WARTIME SERVICE

My Grandparents’ War, 9pm, Ch4

KIT HARINGTON (pictured) has played soldiers, spies and, most famously, a warrior (Jon Snow in Game Of Thrones). But, as we discover in the first episode of this second series of the wartime take on Who Do You Think You Are?, all of these roles were already part of his DNA. Here, an emotional Kit learns about how his four grandparents served Britain in the Second World War. It’s a fascinating family history, full of revelations such as the fact that the actor’s paternal grandfather, John Harington, served alongside James Bond creator Ian Fleming in Naval Intelligence. Meanwhile, Kit’s mother’s father, Mick Catesby, fell in love with future wife Pippa during the Blitz, before Mick was sent to fight in Italy; he returned home a decorated hero, but shell shock left him unable to speak of the war.