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Old 18-09-2013, 21:40
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I would have thought Sacher-Masoch was not a common surname. Is that even going to be mentioned? Nothing ordinary about her ancestry.
They really are getting short of interesting people. I've avoided most of this series because I don't know/care about any of the people. I had high hopes for Marianne, but it's just going over and over Hitler's Germany, even with her Grandma... What's happened with going back to the 17th century,,,,I'm sure the majority of this series' viewers know the period back to front.... and if they don't, they should....
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Old 18-09-2013, 21:40
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Sorry, but anyone of my generation knows intimately about this... 30 mins of wasted time Finally, we get to some ancestors....
But many viewers wouldn't.
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Old 18-09-2013, 21:42
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But many viewers wouldn't.
Just answered that anyone: they should.....
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Old 18-09-2013, 21:43
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Hate to say this program is boring but it's so slow and laborious. I'm shouting at the screen GET ON WITH IT. But they don't.
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Old 18-09-2013, 21:44
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Hate to say this program is boring but it's so slow and laborious. I'm shouting at the screen GET ON WITH IT. But they don't.
Me too, but it's obviously not going to leave WW2
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Old 18-09-2013, 21:45
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I'm switching over. I've had enough.
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Old 18-09-2013, 22:02
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I'm switching over. I've had enough.
I agree with the switching over. This has been a zeleb series, and the first person I could care about with history (Marianne) gives us a 1 million times "discovery" about Hitler's Germany. Heaven forbid she was so ignorant about it at her age...She must have known more than the adolescent researchers....
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Old 18-09-2013, 22:12
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Well I found it fascinating.
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Old 18-09-2013, 22:17
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Well I found it fascinating.
May I ask how old you are Dome?
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Old 18-09-2013, 22:27
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Very disappointed in tonight's programme. It was a history programme about pre war and WW2 Germany and Austria with a bit of genealogy. In fact when the family moved back to Austria I half expected Julie Andrews to appear and sing.
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Old 18-09-2013, 22:28
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I also found the programme to extremely interesting and thought provoking.

And I am 2 years older than Miss Faithful - was born in the war and although knew some history about her background, it was still very interesting..

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Old 18-09-2013, 22:29
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Very disappointed in tonight's programme. It was a history programme about pre war and WW2 Germany and Austria with a bit of genealogy. In fact when the family moved back to Austria I half expected Julie Andrews to appear and sing.
We didn't even have the regular family tree..... Very disappointing
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Old 18-09-2013, 22:38
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Although the programme didn't seem to move very far I found it interesting in particular seeing the various documents (OK they were all facsimiles) relating to her mother and her mother's family. But then I'm interested in that period of history anyway.
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Old 18-09-2013, 23:53
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I also found the programme to extremely interesting and thought provoking.

And I am 2 years older than Miss Faithful - was born in the war and although knew some history about her background, it was still very interesting..
Not sure what others expect from the programme, an hour of someone looking at BMDs? They tend now to find or two interesting stories in the person's family and tonight's was certainly very interesting. Not the first time that the whole programme has concentrated on one aspect.

It was obvious where Marianne Faithful got her looks from when younger just a pity drink and drugs have ravaged both her looks and voice.
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Old 19-09-2013, 00:06
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I found it very interesting especially about her mother's dance roles and the slow change on what became unacceptable, and then her grandmother's story. How many celebs can say their mother and grandmother survived the holocaust only to be raped by the Red Army?

Sacher is the name of the leading hotel in Vienna from where we get the divine sachertorte. I wonder if there's a connection. Also Masoch is, I think, the name we get masochist from?!!

I don't think you can ever tell the story of what happened in Germany and Austria too many times. There was some new info here, it was very dramatic and full marks to Marianne who remained serious and thoughtful about it as opposed to crying every 5 minutes. She has seen a lot of life.
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Old 19-09-2013, 00:55
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Also Masoch is, I think, the name we get masochist from?!!
Yup. Named after her maternal great great uncle Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
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Old 19-09-2013, 03:26
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For all I find the period of history fascinating, this was one of the most boring WDYTYA ever.
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Old 19-09-2013, 06:49
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May I ask how old you are Dome?
Far from young.
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Old 19-09-2013, 07:24
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The programme in itself was fairly interesting. However, I do deplore the new style of giving someone a ready made family tree, going back only one or two generations and focussing on one or two stories, rather than the process of tracing lineage to uncover potential interesting incidents. I am sure that there were, as has been said, links to Hotel Sacher, and to other aspects of history in addition to the obligatory series Nazi story.
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Old 19-09-2013, 07:32
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She has not aged well
The voice was never good so should have retired years ago.
I have seen a video on YouTube from when she was here on Rhodes in 2011
Terrible does not describe her singing
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Old 19-09-2013, 09:03
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I wish they would do Joanne Froggatt on this as she is related to my girlfriend
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Old 19-09-2013, 09:12
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The programme in itself was fairly interesting. However, I do deplore the new style of giving someone a ready made family tree, going back only one or two generations and focussing on one or two stories, rather than the process of tracing lineage to uncover potential interesting incidents. I am sure that there were, as has been said, links to Hotel Sacher, and to other aspects of history in addition to the obligatory series Nazi story.
The subjects never researched the tree themselves, it was revealed to them in stages and made to look as if they found something but it had obviously all been done previously.

It's all a performance to tell a story. Showing them a printout of the tree saves a lot of time and shows the whole picture before they then concentrate on part of it.

Did Sarah Millican need to fly out by helicopter to a remote area just to discover that it was cold there, probably not but it makes 'good television'.
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Old 19-09-2013, 12:15
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I found her very interesting,much better than the lacklustre episodes we've had to date.I remember her from her Mick Jagger days, she was a real beauty.I didn't know she was part Jewish, she was a convent girl. Her grandfather was a bit selfish putting his Jewish wife and daughter at risk, he should have just kept his head down and hoped that they wouldn't be noticed.
I would have liked to know something about her father,she said he had a big house with a large garden but put her and her mother in a little terrace house. Did she have any contact with him then or later?
It's all very well going back many generations but, for instance, Nick Hewitt went back 10 generations which means he had over 1000 gt gt grandparents. As the researcher told Marianne, we're probably all descended from Charlemaigne.
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Old 19-09-2013, 12:32
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Well I found it fascinating.
Me too.

As good as Nitin Ganatra they other week.
But this series has been a bit of a hit and miss, with the celebs, all interesting, just not memorable.
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Old 19-09-2013, 12:38
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My opinion of the Marianne Faithfull episode is: get over yourself.

She blames her mother for not being able to have a physical relationship until her fifties. That's the most stupid thing that I've ever heard, the main subject of the programme was her mother and the dreadful circumstances that she found herself in because she was half Jewish. I could relate to her mother and I could empathise completely, but when that silly woman, Marianne, turned it all around by implying that it actually affected her too, that's when it turned on its head.

Faithfull has always been a non-personality, a singer without any talent and someone who always thought that she was a cut above. Last night, she proved that she was a big cut below.

Eva lived through hell, Marianne's hell was self induced. Eva's story was heart wrenching but was totally spoiled by her daughter turning it around by eluding that it had affected her, too. How could it have done so if she was truthful by saying that she had no idea what her mother had endured? She knew that her mother and grandmother had been raped by the Russians, she'd already been told, but why would this affect her as badly as she tried to make out? It's this bit that I just don't get. Can anyone explain?
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