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** Charles Dance crying as he learns about the older sister who died before he was born, who his parents could never bear to tell him about.
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* FollowTheLeader / DuelingShows: ITV's ''You Don't Know You're Born''. As [[Series/HarryHillsTVBurp Harry Hill]] put it:
--> '''Harry:''' If you like Creator/TheBBC's ''Series/WhoDoYouThinkYouAre'', you may be interested in ITV's ''You Don't Know You're Born'', which is ''the same''.
** Later ITV combined this with a look at Victorian institutions in ''Tales from [[UsefulNotes/BritishPrisons the Clink]]'', ''Tales from the Workhouse'' and ''Tales from the Asylum''.
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** Kim Cattrall finding out the truth of her Grandfather's disappearance, he moved to Manchester, married (illegally) another woman and had a new family without regret for Kim's mother and aunts who were destitute in Liverpool, she is unable to feel anything good about his selfish behaviour.
*** Then she tells her Mother and Aunts showing them for the first time, a clear photograph of the man that for one she had never seen and like Kim their anger becomes tears.
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** Later ITV combined this with a look at Victorian institutions in ''Tales from [[UsefulNotes/BritishPrisons the Clink]]'' and ''Tales from the Workhouse''.

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** Later ITV combined this with a look at Victorian institutions in ''Tales from [[UsefulNotes/BritishPrisons the Clink]]'' Clink]]'', ''Tales from the Workhouse'' and ''Tales from the Workhouse''.Asylum''.
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* FollowTheLeader / DuelingShows: ITV's ''You Don't Know You're Born''. As [[Series/HarryHillsTVBurp Harry Hill]] put it:
--> '''Harry:''' If you like Creator/TheBBC's ''Series/WhoDoYouThinkYouAre'', you may be interested in ITV's ''You Don't Know You're Born'', which is ''the same''.
** Later ITV combined this with a look at Victorian institutions in ''Tales from [[UsefulNotes/BritishPrisons the Clink]]'' and ''Tales from the Workhouse''.

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** Patrick Stewart learning about why his childhood could sometimes be so stressful- his father was a ShellShockedVeteran (he, of course, insists that it should be referred to as PTSD), which led to his father becoming occasionally violent. Neither he nor his older brother had known this at the time.

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** Patrick Stewart learning about why his childhood could sometimes be so stressful- stressful - his father was a ShellShockedVeteran (he, of course, insists that it should be referred to as PTSD), which led to his father becoming occasionally violent. Neither he nor his older brother had known this at the time.time.
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** A similar thing happened to Jerry Springer (yes, ''[[Series/TheJerrySpringerShow that]]'' Jerry Springer), where he broke down and openly wept after learning that both his grandmothers died at separate concentration camps. (That's one of the reasons he mocks Neo-Nazis a lot on his own show.)

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** A similar thing happened to Jerry Springer (yes, ''[[Series/TheJerrySpringerShow that]]'' Jerry Springer), where he broke down and openly wept after learning that both his grandmothers died at separate concentration camps. (That's ([[EveryoneHasStandards That's one of the reasons he mocks Neo-Nazis a lot on his own show.)]])
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* HilariousInHindsight: It turns out that one of the ancestors of country musician Trisha Yearwood [[RobinHoodMenInTights deered to kill a king's dare]].

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* HilariousInHindsight: It turns out that one of the ancestors of country musician Trisha Yearwood [[RobinHoodMenInTights [[Film/RobinHoodMenInTights deered to kill a king's dare]].
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** A similar thing happened to Jerry Springer (yes, ''[[Series/TheJerrySpringerShow that]]'' Jerry Springer), where he broke down and openly wept after learning that both his grandmothers died at separate concentration camps. (That's one of the reasons he mocks Neo-Nazis a lot on his own show.)

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* TearJerker: Stephen Fry sums up everything he's just read about his great aunt's entire family - "That fucking word Auschwitz". Their photographs fade to black on screen and he reads out how old the children were when they died in 1944.

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Stephen Fry sums up everything he's just read about his great aunt's entire family - "That fucking word Auschwitz". Their photographs fade to black on screen and he reads out how old the children were when they died in 1944.
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* HilariousInHindsight: It turns out that one of the ancestors of country musician Trisha Yearwood [[RobinHoodMenInTights deered to kill a king's dare]].
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** Ainsley Harriot finds slaves in his family tree, a great-great-great-grandmother among them. He then discovers his great-great-grandfather was a baptized white child, was given money by his father to purchase eight slaves at four years old. Another PrecisionFStrike moment - after digesting, Ainsley breathes "Fucking hell".

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** Ainsley Harriot finds slaves in his family tree, a great-great-great-grandmother among them. He then discovers his great-great-grandfather was a baptized white child, was given money by his father to purchase eight slaves at four years old. Another PrecisionFStrike moment - after digesting, Ainsley breathes "Fucking hell".hell".
** Patrick Stewart learning about why his childhood could sometimes be so stressful- his father was a ShellShockedVeteran (he, of course, insists that it should be referred to as PTSD), which led to his father becoming occasionally violent. Neither he nor his older brother had known this at the time.
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* Stephen Fry sums up everything he's just read about his great aunt's entire family - "That fucking word Auschwitz". Their photographs fade to black on screen and he reads out how old the children were when they died in 1944.
* Ainsley Harriot finds slaves in his family tree, a great-great-great-grandmother among them. He then discovers his great-great-grandfather was a baptized white child, was given money by his father to purchase eight slaves at four years old. Another PrecisionFStrike moment - after digesting, Ainsley breathes "Fucking hell".

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* *TearJerker: Stephen Fry sums up everything he's just read about his great aunt's entire family - "That fucking word Auschwitz". Their photographs fade to black on screen and he reads out how old the children were when they died in 1944.
* ** Ainsley Harriot finds slaves in his family tree, a great-great-great-grandmother among them. He then discovers his great-great-grandfather was a baptized white child, was given money by his father to purchase eight slaves at four years old. Another PrecisionFStrike moment - after digesting, Ainsley breathes "Fucking hell".
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*Stephen Fry sums up everything he's just read about his great aunt's entire family - "That fucking word Auschwitz". Their photographs fade to black on screen and he reads out how old the children were when they died in 1944.
*Ainsley Harriot finds slaves in his family tree, a great-great-great-grandmother among them. He then discovers his great-great-grandfather was a baptized white child, was given money by his father to purchase eight slaves at four years old. Another PrecisionFStrike moment - after digesting, Ainsley breathes "Fucking hell".

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