Even after 18 years, we’re still finding completely new stories
Can you believe that the new series of Who Do You Think You Are? is the 19th to hit our screens? Happily, the show has lost none of its relevance or ability to surprise. The new series is packed with wonderful storytelling, fantastic genealogical detective work and oodles of you-couldn’t-makeit-up coincidences as Sue Perkins, Richard Osman, Matt Lucas, Anna Maxwell Martin and Ralf Little uncover the ancestors in their trees who made their mark on the past.
So what keepseach year? “It’s the variety of stories and participants that keeps it feeling so fresh,” says producer Anna Kirkwood. “We do crash into the same subjects – such as the First World War or the Holocaust – but every story is unique in the sense that you come at it from a different angle. But even after 18 years, we’re still finding completely new stories. For example, in Sue Perkins’ episode, her family history in Lithuania was something we’d never come across before in that particular guise.”
