My Street is a film about a street. It could be any street. It could be your street and the people on it could be your neighbours. But My Street is where filmmaker Sue Bourne lives and until now she barely knew a soul. In this film she tweaks the net curtains and knocks on doors, revealing remarkable stories, hidden from view, on what could be almost any street in Britain.

After 14 years of living on the same road Sue knew practically none of her neighbours. Intrigued by what stories might lie on her own doorstep, she began knocking on the 116 doors on her street and meeting some of the 300 people who are her neighbours.

The range of lifestyles on the street varies dramatically within yards of each other. In a 24-hour party house of New Zealanders, Camilla explains how the volume of residents can fluctuate: “There’s about nine of us at the moment. If we’ve got dossers they could crash on the couch, so sometimes we go up to fourteen, even more.” But several large houses have just one person living there, including the street’s oldest resident, Alek. He has lived in the same house for fifty years but says he doesn’t know anybody in the street…With a twinkle in his 91-year-old eye he says - “I never did live in the street. I always lived in this house, but not in the street.” With only his cat and the pigeons for company since his wife died he says he has grown “accustomed to being lonely, so it doesn’t hurt me.”

My Street, part of the Cutting Edge Series, Thursday 21 February, 9pm, Channel 4.