Miriam Margolyes - Australia

I am, just my sort of programme.

Me too. DH won’t watch her.

DH was going to have a shower - but he's still watching 😁

I’m off to play catch up! Thanks for the recommendation Calli!

She does seem to have a genuine interest in those she meets.

But hey - she is an actress, and if she was MM she would be accused of being fake!

Watched it - great programme !

I was a tad disappointed and felt it was personal and subjective, lingering longer than necessary on each subject.
Of course, she's not Mary Beard or David Attenborough.

It was interesting but there is so much more to Tasmania and its people, history, animals and interesting geography.

Can’t stand her so it’s a no from me. Great actor though.

Is it a repeat as I've watched her in Australia before?

She turns my stomach so I can’t watch anything she’s in.

Pittcity

Is it a repeat as I've watched her in Australia before?

It wasn't supposed to be a repeat but I did have a feeling of déjà vu, perhaps she finds similar people to interview wherever she goes.
It certainly didn't show the best of Tasmania at all.

Potty mouthed woman. Can’t stand her.

Yes watched her last night

It's definitely not a repeat. Its wasn't a travelog for Tasmania, I don't think she was trying to show the best of it. I do think she was entitled to get a bit potty mouthed when she met the people who had been denied an education, as well as those whose ancestors had been driven en masse over a cliff to their deaths.

Heigh ho.

I've looked it up and the one I've seen was called Almost Australian. So not a repeat.

Its wasn't a travelog for Tasmania, I don't think she was trying to show the best of it

I did say earlier that she's not Mary Beard, David Attenborough.
Nor is she Michael Portillo, Simon Reeve nor Nick Crane.

Yes, some of the history is horrific and I'm glad she covered that part of the history which many may not have been aware of.

However, she does nothing much in depth at all, she skims the surface and leaves the viewer unsatisfied.

Yes, some of the history is horrific and I'm glad she covered that part of the history which many may not have been aware of.

That's what the series is about. Getting a fair go.

Unless you were Aboriginal, gay or something else that didn't fit the bill.

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I've looked it up and the one I've seen was called Almost Australian. So not a repeat.

Australia Unmasked

(Going into this road trip) "I thought the ‘fair go’ meant that everybody would have the same chance of making their lives better; from getting an education and then a job, to finding a home, and making on better in life, and that it didn’t matter who you were or where you were from,” she says.

That perception was quickly shattered

Um - how long has she been visiting, bought land there, lived there and has only just realised?

Makes a good programme, I suppose.

Maybe that's why I like her. It became very evident to me, having lived there, that a fair go was only possible if you fit the stereotype. I did, luckily.

I don't think her motivation for making the series is that she has just realised. 😕 I think she is trying to make others aware that Oz is only a Lucky Country for some of the people who live there.

She is potty mouthed though 🤣

I expect Australians are really pleased to have a posh Englishwoman to show them the error of their ways.

Being potty-mouthed might help.

She's Australian.

It became very evident to me, having lived there, that a fair go was only possible if you fit the stereotype. I did, luckily

Well, I don't know you, apart from what you've said on here.

But what is a stereotypical Australian? And what constitutes success and achievement?

volver

She's Australian.

Well .... yes. So are lots of British people not born there.
But she's still a Pom

Posh? 🤔🤮