Long Lost Family

Cases include a family torn apart by the birth of a war time baby

Growing up, Barbara Jacobs always believed that she was one of three children. It was not until she reached her twenties that she made a discovery which would change her life. Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell investigate Barbara's story, and also Sharon Hearte's. She was mixed race child adopted by a white family who grew up in the West Midlands. Sharon knew her birth mother, Barbara, was a white woman who worked in a Smethwick bicycle factory, and her father was from Jamaica. She wants to track down her mother to tell her that she understands why she was given up for adoption