Mar-07 7:30pm SBS-TV: Who do you think you are?
Pundit, presenter and former world-class footballer Alex Scott delves into both sides of her family history in Who Do You Think You Are?
Having known nothing of her Jewish ancestry on her mum’s side, Alex is proud to discover that her great-grandad was at the Battle of Cable Street in London’s East End in 1936, facing down Fascist followers of Oswald Mosley. On the other side of her family, Alex’s Jamaican grandparents were part of the Windrush generation. Alex travels to Jamaica for the first time in her life, to follow her beloved nan Philicita’s line, and discovers the enormous hardship her great-great grandmother Henrietta Coombs suffered. Two generations further back, Alex is shaken to learn about her four-times-great grandfather, whose lifetime began during the era of slavery and ended after its abolition.
