BBC TV "WDYTYA?" Series 10 Episode #2: Gregg Wallace

[larkspur]

I also wondered why they missed the birth of 2 children on the 1911 census.
But the childs death was tragic.
I enjoyed this one, had me hooked, maybe it was Gregs happy chappy attitude and NO theatricals. Loved the fact his great grandad was a greengrocer!! Must be something in the blood...

[roopat]

I found this one really interesting and shocking too, especially the records from the asylum and the probability that her picture was post-asylum and not as he'd first thought it to be, showing her as a rather comfortably-off lady.

[baggygenes]

I did think though that perhaps it wasn't an amazing mass of bad things ... probably just compared to our lives now
we couldn't imagine that many things happening and how devastating it would be  but then I thought of people in my tree women widowed 3 or  4 times , husbands setting up home elsewhere, lots of dead infants people in the workhouse, suicides etc  to think it maybe wasn't looked on like that in those days ..  sounds harsh but hope you get what I mean?

[1pds]

I was watching it on BBC iPlayer and I've lost bandwidth half way through! 

Want to know if he finds out where the Stoker ends up...   

Come on BT, wind the bobbin up....

[1pds]

BT has put another Bob in the meter...
How do they know that Selina is a "home" glove maker, and not a glove maker in a factory?

[IgorStrav]

I found this one really interesting and shocking too, especially the records from the asylum and the probability that her picture was post-asylum and not as he'd first thought it to be, showing her as a rather comfortably-off lady.

Yes, it made you see the portrait in a completely different light, didn't it - when you look hard at an expression in a photograph, when you've researched the person, you can see something else. I have a photo of my great grandmother and her family. She looks quite thin and careworn if you look closely. Although she has three little children with her, two others had died in one month, the previous year. I may of course be imagining I can see that, in her face.

[millymcb]

I wondered that about the glove making... I presume it is just the opinion of the expert but it is odd when they then continue as if it is fact.


It was a good programme though. I like last week's with Samantha Womack/Janus  too.   And sad to hear yet another child burnt alive. What a cooincidence.

Talking of tragic families...I felt a bit like this when I found out about my grandother who had never spoken of her early life...turns out her sister died when she was young, then her father goes off to war for the whole of her childhood.  He comes back and dies in 1925. She then  has to nurse her mother through cancer whilst working and bringing up little brother. Then her mother dies in 1930. She finally marries and has a baby (great)... baby dies, then her husband dies.   And my mother wonders why she never talked about her family.   I shed a few tears researching all of that and wishing I had known while she was still alive.

Milly

[Parmesan]

Much better than last week, really enjoyed it.  Greg seemed to have genuine enthusiam and was genuinely moved by his family history.

My ears pricked up when he was looking into the divorce that never happened, he mentioned the National Archives but I can't for the life of me find anything on there.  There again, TNA has always baffled me 

[davidft]

A very poignant episode.

Despite all the sadness I think it was one of the best WDYTYA for a long time. It reminds us, if we needed reminding, how hard life could be and how the cycle of misfortune can be repeated generation after generation. A salutary tale