YOURLIFE: WE LOVE TELLY! – DOCUMENTARY WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?
By Jane Simon
The Mirror, UK
October 4, 2006 Wednesday
3 Star Edition
DAVID DICKINSON BBC1, 9PM
"WHAT can you say when you find out your grandmother was a bit of
a tart?" muses David Dickinson as he trips over one more unexpected
skeleton in his family’s closet.
Adopted as a baby, Dickinson only found out the truth about his
biological parents when he was 11, and his search for his own heritage
uncovers a sentimental side to the jovial Bargain Hunt presenter that
viewers won’t have guessed at.
Although he wrote to his mother, Eugenie Gulessarian for 20 years,
she refused to ever meet him. Tonight, he begins to understand why
and he also discovers that he has more in common with his Armenian
ancestors than he ever imagined, as his quest takes him to Istanbul,
and a house that looks unchanged since the day when his great
grandfather lived in it.