TV & RADIO
WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?
From Monday 12 October, 9pm
BBC One and BBC iPlayer
Well, this is an unexpected but very welcome surprise. Earlier this year, with the coronavirus pandemic playing havoc with filming schedules, there were fears that we wouldn’t see any new episodes of WDYTYA? until 2021. Instead, just as we went to press, it was announced that the first four shows of Series 17 will air this autumn.
The series kicks off withand , who has romantic ideas about how her paternal grandmother, Greta, came to have the middle name of Verdun, famed as the site of the longest battle of the First World War. Except, as so often happens with , the story Jodie finds isn’t quite what she expects. However, the tale of Greta’s half-brother captures the actor’s imagination as she learns about his service on the Western Front.
