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Re: "Who Do You Think You Are", Series 15: #2 Olivia Colman
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 10 July 18 19:46 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Lydart on Tuesday 10 July 18 19:22 BST (UK)

Of course the people featured in this series have a bit of money; if they weren't famous in some way or another, we wouldn't be interested, and I don't suppose the BBC would bother to investigate Mr Bloggs from Railway Cuttings, East Cheam .... (or was that Hancock ??!)

Some years before WDYTYA there used to be a very interesting BBC 2 series Bloodties which documented family history of ordinary people. It was pulled after one series.
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Re: "Who Do You Think You Are", Series 15: #2 Olivia Colman
« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 10 July 18 20:06 BST (UK) »
Blimey - I'm obviously old and decrepit!  Who the h.... is she?  Never heard of her, and as far as I am aware never come across her in any of her roles  :-X  Now I'll just go away  :-X

Added:  perhaps I should watch more TV  :-X
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Re: "Who Do You Think You Are", Series 15: #2 Olivia Colman
« Reply #11 on: Tuesday 10 July 18 20:11 BST (UK) »
Any of these ring a bell......Rev, Broadchurch, The Night Manager?
Howard , Viney , Kingsman, Pain/e, Rainer/ Rayner, Barham, George, Wakeling (Catherine), Vicary (Frederick)   all LDN area/suburbs  Ottley/ MDX,
Henman/ KNT   Gandy/LDN before 1830  Burgess/LDN
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Re: "Who Do You Think You Are", Series 15: #2 Olivia Colman
« Reply #12 on: Tuesday 10 July 18 20:13 BST (UK) »
Quote from: BumbleB on Tuesday 10 July 18 20:06 BST (UK)
Blimey - I'm obviously old and decrepit!  Who the h.... is she?  Never heard of her, and as far as I am aware never come across her in any of her roles  :-X  Now I'll just go away  :-X

Added:  perhaps I should watch more TV  :-X

Excellent actress.  I shall never forget her in the very final episode of the very first Broadchurch......
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Re: "Who Do You Think You Are", Series 15: #2 Olivia Colman
« Reply #13 on: Tuesday 10 July 18 20:17 BST (UK) »
A really enjoyable episode - gosh wasn't she excited!  :)

I liked the one odd mention by her family about a 'French woman' - then the link is made towards the end. So weird that we all have these 'someone mentioned so-&-so...' in our own family history searches - hopefully many of us will one day find the link that proves the rumour 'true'!

A very good episode indeed! (Although my daughter had hoped that there was a Polish twist - she loved Olivia Coleman's performance as a Polish Resistance hit-woman in the BBC radio comedy about Bletchley Park - called "Hut 33"  :P)

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Re: "Who Do You Think You Are", Series 15: #2 Olivia Colman
« Reply #14 on: Tuesday 10 July 18 20:20 BST (UK) »
I have seen her on TV with Dr. Who....fella..

This programme actually proved to me that she could act.

Because the lady in the Programme  -- 'wdytya'  hardly resemble the lady I had seen acting with that there fella.. whose name has gone..

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Broadchurch  yes he was in that with her.

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Re: "Who Do You Think You Are", Series 15: #2 Olivia Colman
« Reply #15 on: Tuesday 10 July 18 20:26 BST (UK) »
Dr. Who......David Tennant.
Howard , Viney , Kingsman, Pain/e, Rainer/ Rayner, Barham, George, Wakeling (Catherine), Vicary (Frederick)   all LDN area/suburbs  Ottley/ MDX,
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Re: "Who Do You Think You Are", Series 15: #2 Olivia Colman
« Reply #16 on: Tuesday 10 July 18 20:34 BST (UK) »
Quote from: nanny jan on Tuesday 10 July 18 20:11 BST (UK)
Any of these ring a bell......Rev, Broadchurch, The Night Manager?

No!!!   :-X :-X I did say that I was "old and decrepit"  ;D
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Re: "Who Do You Think You Are", Series 15: #2 Olivia Colman
« Reply #17 on: Tuesday 10 July 18 20:50 BST (UK) »
I really enjoyed the programme.  Olivia Colman came across as very natural and genuinely interested in her family story.  How wonderful that all those letters were still there for her to read.  I'd love to find something like that in my family!

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