BBC "Who Do You Think You Are?" Gareth Malone (WDYTYA Series 12 Episode 5)

[Barnes612]

Although I know who Gareth Malone is, I've never watched any of his programmes, so I'm hoping that my feeling that tonight's show is going to be a bit light is completely wrong and that it'll be up there with Jane Seymour's and Derek Jacobi's in terms of content and engagement!

This is what it says about it on the WDYTYA website:
Growing up, says choirmaster Gareth Malone, his parents were “always singing” around the house. Amateur dramatics enthusiasts, they passed their enthusiasm for music and performance to their son. “In my DNA, there’s a little switch for singing and it’s on,” Gareth jokes. Gareth is therefore particularly keen to find out about two forebears who, family stories suggest, also worked in showbiz...

I admit to liking the programmes where ancestors aren't doing the same things as the subject!

[StanleysChesterton]

I read the "spoilers" in the press about 2-3 weeks ago.

Spoiler alert below

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It turned out that his great-great-grandfather was super famous in the old music halls .... and so one might question how come he didn't already know all this.  He even has his own wikipedia page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Payne

[Barnes612]

Not reading them! 

[Rosinish]

Bored to tears with this 

I hate soaps but I think I would rather watch Corrie than this episode.

Programme is a farce tonight.............he knows more than we are led to believe 

Annie

[StanleysChesterton]

I chose not to watch it and phoned somebody for a chat instead.
Just caught the last 1 minute.... glad I didn't waste a full 60 minutes of my life if it was full of singing

[nanny jan]

Not full of singing but some new archives featured......Gareth found a sound recording of his ancestor Edmund Payne singing........what a find.

[cms]

Too much singing, yes, but also a fascinating story of the dyer who left Leeds to become a concert singer, a publican, a musical hall owner, then the builder of a grand Dublin theatre. The film and sound recording also made a lovely story.

[KGarrad]

Well I enjoyed it!
So much better than last week's American episode.

Some decent genealogical research; and I didn't think the family knew all that much?

[nanny jan]

Well I enjoyed it!
So much better than last week's American episode.

Some decent genealogical research; and I didn't think the family knew all that much?

Agree.