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The House I Grew Up In
Series revisiting the childhood neighbourhoods of influential Britons
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20 of 21 episodesJasvinder Sanghera
Jasvinder Sanghera is the founder of the charity, Karma Nirvana, which campaigns against forced marriage. She was also one of the influentia...
Terry Waite
Born in 1939, he remembers the constraints of being the son of the local policeman, where any misdemeanour from a young Terry came under scr...
Shirley Williams
Shirley Williams, now Baroness Williams, returns to her childhood homes in London's Chelsea and the New Forest. Her mother was the writer, V...
Peter Hitchens
Writer & journalist Peter Hitchens was born in 1951 and moved to Portsmouth as the sixties began and the navy (in which his father was a com...
Sir William Atkinson
Sir William Atkinson, one of the country's best-known super-heads, first came to this country from Jamaica aged 7. His father met him, his m...
Kay Mellor
Television screenwriter Kay Mellor was born into a working class Leeds household in the 1950s and brought up single-handedly by her mother f...
Julia Hobsbawm
PR supremo, professional networker & businesswoman, Julia Hobsbawm, takes Wendy Robbins to London's Hampstead & rural Wales. Julia was born...
Colin Blakemore
Neurobiologist Professor Colin Blakemore was a war baby brought up in devastated Coventry. His two-up two-down home had the first TV in the...
Kwame Kwei-Armah
Wendy Robbins presents a series revisiting the childhood neighbourhoods of influential Britons. Playwright and actor Kwame Kwei-Armah takes...
Erin Pizzey
Wendy Robbins presents a series revisiting the childhood neighbourhoods of influential Britons. Campaigner, author and founder of the women'...
Professor Steve Jones
Wendy Robbins presents a series revisiting the childhood neighbourhoods of influential Britons. Biologist and author Professor Steve Jones t...
Baroness Jane Campbell
Wendy Robbins presents a series revisiting the childhood neighbourhoods of influential Britons. Disability campaigner Baroness Jane Campbell...
Baroness Mary Warnock
Wendy Robbins presents a series revisiting the childhood neighbourhoods of influential Britons. Baroness Mary Warnock has been a moral refer...
Joanna Briscoe
Wendy Robbins takes the novelist back to her isolated childhood home in Dartmoor, and an unconventional upbringing. From August 2008.
David Blunkett
The politician takes Wendy Robbins to the boarding schools for the blind that he attended as a child. From August 2008.
Mona Siddiqui
Wendy Robbins presents a series revisiting the childhood neighbourhoods of influential Britons. Mona Siddiqui, Professor of Islamic Studies...
Sir Tom Farmer
Wendy Robbins presents a series revisiting the childhood neighbourhoods of influential Britons. She meets Sir Tom Farmer, Scottish entrepren...
Jackie Kay
Recalling a childhood in Glasgow which inspired her to write, the poet takes Wendy Robbins to meet her mum and dad. From August 2007.
Jacqueline Gold
Wendy Robbins presents a series revisiting the childhood neighbourhoods of influential Britons. Jacqueline Gold, Chief Executive of the Ann...
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