In our October issue, DISCOVER reviewed the movie 49 Up, the latest in a series of documentary movies widely known as the 7 Up series. In 1964, 14 seven-year-old children from the U.K. were asked questions about love, work, race, and their future for a television show. Every seven years since, Academy Award–winning director Michael Apted has caught up with these subjects on film. In a Web exclusive, DISCOVER editor Susan Kruglinski interviewed Nick Hitchon, a subject of the film series who was raised in the Yorkshire Dales on a farm, attended Oxford University, and became a physicist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.




