One of the most interesting film on BBC 4 recently was Irina Palm, a fantastic comedy drama directed by Sam Garbarski, staring  Marianne Faithfull. The film was released in 2007 with critics panning it, perhaps because it destroys what some people considers middle England’s respectability with the lead character, Maggie, a respectable middle aged, middle class granny from a rural village commuting to the red light districts of  Soho to work in the sex industry.

To be fair to Maggie, the sex industry was not her first choice, she try securing regular employment without success, she even went to the job centre where she was told by the job centre official that her age and  lack of skills makes the possibility of finding a job for her impossible.
The innocent Maggie saw a job advert for hostess outside a sex shop, she promptly apply for the job, thinking it was a job waiting on clients and clearing tables.
In not time Maggie got a job that promises to pay up to £900 a week giving hand relief to punters. Maggie was trained but one of the old hands, one of the remarks of the Maggie’s trainer was quite funny “The first time is embarrassing but, after that, you wank for England,” though Maggie did not go on to wank for England but she became the best wanker in Soho and managed to secure the money needed to help her grand son.