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Topic: BBC TV "WDYTYA?" Series 6 Episode #3: Rick Stein (Read 2514 times)
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wendy47
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My Wonderful & Funny Father
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Hi
Have you noticed there are just 5 programmes in this series? I thought it was 6 last time.
They could have made it much more interesting. I kept thinking it would eventually become more of a genealogical programme & less social history. 40 mins spent on one aspect really.
Very disappointing.
Wendy
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Nick29
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a bit like the 2 people that complained over Russell BRand and Jonathon Ross and then the 30,000 Daily Mail readers that complaiend after they had read all the media hype
People were upset at the waste of money by the BBC by paying people like J Ross, R. Brand and C. Moyles vast amounts of money to act like 14 year olds, and quite right too. Would you like it if someone left childish messages on your answering machine, then made suggestive sexual innuendos on national radio about your young grand-daughter ?
I'm afraid WDYTHA ? is going the same way. Less of a programme about genealogy and social history, more like "Wish You Were Here", where we send a dubious celebrity somewhere exotic, and they take us on a guided tour of the area, loosely based on where their grandad came from. This episode even ventured into free advertising - with Fiona Bruce we saw her in her (very nice) house - with Rick Stein, we had to film him in Stein's Pattiserie 
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Best Wishes, Nick. Research interests: Field - Luton & Islington Hole - Somerset, Suffolk & Surrey Farnish, Parker, Cattermole, Last, Wasp, Church - Suffolk Lewin/Lowin/Lowen - Hertfordhire Martin - Eltham & Greenwich, Kent (London) Stead - Greenwich, London (Kent) & Maidstone Wood - Hertfordshire Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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bevbee
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I actually enjoyed this episode and didn't fall asleep half way through as I did with the Fiona Bruce one!
OK so they didn't go back far, and from a genealogists point of view it probably wasn't a very good episode, but I found the story of his mother and half brother interesting and the China connection through his grandparents was also worth watching.
Above all, I found I liked him very much and he didn't seem to be playing up to the cameras as so many of them do - he seemed a nice, genuine sort of man.
I'm hoping for another good one next week with Zoe Wannamaker and the USA.
B.
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Ambrose; Llandilofawr, Pennsylvania.
Grindley; Llandilofawr, Ohio, Louisiana, Washington DC.
Rees(e); Pennsylvania.
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Nick29
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My cousin knows Rick Stein - Rick sells my cousin's locally-produced wines in his restaurant. There's a couple of pictures of him with Rick Stein and James May on my cousin's website......
http://www.camelvalley.com/news/gallery
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Best Wishes, Nick. Research interests: Field - Luton & Islington Hole - Somerset, Suffolk & Surrey Farnish, Parker, Cattermole, Last, Wasp, Church - Suffolk Lewin/Lowin/Lowen - Hertfordhire Martin - Eltham & Greenwich, Kent (London) Stead - Greenwich, London (Kent) & Maidstone Wood - Hertfordshire Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Inchworm
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I have now noticed that a lot of people seem to fall asleep during this prog. 
Is it due to the narrators voice or the fact that it is not as riveting as we are hoping it's going to be?
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Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukDUNNILL - Yorkshire & Worlwide PETTY - Shaftesbury, Dorset WOOLRIDGE - Shaftesbury, Dorset NEWSOM - London, Surrey, Sussex FROST - Staffs,Notts, Derbys,Leics,London,Somerset ROSSITER - Somerset ROWE - London, Hertfordshire COLVER - Leicestershire DICKIE - Buteshire, Ayreshire, Renfrewshire KIRKLEY - North Yorkshire |
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Fue
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I can honestly say that I have not fallen asleep watching television for years but last week's episode and this last episode have changed that. Such expectation/such disappointment 
It was far from riveting; watching paint dry would be exciting compared to this.
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Williams (S. Wales/Worcester) Eagles (Gloucester/Liverpool), S. Wales/Devon/Somerset: Havard, Hortop, Jenkins, Martin, Marshall, Lethbridge, Hearn/Hern Northampton/Leicestershire Ainge, Barker,Stevenson, Allan, Dickens Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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