BBC TV "WDYTYA?" Series 10 Episode #5: Gary Lineker

[jillruss]

Reading between the lines, the football bit wasn't so much time wasting, more a marketing opportunity for 'Match of the Day' right at the start of the football season. He also managed to throw in a mention of 'his crisps' on prime time BBC television. Pels.

I couldn't agree more. if the BBC carry on like this, they will have to display the 'P' for product promotion - and get better at it! I never notice the product placements on Corrie but these were blatant. I might like crisps, but I loathe football, so all that fannying aound in the studio was waffle as far as I was concerned. What next? Will Nick Hewer be giving us a conundrum to solve half way through his episode? How about Marianne Faithful giving us a song? [No, please!!!]

I usually enjoy WDYTYA whoever the subject is, but this one summed up the man - tedious and lacking any real merit!

Jill

[Pels.]

After Alan Shearer's remark - they'll no doubt be getting a few extra's 'next door' :

Room service - Lasagne and a glass of wine.

And no wonder he expressed surprise when Gary was there :

Travels by train on expenses.

It was all mentioned on the programme. Must think we're daft and it was so blatant.

Pels.

[snooziflooze]

I found it all a bit bland, though there were some interesting bits.

But why was the Lineker line ignored?  Were they that boring?  Does anyone know anything about that line?   

[Treetotal]

I wondered about his parentage too....I don't recall any mention of them? I did find him funny though.
Carol

[Plummiegirl]

What I have noticed in this new series, is that there is more information to be gleaned from the programmes for the amatuer family historian.  As for only looking into 1 side of his family, I think that for a 1 hour show, in this instance they got it right.

Just by watching Gary's programme last night, in the main ordinary folk, just like the majority of us.
There was local historical archives used and the part about the Law Writer was fascinating.

He was just so interested without being too sentimental. 

More shows of this calibre.  No wailing or gnashing of teeth about how badly our ancestors were treated etc., just straight forward research.

[susieroe]

I found the juxtaposition of 2 poor boys who grew up to be involved in very different sides of the law very interesting. And neither of those boys' parents could have envisaged a member of their family becoming a renowned sportsman and TV star! Very neat episode.

South Leicestershire did experience a lot of hardship at the time, often due to the area's involvement with framework-knitting at home. First came the 'bag-men', or agents, who started to collect the knitting in bulk and sell it on; then came the factories, and Hinckley had a lot, so did Wigston. If people weren't prepared to give up their independance and work in the hosiery factories, then they had no outlets and went to the wall. Much later, cheap, shoddy knitwear and hosiery started to be imported. The result: those factories couldn't compete, they closed, and once more there's big unemployment in the area. Michael Wood highlighted the plight of the FWKs in his Story of England, based in Kibworth.

[Guyana]

Quite right, susieroe. 
I found the programme most interesting, and Gary's sense of humour was a real change.
My Mother worked in the knitwear factories in Hinckley around 1920, cycling the 10 miles from Atherstone daily.
Michael Wood's "The History of England." is an excellent read, basing the past of our country on just three conjoined villages. It was itself the subject of a TV series.

[KGarrad]

I found it all a bit bland, though there were some interesting bits.

But why was the Lineker line ignored?  Were they that boring?  Does anyone know anything about that line?   

I seem to remember that, on a previous series, the producers reckoned they had upwards of 10 hours of film for evert show.
And this has to be condensed into 55 minutes!

Obviously, they only look at "interesting" stories.

And, remember is an entertainment show - intended for the general public.

[halhawk]

South Leicestershire did experience a lot of hardship at the time, often due to the area's involvement with framework-knitting at home. First came the 'bag-men', or agents, who started to collect the knitting in bulk and sell it on; then came the factories, and Hinckley had a lot, so did Wigston. If people weren't prepared to give up their independance and work in the hosiery factories, then they had no outlets and went to the wall.

Thanks for that info.  In 1891 James is a Factory Hand Hos; before that he, his first wife and most children while living at home are recorded as stockingmakers, stockingers or seamers.  (I assume the latter is something to do with hosiery)  One of the seamers in 1861 is 7 year old Alice, Gary's direct ancestor.  When were the factories set up in Hinckley?

The article I previously found from 1842 about the deputation of stocking makers may be a different James - there were 4 in Hinckley in 1841, 3 of them stocking makers.  (I think the James found by Jan57 in the workhouse in 1891 is one of these others - there is one about 10 years older than Gary's ancestor in the other censuses)