YOU'D have to go a long way to find someone who doesn't love Stephen Fry.

I don't know what it is about the man with the squished nose and posh voice that makes us all wish we were his best friend, but young or old, rich or poor, we all do.

He could appear on Celebrity Watching Paint Dry (surely not too far off?) and it would still be a hit.

Thankfully, his appearance on last night's Who Do You Think You Are (BBC2) had a more interesting subject matter. And his honesty and openness only made him more endearing.

The shock of the programme was that, despite being thought of by most as the quintessential Englishman, Fry in fact comes from a very noisy, bustling Jewish European family.

His search for the truth about his ancestors saw him return to the small Slovakian town of Surany where his grandfather was raised.

Stephen learned all about how his grandfather met his wife in Vienna and decided to set up a sugar beet factory in St Edmunds, a decision without which would have meant we'd have been denied a national treasure.

He also researched the fate of his mother's brother and family who are believed to have died during the Holocaust.

The BBC seem to have struck a cord with the Who Do You Think You Are series.

With Fry on board, it was always going to make good TV, but this was powerful, moving stuff, by anyone's standards.