I have just watched the episode on ITV X. I am nine years younger than the people featured and the first episode l saw was when they were 28. I have watched each episode since and caught up with the early ones recently. It has been fascinating. At the beginning of this episode, I was thinking that it was not up to the standard of earlier programmes as there was not as much depth. Then we came to Bruce, who has always seemed to be a lovely person and did not have the relationship with his father he would have liked. When he read the very moving letter his father had written to him when he was a young man, the tears came to my eyes and Paul and Symon, who spent time in a children's home, sharing their experiences was also very emotional. I think Neil is the one we all look for. What a life he has had. Naturally, as l have grown older, the age gap has closed and most of their lifetime is the same as mine. My husband is only two years younger than them and, like many on Gransnet, l suspect, an almost exact contemporary. I think this is why this documentary series has meant so much to so many of us. We are seeing our lives unfold through theirs. The fact that two of the participants have, sadly, died is also very much a part of our lives too, unfortunately. I will have my handkerchief ready for the next episode.
