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Preview: Season 2 | 1m 35s | Video has closed captioning.
In its second season, MY GRANDPARENTS' WAR takes another journey into the past to understand the extraordinary impact of global conflict on the families of four international stars. Across four episodes, Kit Harington, Keira Knightley, Toby Jones and Emeli Sandé each explore their family’s unique stories, retracing their grandparents’ footsteps during the events that changed their lives forever.
Aired: 04/11/23
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-Millions of our grandparents were caught up in conflicts that shaped the 20th century.
-"We'd finally been released.
"I was only about seven stone by this time.
"I'd thought we were all going to die."
Oh, God!
Yeah, it gets you, doesn't it?
-It does.
-It does.
It really does.
-Now, four international stars retrace their family footsteps across the globe.
-Granddad was sitting with a gun with instructions to shoot.
That must been very difficult for my granddad.
That's going against every fatherly instinct.
They uncover their grandparents' extraordinary stories.
-Your grandmother was here in one of the most historic moments of the 20th century.
-Oh my goodness.
I never knew that.
-So my grandfather's job was to keep an eye on Edward the abdicated king?
-Yes.
He's MI-5 and MI-6.
-You can categorically say that my grandfather was a spy?
-He absolutely was a spy.
-[laughs] What was she doing at a castle?
[laughs] Why are we at a castle?
-I mean, that's mind-blowing.
That's her voice.
-They discover how their grandparents' experiences of war changed their own lives.
-We are memories passed down, experiences passed down.
Those traumas, those joys of his life, live in me somewhere.
-That's what you pass on to your grandchildren, that surviving spirit.
God, it's really got me.
