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i have been told that a program DNA Family Secrets is coming up shortly i think its on bbc2 anyone know when this is to be aired
thank you
harrywrag
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2nd March :-\
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000sthc/episodes/guide
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thank you Rosie :)
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Looking forward to watching this.
Romilly.
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What did everyone think of this programme?
I enjoyed it, particularly since being on the BBC there were no adverts, also it didn’t have endless recaps to pad it out.
I haven’t done a DNA test and don’t really know very much about it but I felt the expert explained the basics well.
Interesting that as well as the parentage cases they were also trying to find out if Huntington’s disease had been passed down a family.
I did feel for both men who were looking for their fathers, what a lot they had to understand and process. DNA is certainly no fairytale ending.
The American GI history was interesting too, I learnt a lot.
Definitely worth watching.
Looking forward to the next one.
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I was convinced that the two men with beards were related!
The one who was looking for his biological father looked completely nonplussed when they showed him the photo of the man they thought was his father...
Interesting program though.
Romilly.
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I enjoyed the programme but there was one thing with the bearded man that niggled me.
He spoke positively of the man who brought him up, who he had thought was his father. Well, I understand that some people (not all) want to find out who their genetic parent is if they find out it's not who they thought; but after his news, he looked so lost. I wanted to say to him, Hey, don't forget the man who actually brought you up and was a father to you! He may not have been genetically related but you are the person you are thanks at least in part to him!
I hope and imagine that participants in the programme are suitably counselled about this sort of thing.
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I enjoyed the programme but there was one thing with the bearded man that niggled me.
He spoke positively of the man who brought him up, who he had thought was his father. Well, I understand that some people (not all) want to find out who their genetic parent is if they find out it's not who they thought; but after his news, he looked so lost. I wanted to say to him, Hey, don't forget the man who actually brought you up and was a father to you! He may not have been genetically related but you are the person you are thanks at least in part to him!
I hope and imagine that participants in the programme are suitably counselled about this sort of thing.
I also enjoyed the programme, but felt sorry for the bearded man. He was prompted to take the test after being contacted by the other mans father, saying he thought he was his father as he had had a relationship with his mother. The results dealt a double blow, not only was the man he thought was his father wasn't, but the man who thought he was his father wasn't his father either, and probable father no3 had died a long time ago! If he hadn't have been contacted he may never have taken a DNA test and would have continued to live in blissful ignorance, but now the hornets nest has been kicked leaving outstanding questions for him and, probably, his sister as well.
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I was thoroughly absorbed for the entire hour.
The GI's son and his wife met the presenter at a pub only 10 minutes from my house. Love seeing places I know on the box. A well run place with good beer and live music.
The two bearded gents look like they will remain friends even after it turned out they are not brothers. If so something good will have come from the revelations.
Only downside for me was the voice and accent of the presenter. Didn't know who she was. This is the BBC. Poor Lord Reith must be spinning!
Next Wednesday 10th March ITV have 'DNA Journey' with Freddie Flintoff and Jamie Redknapp. I will give this a look but fear there will be too much horsing about for my taste.
Nice though to see our subject covered on prime time TV. We are surely due some WDYTYA even if only repeats.
Tony.
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I felt very uncomfortable about the bearded man, and I really hope he had some counselling afterwards. His whole view of his family had been thrown up in the air - not only was his father not his birth father, but his mother had apparently had more than one extra marital affair. I hope the coincidence of the beards didn't influence the programme makers when they chose to use this case. I thought it was quite unethical to use it.
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I suppose that when they choose the participants, they can't know at that point what the testing will show.
But I suspect that the bearded man would have stayed happier in a parallel universe where he'd never heard of DNA testing ----
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Might have missed this - but what made the man think he was the biological father in the first place?
As it turned out, the two men got on well, but it could have turned so badly wrong.
Just trying to imagine how I would feel getting a communication like that out of the blue. What about the sister? (or half-sister) What happened to her?
FS
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The format is pretty much the same as Long Lost Family on ITV. However they both have presenters who I hate (for different reasons).
Davina McCall (Long Lost Family) is far too gushing. "Look at ME! I'M the one doing ALL this! Make sure you get good footage of me EMPATHISING!"
Stacey Dooley (DNA Family Secrets) has a horrendous, grating, voice. She managed to tone it down considerably during her run on Strictly Come Dancing, but seems to have bounced back to an even more annoying level.
Wednesday sees the start of another "pre-planned genealogy" series, DNA Journey on ITV. Jamie Redknapp & Freddie Flintoff are the celebs in the first episode, wandering around in the same manner as Ant & Dec a couple of years ago.
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Nice though to see our subject covered on prime time TV. We are surely due some WDYTYA even if only repeats.
Tony.
BBC iPlayer is repeating WDYTYA series 12-17 for the next 11 months if you get desperate ;D
Jenny
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Nice though to see our subject covered on prime time TV. We are surely due some WDYTYA even if only repeats.
Tony.
BBC iPlayer is repeating WDYTYA series 12-17 for the next 11 months if you get desperate ;D
Jenny
Thanks Jenny,
I'm going to run out of lockdown to do things in! ;D
Tony.
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I know, could have done with this at the start of January when it was too cold to go out
Jenny
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Might have missed this - but what made the man think he was the biological father in the first place?
I don't think that was mentioned. Perhaps he just knew he'd had an affair around the appropriate time. He might have been right, it seems the "son" and his sister didn't have the same father according to DNA, but it turned out it his father wasn't the man who started the hunt in the first place.
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What wasn’t explained was how they knew the first bearded man had a different father, surely it could have been his sister that had an unknown father. The DNA test clearly proved they had different fathers but it didn’t explain how they knew it was him and not her.
The programme was edited to give the assumption purely on the phone call the man received from the other bearded man’s father.
We know his sister must have matched with known cousins but the program skipped over that bit.
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The format is pretty much the same as Long Lost Family on ITV. However they both have presenters who I hate (for different reasons).
Davina McCall (Long Lost Family) is far too gushing. "Look at ME! I'M the one doing ALL this! Make sure you get good footage of me EMPATHISING!"
Stacey Dooley (DNA Family Secrets) has a horrendous, grating, voice. She managed to tone it down considerably during her run on Strictly Come Dancing, but seems to have bounced back to an even more annoying level.
Wednesday sees the start of another "pre-planned genealogy" series, DNA Journey on ITV. Jamie Redknapp & Freddie Flintoff are the celebs in the first episode, wandering around in the same manner as Ant & Dec a couple of years ago.
Thank you for the head-up on Wednesday, I'd have missed that. :) I agree with your comments about the 2 presenters -awful!
The first story was as I thought, many girls were bussed to the American bases' dances -the inevitable happened! Glad he found his family. The third story outcome was a great relief.
The second one baffled me. The coincidences that a random man would ring him when he appeared not to suspect his Dad was not his real one (was that right?) and for the "brother" to look so like him -and recognise his walk, etc, as his own Dad's - then for another man to be placed as his Dad? It had me spinning and I just felt there was something we weren't told maybe. All a bit odd though.