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Emeli Sandé explores her grandparents’ remarkable stories of wartime courage.

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Actor Toby Jones uncovers the remarkable World War II stories of his grandparents.

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Oscar-nominee Carey Mulligan learns about her grandfather’s time in Australia.

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Kristin Scott Thomas learns about the horrors of the Russian Arctic convoys.

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Actress Helena Bonham Carter reads a letter from her relative direct from enemy territory.

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Mark Rylance learns how his grandfather survived POW camps.

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Kit Harington learns his grandfather knew James Bond author Ian Fleming during WWII.

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Keira Knightley’s cousin shares the story of his father’s ordeal as a POW.

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Keira Knightley learns her grandmother played an important role in D-Day preparations.

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Emeli Sandé learns about the apartheid era when her grandfather mined copper in Zambia.

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Kit Harington discovers his grandfather’s record as a British spy during WWII.

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Emeli Sandé’s grandparents fought on both sides of the African independence movement.