Being Jamie Baulch: The Search for My Birth Dad

'I'm Jamie Baulch, the former Olympic athlete.'

I'm so nervous.

'And two years ago I went in search for my birth mum.

'When I was born, she gave me up for adoption.'

Come on in, guys.

This is my mum.

Hello.

'In the end I found her and we met for the first time.

'I couldn't wait to show her my Olympic medal.'

-Now we...

-To know that my son has been so famous.

I'm so proud of him.

I really am.

'It was an incredible emotional journey for me,

'my birth mother and her family.

'And my parents, Alan and Marilyn Baulch,

'who supported me all the way.'

-COMMENTATOR:

-Baulch is coming away to take the world title.

Baulch gets it.

'But where does my running ability come from?

'During my search I discovered in the adoption file

'that my natural father may be Jamaican

'and they have the fastest runners in the world.

'So, now I want to find the source of my speed.

'My birth dad.'

I want him to be proud, I suppose.

I want him to be proud and I want him to just think, wow, you know?

Wow, this is my son who's achieved all these wonderful things.

You know?

I think any father on this planet,

if their son has achieved so much in sport,

you've got to be proud of that.

'I know this is going to be a tougher challenge.'

Bloody hell!

'I'm going to have to roll my sleeves up.

'And even if I do trace my biological father,

'he may not even acknowledge me or meet me.'

I've heard that name, like, round the family.

Hopefully, you can find your dad, innit.

'But I don't think I'll be complete until I find my birth dad.'

Oh.

Here we go again.

I was born in Nottingham City Hospital in 1973.

Described as light tan and in urgent need of adoption.

After six months in a children's nursery,

Marilyn and Alan Baulch visited

and took me to my new home in South Wales.

In the previous film, during the search for my birth mum,

I found out with the help of my parents and my social worker,

Gemma Williams, that my original surname was Mills.

And my birth mother's name was Teresa.

Teresa Anne Mills.

Just starts putting a little bit of a picture together.

According to the adoption file written at the time,

Teresa gave my father's name as Leonard.

And gave a very unusual surname,

which we can't broadcast to protect privacy.

He was 20.

And was Jamaican and was in the Army, currently serving in Germany.

And his interests included football.

If I'm honest, I never thought I would find out who my father was.

The file said he lived somewhere on Castle Boulevard, Nottingham.

And that his relationship with Teresa had ended,

and I was up for adoption,

as she was expected to marry someone else.

We couldn't find her marriage, because she didn't marry him.

Yeah. Yeah. That is, well,

that bit there is kind of mad, because the whole,

one of the things she said about adopting me was because he didn't

want to have this child. So, that's interesting.

It was interesting to find out that

actually she didn't go down that route in the end.

There is something that you need to know about Teresa.

-Yeah?

-Teresa's actually not particularly well.

She was diagnosed with lung cancer in March.

And it is terminal.

-I'm really sorry.

-Can we just stop?

I really want to meet her.

And it sounds like she really wants to...meet me.

-This is my mum.

-Hello.

I've said it all along, with this programme,

I've always just wanted to say thank you.

You know? Because, you know, I wouldn't be here without you.

And... HIS VOICE BREAKS

..it means so much. So thank you for doing the right thing

and I know that it's worked out for the best.

-You know?

-Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah.

It did work out for the best, Jamie.

All right. One more hug.

-You take care.

-You take care.

The last documentary went out and I have never in my life experienced

anything like it. You know?

When I won an Olympic medal, won the World Championships,

I got a lot of attention there, as you can imagine.

This is 100 times more.

I've had people who don't know me coming up to me in the street.

I've had thousands of people on Facebook, Twitter, contacting me.

He gave me an inner strength.

He gave me something else to fight for, too.

I'm fighting to keep this horrible thing away from me.

I think my son's helped me,

my daughter and my husband have helped me there.

Before I begin a new search for my birth dad,

I'm completing the first journey by bringing my mums together.

Happy days. We'll have a couple of nice days here.

-Yes.

-Yes.

-We are here at the Celtic Manor.

It's near my home.

You know, with Teresa not being that well,

I wanted to be in an environment where we can relax.

We can just have some fun together.

And talk fables, I suppose.

-It's beautiful here.

-So your mum and dad's coming, then?

Yeah, they're going to be here any minute now, you know?

This whole thing for me was for my mum and dad, Teresa, Des and Jay,

for everyone to meet.

And just talk and just sort of, like, really enjoy the moment.

And, erm, to see my two mothers...

You know?

Just incredible.

-All right, Mum?

-I brought some flowers for your mum.

Look at... That just sums up Mum that, you know?

Flowers for my mum.

-Why not?

-Brilliant.

-Mum, this is...

-Hello.

-..my mother.

-Hello.

-Hello.

-This is Des.

-Jaya.

-Pleased to meet you.

Mum, meet Mum.

-How are you?

-Nice to meet you.

So pleased to meet you.

I really am so pleased to meet you.

-So am I.

-That's a moment right there.

-That's touching.

-Thank you for letting us have your son.

Hey...

and look what you've done to him!

LAUGHTER

Don't blame me. It's not all my fault!

LAUGHTER

Hello, Alan. Nice to meet you. I'm all right.

Nice to meet you, too.

What a moment.

I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart.

If you didn't pick him and made him into what he is now...

I'm very proud of him.

-We all are.

-And proud of you two for doing it.

-We are very proud.

-Thank you.

He has given us as much pleasure, really.

-Yeah.

-He's very good.

I mean, we get our ups and downs when he doesn't listen.

-Oh, no(!)

-Shush. Not on the camera.

Say this afterwards, you know?

Even when he was running, I was frightened to death for him.

This is it. You saw all of that and everything.

-We did.

-It must have been absolutely fantastic.

-It was, yes.

-Very good.

-You know?

When he showed me the silver medal,

the first time I met him,

I thought I was going to fall through the floor.

You know? He shocked me so much.

This is so, it's so lovely to see them both together.

It is really beautiful.

-It's really nice.

-And this is a really magical moment.

To see Teresa, my birth mother, meet Mum and Dad,

you know, my parents, I never thought it would happen.

You know? I never, never thought it would happen.

And it was...it's such a beautiful moment.

And then you've got Teresa speaking

to my mum saying, "Thank you for looking after him."

My mum then turns around and says, "Thank you for giving us him."

You know? I was just... You know, that hurt.

I was just thinking, "This is just an amazing moment."

And so special and they're just in there now.

They're around the kitchen,

all talking like they've known each other for years.

It's adoption at its best.

And it just keeps getting better and better.

I think we held hands for about an hour.

Just talking afterwards.

We didn't move. We just went on talking.

And it was lovely. She was telling me about her life.

What she had done.

And I was telling her a bit about Jamie.

What he had done when he was a child.

We took some photographs.

He was a naughty boy.

I found out. He was a very naughty boy.

So you know that one on camera.

Cheeky, he was.

He's got that cheeky face about him, any road.

Driving down to North Devon.

Not far away now, actually,

from my mother's house, and it's about that time

I want to...I want to find out about my birth father now

and know a bit about him.

You've got to do things the right way, so I want to make sure...

you know, I'll chat to Teresa, hopefully she'll be...

she'll give me her blessing to try and find my father.

We've just got to find out now how much she knows about him.

If she knows anything at all.

It's wanting to know nature/nurture.

It's wanting to know, you know, how is Jamie Baulch so fast?

Why was he so fast?

Was it because I just trained every day, every minute of the day?

Did I have a natural ability which was inherited from my father?

Everyone on the planet knows

Jamaica's the fastest island in the world.

And, you know, technically half of my bloodline is from Jamaica.

-Hello, Mum.

-Hello.

-How are you?

Hello.

I'm fine. I am now.

It's good to see you. You're looking great!

-Am I?

-Yeah.

That might be because I've got different specs on.

Basically, you know, what I want to do next is... We've spoken about it.

I want to find my dad.

Yes, we have spoken about it, and my blessing goes.

If you want to find your dad, my love, go and find your dad.

I mean it.

-Yeah. Thanks.

-Yeah.

I hope you find him.

I really do, sweetie.

I just hope he accepts you like I have.

-Yeah, yeah. Thank you.

-And doesn't disappoint you, you know?

-The name on file was Leonard.

-Yeah, yeah.

-But you're not sure if

-BLEEP

-could be his surname.

That is what was put down on the file.

-So...

-I'm not sure.

-I'm not sure.

-Yeah?

It could be right.

-Yeah?

-Let's hope it's right.

-For you.

-Yeah. Yeah.

-It's like almost like a needle in a haystack, you know?

-Yeah. It is.

And do you know if he's 62?

Were you and him the same age?

He was a bit older than me, your dad.

-OK. A year older or something?

-Yes.

Something like that.

He was...

Yeah, he was quite athletic.

-Was he?

-Yeah, Leonard was, yeah.

-Could he run?

-I can't remember.

I know that he played football.

I know that he liked football.

-Yeah?

-Mmm.

Definitely from Jamaica?

-Yeah.

-Jamaican.

OK. So, all we know is Leonard for sure and Jamaican.

And 62 years old...

-That's right.

-..that he would be now.

-That's right.

-Would be now.

-Do you know about him serving in the Army or not?

He used to wear his uniform, so I knew he was in the Army.

-OK.

-But all of a sudden he said, "Well, I've got to go now..."

OK. Yeah.

-"..back to where I'm stationed."

-Yeah.

If I can help you, I will.

But I don't want to ever see him.

No, no, I understand.

You know that, don't you?

Yeah. No, I wouldn't ask that.

-No, he hurt me.

-Yeah.

As Teresa says,

he doesn't know anything about Jamie.

He doesn't know he's got a son.

Whether that's true or not, I don't know.

But if it is true that he doesn't know,

I only hope that doing this with Jamie doesn't upset -

again, like I was worried about Teresa's family -

doesn't upset his family, if he's got one.

I think he wants to meet him to ask him why he wasn't bigger.

-THEY LAUGH

-So he could have been a bit taller!

Yeah.

Back in Cardiff, I'm going to meet Brian Maddar

from an agency called After Adoption.

He is going to help me find my birth dad,

as Gemma and the local authority team in the first film

can only help with looking for birth mums.

-Hello, mate.

-Hi, Jamie.

-Good to see you again.

-Are you all right?

-Good to see you. Come on in.

-Cheers, thank you.

Why do you want to make contact with your birth father now?

Last year, when we did get his full name,

we got where he was based in the Army and things like this,

and I was like, wow.

It really blew me away.

It's just gave me that little bit of wanting to know everything

about my past and knowing about me, I suppose.

Right. Invariably, when we make contact with people,

it's very successful.

But on occasions, of course, one, we may not find the person.

-Yeah.

-Two, we may find the person,

and that person may not be interested in making contact.

-How would you feel about that?

-Erm...

With Leonard, erm...

You know, I want to meet him for different reasons.

I can't go up to him and say, "Thanks for having me."

It's a different thing.

-But, you know, it would be nice to know who he is.

-Mm-hm.

I don't know. When I read his name last year in the file,

and it says he loves football,

my actually thoughts, and I've never said this out is, I thought,

"Well, when he meets me, he's going to bloody like athletics!"

Brian and the After Adoption team

have their work cut out looking for my dad.

But they said they'll come back to me soon with a search report.

Even if we got a name from the files

or if we got a name from the birth mother,

we're still not absolutely sure

that when we make contact with the birth father he...

One, he's the birth father, or he knows about the birth.

So, emotionally,

when they want to make contact with the birth father, I believe

there is less emotion to that, but more curiosity.

Wanting to look, to find out what they look like, and so forth.

But with the birth mother,

I think there is greater and significantly more emotion there.

In relation to a birth mother,

generally, they do not forget that they've given birth to a child.

With a birth father, of course, on occasions, and in my experience,

we've made contact in the past with people,

and they cannot even remember the relationship.

This weekend I'm going to St Lucia with my boys

to a place called the BodyHoliday.

I'm going over there to do a little bit of coaching on the beach

for the holiday-makers.

So, I'm not coaching athletes.

I'm going to be coaching the people who have paid to go over there to

enjoy their holiday, because it's a sporting venue.

I don't know if my kids are going to join in with the training or not.

We'll have to wait and see on that. HE CHUCKLES

So, I'm in St Lucia in the Caribbean and it's been fairly...

In my quiet moments, I've been sat on the beach and just pondering

and thinking my birth father is literally only down the road.

Only on another island, Jamaica.

So, I've always loved the Caribbean.

I've always liked the thought of the Caribbean and Jamaica,

so it's quite mad to think that I'm half-Jamaican

and really looking forward to seeing if I can find my father.

And it would be good for my kids to know who he is.

And, yeah, it's kind of mad.

OK, thanks for coming in again, Jamie.

I need to tell you before I give you the report,

unfortunately, we couldn't find any connection.

-Ah, this is...sad, you know?

-It's disappointing.

Yeah. I'm disappointed.

So, how common is it not to find a father and also, you know,

possibly false names?

Unfortunately, when we search for birth fathers,

it can be very difficult to locate them.

One, because it may have been a very,

very brief relationship.

-Yeah.

-Two, the birth mother may have given a false name

because her relationship was with someone else,

that she wanted to keep that someone else secret.

-Yeah.

-Yeah? But we do,

we do at times make contact and we've got to be very, very careful.

Particularly if the relationship was brief.

Because the guy may not even remember a particular relationship.

-And you could cause great upset.

-Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So, we do have some doubts in even making contact

with birth fathers, if we haven't got a lot of information.

Another option, if you want to push it further,

is that, again, in the past,

people have gone, particularly if they are of mixed heritage,

they've gone to a particular place where there is a community.

Say, for example, Nottingham.

-Yeah?

-I'm sure there is a community, a Jamaican community, there.

-Yeah.

-And they'll have community centres.

We used to have it down in Newtown in Cardiff...

-Yeah.

-..whereby you'd go in there and sometimes a person,

one of the old Jamaican people there may say,

-"You look like so-and-so, Leonard."

-Yes.

-Or something.

And maybe you could go in there and ask.

-Yeah.

-Why not?

-I'd love to do that.

I mean, I just want to...

I just want to know now and I want to hopefully complete this journey.

Yeah.

Yeah. HE SIGHS

Gutted. I'm so, so, so disappointed.

I was really, really upset in there.

The fact of... I really want to find my dad

and for the first time in searching for my mother and my father,

I've come up against a stumbling block.

His name doesn't exist.

Or that name isn't out there.

And I just feel...I feel a bit cheated, you know?

I feel cheated about it all,

because I'm a human being and I just want to find my dad.

Disappointed. Really disappointed.

So I've travelled up this morning

to Nottingham and I'm just about to get to

my birth mother Teresa's sister's place.

Mandy. I've never met Mandy before.

Mandy is Teresa's older sister and still lives in Nottingham,

so I'm really hoping...

that she'll have some information...

about...meeting my dad.

DOORBELL

-Hello.

-Hello!

-How are you?

-Come on in.

-It's good to see you.

Are you OK?

What do I do? Do I give you a hug? THEY LAUGH

-How are you? Are you OK?

-I'm all right. Thank you.

-Yes.

-It's lovely to meet you.

-That's me. That's your grandma and Uncle Ian.

That's my grandmother there?

-That's your grandmother.

-So who is this?

-That's Teresa.

-That's Teresa?!

That doesn't look like her at all.

They were all living at Mansfield Street.

-That's right. I've seen that.

-In Sherwood.

Erm...as far as Teresa's having the baby and that.

I don't really know a lot.

-Because...

-We were having our baby, as well, so...

Yeah. Because our Jason, he's a year older than you.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

OK. Looking at, is it City Hospital?

-Yeah.

-It's just down there, is it?

That's just over there. That is.

-So I was born just over there?

-Yeah. Yeah.

You know, I'm in Nottingham

and for the first time seeing this is where I was born.

Well. This is so strange.

Just to think - is this where I'm from?

Is this what it is?

It is emotion there, but I don't know what it is.

It's that slight, like, this isn't real.

It doesn't feel right, you know?

Well, I'm just checking out

communities of Jamaica in Nottingham,

so I'm checking out some websites, just to find out if I can

find out any information,

because I think the next step for me is to try and find some...

Go to the Jamaican community.

Try and find out some information on these websites.

So...

You know, just looking here

on this website, the Nottingham Black Archive.

It's obviously about us.

It's run by Tanya.

So, you know, I wouldn't mind...just giving these guys a call, you know?

Here we go.

So where are we looking?

Hello. Hello.

-Hello, how are you? Tanya?

-Hi! Pleased to meet you.

Hello, how are you?

-Pleased to meet you.

-I saw you on the website.

How are you? Recognise the face.

Hello, everyone. Hi, how are you?

I'm Jamie.

I wonder if you know my dad.

LAUGHTER

We are a small community.

Nearly everybody does know everybody.

I'm just thinking, Castle Boulevard is not far from here.

It's only about five minutes from here

and there was a lot of people living down there.

-Because if you were born in 19...

-'73, yeah.

You look so much like somebody here in Nottingham.

-Oh, really, do I?

-You do.

Yes, and I can see that chap right now.

I'm sure there's somebody that could...

probably know of your family.

So that's why I'm saying don't go so much by the second name,

if you're not sure. But if his first name is...

-Leonard.

-Leonard. Probably somebody in that area would still know him.

That's what I've found, as well, about Nottingham,

Jamaican people, a lot of them

tend to originate from Clarendon in Jamaica.

There's a particular parish in Jamaica.

You find a lot of Jamaicans in Nottingham

have a connection to Clarendon.

I've got a... If he's still alive.

And he's got family here in Nottingham.

I don't think, once you start a search,

it's not going to take too long.

What would you say the next steps are for me in this situation?

BBC Radio Nottingham, they have a Caribbean show on a Sunday.

I think if you're going to do any show

-you should do the Caribbean show.

-Yes.

Because that would be the one that people listen to.

Coming here today is just...

-It's given me a lot of hope, you know?

-Yeah.

-'Jodi Law.

-BBC Radio Nottingham.'

So, now part two to this story is wanting to track down

-your birth father.

-Yeah.

-Why now and why?

I mean, it's just a progression.

When you start getting that information,

then you start learning that people are saying in the local community

that Clarendon is where all the people from Nottingham,

all the black people came over and they're there.

So we're starting to get, you know,

unleash this jigsaw, which is starting to become clearer.

I'm just hoping that there's people listening to this programme

which can go, "62, a guy called Leonard. I remember Teresa.

"She used to go out with a guy called Leonard."

You know? It only takes one person to listen to this interview

which could make a massive change to everything.

So...what do you think the chances are of me finding my father over in

Jamaica in that parish?

-You know?

-I think, if you don't find your dad here in Nottingham or

somebody doesn't recognise who he may be, you'll definitely be able to

track him down. Clarendon is a tight-knit community.

My dad's from Clarendon.

And when you mentioned Castle Boulevard, as well,

-that's where my family were brought up living.

-Yeah.

So I think you've got every chance of being able to track him down.

And how old is your dad, if you don't mind me asking?

My dad is... He's now 54.

Brothers and sisters older than him, as well.

-Oh, wow.

-I think his...

The oldest is probably round about 60, actually.

-Wow.

-So I'll definitely ask for you.

That's crazy.

After the radio interview,

it was off to a showing of the first film at the community centre,

to see if it sparked up any memories amongst local people.

I wouldn't be here without you. It means so much, so thank you.

But only a few showed up.

I was getting despondent.

Yesterday, it's just that not many people really turned up.

What was your thoughts on it?

It...it's kind of expected in one sense,

because if you know the culture of Nottingham, there's quite a few,

-a number of people who don't know who their fathers are.

-Yeah.

And it's kind of all hush-hush.

You know, I grew up with a stepdad

thinking that he was my dad for years until I became an adult.

And then it actually came out that he wasn't and then that's when I

realised, when I started to talk to my peers,

that a lot of people were in the same situation.

The same circumstances.

I know yesterday I said to you that saying -

"Mummy's baby, Daddy's maybe."

You know? And that's just the way it is.

You've got to make your peace with it.

-Yeah.

-Because it's a fact of life.

-Yeah. Yeah.

-It's a quite interesting city,

because it has one of the highest percentages of Caribbean men

having relationships with English women,

so there's lots of mixed race people in this city.

-Wow.

-So, you're not alone.

No. Just one of many.

-Yeah.

-I'm just another one.

You know what I mean? Where's the father?

-Don't know!

-Yeah, don't know.

-Who is he? Don't know.

-Dad, are you out there?

Are you out there? Yeah, no, it's difficult, isn't it?

You've got to get, people have got to get over these issues

in their own way, and you wrote a poem on it?

Yeah. I wrote a poem. And it's called Me.

Me.

A child from passionate nights

When shebeen smells mingle with firewater

I'm the child that came

And you

Fathering children

Wearing silk shirts with crease-free slacks

Strutting around the city like a lord

With me photo-fitting your face to snippets of snatched

afterthoughts and whispers from loose tongue

And I've never said that

And they say it's got nothing to do with me

They say

It's big people tings.

It was obvious we were going to have to hit the streets.

So, accompanied by Panya and Aoni,

I went around established shops in the black neighbourhood,

to try to get some information and put the word out.

That's all the information I've got and I don't know if it's the correct

name or not but, you know.

But he would have gone by the name Lenny, though, wouldn't he?

Yeah. They'd call him Lenny.

The guys of my age group, I can always ask them and so on.

Yeah. Yeah.

We always played football together after school, after work,

rallying everyone.

-Yes.

-Used to meet at Lenton Park and we all used to play football.

I do know that, if he was in Castle Boulevard,

he's somebody that I definitely know.

We have been around a long time.

-Yeah, yeah.

-And there's a lot of the older generation...

-OK.

-..I can actually put the word to.

-Oh, wicked. Nice.

-So that would be the best thing, really.

-OK.

-But you'll stand a good chance.

-OK.

-I would imagine.

-I've heard that name round the family.

-Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We're the Mackenzie family so we know a lot of people.

We're nice people, so...

-OK.

-My dad is Father Demas.

If I give you his number, basically you can phone him.

-Yeah.

-Have a word on the dinger.

I don't know how old your dad is.

-He's 62.

-62. He's around on my dad's age.

My dad's 57, so that's probably...

He looked up to your dad when he came from Jamaica.

Here what you do. You take my dad's number.

-OK, yeah.

-And hopefully you can find your dad, innit.

That'd be wicked, innit.

Do you want to ring him off my phone?

No, I've got no credit so you've got to ring him off your phone, mate.

-LAUGHTER

-You've got to.

-What's your dad's name?

-Derek Mackenzie.

Father Demas. Just say Father Demas.

RINGING TONE

-Do you want to speak to him?

-No, you speak to him, say my name's Wayne,

you've met me and I'm his son.

-'Hello?'

-Hello, is that Father Demas?

'Yes, it is.'

I'm with Wayne in the barber shop and he said to give you a ring.

I was adopted, so I've never met my father yet and I know he's from

Nottingham, so I'm trying to search for him,

and apparently, you're the man to try and chat to.

'Suddenly, everyone seemed to want me

'to ring their father to see if they knew my father.'

Hello?

'A lot of people, I found out, don't know their fathers.

'You know, people who haven't been adopted don't know their fathers.'

So this is not a Jamie Baulch case, this is a Nottingham case,

this is a black history case, you know.

There's so many people out there,

who don't know who their fathers are,

and there's so many people out there, who,

their father may be in the next street

and they don't know who they are.

I'm still in hope, I am still in hope and hopefully over the next

couple of weeks, somebody may come through woodwork and say, you know,

we know who your father is, you know.

-I'm not going to give up yet.

-Yeah.

-Don't give up.

No, no. But thanks.

Give us a hug!

Cheers, guys, cheers.

Thanks a lot and all the best.

-Take care.

-Bye. Bye-bye.

So I've just been called in to the TV production office and...

basically, in short,

I got a call last night saying that there's been a breakthrough.

Claudette, who I met last week,

has phoned the production team and said,

"We've got some information and it's a breakthrough

"and we want Jamie to speak to this person."

And I'm going,

you know, "Who is this person who's going to ring up?

"What are they going to say to me? Is it my father?

I"s it somebody who knows my father?"

It's funny, you go on these...

this trip in search of... but nobody can prepare you,

nobody can prepare that.

PHONE RINGS

Oh, my God, oh, my God.

Hello?

Yeah, hi, it's Jamie speaking, how are you?

Yeah, I'm all good, I'm all good. Who am I speaking with?

Hello, Levi. How are you, you OK?

'I'm not too bad thanks, yourself?'

Yeah, good, good.

OK, so do you know why we're in touch with each other?

OK.

Yeah. OK. Well, basically, I'm searching for my father.

Yeah, that's cool and what's the relation to Leonard and you, then?

What's that?

Oh!

OK.

And how old is Leonard?

About 62?

Yeah. Roughly.

Yeah, yeah.

Oh, wow. OK.

Is Leonard in the UK?

Oh, wow.

OK.

Yeah. Wicked, well, that's it...

Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, it said he was stationed in Germany in my notes.

That's nice. I'm feeling good about this one, you know?

All right, OK.

Well, thank you for being in touch.

'Yeah, have a nice day and then we'll be in touch.'

All right, then. Cheers, Levi.

Take care. Bye. Bye-bye, bye-bye.

'Bye.'

Oh.

Ah!

Oh, what do you say to that, man?

What do you say to that?

Bloody hell.

Just gets better and better, don't it?

That's cool. I'm going to meet my father, man.

It's going to happen.

MUSIC: Could You Be Loved by Bob Marley

MUSIC: Is This Love? by Bob Marley

When I listen to reggae now,

I never grew up with this in my house until I was 17

and it was a serious culture shock, you know?

Like, there was a whole side of me which was totally missing.

For me, when I was 17 and I'm racing Darren Campbell

and I'm racing the ever great sprinters in this country,

I got very respected very quickly,

and because I'm so Welsh and my accent is so Welsh,

the black guys and the black girls used to like me even more

because of my accent and I had the blond dreadlocks

and people thought, "Who is this guy?!

"Who's this guy here now with the blond dreadlocks

"thinking he's Bob Marley, you know?"

Well, he was trying too hard!

HE LAUGHS

You know, it's... Listen, it's...

You can't try and BE Jamaican.

You're Jamaican.

Jamaica, I guess, was cool

and Jamaica was what he was trying to be and the dreadlocks

didn't fit in with the way that he dressed.

Yeah, he had this individual character.

It was good to see somebody who wasn't trying

to be like everybody else, who was slightly different.

And, you know, Linford being our coach for so long,

at times, I viewed Linford as a father figure

and in the case of Linford Christie and Colin Jackson,

they were successful

in the sport that we wanted to be successful in

so, you know, they do become very important in your life.

And amazingly, while I had my heroes,

I was a role model for some of the next generation of athletic stars.

As a youngster, you know, you have a role model and, you know,

-it's what you see on TV.

-Yeah.

I remember watching you competing for GB...

-Yeah.

-..and watching on TV and that's what I saw,

like you had dreadlocks and you had like bleached hair and dreadlocks.

And I was like, "Oh, man, that looks so cool."

I actually copied you and did exactly the same thing,

so it was just so cool to have something different

and everyone is always, like, shaved hair, different,

and you were different then.

-I was definitely different.

-I just want to be like Jamie.

-I did the dreadlocks and stuff.

-That's wicked, man. That's wicked.

Well, we're back on the motorway driving up to Nottingham

to see a man called Levi, which is

possibly my dad's brother

and today could be the day I meet my father.

This could... You know, it's one of the biggest days of your life.

You know, I was rabbiting in the car and I just feel like

race day again, you know.

It's really... It's just really difficult to compute and take in.

Here we go again.

-Jamie?

-Levi.

You know what? I saw you in the car park and I was thinking,

"It is, it isn't, it is." How are you, man?

-Are you good?

-I'm good.

-Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you, man.

Oh, my gosh.

Mixed race, won a World Championships,

got an Olympic silver medal.

It's not from Teresa, my mother, where I got the speed from,

it's obviously from Leonard, know what I mean?

And apparently he was quick.

My mum said he was quick as a kid, he was pretty fast.

So, you know,

to me, it is more so...

almost to find out my roots, you know?

Do you know what I mean?

-Yeah.

-You know him. Would he be...?

I know this is a bit of a bombshell for him.

I know!

How do you think he'll react? Because you know him.

Will he be cool?

All I can promise you is, yeah, I'll be very diplomatic.

OK, OK.

Would you be willing to meet him without cameras and all that,

-one to one?

-Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course.

-It's OK for me.

-You're one step away.

-You're my uncle!

-Yeah?

You're my uncle!

That's the case, yeah.

Do you know what I mean? How weird's that?

So is the first time you're meeting your uncle, maybe.

Yeah. So your brother is Leonard.

Was in the Army.

Was he in Germany at any point?

-Yeah, that's where he was based.

-Is he about five foot seven?

-Yeah.

-Well, that's all there.

That's what the curiosity is about.

Yeah. You know.

And you were based in Castle Boulevard.

-Yeah.

-And your brother used to come down and stay with you there.

-Yeah.

-Did he ever...?

-That's the similarity.

-Yeah, well,

the likelihood of it not being your brother

is highly unlikely, isn't it?

-We'll do this, yeah?

-Yeah, I appreciate it.

-We'll do this.

-Thanks, man.

-Yeah, yeah.

Cheers, man. We'll be in touch.

Speak in a couple of days.

Yeah, OK, cool. I'll look forward to your phone call.

Cheers. You take care, Levi. Nice to meet you.

Oh, what?

This is just...surreal,

meeting, potentially, my uncle, and...nice bloke,

nice bloke, good conversation.

He's going to ring me now in a couple of days' time.

He's going to speak to my father.

That's a difficult conversation for him to have,

but I'm hoping that I really get to see him.

This has definitely got to be the same guy who Teresa spoke about,

my mother spoke about.

I feel a lot better now.

But I'm still, like, you know, thinking I want to meet him

and I don't know what's going to come of this now. I don't know what

the next phase is because he may not want to see me, you know?

And I'm going to have to wait and see.

So, I'm coming back to Nottingham.

Me and Levi have been speaking quite a few times on the phone and he's

spoken to his brother, my potential dad, my biological father,

and it's a lot of confusion because my biological father...

..Leonard, is saying that he was too young.

My father's name is quite unique,

it's quite different to any other name I've heard,

and, you know, looking on file, in this country,

there only seems to be one of them, so it's got to be...

You know, I don't get it, I'm very lost by it and quite confused.

So I'm coming today to have a DNA test with Levi.

We're going to find out...

..if I'm part of the family.

This is it. This is the moment!

I know! This will tell us if I'm related to your family.

Yeah. I'm glad I'm here for you, anyway.

So we'll find out exactly what's going on for both sides,

-both parties.

-No, I really appreciate that.

So, let's have a look here now.

-This is it.

-So, father, that's you.

-So what is it? OK. Basically...

-My brother is very lucky!

I'm doing a lot for my brother, I'm saving him.

You are! You are saving him!

So let's have a look here.

Two of these swabs.

So I've got a little idea.

They've both got to face downwards,

when you put them into the envelope.

Right, OK. I'm ready to start now.

OK, so I've done the one. Then you've got to...

You have actually got to...

-Swab two.

-Swab two.

And then that one.

-I did that with the first one.

-I didn't do that.

There we go. And then face down.

-OK.

-And seal it up.

That looks like it.

That's it.

You know what? This is

-the sort of thing you see in the Jeremy Kyle Show!

-Exactly, I know!

I'm glad I'm not on the Jeremy Kyle Show, though!

I know what you mean! That's coming next!

Listen to this man!

So, OK, cool.

Basically, names and addresses on them and then we're done.

-Swabs done.

-Thanks, man.

Bro.

-No problem.

-I really appreciate it.

-Everything's all good.

-Cheers, man, I really appreciate that.

-OK.

I'll be giving you a call...

-I'm listening to the call.

-..when we know the results.

I'm listening to you.

I'll let you know. It will be about a week's time, I reckon.

So, if anything, I'll be taking you to Leonard.

Yeah. Yeah!

Bringing the family together.

I can hear that. Cheers.

Nice meeting you all.

Cheers, maybe Dad!

-Cheers!

-OK, mate. Take it easy, all right?

-See you later.

-Bye.

He's such a nice guy, you know.

He didn't need to do this

and he knows he didn't need to do it but he's helping me out.

And it means a lot because we're going to know...

In a week's time, I'll know the results,

if I'm part of that family or not.

If I am, we go one step further,

if I'm not, I don't know where it leads me.

But, yeah, great.

Well, we're at my parents' house

and we've got the results back today.

I don't want to open it! I don't want to open it.

OK. Here we go.

HE SIGHS

Well. It looks like...

Let's have a look.

It looks like...

nothing to do with me.

I'm gutted.

HE SIGHS

I'm really... I'm angry, that's what it is.

You know, the reason I'm upset, I'm angry,

is the fact of it stops now, where do I go, you know?

And we've got this far where, you know,

you get told this is your father, this is the name, this is that

and then suddenly it's nothing. It's just a mismatch.

You just say...

You know?

Well, there we have it.

Based on the DNA analysis, individual one,

James Stephen Baulch,

and individual two, Levi,

belonging to two distinct lineages

which supports a hypothesis that both individuals do not share

the common paternal ancestor.

No links at all.

I don't get it. You know, is that information 43 years ago wrong?

Well, it is.

And I'll tell you why I'm upset and I feel slightly angry

is because

I'm a human being, do you know what I mean?

I just want...

I'm going to get the words out. I want to know who I am.

RINGING TONE

'Hi.'

Hey, Levi, it's Jamie.

'All right, mate? How's the whole thing?'

I'm all good, I'm all good. I'm just ringing cos I've got the results.

-'Oh, how did it come back?'

-No, we're not related, man.

'OK, man, I had a feeling about that, man.'

Yeah, I'm gutted because I just feel like, you know,

I had all this information and it's just gone nowhere, you know?

'Yeah, I'm ever so sorry about that.'

I do really appreciate what you've done because you didn't have to...

'It's OK, man. It's no problem, mate. It's all good, yeah?'

-Cheers, Levi. You take care.

-'I hope you're successful the next...

'time you go to find your dad, yeah?'

Yeah, yeah, thank you. No, I really appreciate it.

-'All right, mate.'

-Cheers, man.

-'Bye.'

-Bye-bye.

On record, 43 years ago, it said in ink who my father was.

You know, Teresa would have given them that information.

My biological birth mother would have given them that information

and it's wrong. Was he always giving Teresa a false name?

I don't know. I don't know if I'll ever find him and...

..that hurts. That really hurts.

'I spoke to Teresa about the swab DNA results

'and she was as surprised and as shocked as I was

'and couldn't give me any more information

'about my biological dad.

'So maybe I'll never actually meet him.'

We're in Eastbourne today to meet up with a scientist who has basically

tested hundreds of athletes,

including some of the Jamaican athletes, about the sprint gene.

So, for me, knowing I'm Jamaican or half Jamaican,

I want to know how much do I owe to my father.

Is it nature/nurture?

Is it because my father has given me that extra power?

Is it through grit and determination?

Is it a culmination of everything?

So today we'll find out.

The sprint gene is a genetic variation

linked to faster muscle twitch,

helping explosive movement.

-Come and join me.

-Cheers, thank you.

OK, so, this is our laboratory.

This is where all the work happens

and what you see around here is various laboratory equipment,

but the most important bit is what you see on the left-hand side.

-Wow.

-These are four -80 freezers,

-so much colder than your freezer at home.

-Yeah.

But that's not what's special about these freezers.

What's special about these freezers is some of the great athletes that

you competed against are in there.

-Oh, really?

-Not literally, OK, but their DNA is in there.

-OK?

-Some of the Jamaicans?

-Some of the Jamaicans.

-Actually, a lot of the Jamaicans, OK?

-OK.

-So let's see if we can find some.

-Yeah, yeah.

OK, so...

-..Jamaican sprinters.

-Wow.

Somehow you may have been, some who may have beaten you.

Yeah, I think they might have beaten me

a few more times than I've beaten them, to be honest.

The sprint gene is influenced by both the mother and the father.

OK? So the wrong version is an X.

-Yeah.

-The right version is an R.

-OK.

-So what you want is for the perfect scenario

to really say, "I have the sprint gene,"

is to have the R from the mother

and the R from the father.

Let me show you the results. You are indeed R-R.

-Come on!

-So you have the sprint gene.

So I got it from my mum, as well?

That's my point.

I'm loving that. I don't know why I'm boxing.

I don't know why you're boxing.

So the point is that both your mum and your dad influenced this

-and that's your result.

-That's brilliant. That is so good.

That is so cool.

In the freezer you saw before,

we have hundreds of the world's greatest sprinters

-and not one of them had the wrong version.

-Oh, OK.

So they all have the same.

However, the vast majority in Jamaica,

98%,

have the right version,

they have an R,

but so do 80% of Europeans.

-OK.

-Which tells you what?

That the gene in itself can't be the predictor for

whether you make it as a sprinter or you're going to be a great sprinter.

It's NOT having it.

It's funny because you presume with me being mixed race

that it's obviously going to be the black part of me but, you know,

it is quite interesting to say,

"No, it's all of you which makes you fast."

I haven't done this for, like, 20 years.

I'm back at Cwmbran Stadium. This is just like...

I haven't been here for a long time

and this is where it all started for me, really.

You know when you get older, you can't believe that you used to do this, do you know what I mean?

I remember winning a competition in 1980.

It was my first. It was called the Mini Olympics

and I think I beat people who were a year older than me.

Oh, you know what? I don't even really want to try.

I'll hurt myself.

We found out that my biological mother

and my biological father have both given me the genes,

which is amazing.

So they gave me that start off in life but was it because of them?

Was it because of my father?

Well, no, you know? I feel it's because where I have been raised.

My adoptive parents, Marilyn and Alan,

brought me here, training with the right people.

Colin Jackson, you know, Linford Christie,

Darren Campbell all on this track

and it's that which I believe has got me to where I am today.

And it's crazy that it's gone full circle for me.

It's gone full circle where you search, you search, you search

and you find that you had the answer in the first place

and it's because of this.

On your marks...

..get set.

Go, go, go, go! Good job.

Makes me want to do it.

Now I'm here, right here, right now, yes,

it's disappointing that I haven't found out who my father is, but

you know what? I've got my father.

His name's Alan Baulch.

Yeah, that's who my father is.

MUSIC: We by Neil Diamond