Long Lost Family

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Long Lost Family

Two ground-breaking cases for Long Lost Family: an overseas adoption from Ecuador and a complex search using DNA analysis.

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Season 5
The most extraordinary search we have ever undertaken. Alley Lofthouse was left on a doorstep in a block of flats in Scotland on a cold February night. Will she ever resolve the mystery of her abandonment?
Two stories of sisters kept, while their brothers were given up for adoption.
We meet one woman searching for her sister, hoping to discover the truth behind a family tragedy and another woman desperate to find the only person in the world that she knows she is related to, her mother.
We search on behalf of Peter Gunn, a man who has struggled to come to terms with his birth mother giving him up for adoption. And a man desperately searching for the sister who disappeared from his life over 60 years ago.
We meet Christine Gillard who for almost 50 years has lived with the pain of having given up her first born daughter, not once but twice. And Robert Lindsay, searching for the Croatian dad he has never met.
We meet a couple searching together for the son they had to give up for adoption when they were teenagers and for the first time we feature a dad searching for the daughter he had to leave when she was just a year old.
Season 4
The story of a mother who has never recovered from the moment she knew she would be unable to keep her baby and a daughter who has spent her life longing for the chance to be a part of her mother's life.
The story of a mother who fears that time is running out for her to find her daughter, and a son who needs to make his father proud.
The story of a brother and sister longing to carry out their dying mother's wish for them to find their brother, and a son whose life is on hold until his birthmother is a part of it.
The story of a mother unable to forgive herself for giving away her daughter more than forty years ago and a son who needs to understand why his mother was unable to keep him.
A mother looking for her daughter from whom she was separated when she was just ten days old and that baby's father who has spent a lifetime yearning for the chance to give his daughter a hug.
In 1958 Richard Cue was adopted as a baby. For years, he has longed to find his birth mother. And the story of Tania searching for her Iranian father who she last heard from more than thirty years ago.
Forty four year old Sara is looking for a second chance to have a mum in her life. And the story of Pauline searching for the baby brother she only discovered existed when she herself was twenty eight years old.
In 1973, with no one to turn to, Ann gave up her first born son Mark, for adoption. And the story of twenty eight year old nurse, Louise, searching for her father who she knows didn't want her.
Season 3
A daughter looking for her mother from whom she was separated when she was just an hour old. And the man we discover who, incredibly, has spent a lifetime searching for the same woman.
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.
We meet long distance lorry driver, Laurence who was given up for adoption at birth. Also, the story of Denise, desperate to find her daughter who she gave birth to nearly fifty years ago.
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.
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.
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