Sunday, 26 August 2018
1082 Inside Story
First viewed : Uncertain
This BBC 1 documentary strand began in 1989 so I'm sure I must have caught some of it earlier than
The Manageress ( 18 May 1994 )
This one had something of a misleading title as the young, photogenic Karren Brady was not the team manager of Birmingham City at all but the managing director of the football club appointed by owner David Sullivan who had previously employed her in his publishing empire. An irresistible subject for a fly-on-the-wall documentary, it showed her getting to grips with a hitherto male-only world at a club noted for underachievement. It also marked the transition from the steady uncharismatic Terry Cooper to the mercurial Barry Fry without a conspicuous change in their fortunes.
Chappaquiddick ( 21 July 1994 )
This was a special documentary to mark the 25th anniversary of the incident which ended the presidential aspirations of Senator Edward Kennedy and quite possibly the whole family.
Narrated by Ian Holm, it took the view that the most likely explanation of the events is that Kennedy wasn't in the car at the time of the accident. He'd already scarpered to avoid being caught in a compromising position and told Mary Jo Kapechne to drive away in his car. He then accepted bad PR advice to protect his political reputation with a dodgy inconsistent story which actually succeeded in ruining it.
Caroline's Story ( 1 June 1995 )
This episode covered the story of a vulnerable young British woman Caroline Beale who'd given birth in a hotel bathroom while on holiday in New York and had the baby's body strapped to her stomach where it was discovered at JFK Airport. She maintained that the baby had been stillborn after dying in her womb when a close friend died of cancer. She'd not told anyone she was pregnant.
A doctor said the baby might have taken a breath so she was accused of murder and sent to Riker's Island. Even the hard cases there could spot that she had mental health problems and looked after her. She eventually had to plead guilty to manslaughter to be allowed home to receive psychiatric help.
Although I sympathised with her plight, I remember watching the camcorder footage of Caroline with her friends and the account of her grief and feeling envy that I didn't have such attractive friends or close emotional bonds with anyone my own age.
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