Long Lost Family

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Season 8
An extraordinary double search within one family: a sister looking for her brother Keith to tell him the truth about their father, and a further search with Keith to find out more about the birth mother he never knew. (Final)
Two stories about a man and a woman, each looking for their birth mother. Our second story is on behalf of a man longing to find his birth mother after more than fifty years apart.
Two women looking for answers to questions that have haunted them for decades: a woman who made a discovery as a teenager that changed her life and a mother longing to find the son she felt she let down.
Two stories shaped by moments from British history: a family torn apart by the birth of a war time baby and a daughter given up against a backdrop of racism.
Two stories of new beginnings: a woman separated from her mother because of a tragic twist of fate; and our first transgender searcher, desperate to know if their birth mother will accept them.
Two of our youngest ever searchers, looking for their birth family. A man whose last contact with his father was when he was six and a woman whose life was transported from Bogota when she was given up for adoption.
Season 7
Two lives overshadowed by the past: a man searching for the brother given up after a wartime affair, and a woman longing to understand the reasons behind her adoption.
A woman searching for the father who promised that he would come back for her. And in Somerset, a woman searching for her twin sisters who vanished from her life when they were babies.
Two people searching for answers to family secrets: a woman who only discovered she had an older sister two years ago and a man desperate to find the father he's never met.
Two stories of mothers and sons pulled apart: a man whose mother put him up for adoption through an advert in the local paper; and a woman who adopted two kids after giving up her own son.
A divorced couple bonded by their need to find the son they gave up as teenagers; and a woman haunted by not knowing her birth mother.
Season 6
We take up a search on behalf of mother of three, Miriam Aragon Hay, looking for her Salvadoran father. And a story of Annie Sims, a woman who has struggled to come to terms with her adoption as a baby.
Two stories of women trying to bring their families back together: Val and Marisa from West Yorkshire, united in their search for their missing son and brother, and Sam from Surrey in search of her birth mother.
We meet one man yearning to find the father he's never met and a search for the youngest birth mother we've ever come across.
Two extraordinary stories of women haunted by events from their past. Susan Webb gave up her daughter for adoption in 1968 and was treated with ECT, and Sonia Walsh was left by her mother at 3 years of age.
We search on behalf of 50 year old Deborah Ozturk, who has spent years longing to find her birth mother and thank her for the incredible sacrifice she made in giving her up as a baby.
Mother of three, Samantha Whyte is searching for the Swiss father she has never met. We also meet Vanda James, who is looking to put an end to a secret that has haunted her family for over fifty years.
Two ground-breaking cases for Long Lost Family: an overseas adoption from Ecuador and a complex search using DNA analysis.
Season 5
The most extraordinary search we have ever undertaken. Alley Lofthouse was left on a doorstep in a block of flats in Scotland on a cold February night. Will she ever resolve the mystery of her abandonment?
Two stories of sisters kept, while their brothers were given up for adoption.
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