03 March '10

“It was an exciting notion that was delivered in true Horizon style: very slowly, with way too many words thrown in.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

“As a popular–science programme this erred slightly on the side of repetition, and made one a little impatient. As a cookery programme, it put you off your dinner.”
Tim Dowling, The Guardian

“For some reason tricked out with emetic close-ups of people eating like pigs. But in between those queasy notes, there was some interesting science too.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

“Real People, just one of seven fiercely competitive true-life story magazines, has a largely female readership and – as far as one could tell from Jaclyn Parry’s engaging film – an almost exclusively female staff.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

“Secrets for Sale spent three months at Real People magazine. In theory I am a fan of these real-life magazines….They interview their subjects and even read their stories back to them before publication.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

“Gathered a little pace last night but has yet to break into a canter. The most irritating thing about it, however, is that so much of the dialogue is incomprehensible.””
Andrew Billen, The Times

“Continued along its tortuous, surprising and utterly gripping path…Every implausible twist is rendered suddenly believable by the next, even weirder development.”
Tim Dowling, The Guardian

“Nothing you learnt in this programme was going to knock you off your sofa but it was nice to muse on that long-gone world where horses could talk and no one thought anything about putting an eight-year-old boy in a rowing boat with a live grizzly bear.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express