Long Lost Family

Both stories in this episode celebrate the bond between brothers. In the first case, Lee Sharp's adoptive parents had told him that he was a foundling, but the team discovers this isn't true and a sibling he never knew he had. In the second case, Peter MacDonald's father snatched him from his mother's arms as a baby as a train carrying her and his older brother Trevor pulled out of Preston station. After 58 years of longing, Peter wants to see his brother again.

Paula's baby's father disappeared when she discovered she was pregnant in 1979. Unable to support herself, Paula felt that adoption was the only option, but always questioned her choice. The second case features Justus Augustin, who came to London from St Lucia in the 1960s. He fell in love with a white Irish girl who became pregnant. Her father disapproved of the relationship, and insisted the baby must be put up for adoption. Unsuccessful in his efforts to be allowed to raise his daughter, Justus has yearned to find her ever since.

Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell present a series that aims to help people reunite with long-lost relatives, with investigators picking up the search when the trail has gone cold.

This episode follows the cases of Mark Thorpe - who yearns to find an older brother - and Jane Lewis, who was taken into foster care at 11 days old and seeks her three brothers.

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.