First viewed : Uncertain
This documentary strand on BBC Two had been running since 1981 so I think I must have caught sight of it before, but the first programme I can definitely recall is a two-parter from December 1986 entitled The Chosen Few which followed the fortunes of two applicants for the Civil Service, an opinionated male leftie and a middle of the road public school girl. Given I was job-hunting at the time, it was of considerable interest although I never applied to join the Civil Service myself.
I can't remember now which one of them got the job. He seemed to be rubbing the panel up the wrong way while her suggestion of a buffer state between Israel and its hostile neighbours was rightly ridiculed. Perhaps it was neither of them as there were other candidates in the field who weren't filmed.
Raging Belles ( 09.03.1989 )
This one concentrated on the female wrestling world and featured two contrasting ladies as they edged towards a showdown for the British Ladies' Championship Belt. One was a peroxided tub of lard from Liverpool called Klondyke Kate , who wore black and was a "heel", in the Mick McManus mould, regularly pausing to shout abuse at the spectators. If I remember correctly, she was also around four months pregnant at the time. The other , Vicky Monroe, was a big girl but quite attractive and played a straight bat. I can't actually remember who won the Belt.
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