The way we live now.
Each year, Whitehall recruits about 100 of the country's brightest graduates. It is a process which has never been filmed before. The prize is a coveted one. In 30 years' time, the successful recruits will be the 'Sir Humphreys' of their generation. This film tells the remarkable inside story of two candidates who are put through perhaps the most demanding half-hour of their lives - the final selection board.
Louise Alliott, hoping to enter the Foreign Office, has scored highly up to now for her personality. But will her shaky knowledge of foreign affairs be her undoing?
Tim Cooke, in for the Home Civil Service, is on the borderline so far, although he's shown that 'he's got the horse power'. But will his principles make him unsuitable?
When they hear the final result one of them simply cannot believe it.
Photography NIGEL MEAKIN Sound recordist BRIAN BIFFIN Film editor STEFAN RONOWICZ Assistant producer MO BOWYER Producer CHRIS CURLING Editor EDWARD MIRZOEFF
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