BBC TV "WDYTYA?" Series 5 Episode #7: Jodie KIDD

[Abiam2]

I can't see a thread for this programme!  Or is it me?
I thought it one of the best of the series.  Truly inspiring with its ups and downs and to see the records way, way back in Yorkshire.
Abiam

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[Wendi]

Hi again Abiam !

Well I loved it too, and I have to profess that I did not know who Jody Kidd was when the program started !  too much research, in last years who knows when clothes 

But I echo her ending words, that knowing about her past gave her strength/confidence and it was kinda nice to see a "model" filmed who was commonsensical, articulate and interested.

Wendi 

[jillruss]

Yes, I agree - by far and away the best of this series. And it actually covered different ground for once.

I was really excited right at the end (I know, a pathetic case!  ) when they ended up at the Rowley church in East Yorkshire - a few miles from me, and I have a greatx3 grandmother who was baptised there! Not as early as Jodie's ancestors but I recognised the registers that she looked through. Didn't recognise the archivist though - and I go there often enough!

Jill

[Abiam2]

Hi Wendi,

I did know who she , she is also in Strictly Come Dancing BBC1 Saturdays, racing driver and horse woman.  I thought she took the "food hoarding" part very well!  I'm ashamed to say I didn't know there was a law against hoarding food in WW1.  

But it was the Canadian and American parts that had my interest - not that I have anyone that brave.  To actually see the documents for her GGGG.....Mother Hannah was quite amazing in Rowley, Yorkshire,

Abiam

[lesleyhannah]

This was another of those episodes where I wished there could be a follow-up. Everything they showed was interesting, but I wanted to know about the Scottish and Irish branches that were never explored.

Just wish they could have a follow up series - WDYTYA Revisited - to explore all the loose ends.

This has been a great series - I'm sure it appeals to people with no interest at all in genealogy. Like Wendi, I'd no idea who Jodie Kidd was, but that wasn't a problem.

I think they said next week's episode was on Monday. I do hope I remember!

[Rewcastle]

No paternal side researched 

But the question is:- Do you say Rowley as in no or now  in Yorkshire





Rewcastle.

[Hackstaple]

Not exactly the girl-next-door unless you have a castle but quite an interesting programme.

My word but she is tall! Everybody she met looked like a Hobbit in comparison.

[rainbow 1]

Hi
              The archivist was Lizz from "THE TREASURE HOUSE"  in Beverley..

[Flakdodger]

I agree too, a programme full of interest and a person who showed real interest (lots of note taking in her little book). Very much in the same league as Ainsley Harriott's programme, it did not come across as 'staged'. She was a game lass to have aired in public the remarkably derogatory remarks about her ancestor made by the King's equerry!
Dave