alt Hacker News> Apted acknowledged flaws with the show, saying it was a "horrible error" to have only four women in a cast of 14 when making the original selection
I am more surprised they could only found 14 white kids even in 1964!
A show like this would be very different today.
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Mountain_Skies • today at 3:30 PM
Why is that surprising? In 1961, the UK was 98.5% British White. By 1971, it was still 97% British White. That fourteen people of that time period would be British White isn't unlikely.
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One of the participants, Symon, is mixed-race.