"Who Do You Think You Are", Series 14: #3 Claire Balding

[BumbleB]

  "She" had "her" agenda and was determined to fulfil it. 

[groom]

Perhaps it's time, than rather than using celebrities, that they asked for the General Public who had found interesting people in their family to share their findings. They could still show the records and how they were found. I'm sure there are some really interesting stories out there which are far better than the "forced" celebrity ones.

[Treetotal]

Perhaps it's time, than rather than using celebrities, that they asked for the General Public who had found interesting people in their family to share their findings. They could still show the records and how they were found. I'm sure there are some really interesting stories out there which are far better than the "forced" celebrity ones.

A bit predictable I thought...I couldn't agree with you more Jan.
Carol

[jim1]

interesting people

are in the eye of the beholder.
I have interesting people that would probably make everyone else yawn.

[Jomot]

This was the most tedious episode yet in what, for me, is proving to be the poorest series since it started.   

If the rest of the episodes follow the emerging pattern then maybe they should re-name it 'I am who I am because he/she did it first"

[groom]

interesting people

are in the eye of the beholder.
I have interesting people that would probably make everyone else yawn.

Exactly, but just because someone is a celebrity it doesn't make their ancestors anymore interesting. 

[Rena]

As I treat the programme as light entertainment, I wasn't too disappointed. What surprised me was there was somebody else other than the British scientist Alfred Bird who had anything to do with baking powder and its promotion.

I've always liked Clare Balding at the outset when she accompanied Willie Carson, ex jockey, commenting on horse racing.   It would be surprising if she didn't wonder whether she'd inherited some aspect of her sexuality from an ancestor's genes.   Following on from my last sentence, I'd really like to see a follow up of a science programme I viewed donkeys years ago, about the contents of skulls and it was seen that the hypothalamus was a different shape in males and females, so why did one male skull have a female shaped hypothalamus?

[dowdstree]

To be honest I found this episode boring.

 English Aristocracy and wealthy Americans just don't excite me at all. Although when I saw the tin of Royal Baking Powder that I could relate to 

Trying so hard to find a gay link in her ancestry was a bit over the top.

I had a great uncle who was gay way back in the day when it was unacceptable. Nice old gent who was always good for half a crown when you met him. I am so pleased that attitudes have changed now as he was ostrecised by some family members.

Dorrie

[Rena]

interesting people

are in the eye of the beholder.
I have interesting people that would probably make everyone else yawn.

Exactly, but just because someone is a celebrity it doesn't make their ancestors anymore interesting.

I saw a couple of variations on WDYTYA years ago using ordinary people.  To my knowledge, neither was repeated so it's probably due to viewing figures.