Long Lost Family search for a father and half-brother

Long Lost Family returns with its fourth episode of seven in this it’s thirteenth series.

Presented by Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell, it tells extraordinary stories of people desperate to find missing family, tackles mysteries that no one else has been able to solve and answers questions that have haunted entire lives.

Tonight the show follows one woman searching for her Jamaican-born birth father, and another on the hunt for the half-brother her mother gave up for adoption after his American serviceman father went home and off the radar following World War Two.

Rachel Burch grew up in a white family and stood out in the small, West Sussex village where they lived. She turns to Long Lost Family for help finding her Jamaican-born birth father, but she’s also yearning to find any family member whose lived experience has been like her own.

Sue Davis’s mum had a baby boy from a relationship with an American soldier she met working in a wartime canteen in Winchester. Afraid of rejection, she asked Sue not to look for her son until after her death. Years later, Sue duly takes up the search on behalf of her late mother.

Long Lost Family, tonight at 9pm on ITV1, STV, ITVX and STV Player