No Place Like Home - Season 1
Season 1
Episodes
Fern Britton
In the first episode, broadcaster and best-selling author Fern Britton time travels back to her childhood home in Buckinghamshire. Retracing familiar haunts from her youth, she tries to understand that world through adult eyes as she uncovers Buckinghamshire's hidden history. Fern then explores the extraordinary secret story behind Newland Park, a manor house that at the turn of the 20th century harboured suffragettes who were on the run from prison, a legacy she had no idea existed. Her journey ends at her old secondary school, where she is moved to tears.
Victoria Derbyshire
Journalist and broadcaster Victoria Derbyshire comes home to Greater Manchester to discover the history she never knew existed. Beginning near her childhood home of Littleborough, Victoria meets with her mum to recall both good and bad memories of living there, a time marred by domestic violence at the hands of her father. She learns about a nearby tanning factory whose owners provided an escape route for German Jews during the Second World War and at the Rochdale Canal, Victoria hears about the terrible working conditions in the cotton mill and how child labour was rife.
Ben Miller
TV personalities embark on time travelling tours of their hometowns, retracing their childhoods as they walk down familiar streets and uncovering stories from the past. This time, the actor and author Ben Miller returns to his hometown of Nantwich in Cheshire, where he embarks on a surprising and moving journey of discovery. He visits his old family home and finds his boyhood playground of ancient heathland completely untouched, before visiting the town's St Mary's Church and hearing a moving story from the Second World War. Later, Ben finds a secret nuclear bunker, where he unearths uncomfortable secrets about Cold War preparations when he was a teenager, and boards a narrow boat in the Nantwich Canal to relive his favourite boyhood pastime - fishing.
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