Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace

One baby is discovered in a phone box, another inside a locked mansion block. Now adults, driven to find out who left them and why, there are emotional revelations for both.

When a box containing a newborn baby was found on Halloween night in 1996, the two women who saw a hand peeking out first suspected it was a trick. Instead, it was Michael - tiny and premature. Now an adult, he wants to know who it was that left him there, and why? Similar questions have haunted 77-year-old Christine, who was discovered in a Waterloo train carriage. But she has more reason than many other foundlings to understand why a mother might give up a child.

Nicky Campbell and Davina McCall presents a follow-up to the story of foundling Susanne Barrow, who met her half-brother Ian in 2024 and has since added another paternal half-sibling to the family circle, but was hoping to get in contact with her birth mother. For Tom Yeo, who was left under a bench in the waiting room of Reading train station in 1965, there has been an unusual development that has had more impact than he could have imagined.

Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell find out what happened to foundling Natasha and her full sister Lee-Ann - who were left as babies less than two years apart in the toilets of two different south London hospitals. Plus, a look at the transformational reaction to nurse Liz Deutsch's story of being found as a severely ill baby in a basket in a hedge.