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Who Do You Think You Are?

Series 18

Joe Lycett

Duration: 58 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One LondonLatest broadcast: on BBC History Channel

Available for 22 days

Comedian and presenter Joe Lycett manages to find humour everywhere, but apart from his Edwardian great-grandad – a member of the Royal Antediluvian Order of the Buffaloes in Nottingham – Joe uncovers a darker family history. Joe finds out that his two-times-great-grandfather Robert Wilkinson was a boy chimney sweep in the 1850s. Joining the Royal Marines, Robert travelled the world; but his involvement in razing villages in China following the Opium Wars leads to alcoholism and a breakdown. Show less

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