Long Lost Family

Jennifer Wilson looks for her twin sister, from whom she was separated at birth when they were adopted by different couples. Karen Lloyd searches for her father, whom she has never met before.

This episode features Jeannie Elgar, who last saw her brother Geoffrey when she was eight, and Kirsty West, who struggled with the decision she made as a teenager to have her son adopted.

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Mark hopes to find his birth mother, and Stella looks for the daughter she gave up 50 years ago.

Peter Arundel and Maureen Saville have both been searching for their birth mothers.

Groom-to-be Bradlee Allen from south-east London hopes to track down his father before his wedding day in one weeks time. The pair last met 10 years ago, when the estranged dad was turned away by his then 14-year-old son during a difficult period in the youngsters life. Bridget Eyles from Saffron Walden in Essex also asks for help in finding her birth mother after discovering at the age of 11 that she was adopted.

James Kynoch was six when he discovered the man he called `dad was not his real father, his parents having divorced when he was just two. After years of getting no answers, he needs to finally find the man who last saw him as a toddler. Scarborough woman Lisa Nortcliff, 48, also asks for help to solve the mystery of her father. When she was 10, she discovered the woman she thought of as her older sister was actually her mother, and that her dad had been forbidden from seeing her once the pregnancy was discovered. She has spent years searching for this mystery man but is no closer to finding him. Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell aim to succeed where she has failed.

Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell present the series which sets out to reunite family members after years of separation. Robert Capron is 53, a devoted family man who lives in Devon but whose life today contrasts starkly with the world in which he grew up. At the age of two, Roberts mother abandoned him and not until his fathers death was Robert able to start piecing together what little information he could find about her. After more than a decade of searching he is no closer to tracing her. Twin sisters Gail and Juliet Newmarch are 51. Their twin brothers were given up for adoption when they were very young. In fact, Gail and Juliet had no idea the boys existed until their father told them when they were in their teens. Their mother could not bear to talk about why she had done what she did and it was only when she died that Gail and Juliet felt able to start a search for their brothers.

Sara Price-Parker, 44, decided to trace her birth mother Denise after the death of her adoptive mum, but her 25-year search ended in disappointment when she discovered her parent had emigrated to Jamaica in the 1970s. Sara is now turning to Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell as her last hope to establish contact. Pauline Wood, 77, always longed for a sibling to play with while growing up as an adopted only child. At the age of 28, she learned her birth parents later got married and had a son, but the quest to find her brother has gone on for decades to no avail.

This week Long Lost Family returns with the most extraordinary search we have ever undertaken. 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. It’s a search that takes us from Colonial Kenya in the 1950s to the heart of the World War I battlefields in Northern France. Sixty six year old Inge Dart grew up in Kenya in the dying days of the British Empire. But growing up, she was overshadowed by her domineering mother. At the age of nineteen, when Inge became pregnant with her childhood sweetheart Jeremy, her mother intervened and sent Inge half way around the world to have her baby in secret. Banished to Surrey, Inge was taken in by a couple who looked after her until her daughter was born. In the ten days that followed, she cared for her baby, knowing time was running out. The only joyous moments were when Jeremy visited and the young couple were able to enjoy what little time they had with their daughter. The loss of her baby has haunted Inge ever since and she now craves the peace she knows will only come when she sees her daughter once more. Watch what happens when we take on Inge’s search and, in a first for Long Lost Family, take on her daughter’s search for her father Jeremy.

When Colin Deering left home to join the Army, his mother Nellie revealed to him and his younger sister Helen that she had given birth in 1945 and put the baby up for adoption, believing he would have a better chance in life. Shortly before her death, Nellie begged Helen to find her brother and reunite the family, and this programme aims to fulfil that dying wish. Plus, the story of Stephen Haywood, who has put his life on hold until his birth mother can be a part of it. He feels unable to celebrate important occasions without her present, and in recent years his search has become more urgent due to serious health issues.

Gillian Carter from Sheffield became pregnant shortly before her 18th birthday and had hoped to keep the baby with the support of her aunt, but the arrangement fell through due to illness. Now, the 66-year-old is looking forward to a potential reunion with her son. Sandra Macdonald, 53, was given up for adoption in Edinburgh in 1960 and grew up with the feeling something was missing from her life. At the age of 15 she started searching for her birth mother, but she was met by disapproval and misinformation at every turn. Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell tell Gillian and Sandras stories, guiding them through their emotional searches.

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This Episode features two stories of people looking to solve family mysteries: a daughter who missed out on a father’s love; and a woman looking to put an end to a secret that has haunted her family for over 50 years.

This episode features two stories of women haunted by events from their history: A mother whose brief time with her baby has been wiped from her memory and a daughter trying to come to terms with the legacy of her mother’s troubled past.

This week two stories of women trying to bring their families back together. Whenever 62-year-old Val Moorhouse receives a card from her daughter Marisa, whether birthday or Christmas, Marisa signs her name, but also signs on behalf of her brother, Stephen - the son and brother who has been missing from their lives for 40 years. With a successful career, a happy daughter and beautiful home, 37-year-old Sam Cashmore has a life many people would envy, but her path to happiness has been overshadowed by the absence of two important women in her life. Today she desperately wants to be reunited with her birth mother and sister.

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This episode features two stories of missing relatives found much closer than the searchers could ever have imagined....

This episode includes a foundlings incredible journey to Hong Kong in search of information about her origins and a daughters desperate quest to fulfil her mothers dying wish....

Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell present the stories of two people trying to unravel family mysteries, with both looking for a birth parent they have never met. Fifty-seven-year-old quarry worker John Hacking was told that his birth mother left him as a baby in a pram outside a block of flats in Buxton and has been searching for her since he was 17 with no luck, while Debra Spark has never met her Italian father Ernesto, who got together with Debras mother Olive in Milan in the 1960s.

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A man whose only memento of his birth mother and siblings is an old local newspaper article searches for his family, and a mother looks for her only child.

Louise Stoppani is looking for the father she never knew, having discovered aged seven that the man bringing her up was not her biological dad.

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Paul Connolly had a brutal childhood and was put out with the rubbish as a baby in east London and raised in care, while Shaun Lawrence had a happy adoption with wonderful parents but was always curious about his birth parents

We take on the cases of Caroline Kinsey - who longs to find the son she gave up for adoption - and Paul McFarlane, whose assumptions about his family have been thrown into doubt.

Two women looking for siblings but for different reasons - Jeanette Woodyatts father told her that he had a son who was adopted when he was young. Karen Turnbull was shocked to learn on the day of her mothers funeral that she had half-siblings.

This episode delves into the compelling narratives of two men who share a common experience – being born to unmarried mothers in Ireland during a period when such circumstances were stigmatized. Arthur Fitzharris, born in 1947, grew up in Ireland under the care of his adoptive parents, enjoying a content childhood. Bernard McGrath, born in 1953, remained oblivious to his adoption until he turned 40, when rumours began to circulate.

Mother Paula Beer searches for the son she gave up as a teenager, and a sister, Sharon Thomas, looks for the younger brother her mother was forced to give up before she died of cancer.

Tracey Boyle, a woman who discovered she had a brother after her mother confided in her following a hospital stay. Carrying the weight of grief for years, Tracey’s mother had given up her first-born son for adoption at the age of 16. Determined to find him, Tracey sets out to let her brother know that he was always wanted. Liz Allward, who was adopted as a baby, shares her unusual intuition. Liz always felt she had a biological sister somewhere, and this unusual feeling was confirmed. Now, she longs to meet her sister and finally complete her family.

Mary Arbuthnot - a woman looking for two siblings adopted separately - and Maggie McCauley, who is searching for the older sister her mum had to give up.