Antiques Roadshow

[treetops68]

Just watched The Antiques Roadshow while having dinner. Very interesting,instructive and emotional in places. Anybody else see it?

[weecalf]

Dinner or roadshow?

[grumpy01]

Used to enjoy it but it seems to have become the Fiona Bruce show which is a shame.So afraid I don't watch anymore.

[grasscarp]

No wished I had seen it. Will have to look online.

[tonyav]

I caught a bit of it, what I saw looked very interesting. Looked like it had a WW1 theme today.

[trt]

Me to treetop, very hard to believe what some of them went through, and I cant imagine the 14/15 year old kids of today volunteering for war!

I had a lump in my throat at the end when the lady was shown her brothers grave, she didn't know was there.

[Peaspeculiars]

Very good to watch. Got a bit misty-eyed at some of the stories, incredible bravery going to war for the sakes of your queen and country.

[treetops68]

Weecalf.

"Dinner or roadshow?"

Dinner looked quite messy but tasted fab.

[ChillDoubt]

Have to say the lip was quivering quite a bit and the eyes a bit watery during the last 5 minutes.

Lest We Forget.

[Jomlett]

It's repeated on Wed 16 Apr 9:20am on BBC Two.

[treetops68]

Thanks one and all for your contributions and just for info. Part 2 from the same location next week.

[DTCwordfan]

Queen and country? 1st World War was George V, not unless he was Georgina.

Can't really get into 20thC history, never have, and all these 'celebrations' do not do much for me. The best part of AR was the final item (without ruining it for others who may want to watch i-Pad.

Now the Plantagenets, that I love.

[boxtops]

It was excellent, and the last story, where the lady found her uncle's grave. particularly moving.

[choux]

Just as well these celebrations are meant to commemorate others then, DTC

[DTCwordfan]

Just speaking the truth, choux. Doesn't mean that I don't appreciate the sacrifice - it's just that European politics and society (and elsewhere) were so screwed up, that it led to this. Not my fav period of history as it was so egocentric and introverted, that's all.............

[nungate]

I don't think all of the marking of the start of the First World war is something to celebrate, it is a commemoration of the start of a conflict in which so many paid the ultimate price and in my opinion led to the rise of fascism and so to another war with an even higher cost in lives. We surely must mark the coming of the centenary of that first war, but we should not celebrate it, simply remember those who see did not come home or who came home maimed and broken in mind

[puternut]

To treetops68 (and others) ... second part is 'later in the year'??

Only caught the last couple of items and yes found it very moving as did the last 'expert' - three generations of a VC winner

[DaisyNonna]

Grandfather came home from WW1 with lungs badly affected by mustard gas. Sent to India instead of Britain to recuperate. Had a subsequent hatred of mules. Never quenched his spirit for life although he was bed bound before I really knew him. He taught me joy, a love of learning, compassion and forgiveness. He also taught me to read when I was three. Not bad for a miner from the Welsh valleys.

[sandyRoe]

Historians might come to look back on WW1 as the start of a 78 year war. WW11 would have been a continuation, then the Cold War( which blew hot in places like Korea and Vietnam) which didn't end until the fall of Communist in 1991.

[DaisyNonna]

My history teacher once told the class that history becomes history only when there is no one alive to contradict the historians.

[nungate]

That's what I think too Sandy.

My grandfather was a drummer boy in the first war, he lost two of his brothers, one on the Somme and the other at Gallipoli, he has no known grave. Only Grandfather and his other brother came home. He remained in the army until the twenties and got out sometime after he married my grandmother