Generation Next is the BBC's boldest international broadcasting season. Very soon the channel will come up with nine days of special programming devoted to the voices, experiences, ideas and aspirations of young people from around the globe. BBC World will be joining BBC World Service and bbcnews.com to bring together young people from all over the world. The season runs from Saturday 2 to Sunday 10 December 2006 across BBC World television and BBC World Service radio. One of the highlights of the season is School Day 24, the biggest ever interactive conversation between young people across the world, which links schools in political 'hot spots'. The programme will give voice to young people allowing them to talk across social, political and cultural divides about the issues that concern them. There are link-ups in Albania, Bangladesh, Burma, China, Germany, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Poland, the US and more. My Generation Next would feature young people from around the world who will use webcams, mobile phones and specially commissioned films to talk about what's really on their minds in two half-hour specials. Also across the week, five exceptional teenagers demonstrate what they are doing to make a difference in their world. The documentary Hobart Shakespeareans follows the fifth-graders at Hobart Elementary School who are Latino and Asian children growing up in an underprivileged area of Los Angeles. They are rehearsing for the end of the year school play. It's a tough start, especially as English is their second language, but they are lucky enough to be taught by Rafe Esquith, whose motto in life is "be nice and work hard". Nicola Benedetti--A Winning Story is about the talented musician Nicola Benedetti who won the BBC's prestigious Young Musician competition in 2004 at the age of 16. This profile will look at six months of Nicola's life, and feature her New York recital debut, several concert engagements, and the build-up to the recording of her second album at the famous Abbey Road studios in London. Sierra Leone The Way I See It, is the story of Kyle Jones who is visually impaired. He lives in England and has had a pen pal in Sierra Leone for three years. He's about to meet him to find out how disabled people are treated in this part of the world. Graham Satchell travels to Freetown with Kyle to meet his friend. The Street and the Ball presents six projects that are part of the 'streetfootballworld' network an international organisation that uses street football to improve the lives of young people living in extreme social conditions. World Business Report will be featuring a series of special films looking at teenage tycoons across the globe as well as the lives of two groups of poorer teenagers in New York and India. The team will also cover the backlash which is growing against advertising aimed at children; a look at what the Middle Eastern governments can provide the ever growing youth of Arabia; as well as the African economy and how it's dealing with the high mortality rate among 30-somethings of AIDS and HIV-related diseases.