Milestones like birth, marriage, the last year at school. Relationships like step-families and blended families, sibling rivalry. Once we'd selected the themes, we looked for families that had a good story to tell. How we told the stories The story-tellers in the families were given a broadcast quality handy minicam camera. The families also monitored the footage, and didn t give the ABC any footage they were uncomfortable with.
Some stories occur over a number of weeks, others over months.
Hundreds of hours of tapes had to be distilled into ten half-hour episodes. Home Truths is on ABC TV on Thursday nights at 8.30pm, for ten weeks commencing 8 May 1997. Transcripts will be available in the week following the program. Watch this space for links. Both already have children from previous marriages.