WDYTYA (UK) - Tracey Emin, - left me cold!

I knew nothing about Tracey Emin apart from her being a modern artist who displayed weird and wacky objects in the Tate Modern. I can't say the programme made me warm to her.  I found her voice extremely monotonous to the point of being boring.


Her research began in Bethanl Green - is this not the third episode this series beginning in the East End?  The background, however, was new to me, with tales of prison and punishment, and details of the treadmill particularlyy harrowing.  In this respect the archive sources and documentary evidence  were, as usual impressive.

However by 9. 3opm I was mentally turning off.  I may not have been paying full attention but it struck me as a bit disingenuous to jump from Joseph Hodgkins, gypsy besom maker in the Midlands  to the Joseph Hodgkins, engine driver, found in the London census - were they really one and the same person?  We did not get enough explanation on this point. 

I could not help being impressed by the beautifully written family tree, though I did fear for it being unrolled out on the leafy ground of a wood! 

So for me, not a brilliant end to the series, where the highlights were Larry Lamb, Len Goodman and J.K. Rowling.