Who Do You Think You Are?

Season 17

TV-PG
Well known faces within the British media each embark on individual journeys to answer some questions in regards to their own family history. An interesting and intelligent programme for any budding genealogists out there!

Where to Watch Season 17

4 Episodes

  • Jodie Whittaker
    E1
    Jodie WhittakerThe actress learns how her grandmother on her dad's side, Greta, acquired the middle name Verdun. On her mum's side, Jodie discovers how her great-great-grandfather worked his way up from child labourer in a coal mine to owning one.
  • David Walliams
    E2
    David WalliamsComedian David Walliams learns about his great-grandfather on his father's side, a tragic shell-shocked World War One veteran, and his great-great-grandfather on his mother's side, a blind organ grinder turned successful traveling showman.
  • Ruth Jones
    E3
    Ruth JonesActor Ruth Jones - Nessa from Gavin and Stacey - uncovers her grandfather's role in the Medical Aid Societies of south Wales, which provided a model for the NHS.
  • Liz Carr
    E4
    Liz CarrActress Liz Carr learns about her orphaned grandfather on her mother's side, a naval WWI veteran involved in the Northern Patrol who joined the merchant navy after the war to see the world, and her paternal Irish great-great-great-grandfather, a revered tenant farmer involved in a Ribbonist plot to assassinate the local wealthy landlord, unsympathetic to his tenant farmers' plight, in rural Northern Ireland in the 1850s.

 

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