Stephen Fry Learns More About His Grandfather's Career - Who Do You Think You Are?

[@bazzatheblue]

My father went to work at the factory in Bury and he always spoke about the Hungarian manager ,now it seems he was Frys grandfather.

[@stephenbeacham9717]

Always spoke of... Always? I’m a prol and I never speak of my industrial owner. What in heaven’s name did he say?

[@bazzatheblue]

@@stephenbeacham9717 well he didnt always say,i just remember him bringing him up every now and then if he was looking back to those times.The old man didnt know him personally as like you he was a working class prol.We're talking about the 1939s here i believe .

[@jillybe1873]

Lovely

[@archangel9191]

That is just so funny and brilliant, that photo of Martin, Stephen's grandfather, in plus fours! Brilliant, he sounds like quite a character, you can definitely see why Stephen was close to his grandfather, if he wore that to work a lot, perhaps or not every day back then, who knows.

[@pamostman516]

Bury is a beautiful little town, it was one of my favorites when I toured East Anglia in 2004.

[@michikomanalang6733]

I love how enthused he is!

[@heidinein645]

I am so Glad that Martin came to britain.....

[@thatchoirgirl94]

Having fields of sugar beets and factories to make refined sugar out of them is just an ordinary, unspectacular thing for me as a German. For years and years I used to pass a sugar beet field every day just outside my home town. The (once) biggest sugar producing factory in the world "SüdZucker" is just a 30 minutes' drive away.

[@DayDreamBeliever1961]

It looks like the bits where Stephen is tracing his father's family have been removed.

[@chrispza]

Alas, poor Yorisch (?sp?); I knew him well, Horatio ...

[@rosemaryclarke2348]

It probably sounds daft but I didn't know that England grew sugar beet!😂

[@angeladawn805]

Thank the fates that Martin got offered that job, because, for sure, we wouldn't be blessed with SF, and the world would be a whole lot sadder

[@pennychurchward1481]

I have ancestors from Bury St Edmunds

[@SayanHaqueOfficial]

wow

[@louchat333]

Now Stephen knows where his brains came from.

[@MrSam4850]

The announcer needs to learn the difference between Bury and Bury St Edmunds...

[@beth12svist]

Well, the local man also calls it Bury, so it's probably safe to assume the locals don't mind. :D

[@jillosler9353]

Locally it's called Bury.

[@stephenbeacham9717]

The grandchild of an industrialist pokes fun at the factory workings that made him. I adore Fry. But as a blue working class prol, who history won’t remember, it’s delicious in irony.

[@louistracy6964]

Guy gets rich, his kids do well, despte fraud conviction.

[@jamesmorgan403]

Spitting down his nose at him.. he's such a snob

[@kimidanger1150]

are we watching the same video? he was super enthusiastic and respectful.

[@lesblack8996]

@@kimidanger1150 there's always at least one bitter hater on every video