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Search Search. Menu Sections. F ilming has started on the documentary which will follow the busy lives of Noel, 50, and Sue Radford, 46, plus their 22 children, six grandchildren and four dogs, production company Lion Television said. It is a major theme of telly and, indeed, culture, to pit one set of parents against another, that they might play out their identity crises in an exhilarating, unreflective mud-sling.

It's not an edifying activity, and I'm going to bite my tongue and not try to guess at what sort of parents Tania and Mike will turn out to have been. But I'll go so far as to say she is a rubbish teacher. The narrator is a bit annoying, especially in his persistent use of the football commentator's tense "that night, Sue's contractions have finally started …" She's going down the left side, she's huffing and puffing, she's ready to shoot!

She shoots! And considering how many of them there are, the children are strangely absent, noticeable only when they are crying or over There, in a nutshell, is why most people stop at two. I had yet more parenting-judgment to bite down in Coming Out Diaries BBC3 : three youngsters were all at various crisis points in their sexual identity. Nathalie is 17, was born Kieran, "a girl in a boy's body", and is engaged in a grim battle with her mother about even being allowed to wear a skirt in the house; Tori has a great, understanding mother, but doesn't want to come out as a lesbian to the people on her beauty course, having been bullied at school and also at hairdressing college ; Jamie was born Amy but has been living as a boy since he was six his mum says: "I had this little girl, I wanted her to be the prettiest, frilliest little girl ever.

And I look back now, and it was abuse. You'd be ready for anything with a mother like that. The diary-format, where they wrote what they thought and then read it out, was just about as bad an idea for a voiceover as anyone has ever had. No time for ads? Find out more Stream shows without ads. Find out more. Sign in to play Episode 1. Episode 1 The first programme meets two couples who can't stop having babies and asks them why not First shown: Tue 17 Jan 47 mins.

Episode 2 The second film meets two big families with serious sibling rivalry.