Val Meets The VIPs is a UK TV series broadcast over three seasons from 1973-1974 on BBC1, hosted by Valerie Singleton. There were eighteen editions, broadcast in three series of six episodes. The format for the programme was that Singleton would interview one celebrity guest, who would also face questioning from the audience of children assembled in the studio, after a short 'fly-on-the-wall' film introduced each guest. Guests came from different areas of public life, including politics, explorers, sports, pop music and entertainment. The best remembered edition of the show (and the only one ever to be repeated on BBC television) featured Margaret Thatcher, then Secretary of State for Education and Science in the British Government. When asked by a child in the audience if she wanted to be