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Post by Miranda on Aug 30, 2024 20:58:31 GMT
First up is Melanie Chisholm. Formally Sporty Spice. Interesting Great Grandmother but they definitely skimmed over the dodgy bits!
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Post by Miranda on Aug 30, 2024 21:06:45 GMT
And this is another one that follows a pattern.
Jewish = Holocaust
Black = slavery
Posh = Plantagenet
Irish =famine
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Post by linseed on Aug 30, 2024 21:09:25 GMT
Melanie wasn’t the first up, there have been 2 others already in this series (I missed this one, but saw the other two)
We’ve had Vicky McClure and Paddy McGuinness - both good
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Post by Miranda on Aug 30, 2024 21:41:41 GMT
I realised when I looked at the main page! Just watching Paddy now.
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Post by Miranda on Aug 30, 2024 22:58:43 GMT
I really enjoyed Paddy's. Fascinating stuff about the wars.
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Post by marion on Aug 31, 2024 8:46:08 GMT
I liked Paddy’s as well. Considering he knew virtually nothing at the start, it was lovely to see him find everything out, and hold the medal too. I thought he came over really well, as did Vicky. I always judge them by how they are with the experts and they get a bonus point if, when they go to a grave, they take flowers, which very few actually do.
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Post by Miranda on Aug 31, 2024 11:20:54 GMT
I didn't watch Vicki to the end. Once they got onto the POW stuff I turned it off. Was bad enough learning about it the first time.
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Post by vicky on Aug 31, 2024 15:37:36 GMT
I liked Melanie Chisholm. She made intelligent comments and didn't keep saying oh wow! to everything she was told. That really does irritate me! Her family story was interesting but one thing I would have liked followed up was the fact that Thomas Keefe applied to join the Greenwich Hospital School. That and the fact that he was born in Plymouth, suggests that his father was or had been in the Royal Navy. I suppose that didn't fit in with the "strong women" theme of the programme though.
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Post by beverley61 on Aug 31, 2024 15:54:46 GMT
Yes, I thought he clearly had the education to apply, which helped him get on later.
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Post by beverley61 on Aug 31, 2024 17:05:07 GMT
I really enjoyed Paddy's. Fascinating stuff about the wars. This was a good one because he was genuinely interested and asking good questions. He went up in my opinion recently. He is separated from his wife, they have three autistic children and she was recently diagnosed and has gone through tons of therapy adjusting and realising how much she has masked. Being a tall pretty girl she was picked up by a modelling agency quite young and now says she has played the role of a pretty blonde model and has to find out how to unmask and not play that role. Difficult times for both of them. He was being interviewed about a show recently and the journalist asked him if his wife was divorcing him. He just said "Do not go there and do not say a bad word against her. I will not indulge this line of questions, she is a great woman and a good mother'. |
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Post by vicky on Aug 31, 2024 18:43:09 GMT
I didn't know he and his wife had separated. That's sad. I am not keen on him as a presenter but I once saw a documentary about him, his wife and the children and thought what a nice family they were.
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Post by Miranda on Aug 31, 2024 20:41:01 GMT
Oh, that's tough on both of them. I saw that doc about autism and they both came over well.
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Post by beverley61 on Aug 31, 2024 21:38:25 GMT
Yeah it's tough, she mentioned it a bit when she did that pilgrimage show. Only to say being diagnosed was scary and tough and although they are separated he's been a good support. She gave no information about him or anything personal and hasn't done any interviews about it.
They clearly aren't rushing the divorce and obviously still talk.
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Post by beverley61 on Sept 20, 2024 13:59:51 GMT
Well Olly Murs's WDYTYA was probably one of the most tragically sad for a long time. When I heard he was of Latvian descent and had a mystery about his family in WW2, I automatically thought he must be Jewish. But no, it wasn't that at all. It was something completely different and poignant. I won't say more until everyone has had a chance to catch up. This is not what you're expecting at all.
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Post by vicky on Sept 21, 2024 6:09:40 GMT
Well Olly Murs's WDYTYA was probably one of the most tragically sad for a long time. When I heard he was of Latvian descent and had a mystery about his family in WW2, I automatically thought he must be Jewish. But no, it wasn't that at all. It was something completely different and poignant. I won't say more until everyone has had a chance to catch up. This is not what you're expecting at all. I thought it was the most interesting episode of the whole series and yes, it was tragic. I am surprised all those wonderful records survived the Soviet era. |
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Anymore to come?
