Long Lost Family

Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell present the documentary series which aims to reunite family members after years of separation, and offers a lifeline for people who are desperate to find long-lost relatives.

Type: tv

Season: 1

Episode: 1

Duration: 0h 45m

Release: 2011

Rating: 3.3

Season 1 - Long Lost Family
2011-04-21
"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."
2011-04-28
"Ever since he discovered the truth about his real father at the age of 15, Wayne has been on a quest to find him. Debbie Gave her son up to save her marriage, she never stopped wanting him back in her life."
2011-05-05
"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."
2011-05-12
"Adopted as a baby, Laura McCarthy wants to find her mother and half sister. Sarah Gale was also adopted and had a happy childhood, but cannot rest until she finds her real mother."
2011-05-19
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Season 4 - Long Lost Family
2014-07-14
"Ann Munro, 63, from Ringwood in Hampshire, gave up her son for adoption when she was 21 and her life ever since has been overshadowed by guilt and the longing to ask for his forgiveness. Louise Kendall, a 28-year-old nurse, lives in Bradford with her four-year-old son. She's hoping to meet her French father for the first time as she travels to Dijon, the city where her parents fell in love."
2014-07-21
"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."
2014-07-28
"Family man Richard Cue, 57, has always felt grateful for the love and support he received from his adoptive parents, so he wants to find his birth mother to thank her for the sacrifice she made in giving him up in 1957. Having accessed his records, however, he has been searching for almost a decade with little success. Tania Bartlett's mother Julie fell pregnant to Iranian student Ahmed Kazem in the early 1960s, but the couple drifted apart when Julie felt unable to join Ahmed to start a new life in America. Despite intermittent contact with her father in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Tania has spent the past 30 years searching for him, not knowing if he is even alive. Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell bring these families back together."
2014-08-04
"This week Long Lost Family returns with the most extraordinary search we have ever undertaken. \n\n \n\nA mother looking for her daughter from whom she was separated when she was just ten days old and that baby\u2019s father who has spent a lifetime yearning for the chance to give his daughter a hug. It\u2019s a search that takes us from Colonial Kenya in the 1950s to the heart of the World War I battlefields in Northern France.\n\n \n\nSixty 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.\n\n \n\nBanished 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.\n\n \n\nThe 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.\n\n \n\nWatch what happens when we take on Inge\u2019s search and, in a first for Long Lost Family, take on her daughter\u2019s search for her father Jeremy."
2014-08-11
"Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell help Sheila Thomas, who gave her daughter up for adoption in 1968, and Stephen Andrews who grew up ashamed that his mother could not keep him."
2014-08-18
"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."
Season 5 - Long Lost Family
2015-06-03
"A couple search for the son they had to give up for adoption when they were teenagers. Susan and Chris were childhood sweethearts in 1962 when Susan was 14 and Chris 15."
2015-06-10
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2015-06-17
"At 39, Peter Gunn has struggled to come to terms with being given up for adoption by his birth mother when he was a baby. Although he was brought up by a loving family, a sense of abandonment contributed to his going down the path of addiction."
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Season 6 - Long Lost Family
2016-07-13
"Presented by Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell. Two adopted people born on opposite sides of the world make an unbelievable discovery, and a seemingly impossible search in Ecuador."
2016-07-20
"This Episode features two stories of people looking to solve family mysteries: a daughter who missed out on a father\u2019s love; and a woman looking to put an end to a secret that has haunted her family for over 50 years."
2016-07-27
"This episode features two stories of people separated from their mothers: A daughter longing to thank her birth mother for the sacrifice she made in parting with her and a man desperate to make up for a missed opportunity nearly 60 years ago."
2016-08-03
"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\u2019s troubled past."
2016-08-10
"This week we have two stories of children desperate to find missing parents: A son who wants his father to be proud of him, and a woman searching for the youngest birth mother we\u2019ve ever come across, who was only 13 years old when she had her."
Season 7 - Long Lost Family
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Season 14 - Long Lost Family
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