Your Life In Their Vans (BBC1) - AS moving house is acknowledged as one of the most stressful things you can do, it's strange that anyone would add to the bad time by having a TV film crew around to capture every crisis.

The narrator maintained a relentlessly jovial air, as when the removal vans thundered into a small village - "the villagers gather in hostile groups, trying to remember where they put the ducking stool". This tone was inappropriate for the elderly couple who had difficulty walking, let alone moving to New Zealand. A postscript showed them and their furniture safely arrived in their new home.

Donna and her daughters' move went less smoothly, as Dave and Diane Lloyd arrived with their possessions in Kwik Move vans before she was ready to vacate the premises. Kwik Move was neither quick nor moving. Worse still, in their eyes, Donna was using "a transit crewed by amateurs" to transport her goods to her new house. "These people think they can do it themselves and make life a misery for us," moaned the crew.

Mr Lloyd became the bearer of bad news by having to tell Donna, on the Kwik Move men's instructions, that she'd be charged £150 for every hour they stood around.No wonder she promptly burst into tears. What a contrast to Barbara and Herb who, locked out of their new home, left the removal men to investigate a restaurant they'd read about in The Good Food Guide.

No matter how much you clear out before moving, you always unpack to find things for which you have no use. This certainly applied to Richard and Victoria, whose "few odds and ends" were packed in 400 boxes, containing everything from his-and-hers butcher's bicycles to a disco ball.

Removal man Mike offered to take some off their hands for charity. A colleague was less complimentary about a piece of art belonging to another couple. "Load of crap", he declared uncharitably.

Published: 17/07/2003