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1 online resource (streaming video file) (51 min. 7 sec.) ; 309021899 bytes |
Series |
Who Do You Think You Are? ; Series 3, Episode 4 |
Summary |
Who Do You Think You Are? continues on Sunday nights as six Australian celebrities trace their family tree, uncovering secrets and stories from the past.With a history of absent fathers on both sides of the Bourne family, actor and comedian Shane Bourne embarks on a search for the missing man in his family tree, his paternal grandfather A.P. Freeman.Shane's journey to find out more about A.P. Freeman, starts with a visit from his brother Dannie, who has collected together the family archives. He knows his mother met her father for the first time when she was 18 along with her sister Bonita, and that this moment was captured by a street photographer.Shane discovers his grandfather's date and place of birth, and that he described himself as a 'managing director'. Though he is unsure what he was a managing director of, Shane suspects the answer lies in some of the family legends that include A.P. being involved in a bus company and being a marathon piano player.Shane also investigates the story of his grandmother Dorothy. He recalls vague family stories of her going on to pursue a career as a model and an actor in early Australian cinema. Meeting up with cinema critic and historian David Stratton, Shane uncovers some valuable records of his grandmother's life on the silver screen. (Commissioned by SBS) (Documentary Series) (Part 4 of 6) CC WS |
Notes |
Closed captioning in English |
Event |
Broadcast 2010-12-19 at 19:30:00 |
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Classification: PG |
Subject |
Actors -- Family relationships.
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Genealogy.
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Grandfathers.
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Grandmothers.
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Women in the motion picture industry.
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Australia.
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Form |
Streaming video
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Author |
Marciniak, Catherine, director
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Mellick, Richard, cast
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