Long Lost Family: What Happened Next

This episode features twins Jennifer and Kathleen, who spent over 60 years apart before the search discovered that they were living just three miles from each other in Rotherham. Four years on, and after a lifetime of nearly crossing paths, has the bond they had as babies survived the years they have been separated? The show also catches up with Polly and Steve, a mother and son who had been apart for over 50 years before Steve was tracked down in New Zealand. A year on from their reunion, and with 12,000 miles between them, how easy has it been to build a bond as mother and son? Finally, Laura and her sister Alison were reunited after the programme discovered that Laura's mother had passed away. Laura was desperate to find a blood relative to help her to understand her identity, but has a reunion with her sister given her the answers that she was craving?

Sarah Gale enjoyed a happy childhood with two loving adoptive parents, but she'd been desperate to track down her birth mother and been trying to do so for 20 years. The programme found Susan who, after having Sarah, had moved to South Africa in the 1970s and went on to have a son. Three years after being reunited, Davina and Nicky hear how mother and daughter have grown close, and Susan prepares to meet Sarah's adoptive mother Rosemary for the first time. Plus an update on Jeannie Elgar, who met her brother's adoptive sibling Robert, and Stella, who was reunited with daughter Maxine after she made the decision to have her adopted at 18 months old.

This final programme revisits three stories of women reunited with their siblings. Cherry Durbin who was searching for one sister, unexpectedly reunited with two. The three sisters all grew up as only children, so how have they adapted to their new roles as sisters? Maureen Saville was reunited with a brother and sister. Have her siblings been able help her understand why her mother abandoned her as a toddler? Fiona Dunn and her sister Maureen were reunited two years ago and now Fiona has finally met her birth mother Pat whom she had believed was dead.

Newly reunited sisters face a battle that strengthens their bond and uncover another secret held by their mother. And two families explore the complicated relationship of sharing a son. Will their son's dream of one "big happy family" come true?

After a joyful reunion with the daughter he was forced to place for adoption, Jon now struggles to maintain their relationship. High school sweethearts who placed their son for adoption are thrilled to meet his adoptive parents.