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Apted and Ebert (Part 3 of 5)
Film critic Roger Ebert talks to filmmaker Michael Apted about some of the tougher questions posed to the subjects in '49 Up' over the years. Apted feels that the hard questions are a key to what the series is really about - his relationship with the participants.
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