BBC TV "WDYTYA?" Series 10 Episode #2: Nigel Havers

[Spidermonkey]

So, what did you all think about this episode - were you captivated by coach driving in Colchester or confused by court procedings in Cornwall  ?

I liked it (no surprise really - I can count on one hand the episodes that I don't like!) and I thought that Nigel came across really well - enthusiastic and keen to hear and understand what life was like at the time of his ancestors.

[IgorStrav]

There seemed to be an expert for everything! 

They're never around when I'm doing my research, have to develop my own expertise 

[Spidermonkey]

  Maybe there is a cupboard full of experts at the production company's base.  When they know what is in the family tree, the director sends a runner down to a filing cabinet in the basement to unleash them and wheel them into the shot 

[chirp]

I enjoyed the programme but let's be honest I'd watch Nigel Havers knitting socks! It seemed to me that the Havers name disappeared somewhere from the family tree which Uncle Tony had - or did I just miss it? I wondered if this was going to be investigated but it wasn't.

[toffeebear]

I enjoyed it, but as pp said, I always do! Especially interesting as my great-grandfather was a cab driver in London.

I thought the gravestones looked a little 'clean'! I can never read any of my ancestors' graves, if I manage to find them!

Toffee

[Spidermonkey]

I think it was a female Havers who married a Buckingham, son of George  and Elizabeth Hamblion

I enjoyed the programme but let's be honest I'd watch Nigel Havers knitting socks! It seemed to me that the Havers name disappeared somewhere from the family tree which Uncle Tony had - or did I just miss it? I wondered if this was going to be investigated but it wasn't.

[LizzieW]

I thought it interesting that when he found John Couch's grave, he just said "Oh David's will be near by" and promptly found it.  He didn't seem to be thrilled that John Couch was his 3 x g.grandfather, as if all he was interested in was David, his 2 x g.grandfather - could just have been the way the film was edited. 

Yes - I liked all those researchers and also the fact that they managed to find so much evidence in newspapers.

[KGarrad]

Another good episode I thought!

Enhanced by spotting my 3rd Great Grandfather's name in the Colchester Thieves!
(I rewound it to double-check!)

[heywood]

I think it was a female Havers who married a Buckingham, son of George  and Elizabeth Hamblion

I enjoyed the programme but let's be honest I'd watch Nigel Havers knitting socks! It seemed to me that the Havers name disappeared somewhere from the family tree which Uncle Tony had - or did I just miss it? I wondered if this was going to be investigated but it wasn't.

It was Agnes Sophia Buckingham who married Daniel Havers.

Yes, it was enjoyable and I liked the various methods of gathering information to flesh out the names.