Love & loss

Anna Maxwell Martin learns how her ancestors overcame family tragedy

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Who Do You Think You Are?

Thursday, 9pm, BBC1

Does Anna Maxwell Martin learn how childhood trauma affected both sides of her family tree as she looks into her roots in this week's episode of Who Do You Think You Are?

The Motherland and Line of Duty star lost her father Ivan when she was in her 20s, and had always wanted to learn more about his upbringing in Northern Ireland with his parents, Robert and Margretta Martin.

Travelling there, she discovers more about how the family's lives were affected by the loss of Ivan's younger brother Kenneth, who died of leukaemia aged seven.