The House I Grew Up In
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The House I Grew Up In
Series revisiting the childhood neighbourhoods of influential Britons
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21 episodes
Toby Young
Writer and journalist Toby Young returns to his childhood in North London. The son of Lord Young of Dartington, a towering figure in post-war social p...
Jasvinder Sanghera
Jasvinder Sanghera is the founder of the charity, Karma Nirvana, which campaigns against forced marriage. She was also one of the influential voices b...
Terry Waite
Born in 1939, he remembers the constraints of being the son of the local policeman, where any misdemeanour from a young Terry came under scrutiny. His...
Shirley Williams
Shirley Williams, now Baroness Williams, returns to her childhood homes in London's Chelsea and the New Forest. Her mother was the writer, Vera Britta...
Peter Hitchens
Writer & journalist Peter Hitchens was born in 1951 and moved to Portsmouth as the sixties began and the navy (in which his father was a commander dur...
Sir William Atkinson
Sir William Atkinson, one of the country's best-known super-heads, first came to this country from Jamaica aged 7. His father met him, his mother and...
Kay Mellor
Television screenwriter Kay Mellor was born into a working class Leeds household in the 1950s and brought up single-handedly by her mother from the ag...
Julia Hobsbawm
PR supremo, professional networker & businesswoman, Julia Hobsbawm, takes Wendy Robbins to London's Hampstead & rural Wales. Julia was born in 1964 an...
Colin Blakemore
Neurobiologist Professor Colin Blakemore was a war baby brought up in devastated Coventry. His two-up two-down home had the first TV in the street on...
Kwame Kwei-Armah
Wendy Robbins presents a series revisiting the childhood neighbourhoods of influential Britons.
Playwright and actor Kwame Kwei-Armah takes Wen...
Erin Pizzey
Wendy Robbins presents a series revisiting the childhood neighbourhoods of influential Britons.
Campaigner, author and founder of the women's r...
Professor Steve Jones
Wendy Robbins presents a series revisiting the childhood neighbourhoods of influential Britons.
Biologist and author Professor Steve Jones take...
Baroness Jane Campbell
Wendy Robbins presents a series revisiting the childhood neighbourhoods of influential Britons.
Disability campaigner Baroness Jane Campbell ta...
Baroness Mary Warnock
Wendy Robbins presents a series revisiting the childhood neighbourhoods of influential Britons.
Baroness Mary Warnock has been a moral referee f...
Joanna Briscoe
Wendy Robbins takes the novelist back to her isolated childhood home in Dartmoor, and an unconventional upbringing. From August 2008.
David Blunkett
The politician takes Wendy Robbins to the boarding schools for the blind that he attended as a child. From August 2008.
Mona Siddiqui
Wendy Robbins presents a series revisiting the childhood neighbourhoods of influential Britons.
Mona Siddiqui, Professor of Islamic Studies at G...
Sir Tom Farmer
Wendy Robbins presents a series revisiting the childhood neighbourhoods of influential Britons.
She meets Sir Tom Farmer, Scottish entrepreneur...
Jackie Kay
Recalling a childhood in Glasgow which inspired her to write, the poet takes Wendy Robbins to meet her mum and dad. From August 2007.
Jacqueline Gold
Wendy Robbins presents a series revisiting the childhood neighbourhoods of influential Britons. Jacqueline Gold, Chief Executive of the Ann Summers re...
Peter Hennessy
The influential history professor returns to Finchley in North London to reminisce with Wendy Robbins about his 1950s childhood.