The Best Episodes of Who Do You Think You Are? Season 16

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.6/10(59 votes)

   #1 - Paul Merton

   S16:E68/28/2019

   Paul Merton traces the life of his maternal grandfather and discovers that he was involved in some of the key events that led to Irish independence in the 1920s.

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   8.2/10(99 votes)

   #2 - Daniel Radcliffe

   S16:E17/22/2019

   'Harry Potter' star Daniel Radcliffe discovers that the Hatton Garden robbery of his great-grandfather’s jewellery business was far more dark and dramatic than he ever imagined, while an unseen cache of his great-great-uncle’s letters reveals a heart-wrenching First World War love story.

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   7.8/10(81 votes)

   #3 - Kate Winslet

   S16:E48/12/2019

   Oscar-winning actor Kate Winslet follows a rumour of Scandinavian ancestry on her mother's side of the family and is delighted to find that she has Swedish heritage.

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   7.5/10(69 votes)

   #4 - Katherine Ryan

   S16:E58/19/2019

   Canadian comedian Katherine Ryan’s investigation of her family history leads her to a Methodist minister and his family in colonial Nova Scotia, cod traders in Newfoundland, and eventually to her English roots in Dorset.

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   6.7/10(53 votes)

   #5 - Mark Wright

   S16:E89/11/2019

   Former TOWIE star Mark Wright discovers that his ancestors included an Andalucian master swordsman and a Spaniard who was burned at the stake during the Inquisition.

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   6.6/10(79 votes)

   #6 - Jack and Michael Whitehall

   S16:E38/5/2019

   In a first for the series, father-and-son comedy double-act Jack and Michael Whitehall join forces to investigate their family tree.

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   4.8/10(82 votes)

   #7 - Naomie Harris

   S16:E27/29/2019

   Actor Naomie Harris’s dramatic discoveries in this episode inspire her to anger, sadness and tears of joy. On a journey from Trinidad to Grenada to Jamaica, Naomie exposes her four-times-great grandfather’s involvement in the exploitation of so-called 'liberated Africans' shortly after the abolition of slavery, is delighted to discover the identify of her African five-times-great grandmother, and, in nearer generations, uncovers a family story of tragic poverty in Jamaica’s capital, Kingston.

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   4.2/10(66 votes)

   #8 - Sharon Osbourne

   S16:E79/4/2019

   Sharon Osbourne uncovers the difficult circumstances of her mother’s and grandmother’s lives, and is stunned to learn that her great-grandmother was born in the US.

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