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

[nanny jan]

Who's next week  ?

According to the BBC WDYTYA? website it is Len Goodman.



Nanny Jan

[julianb]

nothing much to do with the program, but for a brief moment half way through i wondered why on earth he had odd gloves on!? (one cream coloured and one black) then i relised it is so cold that he had two on one hand and only one on the other having removed the second one for some reason!

Indeed, I wondered if he'd got his gloves mixed up 

But I thought it was an interesting episode, and made sense to see how far he could go back to the earliest settlers of the US eastern seaboard. 

None on the Mayflower though 

[shazs]

Anyone bother to count how many times Richard said great-great-great....

I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed this! They could've fitted more programme in if he'd stopped doing that!

[nainmaddie]

I enjoyed this programme.

I am not a great fan of his, although he is good at presenting programmes.

I liked seeing all the snow.  I flew over Canada in Oct.some years ago, and wondered what they all did with the snow all about.  Not a lot by the looks of things.

Historical content was very interesting.

[Nick29]

I thought this was going to be a boring one, but it wasn't at all.  I was especially interested because one branch of my family from Somerset were traders in the Virginia area in around 1660.   Loved the snow ! 

[Geoff-E]

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

It looked to me that the petition had a clear plastic sheet over it.

It was slightly puzzling, having somehow got back to John HICKS, why he then went to someone to find out about Thomas HICKS son of John HICKS.

[stonechat]

It was slightly puzzling, having somehow got back to John HICKS, why he then went to someone to find out about Thomas HICKS son of John HICKS.

I think it was so they could trace the wife of Thomas Hicks
However it was not too clear

[WHS1899]

I fell asleep and missed about the last third..............

[cati]

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

Apparently there are two schools of thought about this.  The clumsiness of the gloves in turning pages can also cause damage.  I saw another historical programme - I think about the royal palaces in UK - where they weren't being used.

I went to a talk about conservation at an NT property a few weeks ago, and they strongly advised against gloves as the lint can shed, which in itself causes damage, apparently.