WDYTYA is coming to SBSTV in OZ

[Kazzaqld]

Have just watched my first episode of WDYTYA and what an episode.  Ended up in tears just like Stephen did.   

I'm glad someone else did - I was feeling rather soppy - but it was very sad. 

Won't say too much in case I spoil it - but I had a great-great-aunt imprisoned by the Nazis and I just kept thinking of her, although by all accounts she had it "easy"

[deeiluka]

I had tears too.....     

Can't wait till next week...... 

.......dee

[StephEv]

To all in Australia try listening to Radio 4s Tracing your Roots presented by Sally Magnasson plenty about Australia and addictive listening. Cheers Down Under and Happy Festive Season to all 8 Stephen Evans, Malta

[Martin Briscoe]

I had tears too.....     

Can't wait till next week...... 

.......dee

Better have plenty of tissues ready for when you get the programme on Natasha Kaplinksky with her cousin(?) singing the Kaddish in a ruined Belarus synagogue where their family worshipped.

Martin Briscoe

[deeiluka]

Don't tell us.......we haven't revealed what we have discovered about a couple of the Aussie ones that are coming........ 

......dee

[trish251]

Hi All

As I can only watch SBS on digital TV & that is my record channel, I had to watch ABC first & then SBS - (and I'm in Qld) so a little late watching the show, but it was so worth waiting for. I have seen some of the 1st series before, but this one seemed much better than any I saw before. The European side was very sad, but I did love his comments about his other folks in the work house - rather like when we discovered the convicts in our family.

It was also nice to see how interested Stephen was in finding his folks & his reaction in the ruined cemetery - like all of us when we are hoping to find a grave & instead find the cemetery overgrown with weeds and full of 20th century junk & many memorials trashed.

I am still bemused as to why such wonderful TV shows, as the two I watched tonight, are shown in the "off" season - very strange

Trish

[deeiluka]

At least it gives us something to watch in the off season, Trish!

Having seen that tonight, I am looking forward o the Australian series even more......

.....dee 

[Bellejazz]

I'm in WA so it only finished here 40 minutes ago .... I found it very touching and admit to tearing up bit when he was trying to read his family the letter. What a sad wasted fate

It was also nice to see how interested Stephen was in finding his folks & his reaction in the ruined cemetery - like all of us when we are hoping to find a grave & instead find the cemetery overgrown with weeds and full of 20th century junk & many memorials trashed.

I often wonder if I am the only one to get emotional over my relatives who I never met that died decades and decades before I was born. Maybe we do this to honour and remember them in the hopes that when we are gone someone in the distant future will do the same for us?

*slap* note to self to stop thinking all this morbid depressing stuff.

- Belinda.

[tropicalj]

Hello  there All

I  must admit to  having seen  this  one  on  Cable  TV  but it was a  joy  to watch again.  I  always  feel  a  sense  of attachment  to  the folk  in  the series   though  we are  in  no way  related  I  know  how  they  feel  as  they  go  down  the  various  paths  to trace  their roots .   I  think  we feel  this  way?  Am  I  right?

kind  regards Jenn