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Post by beverley61 on Mar 22, 2023 13:04:34 GMT
Morissey and Dunbar episode was a bit strange. I knew they would pick out random ancestors because that's what they do. However, in both cases none of the people selected were actually that directly related. Then we had that cringey segment with the fiddle player and little girl dancing and Morissey doing his best to look interested.
Dunbar's family was barely looked at. None of his Scottish roots at all and that after all is what the name Dunbar suggests. I suspect he didn't really want his family looking into that closely and was happy enough with really really distant folk and not much of anything to speak of at all. I wondered whether there is a mixed marriage there that he didn't want broadcast. I mean the priest bit was weird, wasn't it.
I wondered if they had spent so long in pubs that they were a bit sozzled and not focussing at all.
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Post by linseed on Mar 22, 2023 17:48:38 GMT
I’ve noticed that the 2 people don’t have the same amount of time dedicated to their ancestry.. wonder if it’s to do with the final edit. With the Jonny Vegas/Alex Brooker one it was more than 50% Jonny Vegas.
Having said that is was very enjoyable and the Hugh Bonneville/John Bishop one was excellent. Haven’t seen the one with Adrian Dunbar.
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Post by vicky on Mar 26, 2023 8:03:21 GMT
Morissey and Dunbar episode was a bit strange. I knew they would pick out random ancestors because that's what they do. However, in both cases none of the people selected were actually that directly related. Then we had that cringey segment with the fiddle player and little girl dancing and Morissey doing his best to look interested. Dunbar's family was barely looked at. None of his Scottish roots at all and that after all is what the name Dunbar suggests. I suspect he didn't really want his family looking into that closely and was happy enough with really really distant folk and not much of anything to speak of at all. I wondered whether there is a mixed marriage there that he didn't want broadcast. I mean the priest bit was weird, wasn't it. I wondered if they had spent so long in pubs that they were a bit sozzled and not focussing at all. These programmes aren't a patch on WDYTYA and this one in particular was very lacking in content. I think the bits with the relative playing the fiddle and the housekeeper serving tea (both very cringe-worthy) had to be put in as padding because there was precious little else. Adrian Dunbar seemed very grumpy to the point of rudeness at times, such as when he wondered out loud when the expert would get to the point of his story. Mind you, it was no more than what I was thinking at that point! I wonder if he only took part out of friendship so that Neil Morrissey could find something about his own family. |
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Post by Miranda on Mar 26, 2023 10:05:05 GMT
That particular historian really does milk his part though. More than once I've turned into Lady Bracknell.
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Post by beverley61 on Mar 26, 2023 13:53:30 GMT
I think they had to take Morrissey's parents and siblings out of it and therefore grandparents. So we got random people who had nothing to say, even in the town they were from. Reading between the lines they were not a well liked family.
Dunbar said his father built the bridge but we did not get to find out whether he was a labourer, welder of civil engineer. Also with the name Adrian and the surname Dunbar there is a mix going on somewhere. They said his DNA was part Scottish and that's where the name is from.
Again we got bits of nothing. So what if he had a distant second cousin who was a missionary priest in Africa. That was triggering flags with me anyway. Nothing he did there can of been any significance so what we got was a very gay priest showing us old photos that simply meant nothing to Dunbar. |
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Post by beverley61 on Mar 26, 2023 13:54:49 GMT
 Mar 26, 2023 11:05:05 GMT 1 Miranda said: That particular historian really does milk his part though. More than once I've turned into Lady Bracknell. Ha ha, that is so true! A handbag! Waterloo Station!!
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Post by beverley61 on Mar 29, 2023 15:04:07 GMT
Anyone see last nights with Motsi and Oti Mabuse. Very interesting, they do get giddy though.
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Post by linseed on Mar 29, 2023 15:11:38 GMT
Yes, it was fun seeing them have such a joyful time
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Post by marion on Mar 30, 2023 19:22:25 GMT
I saw their new cousin Samantha in The Bodyguard at Wimbledon the other week, 😁.
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Post by vicky on Mar 31, 2023 11:33:10 GMT
I gave Motse and Oti's DNA journey a miss not having been all that impressed with the other episodes in the series. it had good reviews so I caught up with it last night and it turned out to have been the best of the lot!
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Post by Miranda on Apr 3, 2023 23:22:41 GMT
It was very good! The DNA scientist made me laugh. I don't think they really understood what he was telling them but he was chuffed to absolute bits!
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Post by beverley61 on Nov 14, 2024 14:31:10 GMT
I couldn't see another feed and I think I'm on the right programme.
It's the one that had Paddy McGuinness on it and he wanted to know where the Irish side of his family came from because he never had any actual Irish relatives and nobody could remember any.
Anyway in the programme Paddy discovered an ancestor who fought at the Battle of the Kop in the Boer War and won a medal. He found out that they had tracked down the current owner of the medal who had bought it from an auction and they showed him it on the programme. The auctioneer company who sold it has been in touch with that person and bought the medal back and they will present it to Paddy when he completes his cycle ride for Children in Need.
Nice little gesture.
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Post by Miranda on Nov 14, 2024 19:13:05 GMT
I think that was WDYTYA. But that's a lovely gesture from the auctioneer.
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Anymore to come?
