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Celebrity Going Home (2004)
Documentary series following well known British personalities back to important places from their past.
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Fri, Jul 23, 2004
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John Peel
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Season 1:
Former Coronation Street villain Brian Capron revisits his childhood home in Suffolk for the first time in 40 years and recalls growing up amid a tense atmosphere of secrecy in which his absent father was never mentioned. John Peel narrates.
TV presenter and ex-footballer John Fashanu returns to his childhood home in Shropham, near Norwich. Twenty five years after leaving, he recalls how he and his brother Justin began their sporting careers while living there, and voices his regret at the bitterness which destroyed their relationship, a division that had still not been mended when Justin committed suicide in 1998.
Clement Freud returns to his Devon boarding school. Escaping from Nazi Germany in 1934 with his parents, the eight-year-old future writer, broadcaster and politician arrived in Britain, and despite speaking no English was promptly dispatched to Darlington School, where he was ruthlessly bullied.
Nicholas Parsons revisits the Norwich studios where he made his name as host of the legendary game show Sale of the Century and is surprised to discover the rambling house where he grew up is now falling apart.
John Peel returns to his first home, where he spent his first 17 years of his life. He recalls his early years and the way he was brought up.
