« Reply #141 on: Monday 03 December 07 01:12 GMT (UK) »
Well, how good was that!?
Fantastic! Loved it! I do like Stephen Fry anyway ...
Martin, I believe you are correct - we in Australia are unable to download these BBC programmes.
I believe we are being given a 'teaser' - being shown 6 episodes of the UK series. Stephen Fry is from series 1. Next week we will see Julia Sawalha from series 3. I imagine we are being shown those episodes featuring the celebrities who we may be more familiar with. Hence we will probably not be shown the Natasha Kaplinsky episode from the last series (as we don't know who she is 
).
IIf SBS are picking and choosing which episodes to show us, have they actually purchased ALL of the series? Will we eventually be shown them all? I sure hope so!
I've already seen the Julia Sawalha programme on cable - so no surprises for me next Sunday.
They are hopefully seeing how much interest there is in the series. If the audience figures are good then perhaps you will see more. Most of the programmes can stand on their own even if you don't know the person featured. I didn't know any of the soap stars (except Barbara Windsor of course!) but the programmes were still interesting.
The worst ones have been actors like John Hurt and Jeremy Irons.
Apart from the four series, there is also an adoption special that was run here in conjunction with a
campaign about adopting. This featured Nicky Campbell and he found that he had connections with Australia - I think he found he was related to a Bishop so took him a bottle of "holy water" (from Scotland of course!).
Martin Briscoe
BRISCOE - Bolton, Heaton Norris, Rochdale, Oldham, Chadderton, Blackburn
POUNDER - Middleton Tyas, Kirkbymoorside, Stokesley, Lambeth, Bolton, Newcastle on Tyne, Leeds
HAMMOND - Quebec, Laverton, Masham, Grantley
SWALES - Laverton, Masham
O'Shea - Quebec
PARRY - Caerhun, Deiniolen, ClwtyBont, Brynrefail, TalySarn, Brynrefail, Bethesda
EVANS - Llanfihangel Bryn Pabuan, Maesmynis, Dowlais, Stockton on Tees, Hartlepool, Trealaw
HARVEY - Trentham, Sheriffhales, Llanfyllin, Llanferres, Minera
