My Daughter the Teenage Nudist

This programme contains strong language and full

frontal nudity from the start and throughout.

'Everybody looks beautiful together

because everybody's different.

'Such an amazing feeling,

you feel so liberated,'

you're just like free, open,

naked in the middle of London.

Up and down Britain,

more young people are embracing

public nudity than ever before...

.. much to their mums'

and dads' dismay.

Love you, Mum!

It must have been gutting to hear

"I've seen your daughter naked.

"I saw your daughter with her tits

out on Facebook," was the comment.

We follow this Facebook generation

over a summer...

Naked art project.

Awesome, please have a look.

.. getting online

and getting involved

in mass naked public events.

It's decency, not nudity, isn't it?

It's decency, not nudity, isn't it?

It is decency, you're right.

These young nudists would never

dream of joining a naturist club.

I kind of got this idea of naturists

kind of playing volleyball

and, like, doing all sorts of weird

sports that I'm not really into.

We're desperate

for younger people to come on

and replace us older people.

But the older British naturists

have plans, and they're relying

on one man to recruit

the under 30s to their movement.

We'll make naturism a normal thing

to do in this country.

What would your mum say now, Clare?

Who gives a sh*t?!

I don't know why I Googled it,

but I Googled naked bike ride

for some reason.

I was like, "We have to go to this.

"It looks like the most

amazing thing in the world. "

The fact that you're naked

and it's a protest

and you're all as one.

It's just a great feeling,

I can't explain how good it is.

Having just finished her A levels,

18-year-old Mollie is savouring

her last summer at home

before heading off to university.

I could not stand living

in Hinckley forever.

What's the point of holding

yourself back? You only live once!

Mollie has just uploaded photos

of her and her friend Luke

at the London naked bike ride,

and is treating mum Vanessa

to an eyeful.

I mean, do I really need to see

that part of Luke in my life?

I really have empathy for your dad

that because that is a...

Yeah.

Yeah. That is a very,

er... private man as well,

strong man, i'nt he, and er...

I bet it must have been

gutting for his mates to say.

"I've seen your daughter naked. "

gutting for his mates to say. "I've seen your

daughter naked. " Was it even said like that?

Yeah, I think it was like, "I saw

your daughter with her tits out

"on Facebook,"

I think was the comment.

I do agree with that in a way,

but when it's said like that,

"I've seen your daughter naked,"

without going for the issue of what we did it for

or about the fact that it's a protest and stuff,

it does come across the wrong way.

There's lots of people

taking pictures.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It does go through your mind.

Yeah. It does go through your mind. But

you always think of the worst things.

They probably said, "Look what

I've seen today, how hilarious?"

There's bound to be men

that went, "Cor, look at her. "

Yeah, but what's the problem?

The dirty old man in a room looking

at picture of my daughter naked

and not doing nice things about it.

That's my worry.

After the naked bike ride and the

feeling and buzz I got from that,

it's like, "Maybe I should

be naked more!"

I don't know I like the feeling

of being free when you're naked.

But I don't want to be like

a full-on naturist.

I can quite happy just doing it

by myself or with my fiends, really.

Mollie's best friend,

18-year-old Clare,

was hoping to join her on the naked

bike ride, but she wasn't allowed.

Going round London on a bike naked,

I thought that was really funny,

but I couldn't go cos my mum,

but hey.

She said, "I'm going to London

to get... I need to book tickets. "

"Oh, yeah, what's that for?"

You know, museums, you know, naive.

No - naked bike ride.

"No, you're not going, no way,

no, you can't go, you know!"

I was like, "No. " I was furious, no.

And what was the bike ride

meant to be for?

What does it aim to do?

Against CO2 emissions.

A protest sort of thing.

Cos it's shocking to see

a naked person on a bike.

Yes, it is shocking, yeah.

Anyone seeing you naked basically,

I didn't want you to do it!

I thought, "What the hell

is she doing now?"

I love my mum so I don't want to...

I don't want to upset her,

so that's why I didn't do it,

or my dad, I don't wanna upset them.

And I think they were like,

I don't know...

I knew they were worried about me,

so I didn't want them

to worry even more.

So that's why I didn't go.

It's early summer in England.

Word has spread online

that the next naked bike ride

is happening in Brighton.

Nudity is about us being vulnerable

on the roads as cyclists.

Daryl, the youth leader from the

national British Naturism Organisation,

is here to try and persuade some

of these under 30s to sign up.

I love the naked bike ride!

No, I wouldn't like

all my spare parts showing!

Freedom!

It's just naked, it's not right,

when teenage girls and boys

seeing that, like, especially

perverts looking at it as well.

I don't agree with it myself.

My fantasy, my dream of how things

should be is that people

don't see naked people as a problem,

don't see it

as something that's abnormal.

You know, nakedness and nakidity -

a word that I'm gonna start

putting in the dictionary soon -

should be accepted everywhere.

You got any friends

that might be interested in this?

Er, a couple, not sure.

Right.

Right.

Not as up for it as I am.

Yeah, I find that a lot - a lot

of people don't wanna get involved.

I don't know,

I'm not a prude or anything,

but I think that sort of thing

needs to be kept indoors.

Daryl only managed to sign up

one new young member

at the naked bike ride, but his

enthusiasm is by no means quashed.

It's another miserable rainy day

in England,

but we don't care -

we're in a nice warm dry boat.

I can't open the back door,

er, not while I'm naked,

cos obviously everyone can look in

and poor old Bob, my neighbour,

he'll get an eyeful.

I won't force it upon anyone.

When it comes to considering others,

naturists abide by one golden rule.

It's more a common courtesy to put

a towel down wherever you go,

just like you take your shoes off

when you walk into someone's house.

Erm, it's just part of what you do.

It's hygienic, it's comfortable.

I think naturism is suffering

from a major image problem.

A lot of people have

dim views upon it

and think it's an old-fashioned

weird thing to do and it's just not.

With the majority

of traditional naturists

well beyond the first flush

of youth, the national organisation

has brought in Daryl to try and

bring the younger set into the fold.

Even here in the naturist clubs

we find a lack of young people

wanting to play,

it's not the in thing, is it?

It is an elderly population

and it's getting older.

We're desperate

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