BBC TV "WDYTYA?" Series 9 Episode #8: Richard Madeley

[Inchworm]

I hope that tonights episode will be an interesting one.
Have enjoyed the series so far - some better than others. 

[Lydart]

I'll be interested to see what the Canadian bits are about ...

[elaine curran]

loved the Alan Carr one!

[Springbok]

We loved this episode,just wish it had been twice the time to follow all his other lines! And where they came from.

The winter scene made you understand the conditions those first settlers had to contend with.

Spring

[stonechat]

I enjoyed this

The sudden jumps of two or more generations rather jarred, an unfortunately I dropped of for a little bit of the part about the battle aka slaughter.

I would've liked a more continuous tracing back

I though when he said - I have already got so far back - well someone has done the work already

[Inchworm]

Didn't like the changing lines to keep on the Canadian/American trail.
Seemed a bit "made for TV" to me.

[Lydart]

Thoroughly enjoyed this one.   The Canadian winter scenery showed me what my Canadian ancestors must have been through.   

I thought the meeting with the native American descendent was well done, and its true what they said; we can't be responsible or feel guilty about what happened to our ancestors. 

[millymcb]

I liked it and thought there was some interesting stuff in it - but because they wanted to get back to the settler stories it meant they rushed past a few generations.  

Obviously the programme is only one hour long so they couldn't put the early generations in-  but that meant it did feel a little bit like name and date collecting - "how far back can we go" at times... rather than looking at what each generation did on the way.   And it also meant that many of the wives were ignored.  

But when they got back to the early stories it was clear why they had to do this..  

I thought he was good - and loved the way he was taking notes in his book and really seemed to be interested in the process..

Milly
 

[Lydart]

I was shocked at the US archives people not wearing gloves when handling documents from the 1630's !