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Long Lost Family - Season 15 Episode 1
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00:00My father grabbed me off my mother because I was in her arms. The train pulled away.
00:13I've never seen my mother again. Out of the blue he just said I just want to make sure
00:21mom told you the family secret. Every year thousands of people come to us looking for
00:29a missing family. She's my sister. She's loved and she needs to know that she's loved.
00:37Sometimes it's to solve a mystery that's troubled them for decades. I'm petrified of
00:43looking for her but I've just got to try. Or to end the torment of what they don't
00:50know. Any siblings any answers any anything would be great. So imagine the
00:57moment. Hi Alan. Hi Davina. When the burning questions can finally be answered.
01:05Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. I never ever thought that this was happening.
01:17Reuniting families who've spent a lifetime apart.
01:25Our first searcher Lee came to us believing he was a foundling left with a woman in a
01:42block of flats. The first discovery we made was that this simply wasn't true.
01:4856 year old Lee lives in Eastbourne and owns a retro clothing store.
01:58At 10.30 we've got that new delivery coming. We'll move that section to there and build
02:04that little red white and blue section in there. When I was a kid growing up my mum and
02:09dad we didn't have much money. I weren't a pretty boy but I wanted to dress well. So when
02:13I was 16 I started working in a jean shop as a YTS boy and now I'm 56 I still do the same
02:20job. I've got the best job in the world. Just swap that over. I was always told that I was
02:27foundling by my adoptive mum and dad who did love me and I loved them back and I was happy
02:32with that lot but I always sort of had this silly thing in my head where I didn't really exist
02:36I was dropped from space. I had no birth certificate and it just wasn't real.
02:44But our discovery about the start of Lee's story is completely different. I wanted to
02:50talk to our lead social worker Ariel Bruce to find out more.
02:55When Lee came to us he thought he was a foundling. It was when we started to search we then came
03:00to the realisation that actually there had been a conventional adoption with a conventional
03:06registered birth and he wasn't a foundling. Wow. Does he know now? He does know as social workers
03:13we had a moral obligation to ensure that he knew.
03:18Ariel has now given Lee his birth certificate.
03:21I actually see it in black and white. I've never had a birth certificate. I've never had one. Look what my name is. Look.
03:29Mark. Anthony.
03:32I'm not sure about the Anthony.
03:34When I saw my birth certificate for the first time it actually blew my mind. It's got my mum's name on there.
03:40Cashier. Oh my god. It just makes her real doesn't it?
03:45Yes.
03:47The story of my adoptive mother and dad had told me there was something along the lines that
03:52the girl had a baby in a pram and she couldn't keep me and couldn't have me. I was told that she
03:59was Irish and I was told that she knocked on the door of a block of flats and just said to the lady
04:06that answered the door, sorry, he's yours now, you know.
04:09The thing that surprised me was knowing that my mum had been married. So that's the thing that shook me.
04:21I thought my mum was probably 16 or 17. That's what I had in my head. So that was the thing that
04:28shook me a little bit was knowing he said she'd been married but the father wasn't on the birth certificate.
04:34So I don't know. And you see where I lived? Look. In Paddington. I told you I was posh.
04:47Lee has returned to where he lived as a newborn with his birth mother.
04:52Whoa.
04:57This is it.
05:04When you see it on your birth certificate and you touch it and feel it and look at it in real life,
05:14it's just mind-blowing. Absolutely brilliant.
05:23My heart is jumping out of my chest for the first time today and it's all so real. It's nuts and I
05:31lived in one of them.
05:38When I look at this and think back then, I always think about how she felt and
05:42what she felt and how scared she was.
05:48Was there no money left? No food? Was she at the end of her terror?
05:51Absolutely mind-blown. Now I know where I lived.
06:06My birth mother, I hope she's alive.
06:09I hope she's alive. Any siblings, any answers, anything would be great.
06:18I'd love to know everything about the early days. I haven't got a clue what happened,
06:22but there must be some tough old stories to tell and some heartache and I'm all ears.
06:28Because we'd found Lee's birth certificate, we were able to search for his birth mother. We looked
06:39in the UK and Ireland, but we were unable to trace her. However, further investigations revealed
06:45something else. Lee's mother had another older son called Stephen, who was born in East London.
06:52We tried tracing Stephen, but could find no listing of him in the capital. So we threw the net wider
07:00and found him, living in Scotland.
07:09Stephen's a retired cardiac nurse who lives here with his wife and family.
07:13Growing up with a vague and inaccurate story about his adoption must have been so hard for Lee.
07:22But now, we've found a brother, Stephen. I want to ask him about his upbringing,
07:29and what that might tell us about what really happened.
07:32Oh, hi, Nicky. Stephen, how are you doing? Pleasure to meet you.
07:41You too. Please, come on in. Thank you so much.
07:48Grab a seat. Thanks. How are you doing? I'm doing very well.
07:51How are you? Pleasure to meet you. You too, it really is.
07:53What a lovely part of Scotland. It's lovely, isn't it?
07:56Yeah, but the first thing I need to find out is, did you have any idea that you have a brother?
08:03No. So, I was brought up by my grandparents. At no point ever was there ever any mention
08:09that there could be another sibling. Nothing.
08:11What was it like hearing about it?
08:15Emotional, maybe, but just unbelievable, really.
08:19Tell me about your upbringing.
08:20Within the household, there was my gran, my granddad, and my auntie was there as well.
08:26I was basically told that my mum, who'd come over from Ireland, was finding it difficult
08:33coping with having a child. My gran story that she told me was, one evening, my dad had come back
08:41from work and had found me crying in the court with a small note from my mum saying,
08:46it's him or me. A note from your mum?
08:49Yeah, left. Your grandmother said, it's him or me.
08:52Yeah. And it was decided to approach my grandparents to see if they would look after me.
08:58And that's what happened. And they applied for my guardianship and they were given that.
09:03And I think I was just a couple of years old.
09:06What does that make you feel like?
09:08Pretty unwanted, really, to be honest. But the thing was, why did you feel like that?
09:14And then over time, then you begin to think as well, well, why did my dad allow that?
09:19What were your feelings when you thought about your mum and dad? Why weren't your mum and dad with you?
09:25Throughout my childhood, they weren't always in my life, but they were in the background.
09:30I still spoke to him. So I wouldn't say I ever loved my parents. I was just aware of them and I had a
09:36relationship with them just far enough to be able to go and visit and such like.
09:42What was the last time you saw your mother? I haven't spoken to her for 32 years.
09:49When Lee first came to us,
09:53he thought he was a foundling because he had been told by his adoptive parents that a young Irish girl
10:03had left their baby with some neighbours of theirs and then they took on the baby.
10:09I find that quite disappointing that that's what happened, to be honest. What I'd really like to
10:14know is when was my brother born? Lee is younger than you. Wow, so that comes as a surprise. That'll
10:24take a few days to process. So Lee, very happily married to Aisha. He runs a retro clothing shop.
10:33You can have some of mine if you want. That's fantastic. Yeah, he would describe himself as a mod.
10:40Well, I just wondered if you might have a photo of him so I can actually see what he looks like.
10:44I do have a photo of him.
10:53Both go for this, glasses, but I'm a bit disappointed. He's got a bit more hair than me.
10:58Fantastic. I'm so looking forward to meeting him. So looking forward to meeting him.
11:11It'll be interesting. We'll chat music. I'm a rocker. You're a rocker. He's a mod.
11:16I'm a marker. Please tell me we're not meeting in Brighton. That would be an absolute disaster.
11:21Oh, fantastic.
11:24But before we tell Lee the good news, we turn to another search for a brother. For Peter McDonald,
11:36it was a single moment at a train station that changed his entire life and separated him from his birth family.
11:42My father grabbed me off my mother. I was in her arms. I was two and a half months old.
11:56That's the last time I was with my brother Trevor.
12:00I've always wanted to find them. Yeah.
12:09Just make it complete.
12:1058-year-old widower Peter McDonald was born and raised in Lancashire, where he still lives today.
12:28I'm a self-employed painting decorator. In my spare time, I like metal detecting when the weather's fine.
12:37A couple of horseshoes and a couple of hinges, I think I've found it.
12:40Peter is a father of two and a grandfather of four.
12:45Hello, darling. Give me a loaf. Give me a loaf.
12:49Are you my hand?
12:50I'm proud to be a grandad. I love it. I really do.
12:55Are we waiting for it to beep?
12:56Oh, oh, oh.
12:58Yes, yes, yes, yes.
13:00Go on then, dig.
13:01We're very close. They all look after me. Yeah.
13:05Peter was born Peter Stamp in 1966.
13:13He was less than six months old when his birth father placed him into care.
13:18He was brought up by foster parents in the Preston area and had no idea about his family history.
13:25My childhood was good. Never went without anything.
13:30I found out I was fostered when I was seven years of age.
13:33I always remember me sat on a rolled-up carpet when they told me.
13:42At the time, it just went over my head.
13:45I was too young to understand.
13:48He'd only really registered when I was 13, 14.
13:54I started to get curious and started asking a few questions,
13:57but the answers weren't there for me, really.
13:59But then, some new information emerged.
14:04And I can't even remember who actually told me about it.
14:11But there were some documents from the social services
14:16with the name Trevor Stamp.
14:18Those documents referred to a boy a couple of years older than Peter, with the same surname.
14:26That could only mean one thing.
14:28Peter had a brother called Trevor.
14:31When I found out I had a brother and being at school and, you know, they had brothers and sisters,
14:40it started to, well, where's mine?
14:42It started to make my mind think, well, where's my brother?
14:49In order to find his brother Trevor, Peter decided to track down his birth father.
14:54And in 1995, he found him.
14:58I was happy to have found him, but there didn't seem to be any chemistry there at all.
15:04Peter's father didn't know where Trevor was,
15:07but he was able to tell Peter the story of how they were separated.
15:11Peter's father told me everything.
15:23My mother were taking us to Preston Railway Station.
15:27Trevor was about two.
15:28I don't know how old. I was two and a half months old.
15:31My mother was on the train with me and Trevor.
15:35And my father had turned up and there was a bit of an argument.
15:41As the train was leaving the station,
15:44my father grabbed me off my mother because I was in her arms.
15:51And the door was shut and that was it.
15:56The train pulled away.
16:01I've never seen my brother or my mother again.
16:04I do feel for my mother.
16:12Anybody taking a child off here would be very traumatic.
16:17If she'd have kept hold of me and he hadn't snatched me,
16:20then everything would have been the way I wanted it to be with Trevor.
16:27It's starting to get me now.
16:28Peter MacDonald is looking for the brother he was separated from
16:44when he was just a few months old.
16:46Do you know Uncle Trevor that we're looking for?
16:48Do you want to draw a picture of him?
16:49Yeah.
16:52Trevor's been on mine for over 50 years.
16:56As long as I can remember.
16:59What?
17:00You've got a professional here.
17:03It's fine and it would be amazing.
17:06I'd love to meet my family and they'd love to meet him.
17:10That's brilliant.
17:11Is that Trevor?
17:13Yeah.
17:14Got to call him over.
17:19I'd like to say to Trevor, hello.
17:23I'm your brother.
17:28When Peter came to Long Lost Family,
17:30he knew his brother was called Trevor Stamp and he knew his date of birth.
17:35Our specialist researchers were able to find his birth certificate
17:39and discovered that his name was Trevor Edward Stamp.
17:42But when they searched for that name, they couldn't find him anywhere.
17:47They knew it was possible that his mother could have remarried,
17:50meaning Trevor might have been brought up with a different surname.
17:54So we searched the electoral rolls across the country
17:57for any man of the right age called Trevor with the middle initial E
18:02who was born in 1963.
18:06That gave us three possible matches.
18:08So we wrote to all of them,
18:10asking if they'd been born with the surname Stamp.
18:13And one of them replied.
18:16He revealed that his birth mother had died in 2008,
18:20but that he'd grown up knowing about a brother called Peter.
18:24And he was living in London,
18:27where his birth mother had fled to all those years ago.
18:32That day at the railway station changed the course of Peter's life,
18:47separating him from the brother he feels he should have grown up with.
18:51I want to know what that day changed for Trevor.
18:55And how has his life been since?
19:01Trevor is a carpenter who lives with his partner in East London.
19:05Trevor, how you doing?
19:07Doing young man? Yeah, good to see you.
19:09Nice to meet you too. Not so young.
19:11But listen, um, did you ever think this would happen?
19:16No.
19:17No. Knew about my brother, yeah.
19:19I've known about him since I was about nine, ten years old.
19:23So your mother, she spoke about Peter?
19:27She didn't speak about him a great deal.
19:30But when she did speak about him, she often wondered how he was and that.
19:34But mum always thought, leaving where he is is probably better off there.
19:39Peter was seven years old when he found out that he was fostered.
19:44And he was also told that he had a brother somewhere.
19:49Tell me if it were the circumstances of your separation from Peter all those years ago.
19:55Mum just said she was leaving to go to London and we'd got on the train.
20:02To get away from?
20:03To get away from me dad.
20:05But I know she must have been holding Peter.
20:09And I must have been standing behind her.
20:12The train was pulling out.
20:13He leaned in and pulled you through the window.
20:16Pulling through the window?
20:17Pulling through the window.
20:17That's why he couldn't get to me because I think that I was behind.
20:20Because he tried to get both of us.
20:22And I do know she did say it happened as the train pulled off.
20:27As the train actually pulled, that's when he grabbed him.
20:30So she had no chance to try and get him back.
20:38That is awful.
20:40It's like something you see on a film, isn't it?
20:42That must have been traumatic for your mother.
20:48You could see it in her face when she spoke about it.
20:50It hurt her.
20:52Because she always said she regretted it, not going back for him.
20:56When she got very ill, she started to talk a lot more.
21:01Open up a lot more.
21:02She did say to me, find him.
21:05Look for him.
21:06Find him?
21:09And then I think it was a week or so late she passed away.
21:12Oh my goodness me, when you tell Peter that.
21:14You could hear me out here.
21:26Yeah.
21:29So tell me about your life then, after you left.
21:31It was happy.
21:32I mean, Mum... Mum was a very strict person.
21:36Money was tight, it was hard and all that.
21:38Have you got any photos?
21:39Yes.
21:40Oh, right.
21:41That's Mum in her maybe 40s or 50s.
21:48For him to see that is just something that will be one of the most amazing moments of his life.
21:55Good.
21:57I wonder if he's anything like me.
22:00Be nice to know.
22:01Well, he's a painter and decorator.
22:02Oh, a painter and decorator.
22:04Okay.
22:05That's nice to know.
22:07What did he say he lived?
22:10Lancashire.
22:10Oh, he's still in Lancashire, is he?
22:12Good lad.
22:13Do you want to see a picture?
22:15Yes, please.
22:17He better not look like me.
22:25He's a few younger brother.
22:27He looks older than me.
22:29We don't look the same, don't we?
22:33Well...
22:33Oh, Pete.
22:39Nice to see you, mate.
22:43Any chance I can keep that?
22:44Of course you can.
22:47He looks a lot like Mum.
22:52It's hit me quite a bit, that is, this ghost.
22:56I'm doing this for him and for myself and for Mum, yeah.
23:01I think she'd be proud of me to do that.
23:02Oh, yeah.
23:05Can't wait.
23:05I really can't wait now.
23:21Until he came to Long Lost Family, Lee Sharp believed he was a foundling,
23:25left with a stranger in a block of flats with no clues about his identity.
23:30But now he knows that's not a true story.
23:34He has a birth certificate with his mother's name on it.
23:38And I'm on my way to give him another bit of news that will be life-changing.
23:42He has a brother who actually knew their birth mother.
23:47Hi, Lee.
23:54Oh, Davina, hi.
23:55Hi.
23:56Come through.
23:57Nice to see you.
23:58And you.
23:58I'll shut the door.
23:59Thanks for seeing me today.
24:05It's my pleasure.
24:07How have you been?
24:07I'm just trying to take it all in.
24:09But I'm very happy.
24:11Your story to me felt so unique and different because you may have had these feelings of
24:19a foundling when you weren't one.
24:21That's...
24:21Yeah.
24:23I always thought to myself, whatever happened, the thing I was always grateful for was that
24:28lady gave birth to me.
24:29And that one day if I ever get to meet her or a sibling, I'd love to find out the little missing
24:34pieces, you know.
24:36So I wanted to come here today because I actually have a bit of news for you.
24:45First of all, I want to say I'm afraid we haven't been able to trace your birth mother.
24:50But we have been able to trace a relative.
24:57And we have traced your brother.
25:04What a real brother.
25:08You share the same mother for sure.
25:09Well, I thought I was dropped from space.
25:20I just thought there was no one like me in the world.
25:22Where is he?
25:26I don't know.
25:30Is he all right?
25:32He's great.
25:32He lives in Inverness.
25:35That's Scotland?
25:36Yes.
25:36Oh my God.
25:38And does he have any idea what, when, why and all that to do with me?
25:43He didn't know about you.
25:45He didn't know about me.
25:46Oh my God.
25:47What's my brother called?
25:52I've got a brother.
25:54Your brother is called Stephen.
25:57With a PH or a V?
25:59With a PH.
26:00Posh.
26:01Wow.
26:02Is he older or younger than me?
26:04He's older.
26:05Is he?
26:06And did he grow up with her?
26:08His mum and dad, his biological mum and dad, brought him up.
26:13But then at two years old, it was decided that your brother, Stephen, would go and live with his paternal grandparents.
26:23So he stayed within the family.
26:25Oh, well, that's something.
26:27Mmm.
26:31I'm trying to sort of process the stuff with my mum now.
26:35Tell me, tell me, what are you trying to?
26:37Well, because I'm wondering why she let me go and I completely forgive her for that.
26:43But she'd already let him go.
26:46So you two have suffered in a similar way?
26:50Oh, we've got so much in common already, you know?
26:52He's married for 32 years.
26:55Wow.
26:56Good man.
26:57Are they all right?
26:58Really good.
27:00They got two boys.
27:01Wow.
27:03Both in their 20s.
27:05And he was a nurse.
27:08Wow.
27:09That's a good man.
27:10Mmm.
27:10I have actually got a photo.
27:16Come on in.
27:18This is Stephen.
27:21Wow.
27:23He's a bit foggily challenged like me, isn't he?
27:27But he's got my ruddy face, my round face.
27:32He's even got my hooter a bit, isn't he?
27:33Doesn't he look lovely?
27:35Oh, he does.
27:36He just looks warm.
27:37Yeah.
27:39I'm going to let her keep that till...
27:41It's yours.
27:42Ah.
27:42I'll put it in a posh frame.
27:45He's written your letter.
27:48Oh, well.
27:52Let me put him...
27:53Yeah, let's put him there.
27:54Let's put him there so I can see him.
27:55Perfect.
27:55Hello, Lee.
28:02Or should that be, hello, brother.
28:05This is not a sentence that I ever thought I would write,
28:07and probably not one that you imagine would be addressed to you.
28:11This has been a bolt out of the blue, but I hope that it is the start for us,
28:15both learning about, growing to love and becoming part of each other's families.
28:19You bet, bruv.
28:20Sincerely, Stephen.
28:23To get good news today and not bad news, I deserved that.
28:30You did.
28:34Yeah, bruv.
28:37It's brilliant.
28:38Thank you so much.
28:39I can't wait.
28:40I love you.
28:45I love you too.
28:46We were just chatting about how things are gone and all the stuff, and then she turned around and said,
28:53you've got a brother, and we found him.
28:55Oh, my God.
28:56Yes!
28:57Oh, my God, that's amazing news.
29:02I'm so happy for you.
29:03You've got a proper brother.
29:04Oh, my God.
29:05Oh, my God.
29:10After 56 years, I'm meeting Stephen, my blood brother.
29:19How are you feeling?
29:20Yeah, a bit nervous, of course.
29:22It's like...
29:22Keep calm.
29:23You'll be fine.
29:26When it comes to my birth mother and Stephen, there's loads of questions to ask.
29:30But, you know, we'll tread careful.
29:34Good luck.
29:40That way, mate.
29:48Lee's brother Stephen has travelled from Inverness to Eastbourne, where he'll meet the brother he'd been unaware of for the last 50 years.
29:57This is a huge moment in my life.
30:00There is always just that thing where you just think, will we actually get on?
30:04Is that you already?
30:05I think so, yeah.
30:06Yes, okay. Feeling okay?
30:07Nervous, but let's go on.
30:09Okay, all right. Best of luck. You'll be fine.
30:11Love you.
30:11Love you.
30:12Bye now.
30:12All right, we'll see you later.
30:13See you later.
30:21Now that I'm in the cab and on the way, first proper nerves.
30:35I think my heart rate since I came in, two rooms gone up.
30:59How are you doing, mate?
31:01I'm doing not bad at all. How are you, brother?
31:06Wow. Hello, mate.
31:09You all right?
31:09I'm fine.
31:10You're talking to me.
31:11I'm better looking, maybe.
31:13You are better looking.
31:14And older.
31:16So they say.
31:18Listen, I just want to say, before we even start, that you put yourself out massively.
31:24You've come all the way from Scotland and it's blown my mind. Thank you so much, mate.
31:29Absolutely.
31:30And you knew nothing?
31:33No, and at no time did anything ever come up in the conversation about any kind of sibling at all.
31:40My story was that I was brought up by my grandparents.
31:43Mum and Dad, at that point, didn't want to be bringing me up.
31:47I went up to live in Aberdeen before I was two years old.
31:50My grandfather got guardianship of me.
31:54My mum and dad still had contact.
31:56So my dad would phone every Sunday to speak to his mum.
32:01And then I would go on the phone.
32:02So I would speak to my dad.
32:04And then every now and then, mum would be on the phone.
32:07And then every summer, one of them would come up for a period of time.
32:12I do have memories of our mum.
32:15Obviously, the relationship was a bit difficult.
32:17Was it a bit weird?
32:18It was.
32:19She was just somebody I knew.
32:21You know what I mean?
32:22You haven't got a photo or anything?
32:23I got one from the mid-60s, if you'd like to see that.
32:27Yeah, yeah.
32:27Do you want to see it?
32:28Yeah, I'd love to.
32:29Here's your mum.
32:32It's really crazy.
32:36That's the lady that gave birth to me.
32:38And I still have this big, not a problem.
32:41It's not a problem.
32:42But I don't know what emotions to feel.
32:46Because I don't know.
32:48I always was on her side.
32:49But it's only since I hear your story about you leaving the nest at two years old,
32:54then you go, you know.
32:57But Stephen, I don't know about you, but I don't really care.
33:00Do you care?
33:01Do you?
33:02No.
33:02I don't really care.
33:03Because I said earlier, it makes no difference.
33:05I do care.
33:06I hope she's okay.
33:07But you're my birth brother.
33:11Absolutely.
33:12Can we get a WhatsApp group called bruvs?
33:14That would be good.
33:16Do not send me any cart memes.
33:17No, no, no, we don't do that.
33:18We don't do that.
33:19We're just going to be great mates and brothers.
33:29Hello.
33:31Hi, Lee.
33:31How are you?
33:32I'm your brother-in-law.
33:32It's nice to meet you.
33:34It's great to meet you, too.
33:35Hello.
33:37Hello.
33:37Stephen.
33:38Hello, bro.
33:39I'm so pleased to meet you.
33:42I think Lee's a breath of fresh air.
33:44He's so personable and outgoing.
33:46He's a really nice guy and somebody I'm now even more than I was before looking forward
33:51to getting to know.
33:52It's just fantastic.
33:55What's it like during the summer when it's really hot now?
33:58Is it busy?
33:59Oh, it's 90 degrees every day.
34:01A bit like Invernet.
34:02Peter McDonald was a baby when he was separated from his brother, Trevor, on a train platform,
34:20and he's never seen him since.
34:21It's been over 50 years since Peter was torn from his brother's life.
34:35And Peter spent 40 of those years trying to find him.
34:40I am so excited to tell him that his wait is finally over.
34:45Before filming, we've told Peter the news that his birth mother had passed away 17 years ago.
34:58Hey, Davina.
34:59Hey, Peter.
35:00Come in, please.
35:07Shall I sit here?
35:08Yeah, please.
35:08Oh, great.
35:09So I just wanted to say thanks for talking to me today.
35:15And I know that you had some difficult news.
35:20So how are you feeling today?
35:23It's okay.
35:23Well, yeah, it's okay.
35:27What do you want your brother to know or what would you like to tell him?
35:31First of all, I'd like to think that he knew about me like I knew about him.
35:36Mm-hmm.
35:37And I just hope that he grew up, you know, having a good life like I did.
35:44I'm here today because I have got a bit of news for you
35:50and I wanted to let you know that your brother's been found.
36:01Is he okay?
36:03He's really good.
36:06That's all I wanted.
36:13Did he know about me?
36:15He did.
36:16He did.
36:20Is it through me mum that he knew about me?
36:22It was.
36:23Oh.
36:27That makes a big difference to me.
36:33Did he stay with me mum?
36:34He did.
36:35He did.
36:35He did.
36:37Good.
36:43Can you tell me where they were?
36:45London.
36:46Oh.
36:50Does he want to see me?
36:52He really wants to see you.
36:53He told us that he was with your mum and she was very poorly.
37:01Yeah.
37:02And she said something to him.
37:06Which was find Peter.
37:07So she did care.
37:18She did.
37:22Can I give you a cuddle?
37:25Thank you so much.
37:26He said Trevor became a carpenter.
37:35Oh my word.
37:38I've been in a building trade most of my life.
37:41That's incredible.
37:44Trevor's given us some photographs.
37:46Oh God.
37:47Oh God.
37:50I've got one of my mum.
37:51Yes.
37:54This one is your mum.
38:07Oh my God.
38:07She looks beautiful.
38:15She's got the look of me daughter.
38:17That's exactly what I thought.
38:20And then this is your brother.
38:22Oh my God.
38:31I look like you daughter.
38:32You do.
38:38That's my bed.
38:40I just thought it was just I was on my own.
38:45Not anymore.
38:46No.
38:47He wants to see me.
38:51Can't wait.
38:52I've also got a letter that Trevor wrote you.
38:58Would you not read it from me?
39:00Yes.
39:04Dear Peter.
39:06I hope this letter finds you in the best of health and spirits.
39:10Mum told me I had a little brother when I was about nine or ten years old.
39:15So I've known about you for a long time.
39:18It would be a pleasure and a privilege to have you in my life.
39:22Again.
39:23Looking forward to meeting you.
39:25Trevor.
39:33Wow.
39:37Don't drop anything else on my police.
39:38They found in love.
39:53Wow.
39:53That's me mum.
39:59Oh wow.
40:00That is you.
40:04It is.
40:07We found him.
40:09Peter has travelled from Lancashire to East London to meet his brother Trevor, who he was separated from over 50 years ago.
40:30I woke up this morning thinking that I'm here and then it's actually happening.
40:35I'm still pinching myself.
40:36I've been waiting for this for a long time, yeah.
40:41I just hope that he likes me.
40:46Good morning.
40:47Good morning.
40:47Can I have a cup of coffee please?
40:51Mixed emotions, very mixed emotions.
40:58I feel a bit scared of meeting him.
41:02Plus, today it's mum's birthday, so it's happening on my mum's birthday.
41:08I didn't tell no one.
41:12I thought I'd leave it as a surprise.
41:16Are you excited?
41:19Yeah.
41:21I'm on my way.
41:21I'll see you later.
41:22See you.
41:23Love you.
41:23Love you.
41:24Good luck.
41:25See you later.
41:26Bye.
41:27Bye.
41:27See you later.
41:28Bye.
41:28Bye.
41:29Bye.
41:38Bye.
41:40Anxiety is going through the roof of them, innit?
41:43Very nervous.
42:01Actually, I'm not shaking.
42:02I'll be shaking on you.
42:08I'll be shaking on you.
42:22Jack.
42:27I'm all right.
42:29You all right?
42:31There.
42:32Good.
42:34Thank you for seeing me.
42:35You're welcome.
42:36Is that your sight?
42:38Well, done it?
42:41Yeah, done it, mate.
42:43Well done.
42:46It's been a long time.
42:48It's been a long way.
42:52Glad you're looking for me.
42:55Oh, God, it's good to see you.
42:57Yeah, pleased to see you.
42:59And I'm so glad what I was told about mum.
43:04Yeah?
43:04Because I've always thought that she never wanted me.
43:08No, it was never that.
43:12When she passed, she actually did say she was so sorry that she never looked for you.
43:20That's helped me a lot.
43:21Really?
43:22It's helped me a hell of a lot.
43:23It's never forgot you.
43:27Before she passed, she always said, find him.
43:32And you, you, fair me.
43:35Hey?
43:36Uh-oh.
43:36You, fair me, lad.
43:40I'm pleased you, fair me.
43:43I've got so many questions.
43:44But I can only tell you I can remember, because I have a bad memory.
43:49That makes two of us.
43:50Yeah.
43:52Do you remember the train station?
43:53Do you?
43:54No.
43:54No.
43:54I didn't think you would.
43:55No.
43:56Too young, weren't we?
43:57Mum just told me what happened.
43:58And she couldn't get out to get you, because the train was pulling away.
44:02So she had no chance.
44:04Yeah.
44:06Oh, by the way, we've met on mum's birthday.
44:10No.
44:11Today was mum's birthday.
44:20That's the best present then, isn't it?
44:21It is.
44:22For mum?
44:23For mum.
44:24And for you.
44:25Yeah.
44:25And for me.
44:27What a day.
44:28Yeah.
44:29Yeah.
44:30I think he's lovely.
44:31I think he's absolutely lovely.
44:33He's my brother, my little brother.
44:36And I'm excited and over the moon to have met him.
44:40I want to get him known a lot more.
44:42Yeah, I like me diets.
44:43Love diets.
44:44Any good?
44:45I hit a 180 the other day.
44:47Oh, you're useless then.
44:50Two brothers together at last.
44:52There was an automatic connection.
44:55Hiya, Chloe.
44:56Hi.
44:57You all right?
44:57It's Trevor.
44:58Hello.
44:59Hello.
44:59Oh, hello.
45:01And that's little Lily.
45:02Hello.
45:03You made hugs?
45:04Oh, good girl.
45:06Hello.
45:08All right.
45:10You didn't have to look like your nan.
45:16We said that the other day, didn't we?
45:19Yep.
45:19Quite a bit of mum, yeah.
45:21Definitely.
45:22Do I call you Trevor Trevor?
45:23You can call me whatever you want, bruv.
45:25All right.
45:26You can call me whatever you want, bruv.
45:26You can call me whatever you want, bruv.
45:27Bruv.
45:28Bruv.
45:28Yeah.
45:29Bruv.
45:29You can call me whatever you want, bruv.
45:33I don't want to go on there.
45:34I want to stay with Peter for a while.
45:35I'm going to be coming down to see him as often as I can.
45:40Yeah.
45:41Cheers, bruv.
45:41Cheers.
45:42All the best.
45:46Right, come on, we're off.
45:48Shit, all right.
45:48Well, we've only got to go this way.
45:50No, we'll go that way.
45:52No, no, no, no, no.
46:15And Long Lost Family is back next Thursday at nine o'clock.
46:18Whilst on Sunday, it's episode two of the dark, funny and twisted thriller Cold Water at nine o'clock.
46:27Or you can watch the full series right now on STV Player.
46:30Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
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