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It gets a bit John Craven's Newsround in the way it explains History, yeah we're not all 12 you know. The narrator put on his best incredulous voice to relate the story of the railway.
We all know Britain's rape of its Empire was evil and nasty, bad, VERY BAD Britain building and funding massive transport, irrigation and Communication infrastructures in backward countries that didn't have two doo dahs to rub together. We are all suitably ashamed BBC..... OK Ooooo, spooky, post 666. In saying that, things were done in the past that we sometimes wish hadn't been done, but you live with the past & hope you can learn from it, but "we" still do things today that are iffy if it benefits the people who have the means, oil, gas, etc It was an interesting episode, economic migration is as old as time, & Nitin Ganatra came across well, it's no wonder his mum never talked about her family history, must have been very painful thing for her to do, with her dad being so ill & losing 8 siblings. |
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I'll see your 1565 and raise you a 1475
![]() ![]() It is very addictive! On the other hand, I can't get my husbands back further than the early 19thc as they were Irish. It's only because some ended up in America that I got that far back. |
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Just caught up with this.
Thought it was captivating from start to finish. Absolutely loved it! And he came across as SUCH a nice bloke. |
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It gets a bit John Craven's Newsround in the way it explains History, yeah we're not all 12 you know. The narrator put on his best incredulous voice to relate the story of the railway.
We all know Britain's rape of its Empire was evil and nasty, bad, VERY BAD Britain building and funding massive transport, irrigation and Communication infrastructures in backward countries that didn't have two doo dahs to rub together. We are all suitably ashamed BBC..... OK Ooooo, spooky, post 666. What did you want them to say then? That was history. That was his family's history. Should they have eradicated the past hardship just to curb the awful truth that Britain wasn't all that great in the past? Stupid post indeed. |
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I can get mine back to 714 (Pepin Franks) and have royalty, although they were peasants within a handful of generations - wrong religion or picked the wrong side in a war maybe? There is even a Saint (Clothilde) in mine
![]() It is very addictive! On the other hand, I can't get my husbands back further than the early 19thc as they were Irish. It's only because some ended up in America that I got that far back.
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Have just watched this and thoroughly enjoyed it. One of the best for a long time.
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Watched this episode the other day - Nitin Ganatra's story was by far and away and without a shadow of a doubt the most interesting episode this series, and he came across as a really nice man, genuinely interested in his family history and what the other contributors had to say.
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I was working for The Standard Bank in the early 1970s and was on the point of having a temporary posting to Nairobi; both then and now I wondered about the situation with the Asian community, (not to mention Uganda as well), and, on reflection, I'm glad I didn't go (unrelated to the politics), although it would have been a facinating experience.
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Sarah Millican tonight but I shall be watching The Wipers Times. It is usually repeated the next day but I can't find it on the schedules.?
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You will have to wait till Mon 16 th @ 22.35 on BBC 1
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You will have to wait till Mon 16 th @ 22.35 on BBC 1
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Watching wor' Sarah now. I knew we would be getting scenes of South Shields but I did not expect to learn just how close her mam and dad live to me. Theirs a place she is seem driving to is about 2.5 miles from me. Very close to where my late Auntie lived. Spooky.
A tragic story is unraveling. It seems a relative was a diver who was involved in the rescue after a tragic sinking of a ship which resulted in many lives being lost at Holy Island up in Northumberland. I cannot imagine what it is like to find stuff like that out. |
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I thought that I didn't like Sarah Millican, I thought wrong, she's a lovely lady.
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I thought that I didn't like Sarah Millican, I thought wrong, she's a lovely lady.
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I thought that I didn't like Sarah Millican, I thought wrong, she's a lovely lady.
![]() It's noticable that she has thanked each of the people who's told her a particular part of her history. Maybe other folk haven't done it, I don't know, but she is coming across as a polite and charming person. Mind, she could have moved the cobweb off her interior mirror in her car.
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Are you me? I've just said the very same thing!
![]() It's noticable that she has thanked each of the people who's told her a particular part of her history. Maybe other folk haven't done it, I don't know, but she is coming across as a polite and charming person. Mind, she could have moved the cobweb off her interior mirror in her car. ![]() |
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Were they any actual tears in her eyes when she was crying?
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I don't know, I think it might just have been the 'compulsory cry' they're all meant to have.
Poor guy having his feet amputated - and at such a young age too! |
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I don't know, I think it might just have been the 'compulsory cry' they're all meant to have.
Poor guy having his feet amputated - and at such a young age too! |
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Oh, they didn't show this here in Scotland for some reason
. We had New Tricks on. It's been moved to 10.35pm. Hope it's not going to be moved to this time every Wed from now on.
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That was alright with some interesting stories.
Very, very surprised John survived out in the wilderness on his own for any length of time. Incredibly lucky to have been found. Did I miss any reference to what John was doing for a job back here? Edit: I can guess, which way this thread is going to go now. |
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I usually dislike Sarah Millican quite a lot, but that was an interesting programme, and she came across well, I thought.
The Hudson's Bay Co is really interesting I think - if people enjoyed that aspect of tonight's programme then I thoroughly recommend Ray Mears' excellent series about the exploration of Canada which goes into a lot of detail. |
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BIB some treat their mirror/car spiders as 'pets'
Cobwebs on a rear view mirror is the sign of a skank of the highest order . A ho-hum episode, Sarah's relatives story didn't really grab me and disappointingly found her not much more intelligent than her stage persona . [ Hudson's Bay is in The Orkneys, FFS !!! ] |
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I thought it was interesting - better than some.
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Interesting although she seemed to have forgotten in Canada that if John Malcolm had died she wouldn't have existed
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. We had New Tricks on. It's been moved to 10.35pm. Hope it's not going to be moved to this time every Wed from now on.