Benefits Street

Did you watch it?  I didn't, so what brings me posting about it?  Well, it's sort of my neck of the woods - Winson Green, Birmingham - and it seems to have stirred up a lot of controversy concerning the extent to which it does, or does not represent the area and what goes on there.  So like I say I didn't watch the programme and other than having driven through it a few times I have no personal knowledge of the area, but I do know a man who knows a man who lives a couple of streets away from the road which was featured and who says - his words - it was "absolutely true to life".  So I pass that on for what it's worth.