This week Martin is meeting with Captain Peter Starling of the Royal Army medical core to find out about his grandfather's medical training before the second world war.
When he was just 10 years old, Martin Freeman's father died of a heart attack. As a child, the actor tried to show people that he was a "brave little four-foot thunderball". "I've only realised how tough it is as I've got older," he says.
The early loss of his father had another effect: Martin knows "embarrassingly little" about his dad's side of the family. To fill in the gaps, Martin begins by researching the life of his grandfather, Leonard.
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7 ноя 2013
