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Who Do You Think You Are?Season 16

Sixteenth series of the BAFTA-winning series

Episodes

  • E01 Daniel Radcliffe

    Jul 22, 2019 · 1h

    'Harry Potter' star Daniel Radcliffe discovers that the Hatton Garden robbery of his great-grandfather’s jewellery business was far more dark and dramatic than he ever imagined, while an unseen cache of his great-great-uncle’s letters reveals a heart-wrenching First World War love story.

  • E02 Naomie Harris

    Jul 29, 2019 · 1h

    Actor Naomie Harris’s dramatic discoveries in this episode inspire her to anger, sadness and tears of joy. On a journey from Trinidad to Grenada to Jamaica, Naomie exposes her four-times-great grandfather’s involvement in the exploitation of so-called 'liberated Africans' shortly after the abolition of slavery, is delighted to discover the identify of her African five-times-great grandmother, and, in nearer generations, uncovers a family story of tragic poverty in Jamaica’s capital, Kingston.

  • E03 Jack and Michael Whitehall

    Aug 5, 2019 · 1h

    In a first for the series, father-and-son comedy double-act Jack and Michael Whitehall join forces to investigate their family tree.

  • E04 Kate Winslet

    Aug 12, 2019 · 1h

    Oscar-winning actor Kate Winslet follows a rumour of Scandinavian ancestry on her mother's side of the family and is delighted to find that she has Swedish heritage.

  • E05 Katherine Ryan

    Aug 19, 2019 · 1h

    Canadian comedian Katherine Ryan’s investigation of her family history leads her to a Methodist minister and his family in colonial Nova Scotia, cod traders in Newfoundland, and eventually to her English roots in Dorset.

  • E06 Paul Merton

    Aug 28, 2019 · 1h

    Paul Merton traces the life of his maternal grandfather and discovers that he was involved in some of the key events that led to Irish independence in the 1920s.

  • E07 Sharon Osbourne

    Sep 4, 2019 · 1h

    Sharon Osbourne uncovers the difficult circumstances of her mother’s and grandmother’s lives, and is stunned to learn that her great-grandmother was born in the US.

  • E08 Mark Wright

    Sep 11, 2019 · 1h

    Former TOWIE star Mark Wright discovers that his ancestors included an Andalucian master swordsman and a Spaniard who was burned at the stake during the Inquisition.

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