BBC TV "WDYTYA?" Series 8 Episode #2: Rupert Everett

[nestagj]

nothing in this month's magazine !
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[heywood]

I wish you'd all stop posting on this thread - every time there's a new post, I have to have another go 

I've been trying to find Frederick's parents. I know they said he was a stockbroker and went bankrupt and I found that. It said he lived in Erith, Kent at the time.
There is a young Frederick there but his father isn't Frederick (stockbroker). 
There was so much not explained - even if it was just to say that there is no explanation  (Unless I wasn't listening because I was on Rootschat  )
Was there an extended family?
Could Georgina have been at sea with Frederick?
Was there proof that Frederick was a cad - I know he was to his son but we don't know what happened to him and Georgina.
I think I need to get a more interesting life really!

[Sloe Gin]

It could be that there was not much else of a "story" in that branch of Rupert's family, hence they didn't choose to focus on it in the programme - but felt the divorce bit was worth its place on the website.  After all, the clip illustrates a telling point about the situation of a divorced woman, and the position of women generally in the past.   I think most people visiting the website would find it of educational interest, without knowing how the people were related to Rupert Everett.

[AnneO]

Worst episode of the entire series.  The BBC is scraping the barrel now.  Such a shame as I thoroughly enjoyed the earlier programmes.  Rupert Everett (not sure exactly who he is but hey, anyone can be a 'sleb' these days, it seems) came across as a particularly unpleasant character.

[wyndham]

As someone who was mildly castigated for my views on Bruce Forsyth, (I didn't watch it), I thought that the Everett programme was quite inconclusive and as someone mentioned earlier, it seemed to have been cobbled together.  To my mind he was a typical 'luvvie' with a poor knowledge of the real world we normal mortals inhabit.

I will watch Ms Kirwan's programme next week as I have Irish descendants and with any luck it will be better than the previous offerings in this latest series.

[millymcb]

Just got round to watching this on iplayer... and then read through all these pages to catch up with everything.

I seem to be in a minority (along with one or two others) - but I enjoyed the programme.  The way they showed the research process wasn't perfect but I thought they managed to capture the basic spirit of the kind of journey we go on.  And we did see him do a little research himself which people often complain we don't see.

I would not have kept in the bit with the grandson which was a bit pointless as he didn't actually know very much , or the Consuela mistake which were a bit pointless.  And although it was very funny, I would not have kept the great aunt in either.   Which would have left lots of room to at least try to investigate what happened to Georgina, or look further into what happened to Frederick's family after bankruptcy...

I like the theory that she maybe went to Shanghai with Frederick's family but feel that she either married or most likely just lived with someone and changed her name. 

I also think it interesting that Cyril knew about his grandfather being a stockbroker and would have liked to have looked into the school records more.  There must be more than just those few entries for a child wo was there for more than 10 years.

That said, I did find the ups and downs of the story interesting.

 I quite liked Rupert Everett - and at least it was not another holocaust story like last series had nearly every week.

Milly

[Rena]

I also think it interesting that Cyril knew about his grandfather being a stockbroker and would have liked to have looked into the school records more. 

 I quite liked Rupert Everett - and at least it was not another holocaust story like last series had nearly every week.

Milly

I think perhaps Cyril was only introduced as confirmation that other descendants had heard there was an ancestor who was a stockbroker.

[Grothenwell]

I think that in the '81 census that Georgina Teague? was a "dressmaker", how many of these dressmakers were "dressmakers" I wonder?

[Nick29]

I'm sure there were lots of real dressmakers - they didn't all come from China in those days