Who Do You Think You Are again

[kathyh]

If anything Dame Judi Dench's edition of Who Do You Think You Are was even more extraordinary than Josh Widdicombe's. I think my mouth fell open with surprise at one point, though her father's side of the story was equally amazing

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[kazzy_cee]

Dame Barbara was certainly a force to be reckoned with, wasn't she? I imagine she smelled rather strongly of some kind of expensive perfume....

[kathyh]

I think it was incredibly cloying. All I can really remember is the ghastly pinkness of it all. That and the makeup that was about a foot thick.

[geekslave]

How much stupidity I would encounter. *nods*

LOL at your Dame Barbara experience.

Stacey

[kathyh]

In retrospect the Dame Barbara experience was hilarious. At the time it was like being drowned in a sea of pink!

[curiouswombat]

Dame Judi's was absolutely fascinating, wasn't it! How on earth can the rest of the series live up to it I wonder.

In my family we go back on the maternal side through generations of farmers and farmhands - the only vaguely interesting one is a 3greats grandfather who was the Parish Clerk and so his handwriting is there in the church records.

But on my father's side there was a family rift caused by a daughter 'marrying beneath her' and a great grandfather who was, apparently, a performer in music halls. Sadly my father's family were not at all interested in keeping in touch with each other, or keeping good records, so this is hard to really research and the memories come from conversations my mother had with her father-in-law when he came, in his 80s, to live with us.

[kathyh]

I really doubt if the rest of the series can live up to the first two. They have come up with some amazing ancestors between them. In some ways I found Dame Judi's more interesting as I knew qute a bit about what Josh Widdicombe's ancestors had been up to, but nothing at all about the Danish history that her ancestors had been involved in