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'I'm Jamie Baulch, the former Olympic athlete.' | 0:00:03 | 0:00:06 | |
I'm so nervous. | 0:00:06 | 0:00:08 | |
'And two years ago I went in search for my birth mum. | 0:00:08 | 0:00:11 | |
'When I was born, she gave me up for adoption.' | 0:00:14 | 0:00:17 | |
Come on in, guys. | 0:00:18 | 0:00:19 | |
This is my mum. | 0:00:22 | 0:00:24 | |
Hello. | 0:00:24 | 0:00:26 | |
'In the end I found her and we met for the first time. | 0:00:26 | 0:00:28 | |
'I couldn't wait to show her my Olympic medal.' | 0:00:30 | 0:00:32 | |
-Now we... -To know that my son has been so famous. | 0:00:32 | 0:00:37 | |
I'm so proud of him. | 0:00:37 | 0:00:40 | |
I really am. | 0:00:40 | 0:00:41 | |
'It was an incredible emotional journey for me, | 0:00:43 | 0:00:46 | |
'my birth mother and her family. | 0:00:46 | 0:00:49 | |
'And my parents, Alan and Marilyn Baulch, | 0:00:49 | 0:00:51 | |
'who supported me all the way.' | 0:00:51 | 0:00:53 | |
-COMMENTATOR: -Baulch is coming away to take the world title. | 0:01:01 | 0:01:05 | |
Baulch gets it. | 0:01:05 | 0:01:06 | |
'But where does my running ability come from? | 0:01:06 | 0:01:10 | |
'During my search I discovered in the adoption file | 0:01:10 | 0:01:13 | |
'that my natural father may be Jamaican | 0:01:13 | 0:01:16 | |
'and they have the fastest runners in the world. | 0:01:16 | 0:01:19 | |
'So, now I want to find the source of my speed. | 0:01:19 | 0:01:21 | |
'My birth dad.' | 0:01:22 | 0:01:24 | |
I want him to be proud, I suppose. | 0:01:24 | 0:01:26 | |
I want him to be proud and I want him to just think, wow, you know? | 0:01:26 | 0:01:31 | |
Wow, this is my son who's achieved all these wonderful things. | 0:01:31 | 0:01:34 | |
You know? | 0:01:34 | 0:01:36 | |
I think any father on this planet, | 0:01:36 | 0:01:38 | |
if their son has achieved so much in sport, | 0:01:38 | 0:01:41 | |
you've got to be proud of that. | 0:01:41 | 0:01:43 | |
'I know this is going to be a tougher challenge.' | 0:01:44 | 0:01:46 | |
Bloody hell! | 0:01:47 | 0:01:48 | |
'I'm going to have to roll my sleeves up. | 0:01:48 | 0:01:51 | |
'And even if I do trace my biological father, | 0:01:51 | 0:01:54 | |
'he may not even acknowledge me or meet me.' | 0:01:54 | 0:01:57 | |
I've heard that name, like, round the family. | 0:01:57 | 0:02:00 | |
Hopefully, you can find your dad, innit. | 0:02:00 | 0:02:03 | |
'But I don't think I'll be complete until I find my birth dad.' | 0:02:03 | 0:02:06 | |
Oh. | 0:02:06 | 0:02:07 | |
Here we go again. | 0:02:07 | 0:02:08 | |
I was born in Nottingham City Hospital in 1973. | 0:02:19 | 0:02:23 | |
Described as light tan and in urgent need of adoption. | 0:02:23 | 0:02:27 | |
After six months in a children's nursery, | 0:02:29 | 0:02:32 | |
Marilyn and Alan Baulch visited | 0:02:32 | 0:02:34 | |
and took me to my new home in South Wales. | 0:02:34 | 0:02:36 | |
In the previous film, during the search for my birth mum, | 0:02:39 | 0:02:43 | |
I found out with the help of my parents and my social worker, | 0:02:43 | 0:02:46 | |
Gemma Williams, that my original surname was Mills. | 0:02:46 | 0:02:49 | |
And my birth mother's name was Teresa. | 0:02:49 | 0:02:52 | |
Teresa Anne Mills. | 0:02:53 | 0:02:54 | |
Just starts putting a little bit of a picture together. | 0:02:56 | 0:03:00 | |
According to the adoption file written at the time, | 0:03:01 | 0:03:04 | |
Teresa gave my father's name as Leonard. | 0:03:04 | 0:03:06 | |
And gave a very unusual surname, | 0:03:06 | 0:03:08 | |
which we can't broadcast to protect privacy. | 0:03:08 | 0:03:11 | |
He was 20. | 0:03:12 | 0:03:14 | |
And was Jamaican and was in the Army, currently serving in Germany. | 0:03:14 | 0:03:18 | |
And his interests included football. | 0:03:19 | 0:03:21 | |
If I'm honest, I never thought I would find out who my father was. | 0:03:24 | 0:03:29 | |
The file said he lived somewhere on Castle Boulevard, Nottingham. | 0:03:29 | 0:03:32 | |
And that his relationship with Teresa had ended, | 0:03:32 | 0:03:35 | |
and I was up for adoption, | 0:03:35 | 0:03:37 | |
as she was expected to marry someone else. | 0:03:37 | 0:03:39 | |
We couldn't find her marriage, because she didn't marry him. | 0:03:41 | 0:03:43 | |
Yeah. Yeah. That is, well, | 0:03:45 | 0:03:46 | |
that bit there is kind of mad, because the whole, | 0:03:46 | 0:03:51 | |
one of the things she said about adopting me was because he didn't | 0:03:51 | 0:03:54 | |
want to have this child. So, that's interesting. | 0:03:54 | 0:03:56 | |
It was interesting to find out that | 0:03:56 | 0:03:58 | |
actually she didn't go down that route in the end. | 0:03:58 | 0:04:01 | |
There is something that you need to know about Teresa. | 0:04:03 | 0:04:05 | |
-Yeah? -Teresa's actually not particularly well. | 0:04:05 | 0:04:07 | |
She was diagnosed with lung cancer in March. | 0:04:09 | 0:04:12 | |
And it is terminal. | 0:04:12 | 0:04:13 | |
-I'm really sorry. -Can we just stop? | 0:04:15 | 0:04:17 | |
I really want to meet her. | 0:04:20 | 0:04:22 | |
And it sounds like she really wants to...meet me. | 0:04:22 | 0:04:27 | |
-This is my mum. -Hello. | 0:04:30 | 0:04:33 | |
I've said it all along, with this programme, | 0:04:33 | 0:04:36 | |
I've always just wanted to say thank you. | 0:04:36 | 0:04:38 | |
You know? Because, you know, I wouldn't be here without you. | 0:04:38 | 0:04:42 | |
And... HIS VOICE BREAKS | 0:04:42 | 0:04:43 | |
..it means so much. So thank you for doing the right thing | 0:04:43 | 0:04:47 | |
and I know that it's worked out for the best. | 0:04:47 | 0:04:50 | |
-You know? -Yeah. Yeah. | 0:04:50 | 0:04:52 | |
Yeah. | 0:04:52 | 0:04:53 | |
Yeah. Yeah. | 0:04:54 | 0:04:55 | |
It did work out for the best, Jamie. | 0:04:55 | 0:04:58 | |
All right. One more hug. | 0:04:59 | 0:05:01 | |
-You take care. -You take care. | 0:05:02 | 0:05:05 | |
The last documentary went out and I have never in my life experienced | 0:05:08 | 0:05:13 | |
anything like it. You know? | 0:05:13 | 0:05:14 | |
When I won an Olympic medal, won the World Championships, | 0:05:14 | 0:05:18 | |
I got a lot of attention there, as you can imagine. | 0:05:18 | 0:05:20 | |
This is 100 times more. | 0:05:20 | 0:05:22 | |
I've had people who don't know me coming up to me in the street. | 0:05:22 | 0:05:26 | |
I've had thousands of people on Facebook, Twitter, contacting me. | 0:05:26 | 0:05:31 | |
He gave me an inner strength. | 0:05:31 | 0:05:34 | |
He gave me something else to fight for, too. | 0:05:34 | 0:05:37 | |
I'm fighting to keep this horrible thing away from me. | 0:05:37 | 0:05:43 | |
I think my son's helped me, | 0:05:43 | 0:05:44 | |
my daughter and my husband have helped me there. | 0:05:44 | 0:05:48 | |
Before I begin a new search for my birth dad, | 0:05:54 | 0:05:56 | |
I'm completing the first journey by bringing my mums together. | 0:05:56 | 0:06:00 | |
Happy days. We'll have a couple of nice days here. | 0:06:01 | 0:06:04 | |
-Yes. -Yes. -We are here at the Celtic Manor. | 0:06:04 | 0:06:07 | |
It's near my home. | 0:06:07 | 0:06:09 | |
You know, with Teresa not being that well, | 0:06:09 | 0:06:11 | |
I wanted to be in an environment where we can relax. | 0:06:11 | 0:06:14 | |
We can just have some fun together. | 0:06:14 | 0:06:17 | |
And talk fables, I suppose. | 0:06:17 | 0:06:18 | |
-It's beautiful here. -So your mum and dad's coming, then? | 0:06:18 | 0:06:21 | |
Yeah, they're going to be here any minute now, you know? | 0:06:21 | 0:06:24 | |
This whole thing for me was for my mum and dad, Teresa, Des and Jay, | 0:06:24 | 0:06:29 | |
for everyone to meet. | 0:06:29 | 0:06:31 | |
And just talk and just sort of, like, really enjoy the moment. | 0:06:31 | 0:06:35 | |
And, erm, to see my two mothers... | 0:06:35 | 0:06:39 | |
You know? | 0:06:41 | 0:06:43 | |
Just incredible. | 0:06:43 | 0:06:44 | |
-All right, Mum? -I brought some flowers for your mum. | 0:06:44 | 0:06:48 | |
Look at... That just sums up Mum that, you know? | 0:06:48 | 0:06:51 | |
Flowers for my mum. | 0:06:51 | 0:06:52 | |
-Why not? -Brilliant. | 0:06:52 | 0:06:53 | |
-Mum, this is... -Hello. | 0:06:53 | 0:06:56 | |
-..my mother. -Hello. -Hello. -This is Des. | 0:06:56 | 0:07:00 | |
-Jaya. -Pleased to meet you. | 0:07:00 | 0:07:03 | |
Mum, meet Mum. | 0:07:03 | 0:07:05 | |
-How are you? -Nice to meet you. | 0:07:05 | 0:07:08 | |
So pleased to meet you. | 0:07:08 | 0:07:09 | |
I really am so pleased to meet you. | 0:07:09 | 0:07:12 | |
-So am I. -That's a moment right there. | 0:07:12 | 0:07:14 | |
-That's touching. -Thank you for letting us have your son. | 0:07:14 | 0:07:19 | |
Hey... | 0:07:19 | 0:07:20 | |
and look what you've done to him! | 0:07:20 | 0:07:22 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:07:22 | 0:07:24 | |
Don't blame me. It's not all my fault! | 0:07:24 | 0:07:26 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:07:26 | 0:07:28 | |
Hello, Alan. Nice to meet you. I'm all right. | 0:07:28 | 0:07:32 | |
Nice to meet you, too. | 0:07:32 | 0:07:34 | |
What a moment. | 0:07:34 | 0:07:36 | |
I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. | 0:07:37 | 0:07:41 | |
If you didn't pick him and made him into what he is now... | 0:07:41 | 0:07:47 | |
I'm very proud of him. | 0:07:47 | 0:07:49 | |
-We all are. -And proud of you two for doing it. | 0:07:49 | 0:07:52 | |
-We are very proud. -Thank you. | 0:07:52 | 0:07:53 | |
He has given us as much pleasure, really. | 0:07:53 | 0:07:56 | |
-Yeah. -He's very good. | 0:07:56 | 0:07:58 | |
I mean, we get our ups and downs when he doesn't listen. | 0:07:58 | 0:08:01 | |
-Oh, no(!) -Shush. Not on the camera. | 0:08:01 | 0:08:05 | |
Say this afterwards, you know? | 0:08:05 | 0:08:07 | |
Even when he was running, I was frightened to death for him. | 0:08:07 | 0:08:09 | |
This is it. You saw all of that and everything. | 0:08:10 | 0:08:13 | |
-We did. -It must have been absolutely fantastic. -It was, yes. | 0:08:13 | 0:08:16 | |
-Very good. -You know? | 0:08:16 | 0:08:18 | |
When he showed me the silver medal, | 0:08:18 | 0:08:20 | |
the first time I met him, | 0:08:20 | 0:08:22 | |
I thought I was going to fall through the floor. | 0:08:22 | 0:08:24 | |
You know? He shocked me so much. | 0:08:24 | 0:08:27 | |
This is so, it's so lovely to see them both together. | 0:08:27 | 0:08:30 | |
It is really beautiful. | 0:08:30 | 0:08:31 | |
-It's really nice. -And this is a really magical moment. | 0:08:31 | 0:08:34 | |
To see Teresa, my birth mother, meet Mum and Dad, | 0:08:36 | 0:08:41 | |
you know, my parents, I never thought it would happen. | 0:08:41 | 0:08:43 | |
You know? I never, never thought it would happen. | 0:08:43 | 0:08:46 | |
And it was...it's such a beautiful moment. | 0:08:46 | 0:08:48 | |
And then you've got Teresa speaking | 0:08:48 | 0:08:50 | |
to my mum saying, "Thank you for looking after him." | 0:08:50 | 0:08:54 | |
My mum then turns around and says, "Thank you for giving us him." | 0:08:54 | 0:08:58 | |
You know? I was just... You know, that hurt. | 0:08:58 | 0:09:01 | |
I was just thinking, "This is just an amazing moment." | 0:09:01 | 0:09:03 | |
And so special and they're just in there now. | 0:09:03 | 0:09:06 | |
They're around the kitchen, | 0:09:06 | 0:09:07 | |
all talking like they've known each other for years. | 0:09:07 | 0:09:09 | |
It's adoption at its best. | 0:09:09 | 0:09:11 | |
And it just keeps getting better and better. | 0:09:11 | 0:09:13 | |
I think we held hands for about an hour. | 0:09:14 | 0:09:17 | |
Just talking afterwards. | 0:09:17 | 0:09:18 | |
We didn't move. We just went on talking. | 0:09:18 | 0:09:21 | |
And it was lovely. She was telling me about her life. | 0:09:21 | 0:09:23 | |
What she had done. | 0:09:23 | 0:09:25 | |
And I was telling her a bit about Jamie. | 0:09:25 | 0:09:27 | |
What he had done when he was a child. | 0:09:27 | 0:09:29 | |
We took some photographs. | 0:09:29 | 0:09:31 | |
He was a naughty boy. | 0:09:31 | 0:09:33 | |
I found out. He was a very naughty boy. | 0:09:33 | 0:09:36 | |
So you know that one on camera. | 0:09:36 | 0:09:38 | |
Cheeky, he was. | 0:09:40 | 0:09:41 | |
He's got that cheeky face about him, any road. | 0:09:41 | 0:09:45 | |
Driving down to North Devon. | 0:09:53 | 0:09:55 | |
Not far away now, actually, | 0:09:55 | 0:09:56 | |
from my mother's house, and it's about that time | 0:09:56 | 0:10:00 | |
I want to...I want to find out about my birth father now | 0:10:00 | 0:10:03 | |
and know a bit about him. | 0:10:03 | 0:10:05 | |
You've got to do things the right way, so I want to make sure... | 0:10:07 | 0:10:11 | |
you know, I'll chat to Teresa, hopefully she'll be... | 0:10:11 | 0:10:14 | |
she'll give me her blessing to try and find my father. | 0:10:14 | 0:10:19 | |
We've just got to find out now how much she knows about him. | 0:10:19 | 0:10:23 | |
If she knows anything at all. | 0:10:23 | 0:10:25 | |
It's wanting to know nature/nurture. | 0:10:28 | 0:10:31 | |
It's wanting to know, you know, how is Jamie Baulch so fast? | 0:10:31 | 0:10:35 | |
Why was he so fast? | 0:10:35 | 0:10:36 | |
Was it because I just trained every day, every minute of the day? | 0:10:36 | 0:10:40 | |
Did I have a natural ability which was inherited from my father? | 0:10:40 | 0:10:43 | |
Everyone on the planet knows | 0:10:43 | 0:10:45 | |
Jamaica's the fastest island in the world. | 0:10:45 | 0:10:47 | |
And, you know, technically half of my bloodline is from Jamaica. | 0:10:47 | 0:10:51 | |
-Hello, Mum. -Hello. -How are you? | 0:10:57 | 0:11:00 | |
Hello. | 0:11:00 | 0:11:02 | |
I'm fine. I am now. | 0:11:02 | 0:11:05 | |
It's good to see you. You're looking great! | 0:11:05 | 0:11:07 | |
-Am I? -Yeah. | 0:11:07 | 0:11:08 | |
That might be because I've got different specs on. | 0:11:08 | 0:11:11 | |
Basically, you know, what I want to do next is... We've spoken about it. | 0:11:22 | 0:11:26 | |
I want to find my dad. | 0:11:26 | 0:11:27 | |
Yes, we have spoken about it, and my blessing goes. | 0:11:29 | 0:11:33 | |
If you want to find your dad, my love, go and find your dad. | 0:11:33 | 0:11:37 | |
I mean it. | 0:11:39 | 0:11:40 | |
-Yeah. Thanks. -Yeah. | 0:11:41 | 0:11:43 | |
I hope you find him. | 0:11:43 | 0:11:45 | |
I really do, sweetie. | 0:11:45 | 0:11:47 | |
I just hope he accepts you like I have. | 0:11:47 | 0:11:49 | |
-Yeah, yeah. Thank you. -And doesn't disappoint you, you know? | 0:11:49 | 0:11:52 | |
-The name on file was Leonard. -Yeah, yeah. | 0:11:57 | 0:12:00 | |
-But you're not sure if -BLEEP -could be his surname. | 0:12:00 | 0:12:03 | |
That is what was put down on the file. | 0:12:03 | 0:12:06 | |
-So... -I'm not sure. | 0:12:06 | 0:12:07 | |
-I'm not sure. -Yeah? | 0:12:07 | 0:12:10 | |
It could be right. | 0:12:10 | 0:12:11 | |
-Yeah? -Let's hope it's right. | 0:12:11 | 0:12:13 | |
-For you. -Yeah. Yeah. | 0:12:13 | 0:12:15 | |
-It's like almost like a needle in a haystack, you know? -Yeah. It is. | 0:12:15 | 0:12:19 | |
And do you know if he's 62? | 0:12:19 | 0:12:21 | |
Were you and him the same age? | 0:12:21 | 0:12:24 | |
He was a bit older than me, your dad. | 0:12:24 | 0:12:26 | |
-OK. A year older or something? -Yes. | 0:12:26 | 0:12:27 | |
Something like that. | 0:12:27 | 0:12:29 | |
He was... | 0:12:29 | 0:12:30 | |
Yeah, he was quite athletic. | 0:12:31 | 0:12:34 | |
-Was he? -Yeah, Leonard was, yeah. | 0:12:34 | 0:12:35 | |
-Could he run? -I can't remember. | 0:12:37 | 0:12:41 | |
I know that he played football. | 0:12:41 | 0:12:43 | |
I know that he liked football. | 0:12:43 | 0:12:44 | |
-Yeah? -Mmm. | 0:12:44 | 0:12:47 | |
Definitely from Jamaica? | 0:12:47 | 0:12:48 | |
-Yeah. -Jamaican. | 0:12:48 | 0:12:50 | |
OK. So, all we know is Leonard for sure and Jamaican. | 0:12:50 | 0:12:56 | |
And 62 years old... | 0:12:56 | 0:12:59 | |
-That's right. -..that he would be now. -That's right. | 0:12:59 | 0:13:02 | |
-Would be now. -Do you know about him serving in the Army or not? | 0:13:02 | 0:13:05 | |
He used to wear his uniform, so I knew he was in the Army. | 0:13:05 | 0:13:09 | |
-OK. -But all of a sudden he said, "Well, I've got to go now..." | 0:13:09 | 0:13:13 | |
OK. Yeah. | 0:13:13 | 0:13:15 | |
-"..back to where I'm stationed." -Yeah. | 0:13:15 | 0:13:18 | |
If I can help you, I will. | 0:13:26 | 0:13:28 | |
But I don't want to ever see him. | 0:13:30 | 0:13:31 | |
No, no, I understand. | 0:13:31 | 0:13:33 | |
You know that, don't you? | 0:13:33 | 0:13:34 | |
Yeah. No, I wouldn't ask that. | 0:13:35 | 0:13:37 | |
-No, he hurt me. -Yeah. | 0:13:37 | 0:13:38 | |
As Teresa says, | 0:13:40 | 0:13:42 | |
he doesn't know anything about Jamie. | 0:13:42 | 0:13:45 | |
He doesn't know he's got a son. | 0:13:45 | 0:13:47 | |
Whether that's true or not, I don't know. | 0:13:47 | 0:13:50 | |
But if it is true that he doesn't know, | 0:13:50 | 0:13:52 | |
I only hope that doing this with Jamie doesn't upset - | 0:13:52 | 0:13:56 | |
again, like I was worried about Teresa's family - | 0:13:56 | 0:13:58 | |
doesn't upset his family, if he's got one. | 0:13:58 | 0:14:01 | |
I think he wants to meet him to ask him why he wasn't bigger. | 0:14:01 | 0:14:04 | |
-THEY LAUGH -So he could have been a bit taller! | 0:14:04 | 0:14:08 | |
Yeah. | 0:14:09 | 0:14:11 | |
Back in Cardiff, I'm going to meet Brian Maddar | 0:14:14 | 0:14:17 | |
from an agency called After Adoption. | 0:14:17 | 0:14:19 | |
He is going to help me find my birth dad, | 0:14:19 | 0:14:22 | |
as Gemma and the local authority team in the first film | 0:14:22 | 0:14:25 | |
can only help with looking for birth mums. | 0:14:25 | 0:14:27 | |
-Hello, mate. -Hi, Jamie. -Good to see you again. | 0:14:27 | 0:14:30 | |
-Are you all right? -Good to see you. Come on in. -Cheers, thank you. | 0:14:30 | 0:14:32 | |
Why do you want to make contact with your birth father now? | 0:14:34 | 0:14:37 | |
Last year, when we did get his full name, | 0:14:37 | 0:14:39 | |
we got where he was based in the Army and things like this, | 0:14:39 | 0:14:43 | |
and I was like, wow. | 0:14:43 | 0:14:44 | |
It really blew me away. | 0:14:44 | 0:14:46 | |
It's just gave me that little bit of wanting to know everything | 0:14:46 | 0:14:50 | |
about my past and knowing about me, I suppose. | 0:14:50 | 0:14:53 | |
Right. Invariably, when we make contact with people, | 0:14:53 | 0:14:56 | |
it's very successful. | 0:14:56 | 0:14:59 | |
But on occasions, of course, one, we may not find the person. | 0:14:59 | 0:15:03 | |
-Yeah. -Two, we may find the person, | 0:15:03 | 0:15:05 | |
and that person may not be interested in making contact. | 0:15:05 | 0:15:08 | |
-How would you feel about that? -Erm... | 0:15:08 | 0:15:11 | |
With Leonard, erm... | 0:15:11 | 0:15:14 | |
You know, I want to meet him for different reasons. | 0:15:14 | 0:15:17 | |
I can't go up to him and say, "Thanks for having me." | 0:15:17 | 0:15:20 | |
It's a different thing. | 0:15:20 | 0:15:23 | |
-But, you know, it would be nice to know who he is. -Mm-hm. | 0:15:23 | 0:15:28 | |
I don't know. When I read his name last year in the file, | 0:15:29 | 0:15:33 | |
and it says he loves football, | 0:15:33 | 0:15:35 | |
my actually thoughts, and I've never said this out is, I thought, | 0:15:35 | 0:15:39 | |
"Well, when he meets me, he's going to bloody like athletics!" | 0:15:39 | 0:15:43 | |
Brian and the After Adoption team | 0:15:43 | 0:15:45 | |
have their work cut out looking for my dad. | 0:15:45 | 0:15:47 | |
But they said they'll come back to me soon with a search report. | 0:15:47 | 0:15:51 | |
Even if we got a name from the files | 0:15:51 | 0:15:53 | |
or if we got a name from the birth mother, | 0:15:53 | 0:15:56 | |
we're still not absolutely sure | 0:15:56 | 0:15:58 | |
that when we make contact with the birth father he... | 0:15:58 | 0:16:01 | |
One, he's the birth father, or he knows about the birth. | 0:16:01 | 0:16:05 | |
So, emotionally, | 0:16:07 | 0:16:08 | |
when they want to make contact with the birth father, I believe | 0:16:08 | 0:16:11 | |
there is less emotion to that, but more curiosity. | 0:16:11 | 0:16:14 | |
Wanting to look, to find out what they look like, and so forth. | 0:16:14 | 0:16:18 | |
But with the birth mother, | 0:16:18 | 0:16:20 | |
I think there is greater and significantly more emotion there. | 0:16:20 | 0:16:23 | |
In relation to a birth mother, | 0:16:24 | 0:16:26 | |
generally, they do not forget that they've given birth to a child. | 0:16:26 | 0:16:31 | |
With a birth father, of course, on occasions, and in my experience, | 0:16:31 | 0:16:34 | |
we've made contact in the past with people, | 0:16:34 | 0:16:37 | |
and they cannot even remember the relationship. | 0:16:37 | 0:16:40 | |
This weekend I'm going to St Lucia with my boys | 0:16:48 | 0:16:52 | |
to a place called the BodyHoliday. | 0:16:52 | 0:16:55 | |
I'm going over there to do a little bit of coaching on the beach | 0:16:55 | 0:16:59 | |
for the holiday-makers. | 0:16:59 | 0:17:01 | |
So, I'm not coaching athletes. | 0:17:01 | 0:17:03 | |
I'm going to be coaching the people who have paid to go over there to | 0:17:03 | 0:17:07 | |
enjoy their holiday, because it's a sporting venue. | 0:17:07 | 0:17:09 | |
I don't know if my kids are going to join in with the training or not. | 0:17:09 | 0:17:12 | |
We'll have to wait and see on that. HE CHUCKLES | 0:17:12 | 0:17:15 | |
So, I'm in St Lucia in the Caribbean and it's been fairly... | 0:17:26 | 0:17:30 | |
In my quiet moments, I've been sat on the beach and just pondering | 0:17:30 | 0:17:34 | |
and thinking my birth father is literally only down the road. | 0:17:34 | 0:17:39 | |
Only on another island, Jamaica. | 0:17:39 | 0:17:42 | |
So, I've always loved the Caribbean. | 0:17:42 | 0:17:44 | |
I've always liked the thought of the Caribbean and Jamaica, | 0:17:46 | 0:17:49 | |
so it's quite mad to think that I'm half-Jamaican | 0:17:49 | 0:17:51 | |
and really looking forward to seeing if I can find my father. | 0:17:51 | 0:17:55 | |
And it would be good for my kids to know who he is. | 0:17:55 | 0:18:00 | |
And, yeah, it's kind of mad. | 0:18:00 | 0:18:03 | |
OK, thanks for coming in again, Jamie. | 0:18:15 | 0:18:17 | |
I need to tell you before I give you the report, | 0:18:17 | 0:18:19 | |
unfortunately, we couldn't find any connection. | 0:18:19 | 0:18:22 | |
-Ah, this is...sad, you know? -It's disappointing. | 0:18:24 | 0:18:29 | |
Yeah. I'm disappointed. | 0:18:29 | 0:18:31 | |
So, how common is it not to find a father and also, you know, | 0:18:33 | 0:18:39 | |
possibly false names? | 0:18:39 | 0:18:41 | |
Unfortunately, when we search for birth fathers, | 0:18:41 | 0:18:44 | |
it can be very difficult to locate them. | 0:18:44 | 0:18:47 | |
One, because it may have been a very, | 0:18:47 | 0:18:49 | |
very brief relationship. | 0:18:49 | 0:18:51 | |
-Yeah. -Two, the birth mother may have given a false name | 0:18:51 | 0:18:54 | |
because her relationship was with someone else, | 0:18:54 | 0:18:56 | |
that she wanted to keep that someone else secret. | 0:18:56 | 0:18:59 | |
-Yeah. -Yeah? But we do, | 0:18:59 | 0:19:01 | |
we do at times make contact and we've got to be very, very careful. | 0:19:01 | 0:19:06 | |
Particularly if the relationship was brief. | 0:19:06 | 0:19:09 | |
Because the guy may not even remember a particular relationship. | 0:19:09 | 0:19:13 | |
-And you could cause great upset. -Yeah, yeah, yeah. | 0:19:13 | 0:19:16 | |
So, we do have some doubts in even making contact | 0:19:16 | 0:19:19 | |
with birth fathers, if we haven't got a lot of information. | 0:19:19 | 0:19:23 | |
Another option, if you want to push it further, | 0:19:23 | 0:19:27 | |
is that, again, in the past, | 0:19:27 | 0:19:28 | |
people have gone, particularly if they are of mixed heritage, | 0:19:28 | 0:19:33 | |
they've gone to a particular place where there is a community. | 0:19:33 | 0:19:37 | |
Say, for example, Nottingham. | 0:19:37 | 0:19:39 | |
-Yeah? -I'm sure there is a community, a Jamaican community, there. | 0:19:39 | 0:19:42 | |
-Yeah. -And they'll have community centres. | 0:19:42 | 0:19:44 | |
We used to have it down in Newtown in Cardiff... | 0:19:44 | 0:19:46 | |
-Yeah. -..whereby you'd go in there and sometimes a person, | 0:19:46 | 0:19:50 | |
one of the old Jamaican people there may say, | 0:19:50 | 0:19:52 | |
-"You look like so-and-so, Leonard." -Yes. -Or something. | 0:19:52 | 0:19:55 | |
And maybe you could go in there and ask. | 0:19:55 | 0:19:57 | |
-Yeah. -Why not? -I'd love to do that. | 0:19:57 | 0:19:59 | |
I mean, I just want to... | 0:19:59 | 0:20:01 | |
I just want to know now and I want to hopefully complete this journey. | 0:20:01 | 0:20:05 | |
Yeah. | 0:20:05 | 0:20:07 | |
Yeah. HE SIGHS | 0:20:12 | 0:20:15 | |
Gutted. I'm so, so, so disappointed. | 0:20:17 | 0:20:20 | |
I was really, really upset in there. | 0:20:21 | 0:20:24 | |
The fact of... I really want to find my dad | 0:20:24 | 0:20:27 | |
and for the first time in searching for my mother and my father, | 0:20:27 | 0:20:31 | |
I've come up against a stumbling block. | 0:20:31 | 0:20:35 | |
His name doesn't exist. | 0:20:35 | 0:20:36 | |
Or that name isn't out there. | 0:20:36 | 0:20:39 | |
And I just feel...I feel a bit cheated, you know? | 0:20:39 | 0:20:41 | |
I feel cheated about it all, | 0:20:41 | 0:20:43 | |
because I'm a human being and I just want to find my dad. | 0:20:43 | 0:20:46 | |
Disappointed. Really disappointed. | 0:20:47 | 0:20:50 | |
So I've travelled up this morning | 0:21:05 | 0:21:08 | |
to Nottingham and I'm just about to get to | 0:21:08 | 0:21:12 | |
my birth mother Teresa's sister's place. | 0:21:12 | 0:21:16 | |
Mandy. I've never met Mandy before. | 0:21:16 | 0:21:19 | |
Mandy is Teresa's older sister and still lives in Nottingham, | 0:21:19 | 0:21:26 | |
so I'm really hoping... | 0:21:26 | 0:21:28 | |
that she'll have some information... | 0:21:28 | 0:21:32 | |
about...meeting my dad. | 0:21:32 | 0:21:35 | |
DOORBELL | 0:21:41 | 0:21:43 | |
-Hello. -Hello! | 0:21:46 | 0:21:48 | |
-How are you? -Come on in. -It's good to see you. | 0:21:48 | 0:21:50 | |
Are you OK? | 0:21:50 | 0:21:52 | |
What do I do? Do I give you a hug? THEY LAUGH | 0:21:52 | 0:21:56 | |
-How are you? Are you OK? -I'm all right. Thank you. -Yes. | 0:21:56 | 0:21:58 | |
-It's lovely to meet you. -That's me. That's your grandma and Uncle Ian. | 0:21:58 | 0:22:01 | |
That's my grandmother there? | 0:22:01 | 0:22:03 | |
-That's your grandmother. -So who is this? | 0:22:03 | 0:22:06 | |
-That's Teresa. -That's Teresa?! | 0:22:06 | 0:22:09 | |
That doesn't look like her at all. | 0:22:09 | 0:22:11 | |
They were all living at Mansfield Street. | 0:22:11 | 0:22:13 | |
-That's right. I've seen that. -In Sherwood. | 0:22:13 | 0:22:16 | |
Erm...as far as Teresa's having the baby and that. | 0:22:16 | 0:22:21 | |
I don't really know a lot. | 0:22:21 | 0:22:22 | |
-Because... -We were having our baby, as well, so... | 0:22:22 | 0:22:25 | |
Yeah. Because our Jason, he's a year older than you. | 0:22:25 | 0:22:29 | |
Yeah, yeah, yeah. | 0:22:29 | 0:22:30 | |
OK. Looking at, is it City Hospital? | 0:22:30 | 0:22:33 | |
-Yeah. -It's just down there, is it? | 0:22:35 | 0:22:37 | |
That's just over there. That is. | 0:22:37 | 0:22:39 | |
-So I was born just over there? -Yeah. Yeah. | 0:22:39 | 0:22:41 | |
You know, I'm in Nottingham | 0:22:53 | 0:22:55 | |
and for the first time seeing this is where I was born. | 0:22:55 | 0:22:58 | |
Well. This is so strange. | 0:23:00 | 0:23:03 | |
Just to think - is this where I'm from? | 0:23:03 | 0:23:05 | |
Is this what it is? | 0:23:05 | 0:23:07 | |
It is emotion there, but I don't know what it is. | 0:23:07 | 0:23:11 | |
It's that slight, like, this isn't real. | 0:23:11 | 0:23:13 | |
It doesn't feel right, you know? | 0:23:13 | 0:23:15 | |
Well, I'm just checking out | 0:23:23 | 0:23:26 | |
communities of Jamaica in Nottingham, | 0:23:26 | 0:23:31 | |
so I'm checking out some websites, just to find out if I can | 0:23:31 | 0:23:35 | |
find out any information, | 0:23:35 | 0:23:37 | |
because I think the next step for me is to try and find some... | 0:23:37 | 0:23:41 | |
Go to the Jamaican community. | 0:23:41 | 0:23:43 | |
Try and find out some information on these websites. | 0:23:43 | 0:23:46 | |
So... | 0:23:49 | 0:23:50 | |
You know, just looking here | 0:23:51 | 0:23:54 | |
on this website, the Nottingham Black Archive. | 0:23:54 | 0:23:58 | |
It's obviously about us. | 0:23:58 | 0:24:00 | |
It's run by Tanya. | 0:24:00 | 0:24:03 | |
So, you know, I wouldn't mind...just giving these guys a call, you know? | 0:24:03 | 0:24:11 | |
Here we go. | 0:24:14 | 0:24:16 | |
So where are we looking? | 0:24:18 | 0:24:20 | |
Hello. Hello. | 0:24:25 | 0:24:26 | |
-Hello, how are you? Tanya? -Hi! Pleased to meet you. | 0:24:26 | 0:24:28 | |
Hello, how are you? | 0:24:28 | 0:24:30 | |
-Pleased to meet you. -I saw you on the website. | 0:24:30 | 0:24:32 | |
How are you? Recognise the face. | 0:24:32 | 0:24:34 | |
Hello, everyone. Hi, how are you? | 0:24:34 | 0:24:36 | |
I'm Jamie. | 0:24:36 | 0:24:38 | |
I wonder if you know my dad. | 0:24:38 | 0:24:39 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:24:39 | 0:24:41 | |
We are a small community. | 0:24:42 | 0:24:44 | |
Nearly everybody does know everybody. | 0:24:44 | 0:24:47 | |
I'm just thinking, Castle Boulevard is not far from here. | 0:24:47 | 0:24:50 | |
It's only about five minutes from here | 0:24:50 | 0:24:52 | |
and there was a lot of people living down there. | 0:24:52 | 0:24:54 | |
-Because if you were born in 19... -'73, yeah. | 0:24:54 | 0:24:58 | |
You look so much like somebody here in Nottingham. | 0:24:58 | 0:25:00 | |
-Oh, really, do I? -You do. | 0:25:00 | 0:25:02 | |
Yes, and I can see that chap right now. | 0:25:02 | 0:25:04 | |
I'm sure there's somebody that could... | 0:25:04 | 0:25:07 | |
probably know of your family. | 0:25:07 | 0:25:08 | |
So that's why I'm saying don't go so much by the second name, | 0:25:08 | 0:25:12 | |
if you're not sure. But if his first name is... | 0:25:12 | 0:25:15 | |
-Leonard. -Leonard. Probably somebody in that area would still know him. | 0:25:15 | 0:25:19 | |
That's what I've found, as well, about Nottingham, | 0:25:19 | 0:25:21 | |
Jamaican people, a lot of them | 0:25:21 | 0:25:23 | |
tend to originate from Clarendon in Jamaica. | 0:25:23 | 0:25:25 | |
There's a particular parish in Jamaica. | 0:25:25 | 0:25:27 | |
You find a lot of Jamaicans in Nottingham | 0:25:27 | 0:25:29 | |
have a connection to Clarendon. | 0:25:29 | 0:25:31 | |
I've got a... If he's still alive. | 0:25:31 | 0:25:33 | |
And he's got family here in Nottingham. | 0:25:33 | 0:25:35 | |
I don't think, once you start a search, | 0:25:35 | 0:25:38 | |
it's not going to take too long. | 0:25:38 | 0:25:40 | |
What would you say the next steps are for me in this situation? | 0:25:40 | 0:25:44 | |
BBC Radio Nottingham, they have a Caribbean show on a Sunday. | 0:25:44 | 0:25:48 | |
I think if you're going to do any show | 0:25:48 | 0:25:50 | |
-you should do the Caribbean show. -Yes. | 0:25:50 | 0:25:51 | |
Because that would be the one that people listen to. | 0:25:51 | 0:25:54 | |
Coming here today is just... | 0:25:54 | 0:25:56 | |
-It's given me a lot of hope, you know? -Yeah. | 0:25:56 | 0:25:59 | |
-'Jodi Law. -BBC Radio Nottingham.' | 0:26:01 | 0:26:03 | |
So, now part two to this story is wanting to track down | 0:26:08 | 0:26:12 | |
-your birth father. -Yeah. -Why now and why? | 0:26:12 | 0:26:14 | |
I mean, it's just a progression. | 0:26:14 | 0:26:15 | |
When you start getting that information, | 0:26:15 | 0:26:17 | |
then you start learning that people are saying in the local community | 0:26:17 | 0:26:21 | |
that Clarendon is where all the people from Nottingham, | 0:26:21 | 0:26:24 | |
all the black people came over and they're there. | 0:26:24 | 0:26:26 | |
So we're starting to get, you know, | 0:26:26 | 0:26:28 | |
unleash this jigsaw, which is starting to become clearer. | 0:26:28 | 0:26:31 | |
I'm just hoping that there's people listening to this programme | 0:26:31 | 0:26:34 | |
which can go, "62, a guy called Leonard. I remember Teresa. | 0:26:34 | 0:26:37 | |
"She used to go out with a guy called Leonard." | 0:26:37 | 0:26:39 | |
You know? It only takes one person to listen to this interview | 0:26:39 | 0:26:42 | |
which could make a massive change to everything. | 0:26:42 | 0:26:44 | |
So...what do you think the chances are of me finding my father over in | 0:26:44 | 0:26:47 | |
Jamaica in that parish? | 0:26:47 | 0:26:49 | |
-You know? -I think, if you don't find your dad here in Nottingham or | 0:26:49 | 0:26:52 | |
somebody doesn't recognise who he may be, you'll definitely be able to | 0:26:52 | 0:26:56 | |
track him down. Clarendon is a tight-knit community. | 0:26:56 | 0:26:59 | |
My dad's from Clarendon. | 0:26:59 | 0:27:00 | |
And when you mentioned Castle Boulevard, as well, | 0:27:00 | 0:27:02 | |
-that's where my family were brought up living. -Yeah. | 0:27:02 | 0:27:05 | |
So I think you've got every chance of being able to track him down. | 0:27:05 | 0:27:07 | |
And how old is your dad, if you don't mind me asking? | 0:27:07 | 0:27:10 | |
My dad is... He's now 54. | 0:27:10 | 0:27:11 | |
Brothers and sisters older than him, as well. | 0:27:11 | 0:27:13 | |
-Oh, wow. -I think his... | 0:27:13 | 0:27:14 | |
The oldest is probably round about 60, actually. | 0:27:14 | 0:27:17 | |
-Wow. -So I'll definitely ask for you. | 0:27:17 | 0:27:19 | |
That's crazy. | 0:27:19 | 0:27:20 | |
After the radio interview, | 0:27:25 | 0:27:27 | |
it was off to a showing of the first film at the community centre, | 0:27:27 | 0:27:30 | |
to see if it sparked up any memories amongst local people. | 0:27:30 | 0:27:34 | |
I wouldn't be here without you. It means so much, so thank you. | 0:27:35 | 0:27:41 | |
But only a few showed up. | 0:27:41 | 0:27:43 | |
I was getting despondent. | 0:27:46 | 0:27:47 | |
Yesterday, it's just that not many people really turned up. | 0:27:54 | 0:27:58 | |
What was your thoughts on it? | 0:27:58 | 0:28:00 | |
It...it's kind of expected in one sense, | 0:28:00 | 0:28:02 | |
because if you know the culture of Nottingham, there's quite a few, | 0:28:02 | 0:28:07 | |
-a number of people who don't know who their fathers are. -Yeah. | 0:28:07 | 0:28:11 | |
And it's kind of all hush-hush. | 0:28:11 | 0:28:14 | |
You know, I grew up with a stepdad | 0:28:14 | 0:28:16 | |
thinking that he was my dad for years until I became an adult. | 0:28:16 | 0:28:19 | |
And then it actually came out that he wasn't and then that's when I | 0:28:19 | 0:28:23 | |
realised, when I started to talk to my peers, | 0:28:23 | 0:28:26 | |
that a lot of people were in the same situation. | 0:28:26 | 0:28:28 | |
The same circumstances. | 0:28:28 | 0:28:30 | |
I know yesterday I said to you that saying - | 0:28:30 | 0:28:34 | |
"Mummy's baby, Daddy's maybe." | 0:28:34 | 0:28:37 | |
You know? And that's just the way it is. | 0:28:37 | 0:28:40 | |
You've got to make your peace with it. | 0:28:40 | 0:28:42 | |
-Yeah. -Because it's a fact of life. | 0:28:42 | 0:28:44 | |
-Yeah. Yeah. -It's a quite interesting city, | 0:28:44 | 0:28:47 | |
because it has one of the highest percentages of Caribbean men | 0:28:47 | 0:28:51 | |
having relationships with English women, | 0:28:51 | 0:28:53 | |
so there's lots of mixed race people in this city. | 0:28:53 | 0:28:56 | |
-Wow. -So, you're not alone. | 0:28:56 | 0:28:58 | |
No. Just one of many. | 0:28:58 | 0:29:00 | |
-Yeah. -I'm just another one. | 0:29:00 | 0:29:02 | |
You know what I mean? Where's the father? | 0:29:02 | 0:29:04 | |
-Don't know! -Yeah, don't know. | 0:29:06 | 0:29:07 | |
-Who is he? Don't know. -Dad, are you out there? | 0:29:07 | 0:29:10 | |
Are you out there? Yeah, no, it's difficult, isn't it? | 0:29:10 | 0:29:13 | |
You've got to get, people have got to get over these issues | 0:29:13 | 0:29:16 | |
in their own way, and you wrote a poem on it? | 0:29:16 | 0:29:18 | |
Yeah. I wrote a poem. And it's called Me. | 0:29:18 | 0:29:22 | |
Me. | 0:29:22 | 0:29:23 | |
A child from passionate nights | 0:29:23 | 0:29:25 | |
When shebeen smells mingle with firewater | 0:29:25 | 0:29:28 | |
I'm the child that came | 0:29:28 | 0:29:30 | |
And you | 0:29:30 | 0:29:32 | |
Fathering children | 0:29:32 | 0:29:34 | |
Wearing silk shirts with crease-free slacks | 0:29:34 | 0:29:37 | |
Strutting around the city like a lord | 0:29:37 | 0:29:40 | |
With me photo-fitting your face to snippets of snatched | 0:29:40 | 0:29:43 | |
afterthoughts and whispers from loose tongue | 0:29:43 | 0:29:46 | |
And I've never said that | 0:29:48 | 0:29:49 | |
And they say it's got nothing to do with me | 0:29:50 | 0:29:54 | |
They say | 0:29:54 | 0:29:55 | |
It's big people tings. | 0:29:55 | 0:29:57 | |
It was obvious we were going to have to hit the streets. | 0:30:03 | 0:30:06 | |
So, accompanied by Panya and Aoni, | 0:30:06 | 0:30:09 | |
I went around established shops in the black neighbourhood, | 0:30:09 | 0:30:11 | |
to try to get some information and put the word out. | 0:30:11 | 0:30:15 | |
That's all the information I've got and I don't know if it's the correct | 0:30:15 | 0:30:18 | |
name or not but, you know. | 0:30:18 | 0:30:20 | |
But he would have gone by the name Lenny, though, wouldn't he? | 0:30:20 | 0:30:23 | |
Yeah. They'd call him Lenny. | 0:30:23 | 0:30:25 | |
The guys of my age group, I can always ask them and so on. | 0:30:25 | 0:30:29 | |
Yeah. Yeah. | 0:30:29 | 0:30:31 | |
We always played football together after school, after work, | 0:30:33 | 0:30:36 | |
rallying everyone. | 0:30:36 | 0:30:38 | |
-Yes. -Used to meet at Lenton Park and we all used to play football. | 0:30:38 | 0:30:41 | |
I do know that, if he was in Castle Boulevard, | 0:30:41 | 0:30:44 | |
he's somebody that I definitely know. | 0:30:44 | 0:30:46 | |
We have been around a long time. | 0:30:49 | 0:30:50 | |
-Yeah, yeah. -And there's a lot of the older generation... | 0:30:50 | 0:30:53 | |
-OK. -..I can actually put the word to. | 0:30:53 | 0:30:56 | |
-Oh, wicked. Nice. -So that would be the best thing, really. | 0:30:56 | 0:30:59 | |
-OK. -But you'll stand a good chance. | 0:30:59 | 0:31:01 | |
-OK. -I would imagine. | 0:31:01 | 0:31:03 | |
-I've heard that name round the family. -Yeah, yeah, yeah. | 0:31:03 | 0:31:07 | |
We're the Mackenzie family so we know a lot of people. | 0:31:07 | 0:31:10 | |
We're nice people, so... | 0:31:10 | 0:31:11 | |
-OK. -My dad is Father Demas. | 0:31:11 | 0:31:13 | |
If I give you his number, basically you can phone him. | 0:31:13 | 0:31:16 | |
-Yeah. -Have a word on the dinger. | 0:31:16 | 0:31:19 | |
I don't know how old your dad is. | 0:31:19 | 0:31:21 | |
-He's 62. -62. He's around on my dad's age. | 0:31:21 | 0:31:23 | |
My dad's 57, so that's probably... | 0:31:23 | 0:31:26 | |
He looked up to your dad when he came from Jamaica. | 0:31:26 | 0:31:28 | |
Here what you do. You take my dad's number. | 0:31:28 | 0:31:30 | |
-OK, yeah. -And hopefully you can find your dad, innit. | 0:31:30 | 0:31:34 | |
That'd be wicked, innit. | 0:31:34 | 0:31:36 | |
Do you want to ring him off my phone? | 0:31:37 | 0:31:40 | |
No, I've got no credit so you've got to ring him off your phone, mate. | 0:31:40 | 0:31:43 | |
-LAUGHTER -You've got to. | 0:31:43 | 0:31:46 | |
-What's your dad's name? -Derek Mackenzie. | 0:31:46 | 0:31:48 | |
Father Demas. Just say Father Demas. | 0:31:48 | 0:31:51 | |
RINGING TONE | 0:31:51 | 0:31:52 | |
-Do you want to speak to him? -No, you speak to him, say my name's Wayne, | 0:31:52 | 0:31:56 | |
you've met me and I'm his son. | 0:31:56 | 0:31:58 | |
-'Hello?' -Hello, is that Father Demas? | 0:31:58 | 0:31:59 | |
'Yes, it is.' | 0:31:59 | 0:32:01 | |
I'm with Wayne in the barber shop and he said to give you a ring. | 0:32:01 | 0:32:04 | |
I was adopted, so I've never met my father yet and I know he's from | 0:32:04 | 0:32:08 | |
Nottingham, so I'm trying to search for him, | 0:32:08 | 0:32:11 | |
and apparently, you're the man to try and chat to. | 0:32:11 | 0:32:14 | |
'Suddenly, everyone seemed to want me | 0:32:15 | 0:32:17 | |
'to ring their father to see if they knew my father.' | 0:32:17 | 0:32:20 | |
Hello? | 0:32:22 | 0:32:23 | |
'A lot of people, I found out, don't know their fathers. | 0:32:23 | 0:32:26 | |
'You know, people who haven't been adopted don't know their fathers.' | 0:32:26 | 0:32:30 | |
So this is not a Jamie Baulch case, this is a Nottingham case, | 0:32:30 | 0:32:34 | |
this is a black history case, you know. | 0:32:34 | 0:32:36 | |
There's so many people out there, | 0:32:36 | 0:32:37 | |
who don't know who their fathers are, | 0:32:37 | 0:32:39 | |
and there's so many people out there, who, | 0:32:39 | 0:32:42 | |
their father may be in the next street | 0:32:42 | 0:32:44 | |
and they don't know who they are. | 0:32:44 | 0:32:46 | |
I'm still in hope, I am still in hope and hopefully over the next | 0:32:52 | 0:32:55 | |
couple of weeks, somebody may come through woodwork and say, you know, | 0:32:55 | 0:32:59 | |
we know who your father is, you know. | 0:32:59 | 0:33:00 | |
-I'm not going to give up yet. -Yeah. -Don't give up. | 0:33:00 | 0:33:03 | |
No, no. But thanks. | 0:33:03 | 0:33:05 | |
Give us a hug! | 0:33:06 | 0:33:08 | |
Cheers, guys, cheers. | 0:33:08 | 0:33:09 | |
Thanks a lot and all the best. | 0:33:09 | 0:33:11 | |
-Take care. -Bye. Bye-bye. | 0:33:11 | 0:33:13 | |
So I've just been called in to the TV production office and... | 0:33:22 | 0:33:27 | |
basically, in short, | 0:33:27 | 0:33:29 | |
I got a call last night saying that there's been a breakthrough. | 0:33:29 | 0:33:32 | |
Claudette, who I met last week, | 0:33:32 | 0:33:34 | |
has phoned the production team and said, | 0:33:34 | 0:33:36 | |
"We've got some information and it's a breakthrough | 0:33:36 | 0:33:39 | |
"and we want Jamie to speak to this person." | 0:33:39 | 0:33:43 | |
And I'm going, | 0:33:43 | 0:33:44 | |
you know, "Who is this person who's going to ring up? | 0:33:44 | 0:33:49 | |
"What are they going to say to me? Is it my father? | 0:33:49 | 0:33:51 | |
I"s it somebody who knows my father?" | 0:33:51 | 0:33:53 | |
It's funny, you go on these... | 0:33:57 | 0:34:01 | |
this trip in search of... but nobody can prepare you, | 0:34:01 | 0:34:05 | |
nobody can prepare that. | 0:34:05 | 0:34:07 | |
PHONE RINGS | 0:34:11 | 0:34:12 | |
Oh, my God, oh, my God. | 0:34:12 | 0:34:14 | |
Hello? | 0:34:17 | 0:34:19 | |
Yeah, hi, it's Jamie speaking, how are you? | 0:34:21 | 0:34:24 | |
Yeah, I'm all good, I'm all good. Who am I speaking with? | 0:34:26 | 0:34:30 | |
Hello, Levi. How are you, you OK? | 0:34:31 | 0:34:35 | |
'I'm not too bad thanks, yourself?' | 0:34:35 | 0:34:36 | |
Yeah, good, good. | 0:34:36 | 0:34:38 | |
OK, so do you know why we're in touch with each other? | 0:34:38 | 0:34:43 | |
OK. | 0:34:48 | 0:34:49 | |
Yeah. OK. Well, basically, I'm searching for my father. | 0:34:52 | 0:34:56 | |
Yeah, that's cool and what's the relation to Leonard and you, then? | 0:35:00 | 0:35:05 | |
What's that? | 0:35:05 | 0:35:07 | |
Oh! | 0:35:08 | 0:35:10 | |
OK. | 0:35:10 | 0:35:11 | |
And how old is Leonard? | 0:35:11 | 0:35:14 | |
About 62? | 0:35:14 | 0:35:15 | |
Yeah. Roughly. | 0:35:21 | 0:35:22 | |
Yeah, yeah. | 0:35:23 | 0:35:25 | |
Oh, wow. OK. | 0:35:27 | 0:35:29 | |
Is Leonard in the UK? | 0:35:29 | 0:35:32 | |
Oh, wow. | 0:35:36 | 0:35:38 | |
OK. | 0:35:38 | 0:35:39 | |
Yeah. Wicked, well, that's it... | 0:35:41 | 0:35:44 | |
Yeah. | 0:35:47 | 0:35:48 | |
Yeah. Yeah. | 0:35:54 | 0:35:57 | |
Yeah, it said he was stationed in Germany in my notes. | 0:36:03 | 0:36:06 | |
That's nice. I'm feeling good about this one, you know? | 0:36:16 | 0:36:20 | |
All right, OK. | 0:36:20 | 0:36:21 | |
Well, thank you for being in touch. | 0:36:21 | 0:36:23 | |
'Yeah, have a nice day and then we'll be in touch.' | 0:36:23 | 0:36:26 | |
All right, then. Cheers, Levi. | 0:36:26 | 0:36:28 | |
Take care. Bye. Bye-bye, bye-bye. | 0:36:28 | 0:36:29 | |
'Bye.' | 0:36:29 | 0:36:31 | |
Oh. | 0:36:32 | 0:36:34 | |
Ah! | 0:36:34 | 0:36:36 | |
Oh, what do you say to that, man? | 0:36:40 | 0:36:42 | |
What do you say to that? | 0:36:57 | 0:37:00 | |
Bloody hell. | 0:37:03 | 0:37:05 | |
Just gets better and better, don't it? | 0:37:05 | 0:37:07 | |
That's cool. I'm going to meet my father, man. | 0:37:07 | 0:37:11 | |
It's going to happen. | 0:37:11 | 0:37:14 | |
MUSIC: Could You Be Loved by Bob Marley | 0:37:14 | 0:37:17 | |
MUSIC: Is This Love? by Bob Marley | 0:37:30 | 0:37:32 | |
When I listen to reggae now, | 0:37:39 | 0:37:42 | |
I never grew up with this in my house until I was 17 | 0:37:42 | 0:37:47 | |
and it was a serious culture shock, you know? | 0:37:47 | 0:37:51 | |
Like, there was a whole side of me which was totally missing. | 0:37:51 | 0:37:55 | |
For me, when I was 17 and I'm racing Darren Campbell | 0:37:57 | 0:38:01 | |
and I'm racing the ever great sprinters in this country, | 0:38:01 | 0:38:07 | |
I got very respected very quickly, | 0:38:07 | 0:38:10 | |
and because I'm so Welsh and my accent is so Welsh, | 0:38:10 | 0:38:15 | |
the black guys and the black girls used to like me even more | 0:38:15 | 0:38:20 | |
because of my accent and I had the blond dreadlocks | 0:38:20 | 0:38:23 | |
and people thought, "Who is this guy?! | 0:38:23 | 0:38:25 | |
"Who's this guy here now with the blond dreadlocks | 0:38:25 | 0:38:27 | |
"thinking he's Bob Marley, you know?" | 0:38:27 | 0:38:30 | |
Well, he was trying too hard! | 0:38:30 | 0:38:31 | |
HE LAUGHS | 0:38:31 | 0:38:32 | |
You know, it's... Listen, it's... | 0:38:34 | 0:38:37 | |
You can't try and BE Jamaican. | 0:38:37 | 0:38:40 | |
You're Jamaican. | 0:38:40 | 0:38:41 | |
Jamaica, I guess, was cool | 0:38:44 | 0:38:46 | |
and Jamaica was what he was trying to be and the dreadlocks | 0:38:46 | 0:38:50 | |
didn't fit in with the way that he dressed. | 0:38:50 | 0:38:52 | |
Yeah, he had this individual character. | 0:38:52 | 0:38:55 | |
It was good to see somebody who wasn't trying | 0:38:55 | 0:38:58 | |
to be like everybody else, who was slightly different. | 0:38:58 | 0:39:01 | |
And, you know, Linford being our coach for so long, | 0:39:08 | 0:39:12 | |
at times, I viewed Linford as a father figure | 0:39:12 | 0:39:16 | |
and in the case of Linford Christie and Colin Jackson, | 0:39:16 | 0:39:19 | |
they were successful | 0:39:19 | 0:39:21 | |
in the sport that we wanted to be successful in | 0:39:21 | 0:39:24 | |
so, you know, they do become very important in your life. | 0:39:24 | 0:39:27 | |
And amazingly, while I had my heroes, | 0:39:32 | 0:39:35 | |
I was a role model for some of the next generation of athletic stars. | 0:39:35 | 0:39:39 | |
As a youngster, you know, you have a role model and, you know, | 0:39:40 | 0:39:43 | |
-it's what you see on TV. -Yeah. | 0:39:43 | 0:39:44 | |
I remember watching you competing for GB... | 0:39:44 | 0:39:46 | |
-Yeah. -..and watching on TV and that's what I saw, | 0:39:46 | 0:39:49 | |
like you had dreadlocks and you had like bleached hair and dreadlocks. | 0:39:49 | 0:39:52 | |
And I was like, "Oh, man, that looks so cool." | 0:39:52 | 0:39:54 | |
I actually copied you and did exactly the same thing, | 0:39:54 | 0:39:57 | |
so it was just so cool to have something different | 0:39:57 | 0:39:59 | |
and everyone is always, like, shaved hair, different, | 0:39:59 | 0:40:02 | |
and you were different then. | 0:40:02 | 0:40:04 | |
-I was definitely different. -I just want to be like Jamie. | 0:40:04 | 0:40:07 | |
-I did the dreadlocks and stuff. -That's wicked, man. That's wicked. | 0:40:07 | 0:40:11 | |
Well, we're back on the motorway driving up to Nottingham | 0:40:16 | 0:40:21 | |
to see a man called Levi, which is | 0:40:21 | 0:40:27 | |
possibly my dad's brother | 0:40:27 | 0:40:29 | |
and today could be the day I meet my father. | 0:40:29 | 0:40:33 | |
This could... You know, it's one of the biggest days of your life. | 0:40:33 | 0:40:37 | |
You know, I was rabbiting in the car and I just feel like | 0:40:43 | 0:40:47 | |
race day again, you know. | 0:40:47 | 0:40:48 | |
It's really... It's just really difficult to compute and take in. | 0:40:48 | 0:40:52 | |
Here we go again. | 0:40:55 | 0:40:57 | |
-Jamie? -Levi. | 0:41:06 | 0:41:08 | |
You know what? I saw you in the car park and I was thinking, | 0:41:10 | 0:41:16 | |
"It is, it isn't, it is." How are you, man? | 0:41:16 | 0:41:19 | |
-Are you good? -I'm good. -Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you, man. | 0:41:19 | 0:41:22 | |
Oh, my gosh. | 0:41:22 | 0:41:24 | |
Mixed race, won a World Championships, | 0:41:28 | 0:41:31 | |
got an Olympic silver medal. | 0:41:31 | 0:41:32 | |
It's not from Teresa, my mother, where I got the speed from, | 0:41:32 | 0:41:35 | |
it's obviously from Leonard, know what I mean? | 0:41:35 | 0:41:38 | |
And apparently he was quick. | 0:41:38 | 0:41:40 | |
My mum said he was quick as a kid, he was pretty fast. | 0:41:40 | 0:41:44 | |
So, you know, | 0:41:44 | 0:41:46 | |
to me, it is more so... | 0:41:46 | 0:41:49 | |
almost to find out my roots, you know? | 0:41:49 | 0:41:51 | |
Do you know what I mean? | 0:41:51 | 0:41:53 | |
-Yeah. -You know him. Would he be...? | 0:41:53 | 0:41:56 | |
I know this is a bit of a bombshell for him. | 0:41:56 | 0:41:59 | |
I know! | 0:41:59 | 0:42:02 | |
How do you think he'll react? Because you know him. | 0:42:02 | 0:42:04 | |
Will he be cool? | 0:42:04 | 0:42:06 | |
All I can promise you is, yeah, I'll be very diplomatic. | 0:42:06 | 0:42:09 | |
OK, OK. | 0:42:09 | 0:42:11 | |
Would you be willing to meet him without cameras and all that, | 0:42:11 | 0:42:16 | |
-one to one? -Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course. | 0:42:16 | 0:42:19 | |
-It's OK for me. -You're one step away. | 0:42:19 | 0:42:24 | |
-You're my uncle! -Yeah? | 0:42:24 | 0:42:26 | |
You're my uncle! | 0:42:26 | 0:42:28 | |
That's the case, yeah. | 0:42:28 | 0:42:30 | |
Do you know what I mean? How weird's that? | 0:42:30 | 0:42:32 | |
So is the first time you're meeting your uncle, maybe. | 0:42:32 | 0:42:35 | |
Yeah. So your brother is Leonard. | 0:42:35 | 0:42:40 | |
Was in the Army. | 0:42:40 | 0:42:42 | |
Was he in Germany at any point? | 0:42:42 | 0:42:43 | |
-Yeah, that's where he was based. -Is he about five foot seven? | 0:42:43 | 0:42:47 | |
-Yeah. -Well, that's all there. | 0:42:47 | 0:42:49 | |
That's what the curiosity is about. | 0:42:49 | 0:42:52 | |
Yeah. You know. | 0:42:52 | 0:42:53 | |
And you were based in Castle Boulevard. | 0:42:53 | 0:42:56 | |
-Yeah. -And your brother used to come down and stay with you there. | 0:42:56 | 0:43:00 | |
-Yeah. -Did he ever...? | 0:43:00 | 0:43:02 | |
-That's the similarity. -Yeah, well, | 0:43:02 | 0:43:05 | |
the likelihood of it not being your brother | 0:43:05 | 0:43:08 | |
is highly unlikely, isn't it? | 0:43:08 | 0:43:10 | |
-We'll do this, yeah? -Yeah, I appreciate it. -We'll do this. | 0:43:13 | 0:43:19 | |
-Thanks, man. -Yeah, yeah. | 0:43:19 | 0:43:21 | |
Cheers, man. We'll be in touch. | 0:43:23 | 0:43:26 | |
Speak in a couple of days. | 0:43:28 | 0:43:29 | |
Yeah, OK, cool. I'll look forward to your phone call. | 0:43:29 | 0:43:32 | |
Cheers. You take care, Levi. Nice to meet you. | 0:43:32 | 0:43:35 | |
Oh, what? | 0:43:41 | 0:43:43 | |
This is just...surreal, | 0:43:43 | 0:43:45 | |
meeting, potentially, my uncle, and...nice bloke, | 0:43:45 | 0:43:51 | |
nice bloke, good conversation. | 0:43:51 | 0:43:54 | |
He's going to ring me now in a couple of days' time. | 0:43:54 | 0:43:56 | |
He's going to speak to my father. | 0:43:56 | 0:44:00 | |
That's a difficult conversation for him to have, | 0:44:00 | 0:44:03 | |
but I'm hoping that I really get to see him. | 0:44:03 | 0:44:06 | |
This has definitely got to be the same guy who Teresa spoke about, | 0:44:09 | 0:44:13 | |
my mother spoke about. | 0:44:13 | 0:44:15 | |
I feel a lot better now. | 0:44:15 | 0:44:17 | |
But I'm still, like, you know, thinking I want to meet him | 0:44:17 | 0:44:21 | |
and I don't know what's going to come of this now. I don't know what | 0:44:21 | 0:44:24 | |
the next phase is because he may not want to see me, you know? | 0:44:24 | 0:44:26 | |
And I'm going to have to wait and see. | 0:44:26 | 0:44:28 | |
So, I'm coming back to Nottingham. | 0:44:42 | 0:44:46 | |
Me and Levi have been speaking quite a few times on the phone and he's | 0:44:46 | 0:44:51 | |
spoken to his brother, my potential dad, my biological father, | 0:44:51 | 0:44:54 | |
and it's a lot of confusion because my biological father... | 0:44:54 | 0:44:59 | |
..Leonard, is saying that he was too young. | 0:45:01 | 0:45:03 | |
My father's name is quite unique, | 0:45:04 | 0:45:06 | |
it's quite different to any other name I've heard, | 0:45:06 | 0:45:09 | |
and, you know, looking on file, in this country, | 0:45:09 | 0:45:12 | |
there only seems to be one of them, so it's got to be... | 0:45:12 | 0:45:15 | |
You know, I don't get it, I'm very lost by it and quite confused. | 0:45:15 | 0:45:19 | |
So I'm coming today to have a DNA test with Levi. | 0:45:21 | 0:45:26 | |
We're going to find out... | 0:45:26 | 0:45:28 | |
..if I'm part of the family. | 0:45:29 | 0:45:31 | |
This is it. This is the moment! | 0:45:33 | 0:45:36 | |
I know! This will tell us if I'm related to your family. | 0:45:36 | 0:45:42 | |
Yeah. I'm glad I'm here for you, anyway. | 0:45:42 | 0:45:45 | |
So we'll find out exactly what's going on for both sides, | 0:45:45 | 0:45:48 | |
-both parties. -No, I really appreciate that. | 0:45:48 | 0:45:50 | |
So, let's have a look here now. | 0:45:50 | 0:45:52 | |
-This is it. -So, father, that's you. | 0:45:52 | 0:45:56 | |
-So what is it? OK. Basically... -My brother is very lucky! | 0:46:01 | 0:46:05 | |
I'm doing a lot for my brother, I'm saving him. | 0:46:05 | 0:46:07 | |
You are! You are saving him! | 0:46:07 | 0:46:11 | |
So let's have a look here. | 0:46:11 | 0:46:13 | |
Two of these swabs. | 0:46:13 | 0:46:15 | |
So I've got a little idea. | 0:46:15 | 0:46:17 | |
They've both got to face downwards, | 0:46:17 | 0:46:20 | |
when you put them into the envelope. | 0:46:20 | 0:46:22 | |
Right, OK. I'm ready to start now. | 0:46:22 | 0:46:25 | |
OK, so I've done the one. Then you've got to... | 0:46:29 | 0:46:31 | |
You have actually got to... | 0:46:31 | 0:46:33 | |
-Swab two. -Swab two. | 0:46:34 | 0:46:37 | |
And then that one. | 0:46:37 | 0:46:39 | |
-I did that with the first one. -I didn't do that. | 0:46:39 | 0:46:42 | |
There we go. And then face down. | 0:46:42 | 0:46:44 | |
-OK. -And seal it up. | 0:46:44 | 0:46:47 | |
That looks like it. | 0:46:47 | 0:46:49 | |
That's it. | 0:46:49 | 0:46:50 | |
You know what? This is | 0:46:51 | 0:46:52 | |
-the sort of thing you see in the Jeremy Kyle Show! -Exactly, I know! | 0:46:52 | 0:46:55 | |
I'm glad I'm not on the Jeremy Kyle Show, though! | 0:46:55 | 0:46:57 | |
I know what you mean! That's coming next! | 0:46:57 | 0:47:01 | |
Listen to this man! | 0:47:01 | 0:47:03 | |
So, OK, cool. | 0:47:03 | 0:47:04 | |
Basically, names and addresses on them and then we're done. | 0:47:04 | 0:47:08 | |
-Swabs done. -Thanks, man. | 0:47:08 | 0:47:11 | |
Bro. | 0:47:11 | 0:47:12 | |
-No problem. -I really appreciate it. | 0:47:12 | 0:47:15 | |
-Everything's all good. -Cheers, man, I really appreciate that. -OK. | 0:47:15 | 0:47:18 | |
I'll be giving you a call... | 0:47:27 | 0:47:29 | |
-I'm listening to the call. -..when we know the results. | 0:47:29 | 0:47:31 | |
I'm listening to you. | 0:47:31 | 0:47:33 | |
I'll let you know. It will be about a week's time, I reckon. | 0:47:33 | 0:47:36 | |
So, if anything, I'll be taking you to Leonard. | 0:47:36 | 0:47:39 | |
Yeah. Yeah! | 0:47:39 | 0:47:41 | |
Bringing the family together. | 0:47:41 | 0:47:43 | |
I can hear that. Cheers. | 0:47:43 | 0:47:45 | |
Nice meeting you all. | 0:47:45 | 0:47:47 | |
Cheers, maybe Dad! | 0:47:48 | 0:47:52 | |
-Cheers! -OK, mate. Take it easy, all right? | 0:47:52 | 0:47:54 | |
-See you later. -Bye. | 0:47:54 | 0:47:55 | |
He's such a nice guy, you know. | 0:47:57 | 0:47:59 | |
He didn't need to do this | 0:47:59 | 0:48:01 | |
and he knows he didn't need to do it but he's helping me out. | 0:48:01 | 0:48:04 | |
And it means a lot because we're going to know... | 0:48:04 | 0:48:09 | |
In a week's time, I'll know the results, | 0:48:09 | 0:48:10 | |
if I'm part of that family or not. | 0:48:10 | 0:48:12 | |
If I am, we go one step further, | 0:48:12 | 0:48:14 | |
if I'm not, I don't know where it leads me. | 0:48:14 | 0:48:17 | |
But, yeah, great. | 0:48:17 | 0:48:20 | |
Well, we're at my parents' house | 0:48:43 | 0:48:45 | |
and we've got the results back today. | 0:48:45 | 0:48:49 | |
I don't want to open it! I don't want to open it. | 0:48:49 | 0:48:51 | |
OK. Here we go. | 0:48:51 | 0:48:54 | |
HE SIGHS | 0:49:07 | 0:49:09 | |
Well. It looks like... | 0:49:13 | 0:49:15 | |
Let's have a look. | 0:49:15 | 0:49:16 | |
It looks like... | 0:49:18 | 0:49:20 | |
nothing to do with me. | 0:49:20 | 0:49:22 | |
I'm gutted. | 0:49:22 | 0:49:24 | |
HE SIGHS | 0:49:37 | 0:49:38 | |
I'm really... I'm angry, that's what it is. | 0:49:38 | 0:49:41 | |
You know, the reason I'm upset, I'm angry, | 0:49:50 | 0:49:54 | |
is the fact of it stops now, where do I go, you know? | 0:49:54 | 0:49:59 | |
And we've got this far where, you know, | 0:49:59 | 0:50:02 | |
you get told this is your father, this is the name, this is that | 0:50:02 | 0:50:06 | |
and then suddenly it's nothing. It's just a mismatch. | 0:50:06 | 0:50:08 | |
You just say... | 0:50:08 | 0:50:10 | |
You know? | 0:50:10 | 0:50:11 | |
Well, there we have it. | 0:50:15 | 0:50:17 | |
Based on the DNA analysis, individual one, | 0:50:22 | 0:50:25 | |
James Stephen Baulch, | 0:50:25 | 0:50:27 | |
and individual two, Levi, | 0:50:27 | 0:50:29 | |
belonging to two distinct lineages | 0:50:29 | 0:50:31 | |
which supports a hypothesis that both individuals do not share | 0:50:31 | 0:50:36 | |
the common paternal ancestor. | 0:50:36 | 0:50:40 | |
No links at all. | 0:50:40 | 0:50:42 | |
I don't get it. You know, is that information 43 years ago wrong? | 0:50:42 | 0:50:45 | |
Well, it is. | 0:50:45 | 0:50:47 | |
And I'll tell you why I'm upset and I feel slightly angry | 0:50:47 | 0:50:53 | |
is because | 0:50:53 | 0:50:54 | |
I'm a human being, do you know what I mean? | 0:50:54 | 0:50:57 | |
I just want... | 0:51:01 | 0:51:02 | |
I'm going to get the words out. I want to know who I am. | 0:51:04 | 0:51:07 | |
RINGING TONE | 0:51:24 | 0:51:26 | |
'Hi.' | 0:51:29 | 0:51:30 | |
Hey, Levi, it's Jamie. | 0:51:30 | 0:51:32 | |
'All right, mate? How's the whole thing?' | 0:51:32 | 0:51:34 | |
I'm all good, I'm all good. I'm just ringing cos I've got the results. | 0:51:34 | 0:51:39 | |
-'Oh, how did it come back?' -No, we're not related, man. | 0:51:39 | 0:51:43 | |
'OK, man, I had a feeling about that, man.' | 0:51:43 | 0:51:45 | |
Yeah, I'm gutted because I just feel like, you know, | 0:51:45 | 0:51:49 | |
I had all this information and it's just gone nowhere, you know? | 0:51:49 | 0:51:54 | |
'Yeah, I'm ever so sorry about that.' | 0:51:54 | 0:51:56 | |
I do really appreciate what you've done because you didn't have to... | 0:51:56 | 0:51:59 | |
'It's OK, man. It's no problem, mate. It's all good, yeah?' | 0:51:59 | 0:52:02 | |
-Cheers, Levi. You take care. -'I hope you're successful the next... | 0:52:02 | 0:52:05 | |
'time you go to find your dad, yeah?' | 0:52:05 | 0:52:07 | |
Yeah, yeah, thank you. No, I really appreciate it. | 0:52:07 | 0:52:09 | |
-'All right, mate.' -Cheers, man. -'Bye.' -Bye-bye. | 0:52:09 | 0:52:12 | |
On record, 43 years ago, it said in ink who my father was. | 0:52:20 | 0:52:26 | |
You know, Teresa would have given them that information. | 0:52:26 | 0:52:30 | |
My biological birth mother would have given them that information | 0:52:30 | 0:52:33 | |
and it's wrong. Was he always giving Teresa a false name? | 0:52:33 | 0:52:37 | |
I don't know. I don't know if I'll ever find him and... | 0:52:40 | 0:52:43 | |
..that hurts. That really hurts. | 0:52:44 | 0:52:47 | |
'I spoke to Teresa about the swab DNA results | 0:53:03 | 0:53:05 | |
'and she was as surprised and as shocked as I was | 0:53:05 | 0:53:08 | |
'and couldn't give me any more information | 0:53:08 | 0:53:11 | |
'about my biological dad. | 0:53:11 | 0:53:12 | |
'So maybe I'll never actually meet him.' | 0:53:13 | 0:53:16 | |
We're in Eastbourne today to meet up with a scientist who has basically | 0:53:27 | 0:53:31 | |
tested hundreds of athletes, | 0:53:31 | 0:53:33 | |
including some of the Jamaican athletes, about the sprint gene. | 0:53:33 | 0:53:37 | |
So, for me, knowing I'm Jamaican or half Jamaican, | 0:53:37 | 0:53:41 | |
I want to know how much do I owe to my father. | 0:53:41 | 0:53:44 | |
Is it nature/nurture? | 0:53:44 | 0:53:46 | |
Is it because my father has given me that extra power? | 0:53:46 | 0:53:50 | |
Is it through grit and determination? | 0:53:50 | 0:53:52 | |
Is it a culmination of everything? | 0:53:52 | 0:53:54 | |
So today we'll find out. | 0:53:54 | 0:53:56 | |
The sprint gene is a genetic variation | 0:53:58 | 0:54:00 | |
linked to faster muscle twitch, | 0:54:00 | 0:54:02 | |
helping explosive movement. | 0:54:02 | 0:54:04 | |
-Come and join me. -Cheers, thank you. | 0:54:07 | 0:54:10 | |
OK, so, this is our laboratory. | 0:54:10 | 0:54:12 | |
This is where all the work happens | 0:54:12 | 0:54:14 | |
and what you see around here is various laboratory equipment, | 0:54:14 | 0:54:18 | |
but the most important bit is what you see on the left-hand side. | 0:54:18 | 0:54:22 | |
-Wow. -These are four -80 freezers, | 0:54:22 | 0:54:24 | |
-so much colder than your freezer at home. -Yeah. | 0:54:24 | 0:54:28 | |
But that's not what's special about these freezers. | 0:54:28 | 0:54:30 | |
What's special about these freezers is some of the great athletes that | 0:54:30 | 0:54:34 | |
you competed against are in there. | 0:54:34 | 0:54:36 | |
-Oh, really? -Not literally, OK, but their DNA is in there. | 0:54:36 | 0:54:40 | |
-OK? -Some of the Jamaicans? -Some of the Jamaicans. | 0:54:40 | 0:54:42 | |
-Actually, a lot of the Jamaicans, OK? -OK. | 0:54:42 | 0:54:45 | |
-So let's see if we can find some. -Yeah, yeah. | 0:54:45 | 0:54:48 | |
OK, so... | 0:54:48 | 0:54:49 | |
-..Jamaican sprinters. -Wow. | 0:54:54 | 0:54:56 | |
Somehow you may have been, some who may have beaten you. | 0:54:56 | 0:54:58 | |
Yeah, I think they might have beaten me | 0:54:58 | 0:55:01 | |
a few more times than I've beaten them, to be honest. | 0:55:01 | 0:55:04 | |
The sprint gene is influenced by both the mother and the father. | 0:55:09 | 0:55:16 | |
OK? So the wrong version is an X. | 0:55:16 | 0:55:19 | |
-Yeah. -The right version is an R. | 0:55:19 | 0:55:23 | |
-OK. -So what you want is for the perfect scenario | 0:55:23 | 0:55:26 | |
to really say, "I have the sprint gene," | 0:55:26 | 0:55:29 | |
is to have the R from the mother | 0:55:29 | 0:55:32 | |
and the R from the father. | 0:55:32 | 0:55:35 | |
Let me show you the results. You are indeed R-R. | 0:55:35 | 0:55:40 | |
-Come on! -So you have the sprint gene. | 0:55:40 | 0:55:44 | |
So I got it from my mum, as well? | 0:55:44 | 0:55:46 | |
That's my point. | 0:55:46 | 0:55:47 | |
I'm loving that. I don't know why I'm boxing. | 0:55:47 | 0:55:50 | |
I don't know why you're boxing. | 0:55:50 | 0:55:52 | |
So the point is that both your mum and your dad influenced this | 0:55:52 | 0:55:58 | |
-and that's your result. -That's brilliant. That is so good. | 0:55:58 | 0:56:01 | |
That is so cool. | 0:56:01 | 0:56:02 | |
In the freezer you saw before, | 0:56:02 | 0:56:04 | |
we have hundreds of the world's greatest sprinters | 0:56:04 | 0:56:07 | |
-and not one of them had the wrong version. -Oh, OK. | 0:56:07 | 0:56:11 | |
So they all have the same. | 0:56:11 | 0:56:12 | |
However, the vast majority in Jamaica, | 0:56:12 | 0:56:16 | |
98%, | 0:56:16 | 0:56:18 | |
have the right version, | 0:56:18 | 0:56:20 | |
they have an R, | 0:56:20 | 0:56:22 | |
but so do 80% of Europeans. | 0:56:22 | 0:56:24 | |
-OK. -Which tells you what? | 0:56:26 | 0:56:28 | |
That the gene in itself can't be the predictor for | 0:56:28 | 0:56:32 | |
whether you make it as a sprinter or you're going to be a great sprinter. | 0:56:32 | 0:56:35 | |
It's NOT having it. | 0:56:35 | 0:56:37 | |
It's funny because you presume with me being mixed race | 0:56:37 | 0:56:40 | |
that it's obviously going to be the black part of me but, you know, | 0:56:40 | 0:56:46 | |
it is quite interesting to say, | 0:56:46 | 0:56:47 | |
"No, it's all of you which makes you fast." | 0:56:47 | 0:56:50 | |
I haven't done this for, like, 20 years. | 0:56:59 | 0:57:01 | |
I'm back at Cwmbran Stadium. This is just like... | 0:57:04 | 0:57:07 | |
I haven't been here for a long time | 0:57:07 | 0:57:09 | |
and this is where it all started for me, really. | 0:57:09 | 0:57:11 | |
You know when you get older, you can't believe that you used to do this, do you know what I mean? | 0:57:11 | 0:57:15 | |
I remember winning a competition in 1980. | 0:57:15 | 0:57:18 | |
It was my first. It was called the Mini Olympics | 0:57:18 | 0:57:21 | |
and I think I beat people who were a year older than me. | 0:57:21 | 0:57:23 | |
Oh, you know what? I don't even really want to try. | 0:57:23 | 0:57:26 | |
I'll hurt myself. | 0:57:26 | 0:57:27 | |
We found out that my biological mother | 0:57:28 | 0:57:30 | |
and my biological father have both given me the genes, | 0:57:30 | 0:57:34 | |
which is amazing. | 0:57:34 | 0:57:35 | |
So they gave me that start off in life but was it because of them? | 0:57:35 | 0:57:40 | |
Was it because of my father? | 0:57:40 | 0:57:41 | |
Well, no, you know? I feel it's because where I have been raised. | 0:57:41 | 0:57:46 | |
My adoptive parents, Marilyn and Alan, | 0:57:46 | 0:57:48 | |
brought me here, training with the right people. | 0:57:48 | 0:57:52 | |
Colin Jackson, you know, Linford Christie, | 0:57:52 | 0:57:55 | |
Darren Campbell all on this track | 0:57:55 | 0:57:57 | |
and it's that which I believe has got me to where I am today. | 0:57:57 | 0:58:01 | |
And it's crazy that it's gone full circle for me. | 0:58:01 | 0:58:05 | |
It's gone full circle where you search, you search, you search | 0:58:05 | 0:58:08 | |
and you find that you had the answer in the first place | 0:58:08 | 0:58:10 | |
and it's because of this. | 0:58:10 | 0:58:12 | |
On your marks... | 0:58:12 | 0:58:15 | |
..get set. | 0:58:18 | 0:58:19 | |
Go, go, go, go! Good job. | 0:58:20 | 0:58:23 | |
Makes me want to do it. | 0:58:24 | 0:58:26 | |
Now I'm here, right here, right now, yes, | 0:58:26 | 0:58:29 | |
it's disappointing that I haven't found out who my father is, but | 0:58:29 | 0:58:31 | |
you know what? I've got my father. | 0:58:31 | 0:58:33 | |
His name's Alan Baulch. | 0:58:33 | 0:58:35 | |
Yeah, that's who my father is. | 0:58:36 | 0:58:38 | |
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