Who Do You Think You Are?

Season 5 Episode 4: Esther Rantzen

20 SeasonsSep 03, 2008TV-PG1h8

If Esther's family is as genteel and respectable as she's always believed, where do the rumours of bigamy, fraud and murder come from? Stories of a 'black sheep' have always intrigued her, as have the origins of the Rantzen side of the family. Her search for answers takes her from the slums of Spitalfields in London to the diamond mines of South Africa. Along the way she discovers the amazing story of a fugitive from justice.

Who Do You Think You Are? background

Season 5 Episodes:

Episode 1 Patsy Kensit

1. Patsy Kensit

Aired: Aug 14, 2008

Patsy's late father was a villain. Jimmy Kensit was deeply involved with the ...

Episode 2 Boris Johnson

2. Boris Johnson

Aired: Aug 21, 2008

Boris Johnson knew a certain amount about his diverse family background, but ...

Episode 3 Jerry Springer

3. Jerry Springer

Aired: Aug 28, 2008

Jerry knows that if his parents had not fled Germany before the start of the ...

Episode 4 Esther Rantzen

4. Esther Rantzen

Aired: Sep 3, 2008

If Esther's family is as genteel and respectable as she's always believed, wh...

Episode 5 Ainsley Harriott

5. Ainsley Harriott

Aired: Sep 10, 2008

Ainsley Harriott heads to the West Indies and discovers that Caribbean histor...

Episode 6 David Suchet

6. David Suchet

Aired: Sep 17, 2008

Confusion reigns in David Suchet's family history. Was his father's father Ge...

Episode 7 Jodie Kidd

Aired: Sep 24, 2008

Jodie has often wondered why none of her family ever talked about her mother'...

Episode 8 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen

8. Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen

Aired: Oct 1, 2008

"Most people assume that I'm from a long line of gothic, castle-dwelling Wels...

Guest Staring

Esther RantzenSelf

Info about Who Do You Think You Are?

Current Status: Returning Series

Network: BBC One

Production Country: United Kingdom

Genres:Documentary, History, Biography