document_title: Who Do You Think You Are? (UK TV series)

question_text: who do you think you are voice over 2017

text: Episodes[edit]

text: Series one and two were broadcast on BBC Two, and the first was the channel's highest-rating programme of 2004. This led to episodes being shown on BBC One from the third series onwards. The current narrator, as of Series 14 in 2017, is Phil Davis. Mark Strong took over from David Morrissey after the first series, which was nominated for "Best Factual Series or Strand" in the 2005 BAFTAs; Cherie Lunghi was the narrator between Series 10 and 13.

text: In the first series, the last ten minutes of each episode featured presenter Adrian Chiles and genealogical researcher Nick Barratt giving tips on tracing a family tree. In 2007, a special episode was broadcast in conjunction with the BBC's "Family Wanted" campaign featuring Nicky Campbell, who was adopted a few days after he was born.[2]

text: The theme tune was composed by Mark Sayer-Wade, who also provided the background music for earlier episodes. The music for later episodes is provided by Julian Hamlin and Edmund Jolliffe.

text: Series 1 (2004)[edit]

text:
#
Celebrity
Original air date
Viewers (millions)[3]

1
Bill Oddie
12 October 2004 (2004-10-12)
5.79

Oddie, brought up by his father and paternal grandmother, goes back to the Birmingham area to learn more about his mother's life and her struggles with manic depression and her mother-in-law. Then he learns more about his grandmother's life, her husband and family in Rochdale, Lancashire. He ends his journey learning more about his Oddie ancestors in Grindleton, Lancashire.

2
Amanda Redman
19 October 2004 (2004-10-19)
4.63

3
Sue Johnston
26 October 2004 (2004-10-26)
4.25

4
Jeremy Clarkson
2 November 2004 (2004-11-02)
4.95

5
Ian Hislop
9 November 2004 (2004-11-09)
4.96

Hislop, who was 12 when his father died, never met his grandfathers. Hislop traces his family history by traveling to his late mother's native Jersey, where for five years of her childhood, the island was occupied by Nazi Germany. He travels to Clary, France, where his paternal grandfather fought with the 9th Highland Light Infantry against the Hindenburg Line. He then goes to South Africa, where his maternal grandfather fought with the Royal Lancaster Regiment in the Battle of Spion Kop during the Boer War. While in South Africa, he discovered his father's maternal great great grandfather had gone to South Africa in 1795 with the 72nd Regiment, Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders in an expedition to capture Cape Town from the Dutch.

6
Moira Stuart
16 November 2004 (2004-11-16)
5.35

7
David Baddiel
23 November 2004 (2004-11-23)
4.60

8
Lesley Garrett
30 November 2004 (2004-11-30)
4.41

9
Meera Syal
7 December 2004 (2004-12-07)
3.97

10
Vic Reeves
14 December 2004 (2004-12-14)
4.46

text: Series 2 (2006)[edit]

text:
#
Celebrity
Original air date
Viewers (millions)[3]

1
Jeremy Paxman
11 January 2006 (2006-01-11)
5.48

2
Sheila Hancock
18 January 2006 (2006-01-18)
5.43

3
Stephen Fry
25 January 2006 (2006-01-25)
5.86

4
Julian Clary
1 February 2006 (2006-02-01)
5.94

5
Jane Horrocks
8 February 2006 (2006-02-08)
5.64

6
Gurinder Chadha
15 February 2006 (2006-02-15)
3.96

text: Series 3 (2006)[edit]

text:
#
Celebrity
Original air date
Viewers (millions)[3]

1
Barbara Windsor
6 September 2006 (2006-09-06)
6.40

2
Robert Lindsay
13 September 2006 (2006-09-13)
5.95

3
Colin Jackson
20 September 2006 (2006-09-20)
5.19

4
David Tennant
27 September 2006 (2006-09-27)
5.75

Tennant traces his paternal roots to the Isle of Mull, and is surprised to find his family came not from the lowlands but the Scottish Highlands. He discovers his maternal grandfather was a star player for Derry City F.C. in the 1930s, and expresses concern when he finds that other relatives were members of the Orange Order. He is disturbed to learn that his great-grandfather played a key role in suppressing Catholics in Derry, Northern Ireland, and that Catholic cousins came under fire on Bloody Sunday.

5
David Dickinson
4 October 2006 (2006-10-04)
5.80

6
Nigella Lawson
11 October 2006 (2006-10-11)
6.15

She traced her ancestors to Ashkenazi Jews who originate from eastern Europe and Germany, leaving Lawson surprised not to have Iberian-Sephardi ancestry in the family as she had believed.[4] She also uncovered that her maternal great-great-great grandfather, Coenraad Sammes (later Coleman Joseph), had fled to England from Amsterdam in 1830 to escape a prison sentence following a conviction for theft.

7
Jeremy Irons
18 October 2006 (2006-10-18)
5.82

8
Julia Sawalha
25 October 2006 (2006-10-25)
5.54

text: Adoption special (2007)[edit]

text:
#
Celebrity
Original air date
Viewers (millions)[3]

1
Nicky Campbell
11 July 2007 (2007-07-11)
4.32

Campbell traces his adoptive family's roots in Scotland and Australia.

text: Series 4 (2007)[edit]

text:
#
Celebrity
Original air date
Viewers (millions)[3]

1
Natasha Kaplinsky
6 September 2007 (2007-09-06)
6.78

Kaplinsky follows her paternal line to Slonim in Belarus and is shown official documentation relating to her cousin's family. This includes the death of family members during the "liquidation" – massacre – of the Slonim Jewish ghetto by the Nazis and another's escape to the partisans and eventual immigration to Australia. Her maternal line included an apothecary to King George III.

2
John Hurt
13 September 2007 (2007-09-13)
5.80

3
Griff Rhys Jones
20 September 2007 (2007-09-20)
5.75

4
Carol Vorderman
27 September 2007 (2007-09-27)
6.53

Vorderman discovers that her father was an active member of the Dutch resistance during the Nazi occupation. He died while the programme was being filmed. Her great-grandfather Adolphe Vorderman played a key role in the discovery of vitamins.

5
Alistair McGowan
4 October 2007 (2007-10-04)
6.17

6
Graham Norton
11 October 2007 (2007-10-11)
6.88

It was discovered that Norton's Walker ancestors were originally planters from Wentworth, South Yorkshire, who were sent over from England in the 17th century to take over Irish land. Some members of his family fought for the British monarchy during the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and took part in the Carnew massacre. Another member of his family was later killed in battle by the United Irishmen.

7
Matthew Pinsent
18 November 2007 (2007-11-18)
6.57

text: Series 5 (2008)[edit]

text:
#
Celebrity
Original air date
Viewers (millions)[3]

1
Patsy Kensit
13 August 2008 (2008-08-13)
7.10

2
Boris Johnson
20 August 2008 (2008-08-20)
7.04

3
Jerry Springer
27 August 2008 (2008-08-27)
6.71

Springer, who was born in England but emigrated to the United States at a young age, travels to the UK to find out how his parents were allowed in as refugees from Nazi Germany in August 1939. He discovered that someone in England paid £50 as a guarantor to sponsor his parents, but the rest of the family was left behind. He travels to his great-grandfather's hometown of Neustettin (now Szczecinek, Poland), where his great grandfather, Abraham Springer, successfully appealed for outside help after anti-Semitic politician Ernst Henrici stirred up violence in 1881. Springer then travels to Łódź, where his maternal grandmother, Marie Kallmann, was deported in 1941. She was sent to the Chełmno extermination camp in May 1942. Springer's paternal grandmother, Selma Springer, died in Theresienstadt concentration camp.

4
Esther Rantzen
3 September 2008 (2008-09-03)
6.44

5
Ainsley Harriott
10 September 2008 (2008-09-10)
6.70

6
David Suchet
17 September 2008 (2008-09-17)
6.79

Suchet, who has a love of water, discovers that his maternal great-great-great-grandfather was captain of a brig which foundered off the east coast of England. His paternal ancestors were Russian Jews, and he traces their flight from Russia to Turkey, Prussia, South Africa, and then the United Kingdom. He learns about his grandfather and great-grandfather, both of whom were noted photographers.

7
Jodie Kidd
24 September 2008 (2008-09-24)
5.87

8
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen
29 September 2008 (2008-09-29)
4.72

text: Series 6 (2009)[edit]

text:
#
Celebrity
Original air date
Viewers (millions)[3]

1
Rory Bremner
2 February 2009 (2009-02-02)
6.44

2
Fiona Bruce
9 February 2009 (2009-02-09)
5.86

3
Rick Stein
16 February 2009 (2009-02-16)
5.64

4
Zoë Wanamaker
23 February 2009 (2009-02-23)
5.82

5
Kevin Whately
2 March 2009 (2009-03-02)
5.99

6
Davina McCall
15 July 2009 (2009-07-15)
6.92

7
Chris Moyles
22 July 2009 (2009-07-22)
5.23

8
Kate Humble
29 July 2009 (2009-07-29)
5.19

9
David Mitchell
5 August 2009 (2009-08-05)
4.55

10
Kim Cattrall
12 August 2009 (2009-08-12)
6.27

Cattrall researches her maternal grandfather, George Baugh's mysterious disappearance in 1938. She discovers that he became a bigamist in 1939 and had four more children. The episode reveals that Baugh's new family immigrated to Australia in 1961, and had lived there until Baugh's death in 1974.

11
Martin Freeman
19 August 2009 (2009-08-19)
6.48

Freeman researches his paternal grandfather, whom he learns died while serving as a medic during the Battle of Dunkirk in World War II. He discovers that his great-grandfather was blind, married three times, and meets a cousin he never knew he had. He also discovers how syphilis (a common disease at the time) ravaged his family in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

text: Series 7 (2010)[edit]

text:
#
Celebrity
Original air date
Viewers (millions)[3]

1
Bruce Forsyth[5]
19 July 2010 (2010-07-19)
7.22

2
Rupert Everett
26 July 2010 (2010-07-26)
5.97

3
Dervla Kirwan
2 August 2010 (2010-08-02)
5.58

Growing up, Kirwan knew she was related to Irish national hero Michael Collins but did not know how. She discovers he was her great-great uncle: his sister, Margaret Collins O'Driscoll, was the mother of Kirwan's maternal grandfather. Kirwans seeks to find how her grandfather, Finian O'Driscoll, was involved in the IRA. She travels to Clonakilty, County Cork, birthplace of Michael Collins. On her father's side, she finds out her great grandfather, Henry Kahn, was a Polish Jew from the Russian Empire who broke with his community to marry an Irish Catholic girl in the late 19th century. Kirwan was surprised to discover they were married in the Protestant Church of Ireland, after the Catholic church refused to marry them.

4
Monty Don
9 August 2010 (2010-08-09)
5.95

5
Rupert Penry-Jones
16 August 2010 (2010-08-16)
5.68

Penry-Jones travels to India and confirms the family rumour that they have Indian ancestry. His great-great-great grandfather Thomas Johnstone was a sergeant major in the Royal Madras Fusiliers, and was part of the British attempts to quell the Indian Rebellion of 1857. He discovers Johnstone's wife, Louisa Collum, was of Anglo-Indian heritage.

6
Alexander Armstrong
23 August 2010 (2010-08-23)
6.46

Armstrong traces his mother's side of the family, who are descended from Irish landed gentry. The McCauslands were originally seated in Drenagh, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland and trace their ancestry through the Rouse-Boughton family, to Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Worcester, a descendant of William the Conqueror via Edward III and the Beauforts, Dukes of Somerset.

7
Jason Donovan
30 August 2010 (2010-08-30)
5.55

8
Hugh Quarshie
6 September 2010 (2010-09-06)
5.42

9
Alan Cumming
13 September 2010 (2010-09-13)
5.15

Cumming traces the life of his maternal grandfather, whom the family was told died while cleaning his pistol while serving as a British police officer in Malaya. He learns about his grandfather's terrifying experiences as a war hero during the Battle of Dunkirk in World War II, his battle wounds received while helping stave off the Empire of Japan's invasion of India during the Burma Campaign, and his psychological problems which led to his death while playing Russian roulette in Malaya.

text: Series 8 (2011)[edit]

text:
#
Celebrity[6][7]
Original air date
Viewers (millions)[3]

1
June Brown
10 August 2011 (2011-08-10)
6.62

2
J.K. Rowling
17 August 2011 (2011-08-17)
7.00

Rowling researches her mother's paternal great-grandfather, Louis Volant, a French head waiter who previously worked at Savoy Hotel in the 1920s. Volant had won the Croix de Guerre for his bravery during the First World War. She also learns about Volant's mother, Salomée Schuch, an unmarried maid working in Paris at the time of his birth. At age 17, she had fled her hometown of Brumath in Alsace – which became part of the German Empire during the Franco-Prussian War – to become a naturalised French citizen when she eventually married Louis' father.

3
Sebastian Coe
24 August 2011 (2011-08-24)
5.45

4
Larry Lamb
31 August 2011 (2011-08-31)
5.45

5
Emilia Fox
7 September 2011 (2011-09-07)
6.06

Fox researches her family history hoping to discover where the acting bug in her family originated from. Fox's father believes that Fox's paternal grandfather, Robin Fox, a theatrical agent, likely would have wanted to be an actor. Fox learns that Robin's mother was Hilda Hanbury, an actress who appeared on the London stage in the late 1890s. Hanbury traveled to America with theater manager Herbert Beerbohm Tree, though did not find great success and was reduced to small roles. Fox also learns that Sampson Fox, father of Hanbury's husband Arthur ("Willie") was a millionaire who rose to prominence from a child laborer in a textile mill to the owner of the Leeds Forge Company. With his large fortune, Sampson Fox was the sole donor for the Royal College of Music in London. However, Sampson Fox was also involved in a scandal regarding his promotion of watergas as an energy source and the financial success of its investors.

6
Alan Carr
14 September 2011 (2011-09-14)
5.49

7
Robin Gibb
21 September 2011 (2011-09-21)
4.37

8
Richard Madeley[8]
28 September 2011 (2011-09-28)
5.05

9
Len Goodman
5 October 2011 (2011-10-05)
5.03

10
Tracey Emin
12 October 2011 (2011-10-12)
Unknown (under 4.21)

text: Series 9 (2012)[edit]

text:
#
Celebrity[9]
Original air date
Viewers (millions)[3]

1
Samantha Womack
15 August 2012 (2012-08-15)
5.30

2
Gregg Wallace
22 August 2012 (2012-08-22)
5.46

3
Patrick Stewart
29 August 2012 (2012-08-29)
4.58

4
Annie Lennox
5 September 2012 (2012-09-05)
4.86

5
Hugh Dennis
12 September 2012 (2012-09-12)
4.87

6
Alex Kingston
19 September 2012 (2012-09-19)
4.97

7
William Roache
26 September 2012 (2012-09-26)
4.30

8
Celia Imrie
10 October 2012 (2012-10-10)
4.89

9
John Barnes
17 October 2012 (2012-10-17)
Unknown (under 4.10)

10
John Bishop
6 December 2012 (2012-12-06)
5.53

text: Series 10 (2013)[edit]

text:
#
Celebrity[10]
Original air date
Viewers (millions)[3]

1
Una Stubbs
24 July 2013 (2013-07-24)
5.24

2
Nigel Havers
31 July 2013 (2013-07-31)
5.39

3
Minnie Driver
7 August 2013 (2013-08-07)
4.95

4
Lesley Sharp
14 August 2013 (2013-08-14)
4.52

5
Gary Lineker
21 August 2013 (2013-08-21)
5.37

6
Nick Hewer
28 August 2013 (2013-08-28)
4.52

7
Nitin Ganatra
4 September 2013 (2013-09-04)
4.31

8
Sarah Millican
11 September 2013 (2013-09-11)
4.57

9
Marianne Faithfull
18 September 2013 (2013-09-18)
3.78

10
John Simpson
25 September 2013 (2013-09-25)
3.99

text: Series 11 (2014)[edit]

text:
#
Celebrity
Original air date
Viewers (millions)[3]

—
Who Do They Think They Are?: 10 Years, 100 Shows[11]
6 August 2014 (2014-08-06)
Unknown (under 3.34)

1
Julie Walters[12]
7 August 2014 (2014-08-07)
5.23

Walters traces her Irish great-grandfather, Anthony Clarke.

2
Brian Blessed
14 August 2014 (2014-08-14)
5.31

Blessed traces his great-great-great-grandfather, Barnabus Blessed, a bookbinder, and discovers that after moving from London to Portsmouth, his four children were left orphans. Blessed's great-great-grandfather, Jabez Blessed, became a "real life Oliver Twist".[13]

3
Tamzin Outhwaite
21 August 2014 (2014-08-21)
4.94

4
Brendan O'Carroll
28 August 2014 (2014-08-28)
6.06

5
Sheridan Smith
4 September 2014 (2014-09-04)
4.74

6
Mary Berry
11 September 2014 (2014-09-11)
4.75

7
Martin Shaw
18 September 2014 (2014-09-18)
5.39

8
Reggie Yates
25 September 2014 (2014-09-25)
4.18

9
Billy Connolly
2 October 2014 (2014-10-02)
5.74

10
Twiggy
9 October 2014 (2014-10-09)
5.33

text: Series 12 (2015)[edit]

text: On 23 June 2015, the BBC confirmed the lineup for Series 12, which began on 13 August 2015.[14][15]

text:
#
Celebrity
Original air date[16]
Viewers (millions)[3]

1
Paul Hollywood
13 August 2015 (2015-08-13)
5.08

2
Jane Seymour
20 August 2015 (2015-08-20)
5.14

Seymour traces the lives of two of her Polish Jewish great aunts during World War II.

3
Derek Jacobi
27 August 2015 (2015-08-27)
4.68

Jacobi, a descendant of Huguenots who fled persecution by Catholics, travels to France, where he discovers the horrors his Protestant ancestors faced during persecution. His sixth great-grandfather Joseph de la Plaigne, a prominent financier of Louis XIV, lived as a covert Protestant following the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. He was uncovered and imprisoned by the king in the Château de Loches in 1701. He apparently bribed his way out of prison the next year and fled to London. In 1708, two years before his death, the 70-year-old de la Plaigne married fellow Huguenot Salomé de la Bastide, sister of Colonel Armand de la Bastide, and 45 years his junior. In 1709 they had a son, Guillaume, who was baptised with William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire as his godfather. Guillaume anglicised his name to William Laplain and was chaplain to the Dukes of Devonshire.

4
Jerry Hall
3 September 2015 (2015-09-03)
4.38

5
Gareth Malone
10 September 2015 (2015-09-10)
4.56

6
Anne Reid
17 September 2015 (2015-09-17)
4.70

7
Frank Gardner
24 September 2015 (2015-09-24)
4.41

8
Anita Rani
1 October 2015 (2015-10-01)
4.38

9
Mark Gatiss
8 October 2015 (2015-10-08)
Unknown (under 3.80)

10
Frances de la Tour
22 October 2015 (2015-10-22)
3.83

Actress Frances de la Tour discovers aristocratic lineage. Her great-great-great-great grandmother Maria Elizabeth Adderley, stepdaughter of Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire, married captain Alan Gardner in 1796. They divorced in 1805 after he discovered her affair with Henry Jadis, nephew of the Earl of Strathmore. Lady Gardner had an illegitimate child with Jadis, Henry Fenton Gardner (born in 1802), who was declared illegitimate by the House of Lords in 1825 following the Gardner Peerage Case, in which Henry unsuccessfully attempted to prove he was the rightful heir to the Gardner peerage. De la Tour visits Doddington Hall and Seaton Delaval Hall to find out more about Jadis' mother, the Hon. Sophia Ann (née Delaval), daughter of John Delaval, 1st Baron Delaval. De la Tour discovers Sophia's sad story of becoming pregnant before marriage with Henry, and rushing to marry a man beneath her status, John Jadis. After suffering abuse from a drunken Jadis, Sophia divorced him but became ostracised socially. She developed an addiction to laudanum and died at 38.

text: Series 13 (2016–17)[edit]

text: On 13 July, the line-up for the 13th series was confirmed.[17] The series started on 24 November 2016.

text:
#
Celebrity
Original air date
Viewers (millions)[3]

1
Danny Dyer
24 November 2016 (2016-11-24)
5.45

Dyer discovers that his 3×great grandmother had a criminal record for concealing the birth of her baby, who died, that his 15× great grandfather was Thomas Cromwell, his 14× great grandmother was Elizabeth Seymour, the sister of Jane Seymour, who was Henry VIII's third wife and Queen, and that his 22× great grandfather was Edward III.

2
Amanda Holden
1 December 2016 (2016-12-01)
4.71

Holden investigates a family rumour that she is of French heritage on her mother's side. She discovers that her 5× great-grandfather Collin Thomas served a year's imprisonment after breaking his apprenticeship as a cordwainer by enlisting in the Royal Navy aged 15. Following his sentence, he enlisted in the British Army's 51st (2nd Yorkshire West Riding) Regiment of Foot in 1807 and fought in the Peninsular War. In 1814, while with his regiment in Bordeaux in South Western France, he met a local woman, Radegonde Charbonnel. He deserted from the army shortly before he was due to muster out, married Radegonde in 1816 and began a family, moving his wife and eldest children back to his home in Cornwall several years afterwards. She also discovers that her paternal grandfather, Frank Holden, a psychiatric nurse, survived the June 1940 bombing of the RMS Lancastria, which sank with the loss of thousands of lives, outside the port of Saint-Nazaire.

3
Liz Bonnin
8 December 2016 (2016-12-08)
3.94

Bonnin travels to Trinidad to discover her maternal family's Indian heritage, discovering that her 2× great-grandfather, Timothy Sirju, travelled to Trinidad from India with his family in 1872, where he worked as an indentured servant. She then travels to Martinique to trace her paternal family's French heritage and discovers that her 3× great-grandfather, François Alexandre Gros Désormeaux, was a plantation and slave owner who married one of his freed slaves, Marie Joseph, in 1835, and was actually born a slave. He and his mother, Pauline Zoé, were freed by his father, also François Alexandre Gros Désormeaux, and Pauline Zoé was a rare example of a freed female slave inheriting a plantation and becoming a slave owner.

4
Cheryl
15 December 2016 (2016-12-15)
4.81

Cheryl researches her maternal family. Research shows that her paternal line is from Tyneside and that there were a number of coal miners amongst Cheryl's forebears. When tracing further back, in one of the branches of her paternal line, researchers find that her ancestry includes several mariners. The investigation into Cheryl's maternal line shows that her grandmother, Olga Ridley, was one of twin girls born to Edith Annie Burton, the housekeeper for a widower named Joseph Ridley who already had a number of children from his marriage. Joseph Ridley had fought in World War I in the Durham Light Infantry as a pioneer in France and, from an examination of the census, before the war he had been a grocery warehouseman.

5
Ricky Tomlinson
22 December 2016 (2016-12-22)
4.28

6
Ian McKellen
25 January 2017 (2017-01-25)
4.21

McKellen discovers that his great uncle, Frank Lowes, was an actor, and his great-great-grandfather, Robert Lowes, campaigned for a half-holiday for Manchester's workers on Saturdays, an event that led to the evolution of the modern weekend.

7
Greg Davies
1 February 2017 (2017-02-01)
4.63

8
Warwick Davis
15 February 2017 (2017-02-15)
5.24

9
Sunetra Sarker
22 February 2017 (2017-02-22)
3.97

10
Sophie Raworth
8 March 2017 (2017-03-08)
4.45

text: Series 14 (2017)[edit]

text: On June 23, the BBC announced the line-up for the series' 14th series, which again would comprise 10 episodes and like the previous series would be split into two halves to be broadcast across the year on BBC One. The remaining[clarification needed] five episodes feature TV presenter Fearne Cotton, comedienne Ruby Wax, actor and director Noel Clarke, singer Lulu and actress Lisa Hammond.

text:
#
Celebrity
Original air date
Viewers (millions)[3]

1
Charles Dance
6 July 2017 (2017-07-06)
TBA

2
Craig Revel Horwood
13 July 2017 (2017-07-13)
TBA

3
Clare Balding
20 July 2017 (2017-07-20)
TBA

4
Adil Ray
27 July 2017 (2017-07-27)
TBA

5
Emma Willis
3 August 2017 (2017-08-03)
TBA

6
Lulu
17 August 2017 (2017-08-17)
TBA

7
Fearne Cotton
24 August 2017 (2017-08-24)
TBA

8
Noel Clarke
31 August 2017 (2017-08-31)
TBA

9
Lisa Hammond
7 September 2017 (2017-09-07)
TBA

10
Ruby Wax
4 October 2017 (2017-10-04)
TBA

text: Awards and nominations[edit]

text: The show was nominated for the 2010 BAFTA Television Award for Best Factual Series.[18]

text: Media releases[edit]

text: Series 1 – 11 of Who Do You Think You Are? are available on DVD in the UK (Region 2).

text: In October 2007, BBC Magazines began issuing Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine, a monthly publication that includes material from the TV series.

text: The series 1–4 box set of Who Do You Think You Are? is available, distributed by Acorn Media UK.[19]

text:
Complete Series
Release dates
DVD Extras
and
Bonus Features
Number
Of Discs

Region 1
Region 2
Region 4

The Complete
First Series
TBA
5 March 2007
17 September 2008
Unseen Footage, First Steps to Researching Your Family
3

The Complete
Second Series
TBA
4 September 2007
12 November 2008
Unseen Footage
2

The Complete
Third Series
TBA
12 January 2009
18 March 2009
None
3

The Complete
Fourth Series
TBA
3 August 2009
20 May 2009
Special episode in conjunction with the BBC's "Family Wanted" campaign featuring Nicky Campbell, who was adopted a few days after he was born.
3

The Complete
Fifth Series
TBA
1 February 2010
TBA
Three behind-the-scenes features
3

The Complete
Sixth Series
TBA
6 September 2010
TBA
None
4

The Complete
Seventh Series
TBA
7 March 2011
TBA
None
3

The Complete
Eighth Series
TBA
20 August 2012[20]
TBA
None
3

The Complete
Ninth Series
TBA
5 August 2013[21]
TBA
None
3

The Complete
Tenth Series
TBA
22 September 2014[22]
TBA
None
3

The Complete
Eleventh Series
TBA
10 November 2014[23]
TBA
Who Do They Think They Are?: 10 Years, 100 Shows
3

text: Other countries[edit]

text: The format of the series has proved popular around the world and the BBC has licensed it to many foreign television companies, who have produced their own individual versions:

text: TVP1 has aired a Polish version, called Sekrety rodzinne, which was broadcast from November 2006 to March 2007.

text: In September 2007, a first series of Canadian version, consisting of 13 episodes, aired on CBC Television.

text: An Australian version aired on SBS in January 2008, after six episodes of the BBC version had been shown; the BBC programmes were those featuring Stephen Fry, Bill Oddie, Julia Sawalha, Jeremy Clarkson, Gurinder Chadha, and Nigella Lawson.

text: In 2008, ARD's Das Erste aired the German version, called Das Geheimnis meiner Familie ("The secret of my family"). They aired four episodes featuring Marie-Luise Marjan, Armin Rohde, Christine Neubauer and Peter Maffay.

text: Ireland's national broadcaster RTÉ has aired two series of Irish version of Who Do You Think You Are? in autumn 2008 and autumn 2009. The Irish version has included internationally recognised names such as Ardal O'Hanlon, Dana, Rosanna Davison, and Dermot Gavin.[24][25] The British version of the show already airs on TG4 in Ireland.

text: Sveriges Television, the Swedish public service broadcaster, aired a Swedish version called Vem tror du att du är? in 2009. Later that year, in May and June, they also aired the BBC episodes featuring Stephen Fry, Jeremy Irons, Nigella Lawson, John Hurt, and Jane Horrocks.

text: Also on 31 May 2009, South African station SABC2 premiered its version, split into two parts, featuring local personalities.[26]

text: An American adaptation of the show premiered on 5 March 2010 on NBC. In Britain, this began airing on BBC One on Sunday 13 June 2010.

text: In 2010, the Dutch version called Verborgen Verleden ("Hidden Past") of the show started. Thus far, eight series have been produced between 2010 and 2017. From 2005 to 2008, four series of the show Verre Verwanten ("Distant Relatives") were shown on Dutch television.

text: In September 2010, the Danish TV station Danmarks Radio aired the first episode of the Danish version, called Ved du hvem du er?.

text: On 1 September 2010, France 2 aired two episodes of the French version, Retour aux Sources, featuring Vincent Pérez and Clémentine Célarié [27]

text: In January 2011, the Norwegian TV station NRK started to air the Norwegian version, called Hvem tror du at du er?

text: Starting on 9 January 2012, Finland's national public-broadcasting company, YLE, aired 15 episodes of the Finnish version, called Kuka oikein olet?, in which local public figures searched for their origins.[28]

text: A furthering of the concept was developed for American public broadcast TV, called Finding Your Roots, with Henry Louis Gates. This series adds DNA profiling to the format; including Y-chromosome DNA, mitochondrial DNA and autosomal DNA analyses to infer both ancient and recent genetic relationships. The series started airing on 25 March 2012.[citation needed]

text: In January 2013, Czech broadcaster ČT started broadcasting their version of this show, called Tajemství rodu ("The secret of the lineage").[29]

text: Starting 15 January 2013, RTP1 broadcast a Portuguese version called Quem É que Tu Pensas Que És? ("Who Do You Think You Are?") at the 10:30 pm timeslot. The first season featured such names as the comedian Herman José, the actresses Maria do Céu Guerra and Maria João Abreu, the musician Zé Pedro from the Xutos & Pontapés rock band and the fadista Camané.[citation needed]

text: International versions[edit]

text:
Country
Local Name
Network
Air Dates

 Australia
Who Do You Think You Are?
SBS One
January 2008 – present

 Canada
 Quebec
Who Do You Think You Are?
CBC Television
11 October 2007 – 31 January 2008

Qui êtes-vous? (Who Are You?)
ICI Radio-Canada Télé
8 November 2013

 Czech Republic
Tajemství rodu (The Secret of the Family)
ČT1
9 January 2013

 Denmark
Ved du hvem du er? (Do You Know Who You Are?)
DR1
15 September 2010 – 17 March 2012

 Finland
Kuka oikein olet? (Who Are You?)
Yle TV1
9 January 2012

 France
Retour aux Sources (Back to Basics)
France 2
1 September 2010

 Germany
Das Geheimnis meiner Familie (The Secret of My Family)
Das Erste
31 March 2008 –

 Ireland
Who Do You Think You Are
RTÉ One
15 September 2008 – 19 October 2009

 Israel
מי אתה חושב שאתה? (Mi Ata Hoshev She'ata)
Channel 1
4 February 2010

 Netherlands
Verborgen verleden (Hidden Past)
Nederland 2
29 September 2010 – present

 Norway
Hvem tror du at du er?
NRK1
January 2011 – present

 Poland
Sekrety rodzinne (Family Secrets)
TVP1
November 2006 – March 2007

 Portugal
Quem É que Tu Pensas Que És?
RTP1
15 January 2013

 Russia
Моя родословная (My Family Tree)
Channel One Russia
1 July 2009 – 12 February 2011

 South Africa
Who Do You Think You Are?
SABC2
31 May 2009

 Sweden
Vem tror du att du är?
SVT1
Spring 2009

 United States
Who Do You Think You Are?
NBC (2010–12)
TLC (2013–present)
5 March 2010 – present

text: Similar programmes[edit]

text: BBC Wales has a similar series called Coming Home, which is made by Yellow Duck Productions and features celebrities with a Welsh background.[30][31] In 2007, Wall to Wall developed You Don't Know You're Born for ITV1. The series saw various celebrities taking on their ancestors' jobs. UKTV broadcast My Famous Family in 2007.

text: A short parody sketch of the show featured in the first series of The Armstrong and Miller Show in which Alexander Armstrong plays a fictionalised version of himself, discovering that his paternal grandfather and maternal grandmother were a child molester and a brothel-owner, respectively.[32]

text: Notes[edit]

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^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o "Top 30 Programmes". Broadcasters' Audience Research Board. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
Jump up ^ Nigella Lawson. BBC Who Do You Think You Are?, 26 September 2006; retrieved 5 October 2008.
Jump up ^ "Bruce Forsyth Traces Family History". BBC News. 17 June 2010.
Jump up ^ "Featured Articles – BBC launching new series of Who Do You Think You Are?". TheGenealogist.co.uk. Retrieved 2012-10-20.
Jump up ^ Submitted by mattelton (12 April 2011). "This year's Who Do You Think You Are? celebrities revealed". Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine. Retrieved 2012-10-20.
Jump up ^ richardm56 (1 August 2011). "Yup. Sep 28, 9pm BBC1". Twitter. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
Jump up ^ Elton, Matt (9 February 2012). "Who Do You Think You Are? 2012: new series celebrities revealed". Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine. Retrieved 2012-10-20.
Jump up ^ "Who Do You Think You Are? 2013: new celebrities revealed". Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine. 13 June 2013. Retrieved 13 June 2013.
Jump up ^ "Who Do They Think They Are?: 10 Years, 100 Shows". BBC. 6 August 2014. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
Jump up ^ "Who Do You Think You Are? Julie Walters". BBC. 7 August 2014. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
Jump up ^ Furness, Hannah (9 August 2014). "Tearful Brian Blessed overcome as he discovers 'real-life Oliver Twist' in the family". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 11 September 2014.
Jump up ^ Greenwood, Carl (22 June 2015). "Who Do You Think You Are returns with Paul Hollywood, Derek Jacobi and Jerry Hall". The Mirror. Retrieved 26 June 2015.
Jump up ^ "Who Do You Think You Are?". BBC. Retrieved 7 December 2015.
Jump up ^ "BBC reveals WDYTYA? 2015 running order". Who Do You Think You Are Magazine. 5 August 2015. Retrieved 5 August 2015.
Jump up ^ Methven, Nicola (13 July 2016). "Danny Dyer discovers he is related to royalty during making of BBC documentary". Daily Mirror. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
Jump up ^ "Television Awards Winners in 2010". BAFTA. 10 May 2010. Retrieved 6 June 2010.
Jump up ^ "AcornMediaUk.com is coming soon". Archived from the original on 19 January 2016. Retrieved 7 December 2015.
Jump up ^ "Who Do You Think You Are? Series Eight [DVD]: Alan Carr, June Brown, J. K. Rowling, Larry Lamb, Robin Gibb, Emilia Fox: Film & TV". Amazon.co.uk. 20 August 2012. Retrieved 2012-10-20.
Jump up ^ "Who Do You Think You Are? Series Nine [DVD]". Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 11 May 2013.
Jump up ^ "Who Do You Think You Are? Series 10 [DVD]". Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 9 October 2014.
Jump up ^ "Who Do You Think You Are? Series 11 [DVD]". Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 9 October 2014.
Jump up ^ "Who Do You Think You Are%3F (Irish TV series)". RTÉ. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
Jump up ^ About The Show {Series 2} Who Do You Think You Are? RTÉ
Jump up ^ "Who Do You Think You Are? (SA)". TVSA. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
Jump up ^ "Retour aux sources, TV Show", Facebook.
Jump up ^ "Sarja: Kuka oikein olet? Ohjelmat Yle.fi". YLE. Retrieved 18 March 2012.
Jump up ^ "Tajemství rodu" [Secrets of the family] (in Czech). Ceskatelevize.cz. 2013. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
Jump up ^ "Coming Home, Coming Soon". South East Wales. BBC Wales. 11 July 2007.
Jump up ^ "Coming Home Coming Soon". Mid Wales. BBC Wales. 28 January 2008.
Jump up ^ YouTube Armstrong and Miller - Who Do You Think You Are Spoof Published on 18 Nov 2007 accessed 15 July 2017

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document_title: Division of Korea

question_text: when did korea separate into north and south korea

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text: Division of Korea

text: Historical background[edit]

text: Korea under Japanese rule (1910–1945)[edit]

text: When the Russo-Japanese War ended in 1905 Korea became a nominal protectorate of Japan, and was annexed by Japan in 1910. The Korean Emperor Gojong was removed. In the following decades, nationalist and radical groups emerged, mostly in exile, to struggle for independence. Divergent in their outlooks and approaches, these groups failed to unite in one national movement.[1][2] The Korean Provisional Government in China failed to obtain widespread recognition.[3]

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text: End of World War II[edit]

text: In November 1943, Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek met at the Cairo Conference to discuss what should happen to Japan's colonies, and agreed that Japan should lose all the territories it had conquered by force. In the declaration after this conference, Korea was mentioned for the first time. The three powers declared that they were, "mindful of the enslavement of the people of Korea, ... determined that in due course Korea shall become free and independent."[4][5] Roosevelt floated the idea of a trusteeship over Korea, but did not obtain agreement from the other powers. Roosevelt raised the idea with Joseph Stalin at the Tehran Conference in November 1943 and the Yalta Conference in February 1945. Stalin did not disagree, but advocated that the period of trusteeship be short.[6][7]

text: At the Tehran Conference and the Yalta Conference, the Soviet Union promised to join its allies in the Pacific War in two to three months after victory in Europe. On August 8, 1945, three months to the day after the end of hostilities in Europe, and two days after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan.[8] Soviet troops advanced rapidly, and the US government became anxious that they would occupy the whole of Korea. On August 10, 1945 two young officers – Dean Rusk and Charles Bonesteel – were assigned to define an American occupation zone. Working on extremely short notice and completely unprepared, they used a National Geographic map to decide on the 38th parallel. They chose it because it divided the country approximately in half but would place the capital Seoul under American control. No experts on Korea were consulted. The two men were unaware that forty years before, Japan and pre-revolutionary Russia had discussed sharing Korea along the same parallel. Rusk later said that had he known, he "almost surely" would have chosen a different line.[9][10] The division placed sixteen million Koreans in the American zone and nine million in the Soviet zone.[11] To the surprise of the Americans, the Soviet Union immediately accepted the division. The agreement was incorporated into General Order No. 1 (approved on 17 August 1945) for the surrender of Japan.[12]

text: Soviet forces began amphibious landings in Korea by August 14 and rapidly took over the north-east of the country, and on August 16 they landed at Wonsan.[13] On August 24, the Red Army reached Pyongyang.[12]

text: General Abe Nobuyuki, the last Japanese Governor-General of Korea, had established contact with a number of influential Koreans since the beginning of August 1945 to prepare the hand-over of power. Throughout August, Koreans organized people's committee branches for the "Committee for the Preparation of Korean Independence" (CPKI, 조선건국준비위원회), headed by Lyuh Woon-hyung, a left-wing politician. On September 6, 1945, a congress of representatives was convened in Seoul and founded the short-lived People's Republic of Korea.[14][15]

text: Post–World War II[edit]

text: In December 1945, at the Moscow Conference, the Allies agreed that the Soviet Union, the US, the Republic of China, and Britain would take part in a trusteeship over Korea for up to five years in the lead-up to independence. Many Koreans demanded independence immediately; however, the Korean Communist Party, which was closely aligned with the Soviet Communist party, supported the trusteeship.[16][17]

text: A Soviet-US Joint Commission met in 1946 and 1947 to work towards a unified administration, but failed to make progress due to increasing Cold War antagonism and to Korean opposition to the trusteeship.[18] Meanwhile, the division between the two zones deepened. The difference in policy between the occupying powers led to a polarization of politics, and a transfer of population between North and South.[19] In May 1946 it was made illegal to cross the 38th parallel without a permit.[20] At the final meeting of the Joint Commission in September 1947, Soviet delegate Terentii Shtykov proposed that both Soviet and US troops withdraw and give the Korean people the opportunity to form their own government. This was rejected by the US.[21]

text: US occupation of South Korea[edit]

text: With the American government fearing Soviet expansion, and the Japanese authorities in Korea warning of a power vacuum, the embarkation date of the US occupation force was brought forward three times.[3]

text: On September 7, 1945, General Douglas MacArthur announced that Lieutenant General John R. Hodge was to administer Korean affairs, and Hodge landed in Incheon with his troops the next day. The Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea, which had operated from China, sent a delegation with three interpreters to Hodge, but he refused to meet with them.[22] Likewise, Hodge refused to recognize the newly formed People's Republic of Korea and its People's Committees, and outlawed it on 12 December.[23]

text: In September 1946, thousands of laborers and peasants rose up against the military government. This uprising was quickly defeated, and failed to prevent scheduled October elections for the South Korean Interim Legislative Assembly.

text: The ardent anti-communist Syngman Rhee, who had been the first president of the Provisional Government and later worked as a pro-Korean lobbyist in the US, became the most prominent politician in the South. Rhee pressured the American government to abandon negotiations for a trusteeship and create an independent Republic of Korea in the south.[24] On July 19, 1947, Lyuh Woon-hyung, the last senior politician committed to left-right dialogue, was assassinated by a right-winger.[25]

text: The occupation government conducted a number of military campaigns against left-wing insurgents. Over the course of the next few years, between 30,000[26] and 100,000 people were killed.[27]

text: Soviet occupation of North Korea[edit]

text: When Soviet troops entered Pyongyang, they found a local branch of the Committee for the Preparation of Korean Independence operating under the leadership of veteran nationalist Cho Man-sik.[28] The Soviet Army allowed these "People's Committees" (which were friendly to the Soviet Union) to function. Colonel-General Terentii Shtykov set up the Soviet Civil Administration, taking control of the committees and placing communists in key positions.

text: In February 1946 a provisional government called the Provisional People's Committee was formed under Kim Il-sung, who had spent the last years of the war training with Soviet troops in Manchuria. Conflicts and power struggles ensued at the top levels of government in Pyongyang as different aspirants maneuvered to gain positions of power in the new government. In March 1946 the provisional government instituted a sweeping land-reform program: land belonging to Japanese and collaborator landowners was divided and redistributed to poor farmers.[29] Organizing the many poor civilians and agricultural laborers under the people's committees, a nationwide mass campaign broke the control of the old landed classes. Landlords were allowed to keep only the same amount of land as poor civilians who had once rented their land, thereby making for a far more equal distribution of land. The North Korean land reform was achieved in a less violent way than in China or in Vietnam. Official American sources stated: "From all accounts, the former village leaders were eliminated as a political force without resort to bloodshed, but extreme care was taken to preclude their return to power."[30] The farmers responded positively; many collaborators and former landowners fled to the south, where some of them obtained positions in the new South Korean government. According to the U.S. military government, 400,000 northern Koreans went south as refugees.[31]

text: Key industries were nationalized. The economic situation was nearly as difficult in the north as it was in the south, as the Japanese had concentrated agriculture in the south and heavy industry in the north.

text: Soviet forces departed in 1948.[32]

text: UN intervention and the formation of separate governments[edit]

text: With the failure of the Joint Commission to make progress, the US brought the problem before the United Nations in September 1947. The Soviet Union opposed UN involvement. At that time, the US had more influence over the UN than the USSR.[33] The UN passed a resolution on November 14, 1947, declaring that free elections should be held, foreign troops should be withdrawn, and a UN commission for Korea, the United Nations Temporary Commission on Korea (UNTCOK), should be created. The Soviet Union boycotted the voting and did not consider the resolution to be binding, arguing that the UN could not guarantee fair elections. In the absence of Soviet co-operation, it was decided to hold UN-supervised elections in the south only.[34][35] This was in defiance of the report of the chairman of the Commission, K. P. S. Menon, who had argued against a separate election.[36] Some UNTCOK delegates felt that the conditions in the south gave unfair advantage to right-wing candidates, but they were overruled.[37]

text: The decision to proceed with separate elections was unpopular among many Koreans, who rightly saw it as a prelude to a permanent division of the country. General strikes in protest against the decision began in February 1948.[20] In April, Jeju islanders rose up against the looming division of the country. South Korean troops were sent to repress the rebellion. Tens of thousands of islanders were killed and by one estimate, 70% of the villages were burned by the South Korean troops.[38] The uprising flared up again with the outbreak of the Korean War.[39]

text: In April 1948, a conference of organizations from the north and the south met in Pyongyang. The southern politicians Kim Koo and Kim Kyu-sik attended the conference and boycotted the elections in the south, as did other politicians and parties.[40][41] The conference called for a united government and the withdrawal of foreign troops.[42] Syngman Rhee and General Hodge denounced the conference.[43] Kim Koo was assassinated the following year.[44]

text: On May 10, 1948 the south held a general election. It took place amid widespread violence and intimidation, as well as a boycott by opponents of Syngman Rhee.[45] On August 15, the "Republic of Korea" formally took over power from the U.S. military, with Syngman Rhee as the first president. In the North, the "Democratic People's Republic of Korea" was declared on September 9, with Kim Il-sung as prime minister.

text: On December 12, 1948, the United Nations General Assembly accepted the report of UNTCOK and declared the Republic of Korea to be the "only lawful government in Korea".[46] However, none of the members of UNTCOK considered that the election had established a legitimate national parliament. The Australian government, which had a representative on the commission declared that it was "far from satisfied" with the election.[47]

text: Unrest continued in the South. In October 1948, the Yeosu–Suncheon Rebellion took place, in which some regiments rejected the suppression of the Jeju uprising and rebelled against the government.[48] In 1949, the Syngman Rhee government established the Bodo League in order to keep an eye on its political opponents. The majority of the Bodo League's members were innocent farmers and civilians who were forced into membership.[49] The registered members or their families were executed at the beginning of the Korean War. On December 24, 1949, South Korean Army massacred Mungyeong citizens who were suspected communist sympathizers or their family and affixed blame to communists.[50]

text: Korean War[edit]

text: This division of Korea, after more than a millennium of being unified, was seen as controversial and temporary by both regimes. From 1948 until the start of the civil war on June 25, 1950, the armed forces of each side engaged in a series of bloody conflicts along the border. In 1950, these conflicts escalated dramatically when North Korean forces invaded South Korea, triggering the Korean War. The United Nations intervened to protect the South, sending a US-led force. As it occupied the south, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea attempted to unify Korea under its regime, initiating the nationalisation of industry, land reform, and the restoration of the People's Committees.[51]

text: While UN intervention was conceived as restoring the border at the 38th parallel, Syngman Rhee argued that the attack of the North had obliterated the boundary. Similarly UN Commander in Chief, General Douglas MacArthur stated that he intended to unify Korea, not just drive the North Korean forces back behind the border.[52] However, the North overran 90% of the south until a counter-attack by US-led forces. As the North Korean forces were driven from the south, South Korean forces crossed the 38th parallel on 1 October, and American and other UN forces followed a week later. This was despite warnings from the People's Republic of China that it would intervene if American troops crossed the parallel.[53] As it occupied the North, the Republic of Korea, in turn, attempted to unify the country under its regime, with the Korean National Police enforcing political indoctrination.[54] As US-led forces pushed into the north, China unleashed a counter-attack which drove them back into the south.

text: In 1951, the front line stabilized near the 38th parallel, and both sides began to consider an armistice. Rhee, however, demanded the war continue until Korea was unified under his leadership.[55] The Communist side supported an armistice line being based on the 38th parallel, but the United Nations supported a line based on the territory held by each side, which was defensible, and this position prevailed.[56] The Korean Armistice Agreement was signed after three years of war. The two sides agreed to create a four-kilometer-wide buffer zone between the states, known as the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). This new border, reflecting the territory held by each side at the end of the war, crossed the 38th parallel diagonally. Rhee refused to accept the armistice and continued to urge the reunification of the country by force.[57]

text: Despite attempts by both sides to reunify the country, the war perpetuated the division of Korea and led to a permanent alliance between South Korea and the U.S., and a permanent U.S. garrison in the South.[58]

text: Geneva Conference and NNSC[edit]

text: As dictated by the terms of the Korean Armistice, a Geneva Conference was held in 1954 on the Korean question. Despite efforts by many of the nations involved, the conference ended without a declaration for a unified Korea.

text: The Armistice established a Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission (NNSC) which was tasked to monitor the Armistice. Since 1953, members of the Swiss[59] and Swedish[60] Armed Forces have been members of the NNSC stationed near the DMZ.

text: Post-armistice relations[edit]

text: Since the war, Korea has remained divided along the DMZ. North and South have remained in a state of conflict, with the opposing regimes both claiming to be the legitimate government of the whole country. Sporadic negotiations have failed to produce lasting progress towards reunification.[61]