Who Do You Think You Are? [UK Series]

WDYTYA
Tonight 9pm BBC1
John Barnes

 

Sorry, but how boaring was that.
fell asleep half way though, did it get any better in the second half ?

But, if your into Jamacian political history i suppose it would be quite interesting
Rob

 

Quite interesting about JB. I didn't know his family paid quite a large roll in Jamacia. I only have it on now as background TV just in case something WW2 related comes on :p

 

WDYTYA

John Bishop on tonight BBC1 9pm (last in series)

John Bishop famously changed career from pharmaceuticals sales director to stand-up comedian. John is surprised to discover that he's not the only person in his family to have made extraordinary career choices. He is astonished when he finds out what his great great grandfather, Charles Bishop, ended up doing. He also investigates what happened to another great great grandfather, who became a prisoner of war in the Crimea

Lesley

 

WDYTYA

John Bishop on tonight BBC1 9pm (last in series)

John Bishop famously changed career from pharmaceuticals sales director to stand-up comedian. John is surprised to discover that he's not the only person in his family to have made extraordinary career choices. He is astonished when he finds out what his great great grandfather, Charles Bishop, ended up doing. He also investigates what happened to another great great grandfather, who became a prisoner of war in the Crimea

Lesley

Sounds interesting.

 

I thought it one of the most interesting so far.
He was obviously moved by finding that GG father Charles had joined the army at 14, gone to Canada where he married a soldiers daughter, then to Bermuda when in the band - nice joke about him playing the triangle - and then as Lay Vicar at Chichester and York cathedrals before joining a minstrel music hall act and performing in many of the theatres that John has, albeit 120 years earlier! Even discovered some music he had written...
Enjoyed it.

 

One of the best programmes in this excellent series, made more so by seeing my dad standing next to Tom Darling in the photograph of the QOCH 1941 Sgt mess! unfortunately he died before seeing it or me being able to ask him more about that time.
My dad later served as Adjutant with the 7th Gurkha Rifles in Malaya in the 60,s, I wonder if he knew there was a park to commemorate Tom Darling there?
I will never know.

 

Alex.

Which Battalion of the CAMERONS was your father in?

Regards

FdeP

 

Hi Minden 1759
Yet another strange coincidence as Minden was my first posting in 1986, with 4 ADTR.
My dad was in the 1st Battalion, C company in 1940, I have added his account of that time in the 1940 forum section under the Battalion name.
There is mention of fellow Cameron's in that account and It would be good to maybe here from family relatives mentioned.
Thanks for the interest.
Regards Alex.

 

WDYTYA New Series.
Saw this advertised on TV this morning-well they kept that quiet, doesn't get advertised as much beforehand anymore.
Starts tomorrow BBC1 9pm 24th July

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007t575

Episode 1 0f 10
Una Stubbs

others are:

Marianne Faithfull
Lesley Sharp
Nigel Havers
Gary Lineker
Nick Hewer
Sarah Millican
Nitin Ganatra
Minnie Driver
John Simpson

 

Thanks for posting. I'd have missed it otherwise.

 

Marianne Faithful thats a name ive not heard for a long time, that one should be interesting

 

Just a reminder that the new series of WDYTYA starts tonight on BBC1 9pm

 

Interesting re Welwyn Garden City and Letchworth Garden City

Welwyn Garden City (WGC), as its name suggests, is a garden city, founded by Sir Ebenezer Howard in the 1920s following his previous experiment in Letchworth Garden City, and designed by Louis de Soissons. Howard had called for the creation of new towns of limited size, planned in advance, and surrounded by a permanent belt of agricultural land, as a role model for lower-density urban development. Howard believed that such Garden Cities were the perfect blend of city and nature.
http://www.welwyngarden-heritage.org/


http://letchworthgardencity.com/


http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Howard+&GSfn=Ebenezer&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=21569185&df=all&

 

I missed it;did it have anything else in it to make it worth watching on "catch up" tv?

 

I thought it was very interesting, although not war related. Uncanny how the Rowntrees Factory was linked to her and both her families.


Lesley

 

I wonder if chocolate is a theme here - Una Stubbs with Dairy Box and Marianne Faithfull with Mars Bars?!

Good Bye Ruby Tuesday...