When she was eighteen, Jocelyn Secchi wanted to be an actress. Her father is a solicitor, her mother runs a hairdressing business, and they live in a cottage near Lymington in the New Forest. Jocelyn was educated at a convent, a boarding school, and finally a grammar school.

She could, perhaps, have gone to university, but chose instead to do a drama course at a College of Technology, in Portsmouth. She was bored with Lymington, found it difficult to make friends there. During the past year she has lived in digs, has met new people. She is a Roman Catholic - but believes in sex before marriage; she gets on well with her parents - but no longer wants to live at home. Now nineteen, she has spent a year beginning to learn how to be independent.


Clip taken from At a Time Like This: Girls Leaving School, originally broadcast on BBC One, 17 July, 1969.




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