About this season
Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell present the documentary series which aims to reunite family members after years of separation, and offers a lifeline for people who are desperate to find long-lost relatives.
Episodes (8)
1. Episode 1
Aired 23 May 2022
In 2017, Jacinta Hickey contacted `Long Lost Family' looking for her younger brother Paul. Tragically, Jacinta died suddenly before the case was resolved. Meanwhile, 64-year-old Judy Kenyon believes time maybe running out to find her birth mother.
2. Episode 2
Aired 30 May 2022
Joselyn Turner was born profoundly deaf and put in a children's home at only two weeks old. She knows that her birth mother also had a son and is now searching for her older brother James for answers to her lifelong questions. In turn, James has also been searching for the father he never knew, and after 73 years, James finds more family than he bargained for.
3. Episode 3
Aired 6 June 2022
Two people go in search of their missing birth mothers. A woman taken to Morocco as a toddler against her mother's will searches for her birth mother while a man given up as a baby because of the colour of his skin searches for the truth about his family.
4. Episode 4
Aired 13 June 2022
5. Episode 5
Aired 20 June 2022
Ricky was 12 he was sent back to the children's home, leaving nine-year-old Murray completely devastated. He has wanted to find his older brother ever since. Also, eighty seven-year-old Mark found out that he wasn't an orphan.
6. Unknown Soldiers Special
Aired 27 June 2022
The team work on a case of nine soldiers found together buried in a trench in Belgium at the site of the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917. Artefacts found near the bodies and DNA of potential living relatives are used to identify these brave men who lost their lives and to hopefully allow their living relatives to lay them to rest with full military honours at last.
7. Episode 7
Aired 4 July 2022
Telling the story of two sons who were given up for adoption. Andrew Barlow was adopted as a baby, but his birth mother Patricia refused to sign the adoption papers. Julie Redman discovered that her mother had given up her older brother for adoption.
8. Shipped to Australia Special
Aired 11 July 2022