Lost & Found
Lost & Found is a new ten part documentary series that sets about reuniting families, uncovering cultural identity and discovering lost family heritage. Each week seasoned investigative journalist David Lomas, along with a specialist search team of genealogists and researchers, tackles the cases of up to three seekers who are on an emotional journey to discover their family members and cultural pasts that they have not been connected to. Lost & Found is real, raw and - at times - heartbreaking as each episode showcases a basic primal need – just how important it is to know who we are and where we’ve come from. Tissues advised.
Episodes
Episode 1
An Auckland woman is desperate to find her father; a top show jumper seeks the woman who adopted her out; and a retired caretaker seeks the daughters he hasn't seen for 25 years.
Episode 2
A young father heads to Fiji to search for the woman who adopted him out when he was toddler. Later, a Rangiora mum faces her past when she tries to find her birth mother in England.
Episode 3
A Christchurch woman seeks the baby she has never seen or spoken about. A young mum seeks the father she has never met; and a young woman wants to find her father.
Episode 4
A woman, raised by her grandparents, is looking for the father she's never known. And there's a major twist in store for a Rotorua father in search of his daughter.
Episode 5
A young mother, rescued from a Romanian orphanage and given a new life in New Zealand, heads back to Romania to try and find her birth mother.
Episode 6
A truck driver wants to find his father; a maintenance officer wants to make contact with his mother; and a nursing student is desperate to reconnect with her father.
Episode 7
A Sydney mother of six is desperate to find the son she was forced to give up as teenager. Then, hoping to find her father, a young women travels to Japan.
Episode 8
A man looks for the father who vanished after he was born; a woman seeks her father after being faced with a harsh new reality; and a young woman is desperate to find her father.
Episode 9
An elderly man longs to find a long lost daughter; a woman searches for the father she's never met; and a young father is desperate to know if his dad wants to reconnect.
Episode 10
A Maori filmmaker searches for his Irish roots. A mother continues her search to find her father; and there's a surprise in store for a Dunedin man looking for his father.
Top Cast
David Lomas
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