Long Lost Family

This episode follows a mother searching for the son that she gave up as a teenager and a sister looking for the younger brother her mother was forced to give up before she died of cancer. In our first case, Paula Beer was 17 years old when she had her son and was so terrified of her strict parents' reaction that she didn't tell them. It was only when she went to visit her aunt in Essex that the truth was revealed - Paula loved her son but had to make the heartbreaking decision to give him up for adoption and still tearfully remembers the day she told him 'to remember my voice, I will always love you'. In our second case, Sharon Thomas only learned that she had a younger brother when she was in her twenties - her parents said they couldn't support another child and her teenage mother Margaret made the devastating decision to give him up for adoption. Margaret died just ten months later from leukaemia, and Sharon is now desperate to find her brother for her and for her late mother.