Foundlings are people abandoned as babies, often in the first hours and days of their lives. Born without trace, with no identifying information, they have had no way of unlocking the secrets of their past. But in this new ground-breaking documentary series, presented by Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell, the team behind Long Lost Family combine the latest DNA technology with painstaking detective work, to enable four foundlings to finally uncover their identities.
Special episode of the documentary series which aims to reunite family members after years of separation. Using cutting edge DNA profiling the team focus on finding close relatives.
Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell present the stories of people who were abandoned as babies, helping them try to find their birth families and know their identities. David McBride was left in a car as a two-week-old infant in January 1962, while Helen Ward was left in a tartan bag in a telephone box in Dundalk in 1968.
Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell help two more people who were found as babies after being abandoned to track down their birth families. Simon Jeffery was left in a box outside a railway tavern in Greenhithe, a story which hit the headlines but which he only learned about by chance at the age of 10. Fi Beazer was discovered in a public toilet in Warminster when she was only a few hours old. Both have spent their adult life trying to track down their parents, and submit DNA samples in the hope of finally getting the answers they seek.
Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell return with more stories of people who were abandoned as babies, helping them try to find their birth families and know their identities. In the first edition, they examine whether two baby girls abandoned in Chesterfield in the late 1980s could be related? Through DNA, the team makes a shocking new discovery.
Time is running out for one foundling who was discovered on a luggage rack in Paddington station nearly 75 years ago, while another woman hopes DNA will solve the mystery of why she was left next to a church in Liverpool at two days old. Presented by Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell.
Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell return with more stories of people who were abandoned as babies, helping them try to find their birth families and know their identities. For a man left as a baby on church steps more than 50 years ago, there are shocking revelations when a long-held family secret is finally uncovered, while a young woman who was discovered in hospital toilets in the 1980s receives some surprising news that deepens the mystery of her beginnings.
The man who became famous as `the Ice Baby", after being found in a London phone box on the coldest night of the year, searches for answers. Meanwhile, touching revelations are in store for another man who was discovered inside public toilets in Abergavenny in 1958. Presented by Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell.
Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell follow the stories of foundlings as they search for answers about why they were left as babies and try to find their birth families. A man left as a baby in a London phone box more than 50 years ago discovers an extraordinary family history on the other side of the world.
Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell follow the stories of foundlings as they search for answers about why they were left as babies and try to find their birth families. A man left on a stranger's doorstep finds out a painful family secret, while a woman discovered in the back of an Aston Martin car in the 1950s finally understands the reason why she was there.
Thomas was left as a baby in the waiting room of Reading train station in 1965. Extraordinarily, the first birth relative the team finds for him is another foundling: Martina - left as a baby on the steps of a Dublin church. Apart from DNA, all they share at first are questions – however, their meeting soon leads to life-changing discoveries for them both.
‘Euston Baby' Rachel's adoptive mother always told her ‘you were like Paddington Bear, you were found at a train station', but the parallels end there as Rachel still bears physical scars from her time left alone in a battered carry cot in Euston Station's long-stay car park more than 50 years later. For most foundlings, the time and place they were left is all they know about their beginnings. Foundling Steve doesn't even know this – taken into care from an unlicensed foster home, he doesn't exist in any records before he was nine months old.
Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell present the documentary that combines new DNA technology with painstaking detective work to find answers for foundlings. In 1966, infant Simon was left in the outside toilet block of a mother and baby home in Neath in south Wales. In an unrelated incident, four years later in Christchurch, England, newborn Lisa was left in another baby's pram. Almost 60 years later, Simon and Lisa are still desperate to know who left them and why.
When a helpless baby boy was found in Milton Keynes in 1984, staff at a nearby hospital named him after the royal baby born just a few weeks earlier. 'Harry' was adopted and raised as Jon, but he is still haunted by the mystery of his start in life, and so is foundling Tina, who was left outside a hospital in Stoke-on-Trent in 1970. Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell help the duo find out more about their respective families.
Sarah was left in the stairwell of a Surrey car park in 2001. She is the youngest foundling to appear on the show. Also looking for answers is Chris who, at three months old, was dropped off at a childminder's near Kings Cross in London, 62 years ago. He still needs to know who his birth family is and why nobody ever returned to pick him up.
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A woman born in a hospital but whose birth mother disappeared, never to be traced, discovers a shocking secret, while a man, left as a baby near Wolverhampton Wanderers' Stadium and named after a famous footballer, searches for his true identity. Presented by Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell.
Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell present more stories of people who were abandoned as babies, helping them try to find their birth families and know their identities. Heart-wrenching news awaits a woman discovered as a newborn baby on the steps of a tower block, while 70 years after he was left opposite an underground station, can DNA finally help one man find his roots?
Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell follow the stories of foundlings as they search for answers about why they were left as babies and try to find their birth families. A police detective left on some church steps as a baby, who has been unable to solve the mystery of his own identity, finally discovers the truth. Elsewhere, a woman left in a hospital in the 1960s receives surprising news about her birth family.
Found in a shopping basket under a Birmingham hedge, Liz has since triumphed over every challenge life has thrown at her except for the puzzle of her true identity. Foundling Susanne was left in an East London phone box along with a heartbreaking note from her birth mother. For years she's been hoping for a close DNA match and, finally, she makes a joyful connection.