Post by Queen of the Mods on Aug 16, 2006 11:34:59 GMT -5
"Who Do You Think You Are? is back
As the nights draw in for autumn again, the first week of September offers particular delights for family historians. The third series of Who Do You Think You Are? starts at 9pm on BBC1 on Wednesday 6th. It promises, in the words of the show’s genealogist Jenny Thomas, “a lively bunch of ancestors...
This series, like the last, is essentially a history series,” Jenny told Your Family Tree. “It is not the names and the dates that matter, but the social context – the times that these people were living through, and what they made of them. The celebrity is a route for the viewer into the past....
The celebrities in question, in likely order of broadcast at the time of going to press (but do check the TV listings), are actors Barbara Windsor, Robert Lindsay and David Tennant, athlete Colin Jackson, actors Julia Sawalha and Jeremy Irons, kitchen goddess Nigella Lawson, and antiques expert David thingyinson...."
As the nights draw in for autumn again, the first week of September offers particular delights for family historians. The third series of Who Do You Think You Are? starts at 9pm on BBC1 on Wednesday 6th. It promises, in the words of the show’s genealogist Jenny Thomas, “a lively bunch of ancestors...
This series, like the last, is essentially a history series,” Jenny told Your Family Tree. “It is not the names and the dates that matter, but the social context – the times that these people were living through, and what they made of them. The celebrity is a route for the viewer into the past....
The celebrities in question, in likely order of broadcast at the time of going to press (but do check the TV listings), are actors Barbara Windsor, Robert Lindsay and David Tennant, athlete Colin Jackson, actors Julia Sawalha and Jeremy Irons, kitchen goddess Nigella Lawson, and antiques expert David thingyinson...."
