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Season 1

  • S01E01 Brian Capron

    • ITV1

    Well-known figures return to their roots in East Anglia. Former Coronation Street villain Brian Capron revisits his childhood home in Suffolk for the first time in 40 years and recalls growing up amid a tense atmosphere of secrecy in which his absent father was never mentioned. John Peel narrates

  • S01E02 John Fashanu

    • ITV1

    TV presenter and ex-footballer John Fashanu returns to his childhood home in Shropham, near Norwich. Twenty five years after leaving, he recalls how he and his brother Justin began their sporting careers while living there, and voices his regret at the bitterness which destroyed their relationship, a division that had still not been mended when Justin committed suicide in 1998

  • S01E03 Clement Freud

    • ITV1

    Clement Freud returns to his Devon boarding school. Escaping from Nazi Germany in 1934 with his parents, the eight-year-old future writer, broadcaster and politician arrived in Britain, and despite speaking no English was promptly dispatched to Darlington School, where he was ruthlessly bullied

  • S01E05 Nicholas Parsons

    • ITV1

    Nicholas Parsons revisits the Norwich studios where he made his name as host of the legendary game show Sale of the Century and is surprised to discover the rambling house where he grew up is now falling apart

  • S01E06 John Peel

    • ITV1

    Going Home was a documentary series broadcast on ITV between 2002 and 2004, about celebrities visiting their early childhood homes. On one episode, which was first broadcast in 2002 and repeated in 2004, just after John's death, John Peel returns to his first home, where he spent his first 17 years of his life. He recalls his early years and the way he was brought up.

Additional Specials

  • SPECIAL 0x1 Robert Llewellyn's Story

    • January 20, 2016
    • ITV1

    Actor Robert Llewellyn, best known as Red Dwarf's Kryton, revisits his childhood home in Northampton for the first time in 35 years and comes to terms with memories of a troubled relationship with his father