"Wish me luck and make me win the fight tomorrow."'

Dilan's hard work and faith may help him

to get into the ring for his very first bout,

but at the club, the young Hackney boxers are facing something

quite different from their everyday routine.

CHILDREN MURMER AND TALK EXCITEDLY

THEY SCREAM

Some unusual guests have been invited into the gym

to explore the children's beliefs about animals.

He's got poop on his butt!

LAUGHTER

He's got poop all over his butt!

I don't see wild animals in Hackney.

I only see cats, dogs and hamsters and, you know.

I've never seen a lamb.

Maaa!

Maybe... Maybe...

CHILDREN SQUEAL AND SHOUT

-Animals are like babies!

-The guinea pig pooped.

I was, like, "Is that really a lamb over there?"

It's right in the boxing club too.

-Do you want to give it a little stroke?

-Does it bite first?

-No.

-Does it bite?

-I've still got my fingers.

-It's a baby!

-Count all Morrison's fingers.

-I stroked it.

It's a baby. It doesn't bite!

He's not a naughty one, he's a kind one.

-He's looking at me in a rude way.

-He's quite friendly.

-LAUGHTER

-Oh, no...

He's giving me...

If you can box, you shouldn't be afraid. It's a lamb.

-It feels weird though. Why is it...?

-Cos it's a child. It's a baby lamb.

It can't stand its pace.

He's trying to look at me still.

Oh, no, no, no, no.

Ooh, ooh, ooh! No, no, no!

LAUGHTER

No, no, no!

'It was a bit scary. You don't really see'

wild animals except for the zoo or a farm and that,

except for my brother's dog.

Living in the country has had a big influence

on nine-year-old Rex's ideals.

This isn't going to be the best face paint in the world.

'I believe that outdoors makes you a better person.'

It makes you more into it, it makes you more of a boy

and it makes you stronger and more persistent.

-What do you think you are?

-A tiger.

-No.

-A fox.

-No.

-Chicken.

-No.

His beliefs are strongest when it comes to food...

First, what we need to do is

get the breast, rip those feathers off.

-Can I help?

-No, no, Kitty.

..and he's keen to pass them on to his sister, Kitty, and her friends.

THEY GASP

Who wants the tail feathers? There.

I am a bloodthirsty killing machine.

KITTY SQUEAKS

THEY LAUGH

-I'm trying to fly!

-Here's a leg.

-Eurgh!

-Oh, cool!

-Here's his heart.

-Eurgh!

Pigeon filleted and gutted. Guys, bring the bucket.

I do think it's important that people learn this stuff in life

and realise where your food comes from.

-Mm, really nice.

-Success.

-Is there any more pigeon?

-No it's all gone.

-Maybe next time you could get some more. How does that sound?

-Yeah.

Yeah, do you like it? Good.

I would say I would be really good in the wilderness.

CHILDREN COO AND SQUEAL

-Ah!

-Hello.

Rex may be sure of his beliefs about animals but at the pony club,

his friends are exploring their ideas too.

-The duck and the dog are the best.

-DUCK QUACKS

Hey, rabbit. Hey. Rabbit.

Which of these animals is it kind of OK to eat?

Is that rabbit?

All of the children eat meat

and today they have a choice of lamb, duck and rabbit.

-Oh, I'm going to eat all of that.

-I'm not eating any of that.

You're not eating it?

So, if you were stranded, had no food, except from a lamb,

would you eat it or not?

Yes!

If you ate it, you would survive,

but if you didn't eat it, you would die soon.

They don't deserve to be killed.

But you need food. Is it different to a cow?

If you don't want lambs to be eaten,

why don't you want cows not to be eaten

or sheep or, like, chickens?

I just can't eat that in front of it. It's just horrible.

If it was not in front of you, would you have eaten it?

Probably. Oh, I don't know. Probably, yeah.

I'm persuading them.

I think animals are more for pets than food

because if you've got a pet, you know they're safe

and you know they're not going to be eaten or caught out in the wild.

I think the reason animals are here is because if we didn't have them,

we probably wouldn't have any meat or fish to eat.

-Poor little lamb.

-Mm!

Everybody has different tastes.

Rex has convinced most of his club mates to eat the food on offer.

I'm having loads.

But what animals would the children never consider to be food?

That was so yummy! Sorry, little lamb!

If we were really, really, really hungry,

-this...

-Would be eaten.

-I would never eat a dog.

-I would eat it!

-You're cruel!

I'm not cruel, I'm just bloodthirsty.

Some animals are pretty much so important

that they're literally right after humans.

Then there's animals which aren't much use,

but they are still really cute.

My pony, you can see when he's grumpy

or you can see when he's sad because his ears are back.

I think that ponies should be treated well

and not just treated like they're just some animal in a field.

In France, they eat ponies.

-It's true.

-I know.

-Eurgh!

-I would eat it. I would eat it.

I would eat grass. I would go mad.

Say if you're stuck in the jungle with no food,

would you rather die and keep that pony alive

or not keep that pony alive and you don't die?

I'd rather die.

'How could you?'

I mean, how could you eat a pony?

'If I was, like, in a jungle, stranded there for a year,'

if I found anything to eat, I would eat it.

Even a pony, I would eat it.

'I think that there is no situation which I should eat my pony.'

Have you ever seen somebody in a desert,

riding a camel, eat their camel?

No, they carry on going.

'One day, we went to our next door neighbour's for a barbecue'

and Daddy just came out with this massive dish, um,

of some kind of meat.

And he said, "Come on, pick it up and tell me what it is."

I was, like, "OK." So, I ate it and it was horse.

So, I wasn't very pleased with my daddy.

Look how much poop in that corner.

In Hackney, the boxing club are also exploring their beliefs

about which animals can be eaten and which can't.

I'm not eating that, I'm not eating that!

That's hamster, innit?

-They killed it!

-No, that's lamb. That's hamster.

On offer are lamb, pigeon and mealworm.

I can go home now and get some Chickin Lickin' instead of this.

But their immediate concerns are quite different to in Berkshire.

-Now then, these worms aren't halal.

-What?

Halal is something that you, Muslims can eat

and they do a prayer on the chicken

and it's like a really long prayer on the chicken

and then it becomes halal somehow.

I'm not allowed beef or pig

because we believe that pigs are dirty animals

and they roll around in mud and stuff like that.

-Is it possible that those worms could become halal?

-No.

But there's something called halal Haribo, so that's good.

-No!

-LAUGHTER

-Stop fighting. Do you want your dinner now?

-No.

-No, in a bit.

-We want juice!

Nine-year-old Idrees lives in a flat

with his mum, dad and two older sisters.

IDREES CLEARS THROAT

My name is Idrees

and in Islam, Idrees is a prophet's name.

He has a passion for drawing, particularly of Islamic art.

Here is some art that I done.

This is a mosque

and I've done the grass and it's in springtime.

This is where the call to prayer is made,

so the person goes, like, inside there

and then they have this microphone

and it echoes and it goes loud, so then everyone can hear.

I'm a Muslim and I go to the mosque to pray for Allah's forgiveness.

Allah is our god and the mosque is very important to me

because I can go there for forgiveness, and I'm quite naughty.

Idrees plans to become an architect when he's older

and he has strong ideals

about the way people should behave on his estate.

This is nasty.

If I was the president, I would ban whoever did that.

I think it is bad that they put everything there

cos little children can be playing, "La-la-la-la",

and they come here, "Ow, my feet!"

My mum is always, like, "Why are you going outside?

"Why are you going outside?"

And I'm, like, "I need to find stuff to draw."

That is an upside down question mark, which is funky.

I believe this is a bit disrespectful

for the people who live around here.

If you want to do graffiti, at least do it nicely!

If I wanted to do graffiti, I wouldn't do it in England.

I would either do it in Miami,

because in Miami, they call it art.

Well, I can tell you that this one over here is...

-Pork.

-..pigeon.

-Eurgh!

-How is that pigeon?

I don't eat pigeon cos, like, pigeon's like...

It's an animal, it's a living thing.

You said you would eat chicken. Is that not meat?

-I can eat chicken and chips but not meat.

-That's still meat.

Wait, is it? No, then I'm not going to get Chickin Lickin'.

I'm vegetarian for one year now.

-Ah.

-For one year?

-No, I mean one month!

You're going to go vegetarian,

so you don't think that anybody should be eating this lamb?

-No, that's just sad!

-Who's going to eat the lamb?

-Hands up if you're going to eat the lamb?

-No, put your hand down.

Why do you think he should put his hand down?

Because you never know...

That lamb... That lamb might be his mother.

-Cos that lamb...

-That poor lamb might be his mother.

-But what about the bird?

-I don't care about the bird.

Shame on the bird cos, at the end of the day, who cares about the bird?

If you don't care about the pigeon, why do you care about the lamb?

-Because look at that lamb.

-So, look at the pigeon.

The pigeon doesn't do anything, the lamb's lamb.

-OK, what does the lamb do?

-It's cute. It entertains you.

-And the pigeon...

-It's chewing like this...

It's like a baby.

It's like a baby though. It's so similar to a human.

'At the end of the day, they have two legs and two arms'

and they should be treated the same as us.

Why do you even eat animals? Like, I don't even know.

Why do we just eat it? Can't we just eat salad the whole day?

Well, I can't. I definitely can't.

I would eat a lobster but I wouldn't eat a guinea pig or something.

Mm...

I think lamb was the best food there.

Who thinks they're definitely going to eat some of this lamb?

-I don't think it really matters.

-There you go.

-No, Malea!

-Cover the lamb's eyes.

-I'm taking the smallest one.

-Literally, I just...

-Take one.

IDREES RETCHES

-How does it taste, Malea?

-No!

-Malea, stop! Malea, you can't!

-Eurgh!

-That's just sad!

-It's fine!

-It's fine.

-Maaa!

-Argh!

How does it taste?

You are the rudest person I met in my whole entire life!

Look at that lamb you're eating!

Put that down right now!

Do you know the lamb, that lamb that...

I think his name was Nigel.

I feel sorry for him, do you know why?

He watched you eat a lamb!

I never wanted to eat it, you know,

-but I just wanted to try it.

-Kion liked it.

But now I feel I don't want to go to a restaurant

cos there might be a lamb.

Have you ever been to Istanbul?

-Istan where?

-Istanbul?

-Yeah, have you ever been there before?

-No.

Imagine I went there and I had lamb and it was Nigel.

Oh, my days!

'It's not OK to eat all animals.'

Islam is all about peace and forgiving

and, no matter what you've done, you still have to forgive.

I believe in God because God helps you

and he gives you a lot of self-belief.

I believe in what my mum believes in.

She believes in God and Jesus and so do I.

But what if it wasn't Jesus?

What if it was a guy named...I don't know...Stewart, John? I don't know.

I don't believe in God, my mother doesn't believe in God,

my grandmother doesn't believe in God.

We do not believe in God.

I don't even know how we ended up being...

..like this.

Only child Eve has recently moved schools

and is still finding her feet there.

Dusty.

Since I started my new school, nobody's come round to play. Hey.

I don't have many play dates and I don't call them play dates.

It's only in America. Quite small kids go...

-IN AMERICAN ACCENT:

-Oh, my God, I'm having a play date!

I don't have many friends at choir.

You're my best friends.

Where do you know them from?

The land of Oooh.

'Well, I suppose'

there is one person I'd like to come round.

For the first time, Eve has invited a friend from choir to play.

'Nobody from the choir's ever come before.

'Nobody from school lives particularly near us.

'She finds other children often disappointing,'

as they don't quite understand what she's talking about.

But playing with real children, as opposed to dolls,

brings a unique set of anxieties.

If anything could go wrong today,

I think it might be that I'm showing her all my toys

and telling her about them

and she's, like, "Don't care. Have you got a phone?"

She is very, very sociable

and she does really like playing with other children,

so when she gets the chance, she really enjoys it.

I can't see if she's not here.

I'm feeling a bit nerxcited.

Nerxcited is when you're nervous and excited.

It's four past four but she's not here.

I'll wait... I'll wait till ten past four...

..then I'll give up!

EVE BANGS ON THE WINDOW

De-de-de-de-de-de-de-de.

Could she be coming soon? Nobody knows.

Yeah, that's them! I'm excited!

-Hello.

-Hello.

-Where's your room?

-Up here. This is my room.

It's big, full of toys.

'I think that I care what people think of me'

because I want them to think that I am a nice person, which I am.

So, that's the biggest classroom.

That's the juniors, that's the infants, that's the nursery.

Hello!

Maisie, wait, hi.

MAISIE LAUGHS

I would describe Eve as funny, weird...

..and also caring.

-No, she's touching me with a...

-MAISIE SQUEALS AND EVE LAUGHS

Time to go now.

Goodbye. Thanks for coming over. Thanks for being funny.

-All right. Bye-bye.

-See you next time.

-See you next time.

-Yeah.

'I've had a great time with Maisie'

and I hope that she'll come over again some time.

In Berkshire, Rex takes pride

in looking after the family chickens and collecting their eggs.

But recently, something has challenged

his place at the top of the food chain.

Well, it was about late at night and then Kitty heard this...

-HE CLUCKS LOUDLY

-Yeah, and I saw...

And a fox was in here chasing the chickens around

and it was in here for half an hour chasing them around

and there was one there, dead, one there, dead.

No, and one here.

And it was just walking up the drive, like, "I don't care. Budge."

'When I saw them dead, I was very devastated

'because they were'

part of our family and I didn't really want them to go.

This is where the chickens have been buried

and down there, in that, there's a little burial sign.

They were chickens and they didn't deserve to be killed.

They've done nothing wrong.

It's not the fox's fault.

Well, I think it is because, I mean, would you like it if you got eaten

and then the fox didn't even say sorry?

They meant quite a lot to us, as in, like Bosworth, he was our favourite.

Pepper and Onion, they were our other favourites.

The second she got killed, she laid an egg.

It was her first egg in about a year.

And that egg was actually quite tasty.

I don't really think the bodies go anywhere,

apart from in the grave,

um, but I do think that their souls go, um, up to heaven.

'I think heaven's a really nice place'

and a really fun place and nobody ever, basically, has tears

because there's no grass which you can hurt yourself on.

There's only really fluffy clouds.

I would say that hell's under the ground

and with this, like, devil with this spade in his hand.

He's, like, "Get on with it or I'll break your bones with my spade!"

And, like, "Oh, but what should I do?"

And then he's, like, "Smash, smash, smash! I'll break your bones!"

I don't think hell's as nice as heaven.

What is heaven like?

What is hell like?

I think heaven is made out of clouds.

Houses are made out of clouds. Well, how are they even going to stay?

They're just going to float away. How can they stay on the ground?

-It's clouds!

-Wait, what are the toilets made out of?

I think there's three heavens and hells, so one for animals,

one for people and one for things like toys and stuff.

I think hell is all, like, red

and fiery and, like, dead gloomy.

What I think it is

is hell is like this really, really huge place

and, like, what happens is,

say if you're really scared of the Smiler,

then you have to keep on going on the Smiler again and again.

And, like if you're scared of clouds or...

I have a friend who's scared of buttons at school.

I don't know why she's scared of buttons

but then they're really huge, coming all, like all over,

like coming around.

'I think hell would be quite cool.'

I think it would be nice and black and red and just...

I think it would be amazing.

And then I think that heaven, uh,

would be sickly sweet, made out of bubblegum and candyfloss

and, eurgh, all things sweet and nice.

God!

It's the night before 11-year-old Dilan's first boxing match.

His coach wants him to keep believing in himself

and his training.

Now, don't bring your legs together. I want to see a step and a punch.

One, two. One, two.

-All right, tomorrow is a big day.

-Yeah.

You need to be calm, relaxed.

You're going to face a big crowd,

big as you've ever seen in your life.

Jab, block, yeah. Technique.

Make sure, even if you get hit - fine, you will get hit,

you're human - but how you respond.

-OK.

-OK.

-How are you feeling?

-I'm feeling all right about tomorrow.

-I just can't wait.

-Yeah?

-I'll try my hardest.

I'm nervous because I think he might get hurt.

His beautiful face or anything.

I'm just worried about him getting knocked out.

But then, I'm thinking my child wants to do it.

If he wants to do that, I can't stop it. I can't take it away from him.

In the morning, Dilan will be stepping into the ring

and he has one final pre-fight ritual.

I'm just praying for tomorrow, for the fight.

I'm Sikh, I believe in Guru Nanak, and this is the praying book.

It's like a Sikh Bible.

And on my head is the... It's called the patka. It's, um, a Sikh...

It's not a hat, it's a head cover, I think, yeah.

'I think God helps me when I'm in the ring.

'When I put the gloves on and I step in the ring,'

sometimes I feel I don't want to make a mistake,

I want to do it this time, I need to win.

CROWD ROARS AND APPLAUDS

'I was very nervous walking into the ring.

'The boy was smashing his gloves together.'

He was getting bigger and bigger every minute.

Touch gloves. Back to your corners till the bell goes.

BELL RINGS

CROWD SHOUTS ENCOURAGEMENT

I got the punch and, whoosh, my head went bang.

I kept my hands up and went whoosh, whoosh, and I got the hang of it

and all my confidence went, "Yes, I know what I'm doing now."

Bam, bam, bam. I was doing well after.

CROWD SHOUT ENCOURAGEMENT

I believe that anything is possible

if you just try your very hardest and just don't give up.

CROWD SHOUT ENCOURAGEMENT

You're not going to get anywhere

if you're saying, "Oh, I can't do it. It's too hard."

You have to believe you can do it, then you get further in life.

CROWD ROAR

Believing does make your life better a lot.

CROWD ROAR

I believe that dreams come true.

CHEERING

I believe in myself and my abilities cos I've got power,

I've got speed, I've got technique. I've got everything what it takes.

That was a dream to me. I always wanted to do it and I done it.

Next time, the kids explore what it means to grow up...

Growing up...

Oh, man.

..a life-changing decision hangs in the balance...

I'm ever so scared

because a lot of people don't get what school they want to go to.

..and big challenges must be confronted.

Look ahead. Let him go, let him go.

Go on, keep kicking, keep kicking.

-Yes!

-Argh!