Long Lost Family (UK)

Ros Webb was 16 when she discovered she was pregnant. Her parents sent her to London to hide the pregnancy and give up her baby for adoption. After 59 years, Ros hopes to reunite with her only child, Christine. Long Lost Family also searches for Tegan Cornish, who discovers as an adult that she has a younger brother who was meant to be adopted with her but was separated and sent back into care.

Paula Beer was 17 when she secretly gave birth and was forced to give her son up for adoption. Nearly 60 years later, she still remembers their painful goodbye. Sharon Thomas later discovered she had a younger brother, a family secret after her mother Margaret, gave up a second child for adoption and died shortly after. Sharon is now desperate to find him.

Sue Stalley was a teenager when she became pregnant and was forced by her ashamed mother to give her baby up for adoption. She has never stopped thinking about her eldest son. Melanie Mackney, who had a good adoption, later discovers that her mother had twins before her and fled war-torn Yugoslavia. The fate of those twins has haunted Melanie all her life.

Mary Arbuthnot, raised by loving adoptive parents, discovers she is one of three siblings who were all adopted separately. Determined they should have grown up together, she searches for her two full siblings. In a second story, Maggie McCauley looks for the older sister her mother was forced to give up for adoption as a teenager. Now 66, Maggie hopes to reunite her family.

Ruth believes her daughter, born in Spain in 1992 and thought to have died, may have been stolen at birth. Maria Elena also searches on behalf of her elderly mother Ana, who believes her twin babies born in Madrid in 1958 were taken. Their cases reflect a wider scandal in Spain where babies were allegedly stolen at birth for decades, which Long Lost Family investigates in this special episode.

In this episode, two women search for siblings. Tracey Boyle looks for the brother her mother was forced to give up for adoption at 16, hoping to show him he was always wanted. In the second story, Liz Allward, adopted as a baby, finally confirms her lifelong belief that she has a sister and longs to meet her.

A 66-year-old Charlotte searches for the baby she gave up as a teenager, a quest made urgent by her recent cancer diagnosis. In a second story, Jenna, who was donor-conceived, seeks answers about her origins and whether she has any siblings.