Unfortunately, Australian television doesn’t usually throw up many surprises with the many foreign shows and copies of foreign show mainly aired or produced. However, while flicking through the channels last Thursday night looking for something/anything to watch, I stumbled upon Family Footsteps.
The show immediately caught my attention and had me hooked for the rest of the hour. Family Footsteps is a documentary series which follows young Australians as they experience a taste of what their life could have been like had their parents not migrated to Australia. Participants in the show are expected to immerse themselves in the life, work and culture of their parents homeland and try to live as they would have lived had fate not taken them to their current situation.
I find the concept of this show very interesting, as a person who believes that our lives are dictated by the decisions other people have made in the past and that fate has delivered us to become what we have become. The fact that I’m in the situation I find myself in now is a direct consequence of the decisions other people have made in the past, people I haven’t even met. There are an infinite amount of possible ways in which peoples lives could end up and this show gives the participants a chance to experience an alternative reality of how their lives could have turned out.
Currently the show is half way through its second series so I wish I’d discovered it at the start of the first series. However I’m sure I’ll be able to download it or get a copy of it from somewhere.
The current series is viewable as a stream on the ABC website (see link below) or through the ABC iView.
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/documentaries/interactive/familyfootsteps/
Also, it is on ABC 1 on Thursday night at 20:30.
Family Footsteps – Uganda: From IT Executive to Ugandan Cook.
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