Long Lost Family (UK)

Two stories of adoption stretching back over four decades. Sue Udy has been searching for the daughter she was forced to give up for adoption and Alan Ross Harper is desperate to understand why his birth mother gave him up for adoption.

Two stories of lives shaped by unanswered letters. Wendy O’Hagan has never met her father and Helen Harrison is searching for her son who she was forced to give up.

Two stories of missing parents. Brothers, David and Paul Shannon, search for their father who disappeared from their lives when they were young boys. Julia Evans is desperate to find her own mother who she has never known.

Two stories of children separated from their parents. Adopted Laurence Peat is searching for his mother hoping to lay to rest his sense of being unwanted. The story of Denise Temple desperate to find her daughter who she battled to keep.

Two stories of family secrets are revealed in this episode. Robert Capron’s searches for his mother who abandoned him to be brought up by his father. Also, the extraordinary story of twin sisters searching for their younger twin brothers.

This is an astonishing story - and our most complex one yet. A daughter looking for her mother from whom she was separated when she was just an hour old. And the man we discover who has spent a lifetime searching for the same woman.