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Through the WDYTYA magazine website:
BBC Two has announced a new documentary that tackles British family history.
A new genealogy-based TV series is currently in production. According to a BBC press release, Family Saga will explore the “big forces” that have dominated the lives of ordinary people over the course of 200 years, with a modern Briton learning about their family tree in the process
Family Saga (working title)
Poverty. Crime. Drugs. Violence. The newspapers of Victorian Britain captured stories and scandals almost identical to that of modern Britain. And according to the police, courts and charity records of the 19th century, problem families were at the heart of these social crises.
From award-winning filmmaker Joe Bullman (The Secret History Of Our Streets), this ambitious new series will reinvent family history. Tackling the big forces that have dominated the lives of ordinary people for centuries and with meticulous family research, the series will tell the stories of individual families and chart their rise and fall over 200 years. And, in parallel, it will explore the changing circumstances of the upper-class philanthropists who set out to save the working classes from themselves. In each episode, a modern Briton will unravel family myths, and reveal the social policies and justice systems that have shaped both their lives and the generations before them.
BBC Two has announced a new documentary that tackles British family history.
A new genealogy-based TV series is currently in production. According to a BBC press release, Family Saga will explore the “big forces” that have dominated the lives of ordinary people over the course of 200 years, with a modern Briton learning about their family tree in the process
Family Saga (working title)
Poverty. Crime. Drugs. Violence. The newspapers of Victorian Britain captured stories and scandals almost identical to that of modern Britain. And according to the police, courts and charity records of the 19th century, problem families were at the heart of these social crises.
From award-winning filmmaker Joe Bullman (The Secret History Of Our Streets), this ambitious new series will reinvent family history. Tackling the big forces that have dominated the lives of ordinary people for centuries and with meticulous family research, the series will tell the stories of individual families and chart their rise and fall over 200 years. And, in parallel, it will explore the changing circumstances of the upper-class philanthropists who set out to save the working classes from themselves. In each episode, a modern Briton will unravel family myths, and reveal the social policies and justice systems that have shaped both their lives and the generations before them.
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