Long Lost Family - Season 12
Season 12
Episodes
Episode 1
Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell return to tell more stories of people desperate to find missing family and answer questions that have haunted entire lives. Jacinta Hickey's dying wish was to reunite her younger brother Paul with his birth family, and the programme follows her daughter Claire's attempt to fulfil the promise.
Episode 2
Episode two explores the idea that it's never too late to find answers and discover your roots.
Joselyn Taylor 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 that her birth mother went on to have a son and is now searching for her older brother James as she knows that he may be the key to answer her lifelong questions.
In turn, James 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
Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell help two people searching for their missing birth mothers - a woman taken to Morocco as toddler against her mother's will, and a man given up as a baby because of the colour of his skin. Nicky and Davina discover what happened - and that however difficult it may be, the truth has transformative power.
Episode 4
Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell present tells the stories of two women who uncovered life-changing news as adults, leading them both on a hunt for long-lost siblings. While searching for her birth mother, Sian Jones discovered that she has a sister out there somewhere, while Teleena Faux found evidence of a younger brother when searching through her late mother's belongings.
Episode 5
Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell present the stories of men brought up in the care system 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 was sent back to the children's home when he was 12, leaving nine-year-old Murray completely devastated and confused. Eighty-seven-year-old Mark Chesterfield spent a large part of his childhood at a foundling hospital and has been trying to reclaim his identity ever since he found out at the age of 74 that he wasn't an orphan, as he'd always believed, but had a mother who'd wanted to be part of his life. Having traced her side of the family, he came to Long Lost Family to find out about his father's side.
Episode 6
The stories 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, but his birth mother Patricia Clark refused to sign the adoption papers and never gave up looking for him, while as a child, Julie Redman discovered that her mother Joan had given up her older brother for adoption.
Episode 7
This episode tells the story of two sons who were given up for adoption and the families who have stopped at nothing to find them
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