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Old 07-08-2014, 10:04
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Starts tonight at 9pm with Julie Walters. Should be good.
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Old 07-08-2014, 13:22
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Enjoyed the 10 Years Of... programme last night.
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Old 07-08-2014, 17:28
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Enjoyed the 10 Years Of... programme last night.
Me too, hard to believe its been on for 10 years. The one which always sticks in my mind is Natasha Kaplinski's cousin singing in the ruined Synagogue.
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Old 07-08-2014, 19:23
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Didn't see that one originally but it was moving.

Loved the one with Jerry Springer, gave him distance and enough time for reflection. You could here him sobbing at the memorial and then they united him with a cousin from Israel at the end.

I came across a document with one side of my family tree going back to the mid-1500s. Ancestry just flagged one of the people on it so I took a look and someone else had scanned in a will from 1732!!! I know it was right cause it had all the correct children and their married surnames on it. Unless there was a freakish coincidence.

I love geneaology
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Old 07-08-2014, 20:07
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Didn't see that one originally but it was moving.

Loved the one with Jerry Springer, gave him distance and enough time for reflection. You could here him sobbing at the memorial and then they united him with a cousin from Israel at the end.

I came across a document with one side of my family tree going back to the mid-1500s. Ancestry just flagged one of the people on it so I took a look and someone else had scanned in a will from 1732!!! I know it was right cause it had all the correct children and their married surnames on it. Unless there was a freakish coincidence.

I love geneaology
Yes the Jerry Springer programme was excellent, should be used in training film crews when to pull back and leave someone alone for a time though WDYTYA are normally good at doing that.

I have been catching up with WDYTYA USA on Watch, quite a few that have not been shown in the UK. I presumed it is sponsored by a car manufacturer because I noticed after a few programmes that everyone always drives the same model of car!
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Old 07-08-2014, 20:12
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Yes the Jerry Springer programme was excellent, should be used in training film crews when to pull back and leave someone alone for a time though WDYTYA are normally good at doing that.

I have been catching up with WDYTYA USA on Watch, quite a few that have not been shown in the UK. I presumed it is sponsored by a car manufacturer because I noticed after a few programmes that everyone always drives the same model of car!
I think they were shown very late at night on BBC One. The last US series was shown at 11.40 or near midnight.
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Old 07-08-2014, 21:03
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Looks like a good line up this series. Mary Berry, Twiggy, Martin Shaw, Brendan O'Carroll, Billy Connolly.
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Old 07-08-2014, 21:05
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Looks like a good line up this series. Mary Berry, Twiggy, Martin Shaw, Brendan O'Carroll
Apart from Brendan O'Caroll, I'd agree with you!

Looking forward to seeing tonight's show. I absolutely adore Julie Walters.
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Old 07-08-2014, 21:07
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Diddly didle dooo.
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Old 07-08-2014, 21:11
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Are they reduced to doing stories they may have rejected ias being a bit dull n the earlier series ?

They must have researched big names like Connolly and Walters in times past.
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Old 07-08-2014, 21:15
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British barstards.
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Old 07-08-2014, 21:27
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Finding it a bit dull so far, nasty landlords, hardship and potatoes.
Julie Walters being constantly astonished.

Looking forward to Brian Blessed next week.
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Old 07-08-2014, 21:31
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Finding it a bit dull so far, nasty landlords, hardship and potatoes.
Julie Walters being constantly astonished.

Looking forward to Brian Blessed next week.
I agree. As much as I love Julie, I'm finding this a bit boring! I doubt anything her family did was really out of the ordinary.
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Old 07-08-2014, 21:39
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Loving this episode. Very interesting stuff
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Old 07-08-2014, 21:39
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A bit of a Irish history lesson, more educative than entertaining.
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Old 07-08-2014, 21:51
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It isn't quite down to Gary Lineker dullness, (educational or not). Farming potatoes, being evicted and fights with a knife is hardly sensational stuff.
Julie is a national treasure though, hope Brian Blessed finds out his ancestors wrestled crocodiles and took on armies singled handed.
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Old 07-08-2014, 21:54
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Loving this episode. Very interesting stuff
Indeed love it and Julie O Brien
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Old 07-08-2014, 21:55
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She really lets her imagination run away with her.
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Old 07-08-2014, 22:05
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Poor Irish peasants being mis- treated by the wicked British, yet again. Julie didn't seem sincere to me but was using her acting skills.
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Old 07-08-2014, 22:25
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I think they were shown very late at night on BBC One. The last US series was shown at 11.40 or near midnight.
Some were shown but some on Watch that I have not seen but perhaps I missed them on BBC1 before I realised they were running them.
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Old 07-08-2014, 22:43
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Poor Irish peasants being mis- treated by the wicked British, yet again. Julie didn't seem sincere to me but was using her acting skills.
Really?! I thought she was engaged in a genuine way.

She has always struck me as someone who is quite left-wing so I think she was genuinely proud that her ancestors fought for human rights and democracy against the rich and powerful landowners who did absolutely nothing to earn that wealth.

Her great-grandmother (?) Maria was also involved in what was essentially a women's rights movements decades before British women. And as a big fan of Downtown Abbey I know that a lot of criticism of the women's movement was that it was just a hobby for the wealthy but this was very, very different. Maria was extremely poor - a tenant farmer not permitted even the basic right of security of tenure - not a hobby but a struggle for survival for her family and the families of those around her.

I thought she was very proud of Maria's stand too, I think Julie is a larger than life character and maybe that's why you think she was acting.
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Old 07-08-2014, 23:03
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Loved the one with Jerry Springer, gave him distance and enough time for reflection. You could here him sobbing at the memorial and then they united him with a cousin from Israel at the end.

I love geneaology
I also thought the Jerry Springer one was incredibly moving. I thought the Stephen Fry one was excellent too and am surprised that there was nothing of that one shown in the documentary about the 10 years of WDYTYR. There was only a very small bit of the Jerry Springer one too.

I am afraid that I thought tonight's episode on Julie Walters was very boring, even though I was looking forward to seeing her on it.
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Old 07-08-2014, 23:21
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Boring start to the series hopefully will get better
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Old 07-08-2014, 23:34
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Didn't know Julie's background was Irish and didn't know anything about tenant farmers in Ireland so I found the story her story interesting. Thought her reaction to what she found out about her ancestors, like Julie herself, genuine and charming.
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Old 08-08-2014, 00:02
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I really enjoyed it, I saw Julie once at an airport in Cyprus, she is very small.
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