BBC TV "WDYTYA?" Series 5 Episode #2: Boris Johnson

[PaulaToo]

 Perhaps that's why I've only heard the dearly beloved use it. My side of the family wouldn't...common as muck the Mathias lot...

[jillruss]

Interesting news about the Irish version of WDYTYA.

Can you keep us posted as to when it starts, Shane?

Can you get RTE on Sky? Hope so.

Jill

[shanew147]

on the Irish WDYTYA I'll update on rootschat as soon as know the date it starts^(*).  I think RTE1 is available on Sky - but I am not sure if you need an Irish Sky card. I'm on cable system here in Dublin but 'll ask around the Sky/satellite experts and see if I can find out...


Shane



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[avm228]

I enjoyed the content of the programme (as always) but to make a small criticism I only wish that Boris had been able to resist continually finishing the researcher's answers.  Just the nature of the beast I expect !

That niggled me too! Not to mention the Comedy Bad German Accent he kept coming out with.

Enjoyed the programme, though - fascinating.

Anna

[Aulus]

I didn't think it was a comedy German accent, more just a Brit trying to speak a bit of German to his hosts, occasionally managing it, occasionally not, and reverting to cod German when his vocab let him down.

Oh, no!  What's the world coming to?  I'm an apologist for Boris Johnson! 

[Welsh Jules]

I was also wondering if BBC Wales were doing another "Coming Home" series showing celebs with Welsh ancestry re-visting their roots (previous programmes saw Patrick Mower, Janet Street Porter, Rolf Harris among others) as a few months ago my mother saw a film crew in the next street in Tonypandy (Rhondda Valleys) filming Glyn Houston at his old family home.

Interestingly for me, as a child my grandfather and his siblings lived a few doors up from Glyn, Donald and their sister Jean and I have a photograph of my grandparent's wedding (grandmother from my profile) where Glyn (as a young boy) is standing on the side watching the bride and groom leave the church, so it would be great to see a programme made about someone who grew up in the same street as my own family!

[pjbuk007]

I hate the fact that Boris is mayor of london, but loved this episode - a cracking good story, and Boris is good value when he is just being his media self. Interesting the politicians/rulers/journalists in his line.  He is a clever bloke, despite his bumbling persona.

[stoney]

I was looking forward to this episode - if only to see what left Boris speechless (as had been intimated in a TV magazine!)

Whilst the story of the family in Istanbul was interesting and poignant it seemed to centre on only one person, rather than more generations.

I greatly enjoyed the "unfolding" mystery history of the de Pfeffel's! Strange, though, that the German archivist managed to "find" the extra information just at the right time.......hmmm!

But, anyway, "King" Boris - now you've another "after-dinner" story to add to your collection!

[JenB]

I was looking forward to this episode - if only to see what left Boris speechless (as had been intimated in a TV magazine!)

I was so very thankful to watch an episode where the central person didn't have the seemingly obligatory fit of weeping - although it would have been quite understandable given the nature of his grandfather's death.