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WHO W DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?, 9PM, BBC1

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BORN in Norwich in 1974, Olivia Colman (pictured, right) believes her family hails entirely from Norfolk, and claims to be ‘the least adventurou­s person I know’. So, as the series returns, she is amazed to find herself in India to investigat­e the story of Harriot, h her great-great-greatgrand­mother, whose English father worked for the East India Company and married a local girl. In 1811, when Harriot was orphaned, she was put on a boat bound for the shores of England from Calcutta, for a ‘better life’ with her grandparen­ts. The thought of little Harriot’s perilous solo voyage moves Olivia to tears.

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