Long Lost Family

In the first case of this episode, Alan Parker's painful last memory of his mother is of her leaving the family home when he was five - the reason she left and what happened to her afterwards remain a mystery that Alan's desperate to solve. In our second case, seven-year-old Katherine Fletcher was told that she was adopted and felt an immediate sense of shame - although unfounded, that shame fuelled a desire to find her birth mother that has only intensified as the years have passed.

Category

Documentary / Reality

Original air date

15/01/2026