well this WAS a TV show back in the days when British telly was a duopoly - BBC the publicly-funded channel, ITV the commercial one. Both believed in public service television and you got some really groundbreaking dramas and documentaries, i have been borrowing the DVD of this much-imitated classic, it is an amazing window into the past.
Later in the series, one of the participants (a scouser who is actually the sharpest, funniest little kid in the early stages) ends up homeless and sleeping rough, only for one of the wealthier, more priveleged participants in the show to intervene and get him a job
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