Who Do You Think You Are?
Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill
Season 21 Episode 5 of 8
Retired heptathlon star Jessica Ennis-Hill sets out to discover the truth behind a family mystery concerning her great-great-grandmother. When his father, Jess's great-grandfather was a child his mother Emily Maud, known as Maud, walked out. The family never talked about Maud, and Jess's grandfather has no idea what became of her. Jess wants to investigate what could have happened to make her two-time great-grandmother abandon her children and effectively be written out of the family's history. She also examines her Jamaican four-time great-grandfather's journey from enslavement to land ownership
Who Do You Think You Are? airs on BBC One London at 10:40 PM, Tuesday 17 September. (Subtitles, repeat, audio description.)
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Phil Davis
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Jessica Ennis-Hill
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