Join or Sign In
Sign in to customize your TV listings
By joining TV Guide, you agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy.
8 Episodes 2013 - 2013
Episode 1
Sue has been searching for the daughter she was forced to give up for adoption, for over forty years. Alan is desperate to understand why his birth mother gave him up for adoption.
Episode 2
We hear two lives shaped by unanswered letters. Wendy has never met her father and Helen is searching for her son who she was forced to give up for adoption more than thirty years ago.
Episode 3
Brothers, David and Paul, are searching for their father who disappeared from their lives when they were young boys. Mother of two, Julia, is desperate to find her own mother who she has never known.
Episode 4
42 mins
A young man who received letters from his birth mother longs to know if the words she wrote were filled with truth. A man haunted by the memory of his younger brother being taken from their home longs to reunite the family.
Episode 5
At the age of two, Robert's mother disappeared from his life abandoning him. Also, the extraordinary story of twin sisters searching for their younger twin brothers.
Episode 6
The team make a shocking discovery when they take on the case of a 50-year-old woman who has been searching for her birth mother for nearly 30 years without success.
Episode 7
Fifty-one-year-old Londoner Chris Jones is searching for his sister who he last saw when she was a baby. Chris has little knowledge about his mother's past, but knows that his sister was born in a remote Northumberland vicarage, and that is where he starts looking for clues. Polly Gillon is searching for her eldest son who she was forced to give up for adoption in 1959. Polly grew up with her father in South London in the 1950s and when he discovered she was pregnant, he forced her to make a heart-breaking decision. She was given the choice: give her baby up for adoption or never come home. With no one else to turn to, Polly finally accepted her father's terms and gave her baby up. She has spent a lifetime regretting this decision and is desperate to ask her son to forgive her.
Episode 8
Val Milnes became pregnant at 18, and knowing that her strict father would never allow her to keep the child, she made the heartbreaking decision to give him up for adoption. She watched as he was taken away by his new parents with the case of clothes she had carefully prepared. Seventeen years later, Val suffered an accident which left her paralysed and tried to establish contact with her son, sending him a series of letters. The fact that these letters went unanswered has haunted her ever since. Elsewhere, Donna Leaver told her father Pat in a telephone call that she did not want him in her life any more when she was six years old. Taking her word for it, Pat disappeared and made no further attempt to contact her.