Separated at birth, Jennifer spent a lifetime searching for her twin. Karen discovered that the woman she believed to be her older sister was her mother. She spent 20 years trying to track her father down.

Long Lost Family (UK)

Long Lost Family: Episode 1

Wayne believes he will finally make sense of his own identity when he meets his father. Forced to choose between her husband and the baby she'd had by another man, Debbie had her baby boy adopted. She has spent years trying to trace him.

Long Lost Family: Episode 2

Featuring Jeannie Elgar, who last saw her brother Geoffrey when she was eight, and Kirsty West, who struggled with the decision she made as a teenager to have her son adopted.

Long Lost Family: Episode 3

Adopted as a baby, Laura McCarthy wants to find her mother and half-sister. Sarah Gale was also adopted and had a happy childhood, but cannot rest until she finds her real mother.

Long Lost Family: Episode 4

Featuring Wane Leyland, who has spent a lifetime blaming himself for his father's disappearance, and Wendy Brotherwood, whose younger sister Sarah went missing 13 years ago.

Long Lost Family: Episode 5

Samantha is hoping to find her Caribbean father to help her make sense of her cultural identity. Carole wants to find relatives she has not seen for 50 years.

Long Lost Family: Episode 6

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The series kicks off by dedicating a full episode to an incredible story of separated sisters that previously hit the headlines.

Episode 1

An extraordinary story of missed opportunity: a brother and sister both longing to find each other but both too scared to make the first move; and an 83-year-old mother desperate to find her missing daughter before it's too late.

Episode 2

Our first ever celebrity searcher, KT Tunstall, tries to find her birth father. This episode also features siblings searching for the birth mother they were separated from in the 60s, against a backdrop of social prejudice.

Episode 3

A woman who spent a week with her younger brother 50 years ago wants to track him down again and a man struggles to comprehend how a mother could give up her child.

Episode 5

The story of one man whose feelings of rejection have consumed him for over 20 years, and a woman holding off her wedding until she finds her birth mother.

Episode 6

Offering a last chance for people who are desperate to find long lost relatives, this series uncovers family secrets and takes us all over the world, finding people who no one else has been able to trace.

Episode 1

Full Episodes

Season 9, 5 episodes