Val Meets The VIPs is a UK TV series broadcast over three seasons from 1973 to 1974 on BBC1, hosted by Valerie Singleton.
Guests came from different areas of public life, including politics, explorers, sports, pop music and entertainment.
The best remembered edition of the show (and the only one ever to be repeated on BBC television) featured Margaret Thatcher, then Secretary of State for Education and Science in the British Government.
When asked by a child in the audience if she wanted to be Prime Minister, Thatcher responded that she did not have enough experience and (to an earlier question) that there would not be "a woman Prime Minister in my lifetime" (see external links).
Two years later, she was elected leader of the British Conservative Party and became Prime Minister in May 1979.