Sex, Lies & Love Bites: The Agony Aunt Story

00:00:02 'I'm Philippa Perry.

00:02:43 'TV agony aunts like Denise may be a relatively recent

00:05:25 men and women.

00:07:50 'Well-to-do readers had a vast array of new periodicals to choose from

00:10:15 they're just doing.

00:13:17 And this kind of started a huge, huge series of letters

00:15:36 So...

00:18:04 I think a lot of those people that wrote in did so

00:21:09 'from 16-year-old Len Tebbutt sparked his daughter's interest in

00:23:34 Oh, dear! I expect he was attracted

00:26:37 "greed and blind selfishness can do to humanity.

00:29:14 Is that typical?

00:31:35 I hope I brought the right clothes, Laura.

00:33:56 But because it takes so many forms, you can

00:36:34 Queen bee of the '70s problem page was Marje Proops

00:39:20 'But even with a readership of millions, she never

00:41:23 and that everybody else had a problem, not them.

00:43:45 "I'm with her.

00:46:09 And I said, "What's it about?"

00:48:46 They replied to 100 letters a day

00:51:32 You know, now you would Google a problem

00:53:39 they would be pregnant. So perhaps it was our fault.

00:56:20 I mean, I think human nature actually evolves very, very slowly.

07:00:08 be a font of all knowledge.