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Series 2 - 30 Minute Versions: 14. Tony & Martyn/Lorraine, Belinda & Donna

When Tony Robinson was a boy, he was sent to an open-air boarding school for children with ill health. It was during the two years that he was away that his parents made the heart-breaking decision to give up their new baby son for adoption. Following his parents' death years later, Tony found paperwork from an adoption agency and decided to investigate. His search led him to a brother, Stephen, whom he had never known existed. The brothers met up and have been in contact ever since. But the story didn't end there - Tony then discovered that his parents had given not one but two babies up for adoption. He had another brother, Ian, out there somewhere. Several searches for Ian had hit a brick wall, when one day a message from an unknown name popped up on Tony's laptop. It turned out that Ian had changed his name to Martyn some years earlier. Tony had found his second missing brother - or rather his little brother had found him! Today Tony, Martyn and their sister Diane are meeting up to take a trip down memory lane.\n\nLorraine Hall had spent her childhood believing that she was the only child of Pat and Ray Edwards but, when Lorraine was 15, a family friend, Sylvia, died and Lorraine was stunned by the shock revelation that Sylvia was in fact her biological mother. Lorraine discovered that Sylvia's children, whom she had grown up playing with, were in fact her brothers and sisters. However, following Sylvia's funeral, her children were split up and moved away from the area and Lorraine returned to being an only child. Years later Lorraine has been reunited with two of her sisters, Belinda and Donna, and today they are visiting the local crematorium where their mother's name has been entered into the book of remembrance.

Source: BBC 1