Long Lost Family

Alan Parker's painful last memory of his mother is of her leaving the family home when he was five - the reason she left and what happened to her afterwards remain a mystery that Alan's desperate to solve. In the second case, seven-year-old Katherine Fletcher was told that she was adopted and felt an immediate sense of shame - although unfounded, that shame fuelled a desire to find her birth mother that has only intensified as the years have passed.

Aged 12, Scott discovered the people he'd called mum and dad were actually his grandparents, and his mother was the woman he'd thought was his older sister. After learning that he had an actual older sister who'd been adopted, he is now desperate to find her. In the second case, Jackie was in her twenties when her late mother revealed a shocking truth - she'd had another daughter, younger than Jackie, who she'd put up for adoption.

Before they were married, Mandy's parents had a baby girl they had placed for adoption, and she is now set on finding her big sister. In the second case, Jane thought she was an only child, but her mum revealed when she turned 18 that she had a baby boy 11 months before her daughter, who was put up for adoption. Now Jane wants to find her long lost brother.