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Journey of discovery
What's on TV
|August 17, 2024
Paddy McGuinness finds ancestors from Ireland and a Spitfire constructor in his roots...
WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? Thursday, 9pm, BBC1 Factual
Paddy McGuinness learnt about important war work and intrepid Irish forebears as he investigated his family tree for Who Do You Think You Are?.
The presenter first explored the life of his maternal grandfather, James Leonard, who had a poverty-stricken upbringing in Bolton and whose father, Patrick, was jailed for assaulting James' mother Annie.
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