At the beginning of the programme, the narrator informed us that the children had been selected from "different backgrounds".
The Prime Minister's encounter with Jeremy Paxman at the beginning of the programme had been a much more difficult affair.
We see Snoop and Chris disposing of the bodies of another two New Yorkers at the beginning of the programme, although we don't see the hits.
The difference in Argentina was that a lack of sufficient IMF funding at the beginning of the programme was a more severe constraint than the conditions imposed to reduce the deficit.
The jokey and nostalgic elements in the running order sometimes felt tonally inappropriate as it seemed a reasonable bet, at the beginning of the programme, that Paxman might end his broadcasting career by announcing the end of the world.
The beginning of the programme contained a warning: "Be prepared for intense scenes of emotional distress, very aggressive confrontations, entirely offensive language right from the very start and constantly throughout adult and sexual themes".
I got the vague impression that Orbach wanted to talk to some offenders – it was hinted at in the beginning of the programme – but that, no doubt, was quashed by executives.
Even the cell from which Tyndale was taken to execution – which had provided a nice little frisson at the beginning of the programme – turned out to be a Victorian reconstruction on the same site.
A spokesman for the agency said: "The delay in completion is due to a combination of having an overly optimistic timeframe at the beginning of the programme, necessary changes to the scope of the programme during its lifetime and delays in developing and releasing some of the ICT upgrades".
This stylistic tension is introduced at the beginning of the programme in the form of two monumental memorial ossuaries designed by architect Giovanni Greppi and sculptor Giannino Castiglione, built just a few years apart to celebrate the Italian dead of the first world war.
Wah! How did you ever manage to get paid work again?! Fortunately the first bit of videotape was quite short, and after about five minutes I was able to say: "Well, those of you who joined us at the beginning of the programme, I'd like you to know that I'm now aware this event is taking place in Bournemouth and not Brighton".
