“As with previous instalments in this series, you never quite knew whether to wince, laugh or sob.”
Confessions of a Secretary, C4
“I enjoyed the programme, if enjoyed is the right word for such an odd experience: it made 40 years seem like a century ago. But maybe things weren’t as bad for women as it made out.”
Micheal Deacon, The Telegraph
“As with previous instalments in this series, you never quite knew whether to wince, laugh or sob as an assortment of former secretaries and bosses recounted tales from the stationery cupboards of yore.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express
“It’s been odd watching this series, which manages to just – just – maintain a distance critical enough to acknowledge that the “good old days” were in fact nothing of the kind. In fact, if it wasn’t for Mad Men, The Hour et al, to this viewer it would be like watching a documentary from a parallel universe.”
Will Dean, The Independent
“For the first third of the programme, it wasn’t the sexism that made you gape so much as the more incidental details of the office life…After the quick recap, the programme deepened and darkened as we returned to the whole groping thing.”
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian
The Legacy, Sky Arts 1
“This enviably involving family drama is brilliant clear-eyed yet, as during the funeral, capable of moving us too.”
Andrew Billen, The Times
“Most of the staff aren’t to the manor born. Or not as far as we can tell. But Liberty, like other documentary subjects of recent years, including Inside Claridge’s et al, focuses on a company or product aimed primarily at the very wealthy.”
Will Dean, The Independent
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