en-gb http://www.yeardot.co.uk/whoweare-14/deborah-stevenson.html ℗ & © 2009 So Television Year Dot: Deborah Stevenson Channel 4 yeardot@channel4.co.uk Channel 4 Education Deborah is one of fifteen young people taking part in Year Dot: a ground-breaking project from Channel 4. About to embark on what she hopes will be 'the first year of the rest of her life', Deborah will be regularly updating her stories through blogs, messages and videos while we'll be following and filming her over the coming year to see how she gets along. Fun loving Deborah is preparing herself for life at university, a world away from life at her religious home. Get her regular film updates here and join her story online at www.yeardot.co.uk http://feeds.yeardot.co.uk/YearDotDeborahStevenson Channel 4 Education Deborah's year has been all about empowering young people... While dealing with her new life away from home, she's achieved an amazing amount outside of uni. How has everything that’s happened to her changed our urban poet? http://media.yeardot.co.uk/video/films/deborah/year-dot-deborah-stevenson-film-2009-09-25.mp4 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:00:01 GMT 00:00:00 Deborah Stevenson, final film Channel 4 Education The day has finally arrived... Deborah can hardly contain her excitement as all her hard work comes to fruition with the opening of her beloved festival... http://media.yeardot.co.uk/video/films/deborah/year-dot-deborah-stevenson-film-2009-06-25.mp4 Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:00:01 GMT 00:03:11 Deborah Stevenson, turning, point,festival, roundhouse finale, Channel 4 Education It’s audition time for Turning Point festival and Deborah is at the helm. Will everything go according to plan? http://media.yeardot.co.uk/video/films/deborah/year-dot-deborah-stevenson-film-2009-05-26.mp4 Tue, 26 May 2009 00:00:01 GMT 00:03:57 Deborah Stevenson,Turning, Point, Festival, audition Channel 4 Education Deborah's taking a break from Turning Point and heading to Leicester to audition for her first paid poetry commission. Will she manage to make a powerful enough impression on the judges? http://media.yeardot.co.uk/video/films/deborah/year-dot-deborah-stevenson-film-2009-04-30.mp4 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:00:01 GMT 00:02:51 Deborah Stevenson, poetry, commission, audition, leicester, performance, subject_english, subject_video Channel 4 Education The festival's getting ever closer and Deborah's still got a huge amount of organising to do. Is she going to be able to pull it together in time? http://media.yeardot.co.uk/video/films/deborah/year-dot-deborah-stevenson-film-2009-04-09.mp4 Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:00:01 GMT 00:02:58 Deborah Stevenson, Roundhouse, Turning Point Festival, subject_business Channel 4 Education Being asked to take part in the Roundhouse's Turning Point Festival was a 'dream come true' for Deborah... She's getting stuck into the organising and trying to get as many young people involved as possible... http://media.yeardot.co.uk/video/films/deborah/year-dot-deborah-stevenson-film-2009-03-31.mp4 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:00:01 GMT 00:02:43 Deborah Stevenson, Round House, social networking, Turning Point Festival Channel 4 Education Deborah has an exciting meeting planned with a contact she's met through Year Dot... How will it all pan out? http://media.yeardot.co.uk/video/films/deborah/year-dot-deborah-stevenson-film-2009-03-12.mp4 Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:01 GMT 00:02:55 Deborah Stevenson, space 2 create Channel 4 Education Deborah's back in London for Christmas and is appreciating her home comforts more than ever... It seems her new found independence is having a positive effect on her relationship with her mother. http://media.yeardot.co.uk/video/films/deborah/year-dot-deborah-stevenson-film-2009-01-12.mp4 Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:00:01 GMT 00:03:52 Deborah Stevenson, university, home for Christmas Channel 4 Education It's not all partying and poetry for Deborah. She's skint and spending all her extra hours working behind a bar... http://media.yeardot.co.uk/video/films/deborah/year-dot-deborah-stevenson-film-2008-12-15.mp4 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:00:01 GMT 00:02:24 Deborah Stevenson, new job, slug and lettuce Channel 4 Education Deborah tries out the Creative Writing Society... and they get to sample some of her Deborahful poetry. Is it a marriage made in Nottingham? http://media.yeardot.co.uk/video/films/deborah/year-dot-deborah-stevenson-film-2008-12-08.mp4 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:00:01 GMT 00:04:17 Deborah Stevenson, creative writing, society, poetry, subject_english, subject_arts, subject_video Channel 4 Education After a heavy night on the town, Deborah decides to take matters in hand and heads out to her Student Union to give them an earful and find out how she can get her poetry society underway. http://media.yeardot.co.uk/video/films/deborah/year-dot-deborah-stevenson-film-2008-11-10.mp4 Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:00:01 GMT 00:03:44 Deborah Stevenson, student, union. society, poetry Channel 4 Education Early days at Nottingham Uni and Deborah's missing her friends and feeling rough. Is this going to stop her getting out of the kitchen and hitting the city for a night of clubbing with the African Caribbean Society ? Have a guess. http://media.yeardot.co.uk/video/films/deborah/year-dot-deborah-stevenson-film-2008-10-28.mp4 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:00:01 GMT 00:03:25 Deborah Stevenson,out, party, clubbing Channel 4 Education Standing on your own two feet for the first time is hard... and Deborah's realised pretty quickly that her student loan won't stretch very far. She desperately needs a job to survive at uni and the pressure is on to get some money in... http://media.yeardot.co.uk/video/films/deborah/year-dot-deborah-stevenson-film-2008-10-23.mp4 Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:00:01 GMT 00:02:11 Deborah Stevenson, poor, job hunting, Channel 4 Education Deborah finally says goodbye to her family home and heads off to her university halls of residence. Ever the conscientious raver, she heads straight out for a night on the tiles and samples the urban amusements of Nottingham. http://media.yeardot.co.uk/video/films/deborah/year-dot-deborah-stevenson-film-2008-10-08.mp4 Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:01 GMT 00:03:07 Deborah Stevenson, packing, leave home, nottingham, university Channel 4 Education It's the day before Deborah heads to university and she's frantically packing her life into boxes. Heading to Nottingham will be a big change for our urban poet and the magnitude of what lies ahead is beginning to dawn on her... http://media.yeardot.co.uk/video/films/deborah/year-dot-deborah-stevenson-film-2008-10-03.mp4 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:00:01 GMT 00:02:40 Deborah Stevenson, university, packing Channel 4 Education Deborah auditions for a talent show in her local area. Find out what the judging panel think of her performance and whether she's learnt anything from her 'abrasive' audition technique... http://media.yeardot.co.uk/video/films/deborah/year-dot-deborah-stevenson-film-2008-09-16.mp4 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:01 GMT 00:04:32 Deborah Stevenson, audition, subject_arts, subject_video Channel 4 Education Watch to find out if Deborah got the results she needed to get into her first choice university... http://media.yeardot.co.uk/video/films/deborah/year-dot-deborah-stevenson-film-2008-08-18.mp4 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00:01 GMT 00:04:25 Deborah Stevenson, a-level results, UEA Channel 4 Education Deborah is all over the social networking side of Year Dot. She's been rallying up support and making links with other young people who want to make a difference. She's even learnt some important things about herself along the way... http://media.yeardot.co.uk/video/films/deborah/year-dot-deborah-stevenson-film-2008-08-06.mp4 Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:00:01 GMT 00:01:40 Deborah Stevenson, computer Channel 4 Education Deborah takes the school she's been shadowing to compete in London's Teen Poetry Slam. Watch here to find out how they do and learn more about Deborah's plans to set up a poetry society at uni... http://media.yeardot.co.uk/video/films/deborah/year-dot-deborah-stevenson-film-2008-07-08.mp4 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:00:01 GMT 00:02:56 Deborah Stevenson, poetry slam Channel 4 Education Nervous though she may be at the thought of going to university, Deborah is determined to set up a new kind of poetry society when she gets there. Not one to shy away from a good night out, we discover how Deborah is choosing a very different path from that of her parents. http://media.yeardot.co.uk/video/year-dot-deborah-stevenson-profile-short-2008-06-30.mp4 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:01 GMT 00:02:20 Year Dot, Channel 4 Education