Who Do You Think You Are - suggestions ?
Andy Birkenhead
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Who would you like to see in this programme ?
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Andy Birkenhead
Posts: 13,450 Andy Birkenhead
Posts: 13,450 Andy Birkenhead
Posts: 13,450 Andy Birkenhead
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Rory Bremner's - a hero, WW2 story
Kim Cattrall's - her grandfather deserted, it mirrored my own mother's life in many ways.
Bruce Forsyth's - about a bigamist grandfather who went to the USA
Rolf Harris - about his grandfather and uncle who died in France WW1
I would like to see more stories that go back a bit further into the earlier part of the 1800's. We have censuses from 1841.
It would be great to hear of some celebrities who ended up doing similar jobs to their ancestors.
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Don't know why there's only one female, but it's interesting that we have a husband and wife this time in Dervla Kirwan and Rupert Penry-Jones.
And with Rupert it could be a double whammy because his mother is the actress Angela Thorne, Marjorie from To The Manor Born.
Hugh Grant
Barry Humphries
I don't really mind who the person is so long as the story is interesting. I really like David Mitchell but thought his story was dull.
From Hayley
It was a bit, until the payoff of the will which was hilarious
i had no idea that was his mum, interesting
Come on BBC, just show the whole lot. :mad:
they showed three - SJP, Brooke Shields and Susan Sarandan. I think the World Cup mucked up their scheduling.
- William Roache
- Samantha Cameron (mainly because I read she's linked to the Sheffield family who own a place near me)
Sophie Dahl
- Phillip Schofield
- Gino D'Acampo
- James Martin
Also - Paul O'Grady, perhaps.
The choice of celebrity may not necessarily reflect how interesting (or not) their family tree is, however.
Trisha Goddard
Alan Carr
Stephanie Beacham
SJPs was a great story, right back to the Salem witch trials. I may have to "acquire" the US series from other sources if Beeb aren't going to show them - also I wondered why the US ones weren't in HD.
My favourite episodes of the series have been Jeremy Paxman's, Stephen Fry's, Jane Horrocks and Matthew Pinsent's. What I've also found is that what I think of the celeb doesn't necessarily affect how much I enjoyed their programme - I like David Mitchell, but his programme was dull, and I dislike Bruce Forsyth and Barbara Windsor, but found both their programmes really interesting.
I would be interested in seeing some programmes with people whose families were immigrants - maybe someone like Michael Portillo or Sandi Toksvig.
Judy Dench might be a good one too