Swingers 3 by Barry Calvert

Author:Barry Calvert [CALVERT, BARRY]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd

CHAPTER 8

La Chambre on Nationwide Television

The lady on the other end of the phone sounded friendly enough. She was a researcher from London Weekend Television and was exploring the possibility, as she put it, that LWT could film a documentary about La Chambre. My initial reaction was alarm; this was a set up, they may want to portray us as degenerates and perverts, compulsive viewing for the masses. Even though the News of the World had inadvertently been very beneficial for us, we did not fancy being made scapegoats on nationwide television. I discussed it with Marie that evening and we decided to meet with them and try to at least ascertain what their intentions were.

Two days later we were sat in a service station just north of junction 30 on the M1, waiting to meet the production team for London Weekend Television. We had decided to let them do the talking. When people are allowed to monopolise a conversation they invariably let slip any hidden agendas they may have.

They arrived in a big, black American style four-wheel drive. There were four of them; Sandy, the researcher whom I had spoken to on the phone, Ben the producer and two guys called Ian and Terry, camera and lighting men. The first thing that struck us was their age; they were all so young. I reckon Ben would have been the eldest at about the thirty mark. I don’t know why but we had expected them to be experienced older people in their forties and fifties, not twenty somethings. We have since learned that this is the norm in the television industry; the vast majority of people working there are between twenty and forty, and at forty you are considered a dinosaur.

Sandy came over and shook hands before introducing the team. We ordered coffee, hamburger and fries all round and picked a table by the window as our office to talk.

“What is it that you want to do?” I asked. Sandy and Ben did most of the talking. They wanted to do a day in the life kind of documentary about the club, about us, about swinging. Their aim, said Ben, was not to sensationalise it but, show it as it is. We had brought swinging out into the open after years of stigmatism and lies. Sandy stressed that it was now time to show people the truth. We had broken the mould by doing the article for OK! Magazine and now Ben said it was time to take the next step.

They talked for over two hours and we listened, but we did not pick up on any signs of subterfuge. On the contrary, they seemed eager to learn as much as they could about the lifestyle and the people in it, even promising to sign an agreement stating that they would not portray La Chambre or us in a negative way. So, on our third cup of coffee we shook hands. Filming would begin in one week’s time.

Over the next two days we must have made over a hundred phone calls.

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