BBC TV "WDYTYA?" Series 5 Episode #4: Esther Rantzen

[toni*]

so all the Rantzens in Britian are related to Esther ?

i think all the Wojciechowskyj in Britain are related to me,
i wish i could go to Kyiv like she went to Warsaw and have someone lay out all the information for me i just had to peice it together

[JenB]

... with the cameraman conveniently being there at the time!  

Ooh what a cynic you are 

The one with Kevin Whately has been filmed but not broadcast (well, yet). He says "They stood me on the end of North Shields Fish Quay trying to make me cry, but I wouldn't".

I shall look forward to that.  Let us hope he doesn't get the dramatic 'phone call either 

Jennifer

[silvery]

I'd like more people like Barbara Windsor or Jeremy Paxman, showing the social history of what would have been the norm for ancestors of most of us.

Lizzie

I'd like more of this too.


On nearly every programme, there's a train journey as well.  Watch for it!   

[JenB]

On nearly every programme, there's a train journey as well. Watch for it!

And a taxi ride   I shall start to make a checklist for the next programme  

[Sloe Gin]

I've only seen a few of these.  Have they done one with ag labs yet?   

[meles]

No. Apparently they're not interesting. So that's 90% of my family dismissed... 

meles

[silvery]

I've only seen a few of these.  Have they done one with ag labs yet?   

They've go no imagination, that's what!

[kizmiaz]

i wish i could go to Kyiv like she went to Warsaw and have someone lay out all the information for me i just had to peice it together

You should go anyway, its such a wonderful city. I lived there for far too short a time when I was younger and I still think of it with utter affection. The Kreshchatik, Pecherski monastry, St Sofia, St Andrews church, the Podol, October Revolution Square (now renamed), vodka and champagne... aah, the memories!

Unfortunately, like most of the Ukraine, it was heavily damaged in WW2 when the Germans attacked. They are not particulary fondly regarded by the older Kievans. I was nearly attacked by an old gent on the trolley bus who sat calling me horrible names and swearing profusely at me because he thought I was German!

Glen

[toni*]

Glen do you speak Ukrainian then?