'We lived in Lviv but decided to go to his village which we thought might be safer. 'We got a phone call from Yarik's father, who lives in a village near the Polish border and had been listening to the radio. The bottom fell out of Anastasiia Kmit's world at 4am on 24 February. 'The programme must have put me in Mr Cameron's mind.'Īnastasiia Kmit, 32, and her husband Yarik, 41, were desperate to find sanctuary for themselves and their two children, Sonya, 12, and six-year-old Oleh, having fled Ukraine for Poland 'When I was the subject of Who Do You Think You Are? I travelled to Belarus and found it very painful learning how my ancestors had been persecuted there,' she says. To fully understand the swerve in Natasha's professional life we must go back to 2014 when then-prime minister David Cameron asked her to serve on the Holocaust Commission. Yet it wasn't just marriage to Justin, also 49, who runs a private equity firm, and two children that led to this blissful domesticity. I'd fought so hard to have children after a series of miscarriages and I was determined not to miss them growing up.' 'After a 10 O'Clock News shift it was nearly 1am before I got home. 'That wasn't conducive to having two small children who needed their mother,' says Natasha, 49. She and her family – husband Justin, son Arlo, who's now 13, and daughter Kika, 12 – moved to East Sussex nearly eight years ago when she was still delivering the late evening News on ITV. Natasha Kaplinsky does less and less television work these days, and it's not hard to understand why.

City Walks with Kids by Natasha Edwards