Long Lost Family

Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell present the stories of two men hoping to find birth family. Joe McGregor was adopted as a baby in Bermuda in the 1970s and grew up in Norfolk in a loving family, yet he still yearns to find his birth family. Simon Miller's mum's dying wish was that he should find the daughter who she gave up for adoption just a few years before he was born.

The story of a birth mother looking for the daughter she was forced to give up as a teenager, and a big sister looking for her baby brother. 

Paula Beer was 17 years old when she had her son. She was so terrified of her strict parents' reaction that she didn't tell them. It was only when she went to visit her aunt in Essex that the truth was revealed. Paula loved her son but had to make the heart-breaking decision to give him up for adoption. 57 years later, she still tearfully remembers the day she told him ‘to remember my voice, I will always love you'.

Sharon Thomas only learned that she had a younger brother when she was in her twenties. It was a family secret, even from her, that her teenage mother Margaret had a second child out of wedlock. Her parents said they couldn't support another child and Margaret made the devastating decision to give him up for adoption. Margaret died just 10 months later from leukemia. Sharon is desperate to find her brother, for her and for her late mother.

Sue Stalley was a teenager when she became pregnant by her first boyfriend. Her mother was deeply ashamed and forced her to wear a coat to conceal the pregnancy, even in the height of summer. Sue's mother would not allow her to keep the child and Sue tearfully gave him up for adoption, but she has never forgotten her eldest son and still berates herself that she could have tried harder to keep him.

Melanie Mackney had a good adoption but from her paperwork learnt that her mother had twins before her. Melanie discovers that her mother fled war-torn Yugoslavia before ending up in Australia and finally coming to England where she lived on the streets. What happened to the twins that her mother also gave up for adoption? The mystery has haunted Melanie her entire life.