Hello, I'm Mark Lohen. Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service and BBC OS Conversations,

where we bring people together to share their experiences. It's rare for a TV drama to become a

global talking point, but that's what's happened with the Netflix series Adolescence. It's been called

The Show of the Year and has reached the number one spot on the streaming service around the world.

The four-part series is based in the north of England and centres on a 13-year-old boy, Jamie,

accused of murdering a teenage girl. But as we follow his family and the police investigating his school life,

it becomes clear that this is not so much about who done it as why.

You don't have to have seen adolescents to follow our conversations as we explore some of the

issues that the series has raised, including the role of social media

in promoting what has been called toxic masculinity, online misogyny and bullying.

We'll hear later from parents and their teenage children, a group of girls and also from teachers.

You might not be surprised that a name that will come up several times in our conversations

is Andrew Tate,

the Manosphere influencer who boasts millions of followers, producing unapologetically sexist content.

Let's first get the views of a group of teenage boys at a school near where the drama is set.

They shared what they see on their social media feeds from people like Tate.

They'd start off with something which is very easy to believe and something that's actually

like productive. So for him it was a lot of focus on things like self-improvement and things like that,

going to the gym, getting healthy. But then it would start to steep into something else.

So it might be a little bit of subliminal things. So it might be things like men might be biologically stronger than women. And he'll exaggerate

that point to such an extent which is all men are stronger than all women, which is just not

true. And then he'll exaggerate that even more, which is women are worse than men in every sense.

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