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Post by pandaeyes on Jan 31, 2021 11:13:27 GMT
Tuesday at 8 pm. (1/3)
After travelling around the world, she now turns her attention on the UK. This episode she visits: Tilbury Docks in Essex, Coronation Street, and Yorkshire. I expect we'll have her recalling the time she starred on The Street.
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Post by sootycat on Jan 31, 2021 12:41:16 GMT
I must admit I am a big fan of Joanna's little travelogues. She is always interesting (and not dry as dust like some of the celebrity presenters)
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Post by pandaeyes on Feb 3, 2021 10:34:40 GMT
That was interesting. The visit to Eyam the village that isolated itself during the Great Plague was touching, especially now since COVID-19. She also went to the Beatrix Potter Museum in the Lake District, (Joanna is a great fan if Beatrix), and also met a very friendly sheepdog. Looking forward to the rest of this very short series.
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Post by sootycat on Feb 3, 2021 12:21:49 GMT
I think if it had got its own way, that sheepdog would have gone home with her.  |
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Post by geometryman on Feb 3, 2021 23:42:05 GMT
I'm a fan of Joanna's travel programmes, and will keep watching this one, but I'm afraid I found it disappointing and not up to her usual standard. It's too much of a whistle-stop tour for my liking, seemingly spending only a couple of minutes at each place before jumping off somewhere else.
Another problem is that ITV may have left it a bit late to show the series, as some of the items have featured recently elsewhere. For example, Channel 5 covered Eyam in some detail a couple of months ago, in a documentary about the Great Plague, and Beatrix Potter/Herdwick sheep only a couple of weeks ago in Susan Calman's Grand Day Out.
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Post by Miranda on Feb 4, 2021 12:45:54 GMT
I wish someone would go to the Lakes and not do Potter and the sheep! There's some amazing places up there and it would be nice to see them
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Post by beverley61 on Feb 4, 2021 13:57:33 GMT
Yes - there's the absolutely brilliant pencil museum - joking! I agree there is a lot more to discover. The relationship between Scotland and the Lakes, the relationship between the Vikings/Normans - last battle between the Normans was up there, way after William was dead. The different tribes that ruled, the Irish Church and that's not even touching on the flora and fauna.
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Post by goodhelenstar on Feb 4, 2021 16:09:27 GMT
BBC4's excellent series of documentaries about the Lake District mountains and the people who live and work among them is well worth watching. Rory Stewart, who was a historian before he was a politician, presented a 2-part series a while ago about the Border country.
This was more sound bite, manageable chunks fitted around the ad breaks. Joanna is an engaging companion, though everything is wonderful, amazing, splendid, etc! It's fine in its own, unchallenging way, and her voice is a delight. It appears to have been filmed in lockdown as she was keeping her distance from the people she met and in the Aston Martin plant the staff were wearing masks. I assume therefore that the footage of the Whitby Goth weekend, for example, was from an earlier programme.
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Post by Delia on Feb 7, 2021 14:33:03 GMT
I too, found it too "bitty" which was disappointing. The clips were from all over the country, and seemed rushed. But we are great fans of Joanna, so will continue watching.
Just wish I had a pound for each celebrity traveller who has gone through that gate at Beatrix Potters farm......
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Anymore to come?
