It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.
It was lovely to do The Knock because I haven't done anything really significant since Doctor Who.
Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.