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The United Kingdom of Zoo – S09:E14: Naomi Townsend (45), from Northampton 5 (1)

We’re on a dull council estate. Wide streets and rows of 1970s-built housing. It probably looked great on paper, but in reality it looks windswept and depressing. We pan around to face a larger building, no taller, but much wider – a small community hall/library. This week’s host appears, walking around from behind the hall […] read

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United Kingdom of Zoo – S09:E13: Britney Morrow (33), from Bristol 5 (1)

An establishing shot of a residential street in Bristol, just around the corner from a primary school. Kids are being walked into school by mothers, older kids being dropped off at the curb. We can tell from the nervousness of the children, and the occasion tear being wiped from a mother’s face, that it’s the […] read

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United Kingdom of Zoo – S09:E12: Avery Gowling (23), from Slough 0 (0)

We open with more of our smooth drone footage – this time flying over Slough town center – a hive of British commuter-belt activity. Flying over a huge Tesco superstore, more cars and shoppers… Over the train station, hundreds of passengers boarding a rush hour train into London… Then dropping all the way down toward […] read

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United Kingdom of Zoo – S09:E11: Meghan Given (58), from Guildford 4.5 (2)

This week’s show begins with a shot from inside a car as we head down a quiet suburban residential street, slowing down to turn into a private tree-lined side-street, driving through gates designed to keep the ‘wrong kind of people out’… Then we’re outside a very classy house, very exclusive. Not the biggest garden or […] read

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United Kingdom of Zoo – S09:E10: Louise Jenas (35), from Livingstone 4.5 (4)

We open with an establishing shot of a featureless, single story white building. An almost empty car park infront of it, and then an empty playing field, the ‘H’ configuration of goal posts at the far end confirming it’s a rugby pitch. We track along the front of the building until we come to a […] read

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United Kingdom of Zoo – S09:E09: Dani Eastham (19), from Chichester 0 (0)

We cut to an establishing shot of an old suburban street. On one side of the road, parkland with plenty of green trees, infront of us a roundabout, and to our left a windowless wall, decorated with a large mural depicting cartoon horses running free. We round the corner and come face to face with […] read

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United Kingdom of Zoo – S09:E08: Brandy Gardner (44), from Wolverhampton 5 (1)

We pan around a gritty, pebble strewn road, taking in a commercial storage facility on one side of us, an electrical sub-station infront of us, and then coming to rest on a large building supply business. It’s one of those ‘trade only’ places that the regular DIY guy wouldn’t even know exists. And then the […] read

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United Kingdom of Zoo – S09:E07: Josie Bolton (26), from Peterhead 4.7 (3)

We fade in on a desolate, baron coastline… Wind and rain whips over rocks and tufts of grass, above a deserted beach… Rain spatters against the camera lens and wind whistles over our microphones. There is no-one for as far as the eye can see. We pan away from the beach and look inland at […] read

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United Kingdom of Zoo – S09:E06: Kara Reilly (54), from Watford 3 (1)

We fade in on a row of near identical white two story, semi-detached homes – each with its 5-foot-high private hedgerow fencing, and its satellite dish, each with solar panels on its faded black tiled roof… Then a row of ugly two-story block buildings – large shopfront windows downstairs, smaller square windows of the upstairs […] read

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United Kingdom of Zoo – S09:E05: Edie Penrice (43), from Mansfield 5 (2)

We fade in on the exterior of what appears to be a wide, apartment complex. Two levels, very pretty, limited parking. Then we’re inside, noting the number of old people sitting in armchairs or being pushed around in wheelchairs. We move to an indoor swimming pool – steam rising into the air suggesting that this […] read

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United Kingdom of Zoo – S09:E04: Wendy Smith (28), from Barry 4 (2)

We open with an establishing montage – shots of a classic 1960’s school campus – brick and glass, with lots of green wooden panels, everything very square, flat roofs, boring. Kids spilling out – scruffy kids in white shirts and black trousers… Jumping infront of the camera as they pass. Some of them trying to […] read

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United Kingdom of Zoo – S09:E03: Liu Danying (39), from Peterborough 4.5 (2)

An establishing shot of a large, grand and historical looking building set in beautiful green gardens. This is Orton Hall. Next to the hall, an old church… Around them, several newer structures – tasteful extensions – have been added. One of them contains a Health Spa. We take in the quiet beauty of the complex […] read

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United Kingdom of Zoo – S09:E02: Yvonne Batty (57), from Folkstone 5 (2)

After our previous episodes craziness, we return to a more sedate pace today… And it doesn’t get more sedate that a Wednesday afternoon in Folkstone… We open with an establishing shot of a very narrow street, with three- and four-story buildings jutting up on either side of us and curving away from us. The road […] read