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10 Episodes 2021 - 2022
Episode 1
This time two stories of children searching for their birth mothers after life-changing events, a former premiership and Scotland footballer who started to search after suffering a life-threatening brain tumour, and a woman, pained with emotion on her wedding day because her birth mother was missing.
Episode 2
Two stories of people trying to uncover family mysteries. A man, left in a pram as a baby, is searching for his birth mother to discover the truth about his beginnings, and a daughter is looking for the Italian birth father she has never met.
Episode 3
Two women trying to find missing parents after half a century apart. Not everyone searching for a relative has the outcome they hope for, and when Ann Melbourne found her birth mother over a decade ago, she learned that she was a secret and that a relationship did not develop. However, this hasn't stopped Ann wanting to find her birth father Leslie, who she has limited information about in her adoption paperwork... and her search for him now results in an unexpected discovery. Meanwhile, professional dancer Amanda Village is on the trail of her mother Susan - as a teenager in the 1960s, Susan lived at an Army base in Wales with her family, where she became pregnant to a young Army recruit. Deemed too young to look after the baby, Susan gave Amanda up for adoption - now, 50 years on, Amanda wants to find her mother.
Episode 4
Paula Stillie has always looked completely different from her white adoptive family in Scotland. Heartbreakingly, as a little girl she covered herself in talcum powder to try and look more like her parents. Lisa Harding grew up in the north east of England with her single mother Moyra, who worked long hours as a hairdresser by day and taxi driver by night. It was a lonely childhood and Lisa always wished for a sister.
Episode 5
A search on behalf of Kate Brown from Portsmouth takes on twists and turns and unveils one missing relative after another. Kate Brown with a foster family and the closest thing she had to a blood relative was her foster brother John who she was very close to but while Kate was eventually adopted by the foster family John was sent back to the care system. Ever since Kate has been on a mission to find him and during her research she made an unexpected discovery.
Episode 6
A man whose only memento of his birth mother and siblings is an old local newspaper article, which shows them evicted from their home and squatting in an airfield. A mother searching for her only child, who she hasn't seen since he was ten days old.
Episode 7
Steve Austin and Moira Tonge are brother and sister but only found each other as adults. Steve was adopted as a baby and when he traced his birth mother, nearly 30 years ago, he also found his sister Moira. Since meeting, they have become very close but shockingly at their mother's funeral another secret came to light.... they have an older sister, Caroline, who they are now desperate to bring into the fold. Lisa Irvine also only found out about her brother Nicholas as an adult, when she read her adoption paperwork. Knowing that he initially stayed with their mother when she was given up for adoption, she wants to know what happened to them and to find the sense of belonging that she's always craved.
Episode 8
Louise Stoppani is looking for the father she never knew, having discovered aged seven that the man bringing her up was not her biological dad. Her 'real' father was a teenage boyfriend of her mum's who'd wanted to be part of his daughter's life at the beginning but had then disappeared and not made contact for nearly 40 years. Jonathan Gaskarth was adopted at six weeks old and had such a happy adoption that he'd never felt the need to search for his birth mother or father.
Episode 8
A woman sent to a mother and baby home aged 16 seeks a daughter, while two sisters are looking for their older sister.
Episode 9
Taking a quest across the Atlantic on behalf of the eldest ever searcher. With his 87th birthday approaching, Roy David believes this is his last chance to find his daughter. But his search has a far bigger impact than he could ever have foreseen.
Episode 10
A special highlighting the scandal of thousands of unaccompanied British children shipped out to Australia in the middle of the 20th century - the children were sent on the promise of a better life but instead found themselves in badly-run institutions suffering poor education, neglect, and physical and sexual abuse while all ties were severed from their families and their country back home. We follow the story of Dorian Thomas Reece as he searches for answers about where he came from and who his family were and are nearly 70 years since he was sent to live in Western Australia as an eight-year-old boy, and we also meet Bruce Wilton, whose younger brothers Rex and Kevin were sent to Tasmania as late as 1970. Letters between the brothers were intercepted, leaving Bruce thinking that they'd gone to a happier life and no longer wanted contact with him - he reveals what happened to them, how they found each other, and the destructive impact the separation had on the family.