Long Lost Family

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.

This Episode features two stories of people looking to solve family mysteries: a daughter who missed out on a father’s love; and a woman looking to put an end to a secret that has haunted her family for over 50 years.

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.

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’s troubled past.

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’ve ever come across, who was only 13 years old when she had her.

This week two stories of women trying to bring their families back together. Whenever 62-year-old Val Moorhouse receives a card from her daughter Marisa, whether birthday or Christmas, Marisa signs her name, but also signs on behalf of her brother, Stephen - the son and brother who has been missing from their lives for 40 years. With a successful career, a happy daughter and beautiful home, 37-year-old Sam Cashmore has a life many people would envy, but her path to happiness has been overshadowed by the absence of two important women in her life. Today she desperately wants to be reunited with her birth mother and sister.

Miriam Aragon Hay lives on the Pembrokeshire coastline with her husband Richard and three children. She is searching for her Salvadoran father, a man who has always felt out of reach. Annie Sims is a 48-year-old mother of two daughters who lives with her husband, Sean in Hampshire. Annie has struggled her whole life with the weight of the decision her birth mother made to give her up for adoption as a baby. She is now searching for her mother, hoping that she will finally come to terms with that decision.