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The one in Madeley, Shropshire, has plenty of tombstones, but most of the actual bodies are down at the bottom of the hill.
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The one in Madeley, Shropshire, has plenty of tombstones, but most of the actual bodies are down at the bottom of the hill.
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"Do you think you could forgive him?" says Madeley, asking the Native Canadian to pardon his ancestor posthumously for unspeakable crimes.
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Sadly, the bulk of Madeley's story involves his great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather in Canada and other people from Nova Scotia, which necessitates him driving a 4x4 around in the snow, hearing about generations of pedestrian beings who mainly lived in snow and did very little aside from wear thick knitwear, fret about naughty bears, and worry about Celine Dion being invented.
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Madeley, being a consummate TV professional, is very good at building the boring snow-folk up into a great drama.
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That's why we love Richard Madeley, though: he says the quiet things loudly and without any due fear.
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Madeley, like all ancestor stalkers, has girded his loins for an epic journey.
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Madeley is sent off into the wilderness for a short, dark history lesson on genocide, accompanied by the descendent of a Native Canadian who was murdered by Madeley's relative.
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So Richard Madeley is ready for drama, grandiosity and emotional devastation.
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This documentary only really gets going when we learn about Madeley's family's involvement in "persuading" large numbers of Native Canadian people to leave their land and make room for the new influx of settlers.
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