Lesley Sharp's episode of Who Do You Think You Are? Series 10 was similar to Minnie Driver's in that it showed that sometimes you have to deal with the more recent past before you can move on and look further back.
Lesley's feelings were understandably a little mixed, particularly regarding the father who never told her brother and sister that she even existed.
Looking further back amongst her father's ancestors however, she found a man who took in Barnardo's children, and the first son of his wife, with little qualm. The two men clearly jarred a little in her opinion, and her admiration for a man who would take in the children of others shone through - perhaps a little more like her adoptive father than her biological father within her own mind.
Regardless, again like Minnie Driver's episode, this episode showed that it's possible to untangle the web of recent history.
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