Problem with this programme is they research quite a few people, before the show is commisioned to video. But they are looking for either the scandal or the tear jerker, to make it suitable for the non geanealogists to view. So many good people who would interest people like us, are discarded as being too plain.
I replied to an e-mail that I got from a TV production company asking me to describe any family mysteries that I wanted solving. Wait for it, in less than 150, or, 200 words. I tried to do so, but, obviously, failed to impress the recipient what a rich, lying, serial womaniser my late father was. I have uncovered a lot about him but am certain that there is so much more detail that could be uncovered in the hands of a competent researcher with greater means at their disposal. For instance, his second divorce was a Test Case in the High Court, he took illicit bets from figures at Pinewood studios, he had stories concerning him printed in national newspapers for 'disturbing the peace of the countryside', tax fraud and had exotic girlfriends some of whom were models for magazines of the 'likes of Vogue'; one of who is supposed to have commited suicide because of his chinagins. Apparently here is a story concerning him and his aptly named 'female snake-charmer companion' being involved in a motor accident that wrote-off his Jaguar XK 150 in an issue of The Daily Herald circa 1960 that I would love to view.According to his MIL, in is hay-day he lived in a big house that over-looked Windsor Great Park which she likened to a bordello.
i feel that with the of backing from the likes of a TV company and some publicity it might be possible to find out more about this.
