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

[lisalucie]

Really enjoyed this one and Gary came across really well I thought (him and Nigel havers are my favs so far this series)!

[Meezer]

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

Exactly! It's easy to be critical of these programmes and dismiss them as lightweight but they're not specifically aimed at family historians and if they were they'd probably alienate a big chunk of Joe Public who just want to hear a couple of entertaining stories about well known figures. If they ignite a bit of interest in people to go out and start researching their own family history then surely that's a good thing? If it looks a bit too easy then do we really want to disillusion people right from the start? They'll soon find out about the frustrations!

[iluleah]

Gary lived in Braunstone in Leicester and the Lineker line comes from a line of 'greengrocers', they stood market for as far back as I remember on Leicester market. No idea if they are still there, they had a complete stall, which was normally split into 4 stalls and the sign was made up of  large sequin like letters showing the name  I remember the Linekers going down to the old wholesale market and the new one on Freemans Common.

[nospringchicken]

I wonder if the law writer was an illegitimate son of the solicitor ...? Sorry, my conspiracy theories at work ... Interesting about the law writer though and the mention of Charles Dickens twice in the programme ... One of the latest biographies posits that Charles Dickens' s father was actually the illegitimate son of Richard Brinsley Sheridan or William Pitt the younger or maybe it was Charles James Fox or of the owner of the house where his grandmother worked who regularly had them as guests ...  Dickens pere was supposedly a posthumous baby, born after the death of his father who was much older than his wife. And Dickens himself is rumoured to have had at least one "love" child.

[jess5athome]

.......... Charles Dickens' s father was actually the illegitimate son of Richard Brinsley Sheridan or William Pitt the younger or maybe it was Charles James Fox or of the owner of the house where his grandmother worked who regularly had them as guests ...  Dickens pere was supposedly a posthumous baby, born after the death of his father who was much older than his wife. And Dickens himself is rumoured to have had at least one "love" child.

You could write a book about that!  ....................................... Sorry, just my twisted humour 

Frank.

[nospringchicken]

Careful Frank this gentleman http://bit.ly/16DJFnz may well turn you into a character for one of his novels, a football for literary sport and entertainment I haven't gone into how his first illustrator claimed to have brought him characters and stories and then was found dead by his own hand or the fate of poor Mrs Dickens ... Hey ho, thank goodness nobody or animal is ill treated or killed in the making of Who Do You Think You Ares including Gary Lineker's!

[Lisajj]

Hinckley is a town not a village as stated by voice over woman.  Its the second biggest town (after Loughborough) in Leicestershire.

Other than that, I really enjoyed it.  It was nice to see him talking to the general public and also have a sense of humour about the whole thing!

I still prefer voice over man to voice over woman though.

[iluleah]

Hinckley is a town not a village as stated by voice over woman.  Its the second biggest town (after Loughborough) in Leicestershire.

You are correct it was a village and always a large one, but became a town around 1200

[Romilly]

I really enjoyed this episode... but wished that he had put gloves on before handling the aged documents!!

Romilly.