Who Do You Think You Are? (BBC1, 9pm)

BORN Joyce Frankenberg, Jane Seymour becomes another well-known British face to have a brush with The Holocaust as she researches her family tree tonight.

The award winning Hollywood actress now lives in Malibu, California. She shot to fame as Bond girl Solitaire in Live And Let Die, and went on to star as Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman. She has played historical figures such as Wallace Simpson, Marie Antoinette and, in what is quite ironic now, a Jewish mother fleeing the Nazis in the drama series War And Remembrance.

She has earned an Emmy award, two Golden Globe Awards, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She was awarded an OBE in 2000.

Seymour's full name is born Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg and knows that there is Jewish ancestry on her father’s side of the family – but beyond this starts off knowing very little apart from that her mother was Dutch and her father's family were originally Polish Jews. She had suspected that they suffered in the Holocaust, but has never known what happened, but is due to shed tears over what happened to her parental family during the Second World War.

“I really care about memories and I want to know more than just the names and the dates of birth and the family tree. I know that some really extraordinary things must have happened to them, especially my Jewish family, the Polish family. I want to know more than just their names,” she says.

Seymour is keen to find out about her Jewish great aunts Michaela and Jadwiga and their experiences under Nazi occupation. Her search for the truth takes her to Warsaw where she discovers that although Jadwiga managed to escape the ghetto she was tragically separated from her family. Then it's on to France where she follows Michaela and her family in a terrifying flight to Switzerland as they flee the Nazis.

“To have survived so much, to have had the strength to keep going, the strength to lose your husband, the strength to not know where your children are, the strength to go on this unbelievable journey, and then when you are finally safe and you’re with your sister… to just give up.

“This has just been the most incredible experience for me to learn about Jadwiga and Michaela’s stories. I realise that in my family were two incredibly strong women that survived against all odds. I think the fact that I had the privilege of following both of their stories and that they actually found each other at the end. It’s about the indomitable human spirit,” says Seymour.

Very British Problems (C4, 9pm)

THIS comedy series was inspired by a Twitter feed of the same name, but bears a striking resemblance to the largely pre-social media Grumpy Old Men. But when the celebs doing the thinking and moaning are this entertaining, who cares. This week James Corden, Jonathan Ross, Ruth Jones, Stephen Mangan and co ruminate on the problems Brits face when they venture outside the house. They point out that everything from a trip to the supermarket to a walk to the office kitchen can be fraught with resentment and social anxiety - and the only cure is to make sure you buy the cheapest round at the pub.

Trapped in a Cult? (C5, 9pm)

THIS documentary discovers, not everyone agrees on what a 'cult' actually is. The programme meets a mother whose life was turned upside down when her son cut all ties with his family after becoming involved with an online philosophical group. She's only seen him once in the six years since he left, and believes the group is really a cult – an allegation its founder denies. The programme also meets Jane, who discovered that a charismatic guru had a dark side, and Lizzie, who speaks about her experiences at a spiritual retreat.

Viv Hardwick