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The series starring Chris begins on Wednesday -

Here's a quick brief look at the series: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1198283/Ill-forgive-bigamist-grandad-How-Kim-Cattrall-discovered-shocking-truth-English-roots.html

The Daily Mail also talk of Chris' episode which sounds pretty fascinating.

Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles set out to discover the meaning of his surname. 'I think it's Gaelic for soldier. I hope it isn't flower arranger,' he says at the start of his search, which took him to Ireland-where his maternal grandmother Hannah's early life was spent in Dublin's notorious slums.

Hannah was raised by relatives after her mother, Annie, was admitted to the workhouse suffering with tuberculosis.

His search continued with his father's side, leading him to discover that his surname means 'bald' - derived from ancestors who worked for monks. And, yes, even he has a Paxman moment discovering a great-grandfather who was shot in the head in the war.

'At the beginning it was only about a name,' he says. 'But this is our story.'

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He is abrasive and arrogant, and his risqué remarks have often left others feeling bruised.

Critics called for Radio 1 disc jockey Chris Moyles to be sacked after he made insensitive comments about the tendency of celebrities on the BBC’s

genealogy show Who Do You Think You Are? to visit Auschwitz.

But the thick-skinned Moyles was reduced to tears when he appeared on the same show and discovered how his great-grandfather was killed at Ypres in the First World War.

Leeds-born Moyles, 35, reveals an unexpectedly sensitive side to his character while tracing his family roots back to Ireland in an episode of the BBC1 series to be broadcast on July 22.

He becomes sombre when he learns that his maternal grandmother, Hannah Nelson, lived in the worst slums of Dublin when her mother Anne was admitted to a workhouse infirmary suffering from tuberculosis in 1913.

Anne died at 33 the following year but Hannah survived into her 70s, dying when Moyles was four.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1199047/Chris-Moyless-tears-Great-Grandad-Jimmy-victim-Ypres.html

Poor Chris getting emotional with this!

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Are you a bot? What's with the Sigpic /Sigpic?

Anyhow, my aunt and uncle are into all this family-tree stuff, and they came up with all this really tedious stuff from the past.... so boring. Also, the name "Johnston" (my surname) is all to do with sheep-stealers. That's really what anyone wants to be associated with : stealing sheep from fields :rolleyes::x

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They filmed the Golden Hour, so it looks like he's a normal DJ.

They'll have had shock tuning in this morning ;)

A new episode of Midsomer Murders brought 6 million viewers and a 28% share to ITV1 between 8pm and 10pm.

This was enough to push the Chris Moyles episode of Who Do You Think You Are? into second place, with the genealogy show bringing 4.7 million viewers and a 20% share to BBC1 in the 9pm hour.

The BBC1 show was down on last week's launch episode for series seven featuring Davina McCall, which pulled in 6.4 million viewers and a 29% share.

BBC2's Dragons' Den picked up 3 million viewers and a 13% share in the 9pm hour. Channel 4's Big Brother drew 2.1 million and a 9% share in the same slot, with a further 354,000 on Channel 4 +1 an hour later.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jul/23/itv-grimefighters-coronation-street

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