Who Do You Think You Are?: Season 12
Season 12 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Who Do You Think You Are? Season 11.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 12 Progress Shield
Paul Hollywood
Aug 13, 2015 · 60 min
Paul Hollywood looks into his family's past this week. His journey takes him first to North Africa where his grandfather had only just completed his training when he found himself
Jane Seymour
Aug 20, 2015 · 60 min
Jane Seymour was born Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg and knows that there is Jewish ancestry on her father’s side of the family. She wants to find out about her Jewish great
Derek Jacobi
Aug 27, 2015 · 60 min
Actor Derek Jacobi discovers that he is descended from a Huguenot fleeing persecution.
Jerry Hall
Sep 3, 2015 · 60 min
Jerry Hall knows her father’s family originally came from Oldham, but wants to discover how they ended up in America.
Gareth Malone
Sep 10, 2015 · 60 min
Gareth Malone wants to know how far back his musical gene goes and he attempts to find out more. His investigations into his mother's side of the family take him to London's West E
Anne Reid
Sep 17, 2015 · 60 min
Actress Anne Reid was close to her father but knows very little about his family. She only has a couple of clues to go on - the name of a house in Scotland and a family story that
Frank Gardner
Sep 24, 2015 · 60 min
Journalist Frank Gardner was very close to his late mother and is keen to know more about her side of the family. Frank's mother always told him that the family arrived in Britain
Anita Rani
Oct 1, 2015 · 60 min
Journalist Anita Rani never met her maternal grandfather Sant Singh - all she has been told is that he suffered terrible tragedy at the time of India's Partition. Anita's mother al
Mark Gatiss
Oct 8, 2015 · 60 min
Actor and writer Mark Gatiss has always had a love of storytelling and a passion for the ghastly and ghoulish but has always wondered where it comes from. So when he discovers that
Frances de la Tour
Oct 22, 2015 · 60 min
Frances de la Tour's family tree holds a tantalising clue which hints at aristocratic ancestors. Hot on the trail of her three times great grandmother Frances uncovers a story of a