WDYTYA? - Lisa Hammond

Lisa Hammond's episode of Who Do You Think You Are? featured a lot of interesting stories!

The stories included were Hollywood-worthy, moving from World War Two, to the East End of London, to Seventeenth Century Wales!

The most poignant of these stories was perhaps the most recent of them - the story of Lisa's grandfather, Harry, who was a Prisoner of War.

Interesting too was the details of Harry's return to the UK, at a time when mental health care for the military services was starting to develop.

Most of Lisa's family were from London, which she was happy about, given that she considers herself a true Londoner.

Given that, it was really funny to see her reactions to finding rural Welsh family - and even more amusing to see her reaction to cows!

A really interesting episode, with only one episode now left in the series.

WDYTYA? - Noel Clarke

Firstly, Noel Clarke's episode of Who Do You Think You Are? wasn't the penultimate of this series - sorry to my Facebook followers! Oops! - the penultimate is actually next week.

Anyway, Noel Clarke's episode of WDYTYA? was a tour of Caribbean islands, including Trinidad and Tobago, and Grenada. 

This was actually a really interesting episode - covering history that we often don't get to hear about while still being human and relatable.

Unfortunately, the spectre of slavery is rarely avoidable when it comes to the Caribbean.

It's hard to believe that people were ever treated like this. It's sad but true, and at least this story had some hope in the form of Noel's 4x great-grandfather, Glasgow Bedou, who was born into slavery but lived to own his own land, as well as his freedom.

Overall, a really important and truly interesting episode.