BBC TV "WDYTYA?" Series 7 Episode #6: Martin Freeman

[willow2670]

Hi everyone 

Does anyone know when this episode is repeated?

I missed it the other night   

[Dimps]

"..the next pregnancy produced a Rh.negative baby, that is the baby that would be affected (maybe fatally) by the antibodies it could get from you."

Surely you mean Rh.positive.baby.

On another note, I have a friend who used to teach typing at the Sevenoaks blind school mentioned in the programme and my parents met the chap at the church in West Tarring when researching my mother's tree.

More importantly, I have been wondering whether there might be some information (in the form of a letter of dismissal or minutes, for example) in diocesan or other records at Chichester or elsewhere that could shed some light on Richard's exit from West Tarring.

[LizzieW]

Oops - yes, too late at night - I had been out, but only drunk orange juice and lemonade because I was the driver.   

From a medical website:

 

Rhesus incompatibility problems can only arise when a woman's blood is rhesus negative and her baby's blood is rhesus positive.

This in turn can only happen if the baby's father's blood is also rhesus positive.

Generally speaking there are no problems during a woman's first pregnancy with a baby whose blood is rhesus positive.

But during childbirth, as opposed to during pregnancy, when there is potential mixing of maternal and foetal blood, the baby's blood can sensitise the woman to rhesus positive blood and if she has a subsequent pregnancy with a rhesus positive baby there is a risk of haemolytic disease of the newborn.

This occurs because the mother will have made antibodies to the rhesus positive blood of the baby, which will react much more strongly in a subsequent pregnancy.

Thankfully the anti-D injection you had immediately after having your first baby will have prevented any risk of this haemolytic disease of the newborn happening.

As it happens I have Rh.negative blood and none of my children have been affected, even though I had all but the last before Anti D was available and my OH has Rh.pos blood.  I know at least 4 of my children have rh.negative blood.  Like all things, blood grouping is very complex. 

Lizzie

[LizzieW]

I've deleted my previous "wrong" post.  My brain was obviously not in place last night - happens quite often nowadays.

Lizzie

[pjbuk007]

The Wikipedia article is a pretty good outline, but I was thinking more of the epidemiological aspects as relating to Martin Freeman and my own story.

[Lydart]

Hi everyone 

Does anyone know when this episode is repeated?

I missed it the other night   

I dont know about repeats, as I dont have a TV (yes, there are some of us about !) but I watched it on iPlayer.   Google the BBC site, and iplayer, and watch it on your computer !   (Assuming you are on broadband ... you wont get it otherwise ...)

[shanew147]

Hi everyone 

Does anyone know when this episode is repeated?

I missed it the other night   

according to digiGuide the next repeat of the Martin Freeman episode is Tue 1st Sept at 7pm on BBC2

the Kim Catrall episode is repeated the previous week (25/8) at that time.


Shane

[Nick29]

Thanks for that, margaret103. I was interested that Nick29 said that TB (phthisis) might be linked with syphilis as I haven't heard about that before and would like to know more, as my gg grandfather's first wife seems to have had both.

I think I have a g.g. uncle and aunt who may have been afflicted by syphilis.  They only had one child, who only lived one day, and didn't have any more after that.  The mother died in a mental hospital aged 63 of a variation of TB which I think may be linked to syphilis.

As you say, though, phthisis did mean just a general debility and wasting away, which perhaps could have been caused by syphilis.

pjbuk007 if you do find out more about this, I'd be fascinated to hear about it.

I thought this was an absorbing programme, really good to have more than one generation investigated, although I was surprised that they gave up so easily on the search for Emily. Ada did seem to be an amazing woman. I hope Martin Freeman does do some more of his own research because they seem to be an intriguing family.

My g.g. grandmother's death certificate has a word after phthisis, but I can't quite make it out.

Looks like Biliontitis ?

Oh, I just worked it out !  I says Phthisis 6 Months !  I feel foolish now 

[Barbara F]

Hi Nick

I think it says 6 months.

Barbara