| 1 | Why do people stay in relationships that are violent? | |
| 2 | All his life he had been simple, ineffective, docilely accepting the worst his environment had given him. | |
| 3 | One lady says she hates a man who is too weak and too submissive. | |
| 4 | Another advantage of people as subjects in nature programmes is that they are biddable. | |
| 5 | Ronnie, glum and silent as a wood carving, represents an older Britain of want and resignation, in which people were expected to know their place. |