Professor Green talks about young people's struggles

Stephen Manderson (AKA Professor Green), who is patron of the charity Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) and scooped the MIND ‘Making a Difference' National Award in 2016, has made several thoughtful, empathetic, and relevant documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4 on important topics such as mental health, suicide, homelessness and poverty.

In his Working Class White Men documentary, he explored the ‘identity crisis' that is affecting young white men from disadvantaged backgrounds and documented the challenges they face in education, employment, and in their home lives. The documentary detailed how the white working class are ‘losing their way', lacking in self-esteem, status and social recognition. They are the group in society least likely to go to university but most likely to prison and because of how they are perceived by society many feel forgotten and demonised.