Gulliver's Travels and continue as pirates. He is abandoned in a landing boat and comes upon a race of hideous, deformed and savage humanoid creatures to which he conceives a violent antipathy. Shortly afterwards, he meets the Houyhnhnms, a race of talking horses. They are the rulers while the deformed creatures that resemble human beings are called Yahoos. Gulliver becomes a member of a horse's household and comes to both admire and emulate the Houyhnhnms and their way of life, rejecting his fellow humans as merely Yahoos endowed with some semblance of reason which they only use to exacerbate and add to
Val Meets The VIPs individually in the Radio Times as "Val Meets Guest Name" (ie Val Meets Susan Hampshire), but the show's titles were always "Val Meets... The VIPS". A later series, "In The Limelight With Lesley", ran on BBC1 in 1980, and followed the same format, but Lesley Judd presented. This latter series was produced by Sarah Hellings, who has since directed many television series. Margaret Thatcher was also a guest on this series and was shown the clip from her appearance on "Val Meets... Margaret Thatcher" and asked to comment on her earlier remarks. "Val Meets The VIPs" - Series 1 Guests: