WDYTYA programme - interesting

[Elizabeth Herts]

In the BBC WDYTYA magazine there is a questions and answers page.

Someone asks why they don't have the section at the end where a genealogist takled about how the research was done as they used to.

They said that the section at the end was very specialist and "just appealed to genealogist, which only makes a small proportion of our audience".

I would have thought that one of the BBC's jobs was to inform and educate. It seems fundamental to the story how the information was discovered.

I love the stories I unearth from my research, but the process of the detective work is also really interesting.

[gloryer]

well I would have thought that anybody who watches the programme would have some interest in genealogy

[Jill on the A272]

Ho hum...BBC dumbing down again.

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

I thought genealogy was the fastest growing hobby in the UK? Maybe the BBC don't know that?

[Olde Crone Holden]

I wonder if the BBC received an irritated missive from the GRO?

"For goodness sake stop telling all your viewers how to order certs. We have to employ hundreds of extra staff to cope with the demand, and once they have the first lot of certs they lose interest and we are left sitting looking at each other"

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