My other half and I watched it too. It was superb. If you have not seen it, watch out for any repeat! I would like to know how much original footage was slipped in. As always, with something like this, I learned new details. We will still be able to see the Who Do You Think You Are? repeat on Monday night. (Can't get iplayer here in France!) Jean Wood > Message du 12/09/13 08:56 > De : "Brian Binns" > A : NOTTSGEN-L@rootsweb.com > Copie à : > Objet : [NTT] The Wipers Times > > In the end I managed to watch "The Wipers Times" last night rather than > later on I-player and will not reveal any of the detail for the sake of > those yet to watch it. > > However just to say it was absolutely brilliant. > > Best piece of drama on the TV this year. > > A must watch for everyone, and as David Wilson pointed out yesterday, it > involved The Sherwood Foresters. > > > > Brian Binns > > > > Notts Surname List > > http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/notts.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NOTTSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

I watched the latest WDYTYA on i-player last night. The current series seems to be concentrating on just a couple of the subjects' ancestors, rather than a detailed larger tree, and this was so for Sarah Millican. Don't worry, I won't spoil it for anyone who's not seen it yet, however one part of it had me raging at the TV. She was presented with her family tree and decided (well maybe the producers decided for her) to check out one of her ancestors who had worked abroad. Through an accident he was close to death. He was at a place where events had been recorded in a daily journal and his progress, or lack of it, was being detailed in chronological order to Sarah by the researcher. Sarah was getting more and more worried that he wouldn't make it through and the tension was being built up. Meanwhile, I was screaming at the TV, "Of course he'll pull through. He'll return to the UK and have children. He's one of your ancestors for goodness sake!" Silly way to present it in my opinion. Brian Binns -----Original Message----- From: Jean WOOD [mailto:jeangrahame@orange.fr] Sent: 13 September 2013 10:04 To: Brian Binns; NOTTSGEN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: re: [NTT] The Wipers Times My other half and I watched it too. It was superb. If you have not seen it, watch out for any repeat! I would like to know how much original footage was slipped in. As always, with something like this, I learned new details. We will still be able to see the Who Do You Think You Are? repeat on Monday night. (Can't get iplayer here in France!) Jean Wood > Message du 12/09/13 08:56 > De : "Brian Binns" > A : NOTTSGEN-L@rootsweb.com > Copie à : > Objet : [NTT] The Wipers Times > > In the end I managed to watch "The Wipers Times" last night rather > than later on I-player and will not reveal any of the detail for the > sake of those yet to watch it. > > However just to say it was absolutely brilliant. > > Best piece of drama on the TV this year. > > A must watch for everyone, and as David Wilson pointed out yesterday, > it involved The Sherwood Foresters. > > > > Brian Binns > > > > Notts Surname List > > http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/notts.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NOTTSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

From the newspapers Nottingham Evening Post July 05, 1944 The other day in a reference to the "Wipers Times" it was stated that for part of the time the paper was printed on a press captured from the Germans. Now here is the front page of a concert programme printed on the same machine by "Sherwood, Forester and Co Ltd" The programme was contributed by Sgt GOODING, Sgt DALEY, Sgt RICE, Cpl BODDICE, Cpl AUSTIN, Lce Cpl TENNANT, Pte DAVEMPORT, Pte OXLEY, Pte EDSON, Pte ABELL, Pte CONNAUGHTON, Pte DUNSTAN and the band Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK)