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91Èȱ¬ TWO branches out into more celebrity family trees
Six more famous faces go in search of their roots as a second series of Who Do You Think You Are? comes to 91Èȱ¬ TWO early next year.
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Stephen Fry, Jane Horrocks, Jeremy Paxman, Julian Clary, Sheila Hancock and Gurinder Chadha brace themselves for emotional journeys full of surprises, family secrets and revelations of mysterious ancestry.
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Stephen Fry goes in search of his favourite grandfather, retracing his life in Suffolk, his Jewish roots in Europe and the fate of the family he left behind.
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Jeremy Paxman examines the lives of his family against the backdrop of British social history to reveal a fascinating and surprising ancestry.
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Jane Horrocks investigates her northern roots, explores the life of a community at the heart of the industrial revolution and unearths family secrets and mystery relatives.
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Julian Clary explores the lives of his ancestors, from a First World War hero to a German wig-maker, and discovers a very surprising lineage.
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Gurinder Chadha, director of Bend It Like Beckham, retraces the lives of her father and his forebears, from Southall to Kenya, India and Pakistan, painting an extraordinary picture of Asian life within the former British Empire.
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Sheila Hancock delves into family myths in Italy and attempts to identify a mysterious Prussian ancestor from a single portrait.
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On her journey of discovery, Jane Horrocks comments: "I knew nothing about my family history before doing Who Do You Think You Are? It's the best therapy I've ever done.
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"Having participated in the series I now realise why I've got such a strong accent - I'm more Lancashire than Hot Pot!"
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The first series fuelled the UK public's passion for finding out about their ancestry; the Family History section at bbc.co.uk/history proved to be massively popular, with more than two million visitors to the site.
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It will continue to support the show and, updated with even more information, will help even more members of the public with their own quests to uncover their families' history.
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In addition, 91Èȱ¬ FOUR screens a second series of Family Ties (an Open University Production) which delves into the ancestral past of six very different individuals as they seek to uncover past family mysteries.
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