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8 Episodes 2022 - 2022
Episode 0
A special following the extraordinary story of Rosemary Rawlins, who suspects that she was swapped at birth and wants to find out the truth. Now 77, Rosemary does not know how or when she first heard the story, but she's always believed that she was switched with another baby during an air raid in Weymouth in the Second World War. Rosemary's parents died early and she was unable to ask them more about it - she never thought that she'd be able to find out what really happened, but a DNA test with her niece confirmed that she wasn't genetically related to her family and so she's in need of help to solve the mystery. A second case reveals what it's like for a mother in this unbelievable situation as Davina visits Marinella and Gisella in Sicily, who tell how they made the swap back all right for the girls, how they coped with the pain of letting the daughters they loved go, and the amazing way they have built a newer, bigger family together.
Episode 1
The incredible stories of two people who are trying to track down missing relatives, including the heart-breaking story of Jacinta Hickey who wanted to find her younger brother Paul, and after 20 years of searching, Judy Kenyon's hopes of finding her mother and her sister have reached a dead end, but Long Lost Family have a surprise in store for her.
Episode 1
The unique bond between brothers is celebrated in the cases of Lee Sharp - who was told he was a foundling - and Peter MacDonald, who wants to see his big brother Trevor again.
Episode 2
It's never too late to find answers and discover your roots. Joselyn Taylor, who was born profoundly deaf and put in a children's home at only two weeks old, the big question at the back of her mind has always been 'Why?' She knows her birth mother had an older son - her brother James - and is searching for him as she knows that he may be the key to answering her lifelong questions. In turn, James himself has also been searching for the father he never knew and had only been able to dream about - after 73 years, James finds more family than he bargained for.
Episode 3
Two people go in search of their missing birth mothers. A woman taken to Morocco as a toddler against her mother's will searches for her birth mother while a man given up as a baby because of the colour of his skin searches for the truth about his family.
Episode 4
Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell present the stories of two women who uncovered life-changing news as adults that led them on a hunt for long-lost siblings. Whilst searching for her birth mother, Sian Jones discovered she has a sister out there somewhere and Long Lost Family help her search for both mother and sister. Meanwhile, Teleena Faux always believed she was the youngest of six siblings until she found evidence of a younger brother. Teleena has been desperate to find him ever since.
Episode 5
The stories of three men brought up in the care system and who are trying to reconnect with the families that were taken from them. Murray Phillips was adopted from a children's home as a young boy with his older brother Ricky who had always looked after him - however, when Ricky was 12, he was sent back to the children's home, leaving nine-year-old Murray completely devastated and confused, and the adult Murray has wanted to find his older brother ever since. In another case, 87-year-old Mark Chesterfield - who spent a large part of his childhood at a foundling hospital - has been trying to reclaim his identity ever since he found out at the age of 74 that he wasn't an orphan. Mark had always believed that he was an orphan, but he actually had a mother who had wanted to be part of his life - having traced her side of the family, he now wants to find out about his father's side of the family.
Episode 6
Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell join forces with the MOD's 'War Detectives' as they continue their never-ending task of identifying World War I soldiers and tracing their surviving families - here the team work on a case of nine soldiers found together buried in a trench in Belgium at the site of the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917. Artefacts found near the bodies and DNA of potential living relatives are used to identify these brave men who lost their lives and to hopefully allow their living relatives to lay them to rest with full military honours at last.
Episode 7
The story of two sons who were given up for adoption and the families who have stopped at nothing to find them. Andrew Barlow was adopted as a baby - his birth mother, Patricia Clark, refused to sign the adoption papers and never gave up looking for him. Both mother and son, on opposite sides of the world, tried searching for each other, but they tragically missed their chance to connect. Patricia's younger children Lisa and Barry also grew up hoping to one day meet their big brother - this is a bittersweet tale of complex emotions and painful regrets which still ends with a heart-warming reunion. As a child, Julie Redman discovered that her mother Joan had given up her older brother for adoption. Joan always regretted the decision, and Julie promised her that she would trace him somehow. Julie had been searching for over 25 years with no success, that is, until she turned to Long Lost Family for help.
Episode 9
Sisters Viv and Julie continue their search for their big sister, as another woman tries to find her mum's first-born child.
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.