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The new series of DNA Journey<\/a> <\/em>begins airing on ITV at 9pm on Wednesday 9 October.<\/p> In the first episode, actors John Simm and Philip Glenister will trace their family history together.<\/p> The long-time friends have starred in five different productions together, most famously the time-travelling police drama Life on Mars<\/em>.<\/p> However, as John Simm explains, he had a shock when they began making the programme. A DNA test<\/a> revealed that his father, who died in 2015, is not his biological father.<\/p> He says his mother said that she and his father were in a relationship, then broke up, then got back together and had him, so she knew that there was a possibility that another man she was involved with could have been his biological father.<\/p> \u201cIt spun my world,\u201d he says. \u201cEverything I thought I knew wasn\u2019t real, in a way. Out of everybody in my family, I was always closest to my Dad. When I was younger, we used to go around clubs playing guitar and singing. I\u2019m glad my Dad isn\u2019t alive to see this, because I\u2019m sure he\u2019d be shocked and upset by it as well.\u201d<\/p> However, he says he wants to carry on with making the programme and find out more.<\/p> \u201cEven in this, you have to upstage me,\u201d Philip jokes.<\/p> His birth father was a man named Terence Naylor. John and Philip go to Featherstone in Wakefield, where they meet a family historian called Brad. Philip tells them that Terence, also known as Terry, died in 1998. Terry\u2019s parents married in 1939 and he was born in 1940 while his father was serving in the Second World War<\/a>. Their marriage subsequently broke down and Terry was adopted<\/a> by his birth mother\u2019s aunt and her husband, who lived in Featherstone. Despite an inauspicious start in life, he had a loving upbringing in his adoptive family.<\/p> John says that he and his father played in clubs in Featherstone and wonders if Terry ever saw them.<\/p> They go to Girnhill Lane Working Men\u2019s Club in Featherstone, where Ian Holt, the club\u2019s steward, tells them that Terry also lived above a working men\u2019s club that was run by his adoptive parents. John is amazed at the coincidence, as he \u201cgrew up\u201d in working men\u2019s club dressing rooms.<\/p> Seeing a picture of Terry, John and Philip are surprised by how much John looks like him. John is also astonished to learn that Terry was married and had a daughter, Karen, John\u2019s half-sister.<\/p> John says he\u2019s keen to meet her: \u201cIf I don\u2019t, I would probably regret that for the rest of my life.\u201d<\/p> Next, John and Philip go to Chelmsford in Essex to find out more about Philip\u2019s family history. Philip\u2019s jokes that he hopes he finds out he\u2019s inherited a fortune.<\/p> They meet a family law barrister called Paula. She tells them that Philip\u2019s 5x great grandfather was Samuel Bundock, an Essex farmer. Samuel became wealthy from producing food for sale in London, which grew rapidly in the 18th<\/sup> century<\/a>. However, his will<\/a> shows that he only left his son John, Philip\u2019s 4x great grandfather, a paltry \u00a310.<\/p> \u201cThat\u2019s it, then,\u201d Philip says. \u201cThe Bundock billions, gone!\u201d<\/p> John and Philip go to a shoemaker\u2019s in Shoreditch, London, where they meet a historian called Simon. He tells them John\u2019s daughter Ann Bundock, Philip\u2019s 3x great grandmother, was born in Shoreditch. She married William Glenister, a shoemaker. They had 11 children \u2013 one of whom, Margaret Glenister, found fame as an opera singer, under the stage name Pauline Rita.<\/p> Pauline temporarily stepped back from the stage after she married in 1870. But her husband, Thomas Phillips, then died, so she had to return to singing to provide for her children. She made a tremendous comeback, starring in one of the first tours of Gilbert & Sullivan\u2019s opera Trial by Jury<\/em>.<\/p> Finally, John and Philip meet John\u2019s half-sister Karen and her daughter Stacey. Karen shares memories and video footage of Terry.<\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n By Published: Friday, 04 October 2024 at 07:57 AM The new series of DNA Journey begins airing on ITV at 9pm on Wednesday 9 October. In the first episode, actors John Simm and Philip Glenister will trace their family history together. 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