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TV evaluation: Who do you think are you? and maintained: a national scandal

The broadcasting journalist Mishal Husain was the subject of this week Who do you think you are? (BBC1, April 29). The extremely successful family history series misses the sign rarely, because the producers discover a boring background story, they do not follow them. I identify with this dilemen: If the fatherly side of my family history were a rock rod, the word “Crewe” would let the word run through the word. Predictable? Yes. Uninteresting? Unfortunately yes.

Without giving away too many spoilers, Ms. Husain's family history is much more varied and curious and hikes from and from Pakistan, India, Ireland and a great surprise for America. This large geographical sweep contained ancestors that left a significant historical impression in their time: for example in India, at the height of British imperial rule and in Massachusett at the beginning of the War of Independence.

Ms. Husain is a joy and is a joy to see. Her family history is fascinating and, like history, emphasizes the fragility of human life in the past as often when people were only a shipwreck or an illness from a certain catastrophe.

I watched Well -kept: a national scandal (Channel 4, April 30), knew that it would be deeply annoying, but also that it was a necessary program not to move away from seeing. A visit is required for the church if we want to hope to get our own protection failures under control. It also raises important questions about the influence of misogyny and classism.

There are unpleasant patterns in the way the victims were treated in these cases and, like other institutions, including the Church, people to whom they have hurt as a problem under the carpet and at the same time protect the perpetrator.

The program against the current political fire storm, which was inflamed by the cases, contains the stories that were brave courageously by five women, as they were cultivated and abused as children in need of protection.

It is the basic work of the filmmaker Anna Hall, who has been investigating cases since her first and 1990s. Explored is the widespread sexual abuse of female children through organized male gangs in the 2000s and lived in a case 2022.

Nevertheless, she also claims that it is ultimately not a question of class, religion or ethnicity. The question we should ask is: “Where is justice for the victims?” Since the survivors are still used as political football, it is difficult to see an answer soon.

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