Who Do You Really Think You Are?

Seriously...

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary

4.1 • 885 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

We’re a nation obsessed with genealogy. Millions of us are gripped by TV shows like 'Who Do You Think You Are', where genealogists show celebrities their famous ancestors - like Danny Dyer being descended from Edward III, the first Plantagent King! But what if Danny doesn’t get exclusive bragging rights? With the help of mathematician Hannah Fry and Habsburg Royal Historian professor Martyn Rady, population geneticist Dr Adam Rutherford sets out to prove that we're all descended from royalty, revealing along the way that family trees are not the perfect tool for tracing your heritage. But can it really be true? Can we all be descended from Henry VIII or Charlemagne!?

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0:00.0	This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box.
0:05.0	The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from.
0:09.0	And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape.
0:12.0	The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape.
0:12.5	The IRA inmates who found a way.
0:14.5	I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path
0:19.5	through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history.
0:25.0	The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them.
0:28.5	Escape from the maze, listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:36.0	BBC Sounds, BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts.
0:39.0	Welcome to Seriously from BBC Radio 4.
0:42.0	I'm Vanessa Kasule. If you love unique documentaries,
0:46.8	this is the podcast for you. Each week you'll find two new episodes to discover. Here
0:52.4	comes something unusual, charming and seriously fascinating.
0:58.0	Family, those joyous, fun, sometimes annoying people that we are bound to, the people who helped make us who we are.
1:07.8	You probably know most of your immediate kith and kin, but what about those legions of people who came before you?
1:15.0	Have you ever tried to find out who they really were?
1:18.0	Genialogy is the study of finding out who our ancestors are and it's become one of the most popular
1:25.3	hobbies in Britain second only to gardening according to some surveys.
1:30.1	The digitization of records has enabled the hunt for ancestors, as have commercial DNA ancestry testing kits.
1:37.0	And so genealogy has become radically democratised and empowered us to discover our own grand narratives.
1:45.0	And millions of us tune into television shows like the highly entertaining, who do you think you are?
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