0:00:02 > 0:00:05Families can be driven apart for all manner of reasons.
0:00:05 > 0:00:08My mum went away and didn't come back.
0:00:08 > 0:00:10And when you do lose touch with your loved ones...
0:00:10 > 0:00:12I never saw Kathleen again.
0:00:12 > 0:00:15..finding them can take a lifetime...
0:00:15 > 0:00:17I wonder where he is. I wonder what he's doing.
0:00:17 > 0:00:20You don't even know where to begin.
0:00:20 > 0:00:23..especially when they could be anywhere - at home or abroad.
0:00:25 > 0:00:28That's where the family finders come in.
0:00:28 > 0:00:31Hi, it's the Salvation Army Family Tracing Service.
0:00:31 > 0:00:34From international organisations...
0:00:34 > 0:00:37There's never been a day when we have never had new enquiries.
0:00:37 > 0:00:40..to genealogy detective agencies...
0:00:40 > 0:00:42When was it you last got in contact with him?
0:00:42 > 0:00:44..and dedicated one-man bands.
0:00:44 > 0:00:47I like to do searches that other people can't get,
0:00:47 > 0:00:48because it makes me feel good.
0:00:48 > 0:00:54They hunt through history to bring families back together again.
0:00:54 > 0:00:56You are my biological dad.
0:00:56 > 0:00:59In this series, we follow the work of the family finders...
0:00:59 > 0:01:02This case came from our Australian colleagues.
0:01:02 > 0:01:03..learning the tricks they use
0:01:03 > 0:01:06to track living relatives through time...
0:01:06 > 0:01:10I'm 68 years of age. She is 75 years of age. And we're just starting off.
0:01:10 > 0:01:14..and meeting the people whose lives they change along the way.
0:01:14 > 0:01:16I said, well, this is your younger sister.
0:01:16 > 0:01:18It's a miracle.
0:01:18 > 0:01:21I was struck speechless. And I couldn't stop crying.
0:01:21 > 0:01:23Proud moment. No doubt.
0:01:23 > 0:01:25I was set on finding a family.
0:01:33 > 0:01:35Our identity is what makes us unique.
0:01:35 > 0:01:39And knowing where we came from is an important part of knowing
0:01:39 > 0:01:41who we are.
0:01:41 > 0:01:45For many people, this knowledge is hard to come by
0:01:45 > 0:01:47and can mean a lifetime of searching for answers.
0:01:50 > 0:01:53But chance, timing and a bit of luck can play
0:01:53 > 0:01:56a big part in connecting a person with their past.
0:01:58 > 0:02:01That was the case for 81-year-old Eric Morgan.
0:02:03 > 0:02:09I was born in St Luke's Hospital in 1934.
0:02:09 > 0:02:14And, in those days, that used to be the workhouse, in the olden days.
0:02:16 > 0:02:24And, actually, I think the name for it was "the naughty girl's ward".
0:02:25 > 0:02:27After Eric was born, his mother went
0:02:27 > 0:02:31to work in the local textile industry with his father, George.
0:02:31 > 0:02:33Me mother and dad both worked.
0:02:33 > 0:02:36I mean, my mother worked really hard.
0:02:36 > 0:02:39She was always good to me, but I didn't see that much of her.
0:02:41 > 0:02:45When Eric Morgan arrived at the recruiting office in 1952,
0:02:45 > 0:02:47to sign up for his National Service,
0:02:47 > 0:02:50little did he know his life was about to be turned upside down.
0:02:52 > 0:02:55I went down to the recruiting office.
0:02:55 > 0:02:57And you had to take your birth certificate.
0:02:57 > 0:03:00And me mother gave me me birth certificate.
0:03:02 > 0:03:08I put it in me pocket and went to the recruiting office. I give them it.
0:03:08 > 0:03:10He took some details. Give me it back.
0:03:10 > 0:03:13I folded it up, put it in my pocket and I went back to see me mum.
0:03:14 > 0:03:19And I said, "Oh, here you are," and she started crying.
0:03:19 > 0:03:21And I said...
0:03:27 > 0:03:29I said, "What's the matter?"
0:03:29 > 0:03:30She said, "Have you read it?"
0:03:31 > 0:03:33I said, "No."
0:03:34 > 0:03:37She said, "Well, if you look, it's the adoption paper."
0:03:39 > 0:03:41And I said, "Well, it don't matter, that."
0:03:41 > 0:03:44I said, "You'll always be my mother, no matter what.
0:03:44 > 0:03:48"You'll always be my mother. So forget it."
0:03:48 > 0:03:52The news that he was adopted came as a massive shock for Eric,
0:03:52 > 0:03:56and he yearned to know more about his true origins.
0:03:56 > 0:04:03I wanted to know, to fill a vacant part in my life.
0:04:03 > 0:04:06But there was an even bigger bombshell to come.
0:04:06 > 0:04:13Took the adoption paper and went down to the registrar in Bradford.
0:04:13 > 0:04:17I said, "From this, can I have a birth certificate?"
0:04:17 > 0:04:22They said, "No problem." So he went round t'back, and he came back then,
0:04:22 > 0:04:28and said to me, he said, "Oh, I'm sorry, lad, I can't find anything."
0:04:28 > 0:04:32I said, "Why?" He said, "Well, there's nothing there about you."
0:04:34 > 0:04:36I said, "Well, how many boys were
0:04:36 > 0:04:42"born in St Luke's on the 17th of the sixth, 1934?"
0:04:42 > 0:04:45He said, "Four. But you weren't one of them."
0:04:47 > 0:04:50On top of everything else, Eric was now being told that,
0:04:50 > 0:04:53as far as the records were concerned, he didn't exist.
0:04:56 > 0:04:58With this monumental blow, he had no choice
0:04:58 > 0:05:01but to leave the past where it was and get on with his life.
0:05:03 > 0:05:06After completing National Service, he met his wife, Valerie,
0:05:06 > 0:05:09and they went on to have a family of their own.
0:05:10 > 0:05:14Eric Morgan never stopped wondering about his true identity
0:05:14 > 0:05:16but he'd have to wait a lifetime before the secret
0:05:16 > 0:05:18of his origins would become clear.
0:05:21 > 0:05:2460 years later, in the Yorkshire town of Halifax,
0:05:24 > 0:05:27another man was carrying out his own family search,
0:05:27 > 0:05:31a search that would hold the key to the mystery.
0:05:31 > 0:05:34I'd love to know who my real father was.
0:05:36 > 0:05:38Brian Frith was born in a little village
0:05:38 > 0:05:42near Bradford, to a single mother in 1935.
0:05:43 > 0:05:46She later married and Brian was brought up by her
0:05:46 > 0:05:48and his stepfather.
0:05:49 > 0:05:50I knew he were my stepdad.
0:05:51 > 0:05:59To be... In them days, he was my dad, but in name only.
0:05:59 > 0:06:03It was things what people used to say. Why is your name different?
0:06:03 > 0:06:09This, that and the other and called you a basket, all things like that.
0:06:09 > 0:06:14Them things come out then. It didn't...
0:06:14 > 0:06:18I wasn't worried about it because, like I say,
0:06:18 > 0:06:21I had other brothers and sisters and a mother.
0:06:21 > 0:06:25That was the main thing in them days. The mother was most important.
0:06:26 > 0:06:30Brian grew up with his half sister, May, and her brothers and sisters
0:06:30 > 0:06:35around the textile mills of Bradford where their parents both worked.
0:06:35 > 0:06:37I knew they weren't my full brothers and sisters,
0:06:37 > 0:06:40but as far as I was concerned, they was.
0:06:40 > 0:06:42It was a happy house, put it that way.
0:06:42 > 0:06:46We were no different to any other kids in that time, were we?
0:06:46 > 0:06:47No, no.
0:06:49 > 0:06:54Our mother was really hard-working and she loved all her kids.
0:06:54 > 0:06:59- She did.- She did everything she could for us and it were happy.
0:06:59 > 0:07:01In an evening when she'd finished her work,
0:07:01 > 0:07:04she'd sit in an armchair near the fire
0:07:04 > 0:07:09and we'd all sit on the arms round my mum and joke and talk.
0:07:09 > 0:07:10Singing and that.
0:07:12 > 0:07:15Since retirement, May has been trying to help Brian
0:07:15 > 0:07:18find out the identity of his biological father.
0:07:18 > 0:07:23Brian never knew who his father was and he was always wanting to know.
0:07:24 > 0:07:27Every time I went to see him, he'd say,
0:07:27 > 0:07:30"Have you found my dad yet?"
0:07:30 > 0:07:35I'd like to know and then everything can be finalised
0:07:35 > 0:07:38and I can say, well, that was my dad.
0:07:38 > 0:07:40I might even change the family name.
0:07:42 > 0:07:45Brian's birth certificate stated no named father,
0:07:45 > 0:07:48so all May had to go on was Brian's surname, Frith.
0:07:50 > 0:07:55I thought, what about if I just put the surname and put Bradford
0:07:55 > 0:08:00and put what year I wanted. Would I find anything else?
0:08:00 > 0:08:03May's search failed to come up with any Friths who were
0:08:03 > 0:08:06the right age to be Brian's father,
0:08:06 > 0:08:10but she did find a younger man listed with the same name.
0:08:10 > 0:08:14I found E Frith, next to my brother who was B Frith.
0:08:15 > 0:08:18E stood for Eric, and this Eric Frith's mother
0:08:18 > 0:08:21had the same name as theirs, Elizabeth.
0:08:21 > 0:08:25Had May stumbled across a family secret?
0:08:25 > 0:08:31I haven't found another Elizabeth in Bradford at that age.
0:08:31 > 0:08:34It suddenly seemed that Brian and May's mum could have had
0:08:34 > 0:08:38another child, a half brother they never knew existed.
0:08:39 > 0:08:43I thought, could he really be our brother?
0:08:43 > 0:08:46I went to the Bradford register office and I told them
0:08:46 > 0:08:51Elizabeth Frith was my mum and they supplied me
0:08:51 > 0:08:54with the birth certificate for Eric.
0:08:54 > 0:08:56And there it was in black and white.
0:08:58 > 0:09:01We never knew that there was another brother at all.
0:09:01 > 0:09:05It came as a big shock because my mum was really quiet
0:09:05 > 0:09:08and you wouldn't think butter would melt in her mouth.
0:09:10 > 0:09:13The birth certificate stated that Eric had been adopted
0:09:13 > 0:09:16and May had a difficult decision to make.
0:09:17 > 0:09:22The Adoption Society told me to think about it
0:09:22 > 0:09:26because Eric was nearly 80 years old.
0:09:28 > 0:09:31Did he know he was adopted?
0:09:31 > 0:09:36Did he want anybody to find him and would it be a big shock to him?
0:09:36 > 0:09:40May nearly decided not to make contact with Eric,
0:09:40 > 0:09:43but speaking to her son made her think again.
0:09:43 > 0:09:47He said, "Do you want to find out if he's your brother?"
0:09:47 > 0:09:54I said, "Yes, I'd like to." And he says, "Well, go for it." So I did.
0:09:54 > 0:09:56She got in contact with the Adoption Agency
0:09:56 > 0:10:00to get the ball rolling and they revealed their new-found brother
0:10:00 > 0:10:04was now going by the name of Eric Morgan,
0:10:04 > 0:10:08the same Eric Morgan who, 60 years ago, had given up all
0:10:08 > 0:10:11hope of ever finding his birth mother.
0:10:11 > 0:10:15I got a letter from the Adoption Society and he said,
0:10:15 > 0:10:20"We've had a lady who's claiming to be your stepsister."
0:10:20 > 0:10:22I thought, "Oh, right."
0:10:22 > 0:10:26After a lifetime of waiting, 81-year-old Eric had finally
0:10:26 > 0:10:30found some birth relatives, or at least they had found him, but
0:10:30 > 0:10:34there were still a few more bumps to come on the road to reunion.
0:10:34 > 0:10:37I said to our May, "He's a con merchant."
0:10:38 > 0:10:42He could be any Tom, Dick or Harry, couldn't he?
0:10:47 > 0:10:50If you're adopted and thinking about tracing your birth
0:10:50 > 0:10:53relatives, or if you're looking to find a relative who you
0:10:53 > 0:10:55believe was adopted, here is some advice.
0:10:57 > 0:11:00Before you start, think carefully about your motivations and
0:11:00 > 0:11:05the impact making contact could have on you and everyone else involved.
0:11:06 > 0:11:09Be prepared for all possible outcomes.
0:11:10 > 0:11:14When you're ready, add your details to the Adoption Contact Register.
0:11:15 > 0:11:19Both adopted adults and birth relatives can register a wish
0:11:19 > 0:11:21to connect and if a link is made,
0:11:21 > 0:11:25the adopted adults will be sent the birth relative's contact details.
0:11:26 > 0:11:28Should you trace a relative,
0:11:28 > 0:11:31enlist the help of an intermediary agency.
0:11:31 > 0:11:34They'll act as a go-between and liaise between you
0:11:34 > 0:11:37and the relative you've traced and help you maintain a sense of
0:11:37 > 0:11:42privacy and control, until you both feel ready to be in direct contact.
0:11:45 > 0:11:48There are many professional agencies you can use to help you
0:11:48 > 0:11:51at different stages of the family finding process.
0:11:51 > 0:11:54One of them is FinderMonkey in Leeds.
0:11:54 > 0:11:56A lot of people that come to us
0:11:56 > 0:11:59tell us that they've been really frustrated, sometimes,
0:11:59 > 0:12:03for years on end, trying to find the person that they're looking for.
0:12:03 > 0:12:05What we're able to do is find an exact match
0:12:05 > 0:12:08because we have access to systems that are far more detailed than
0:12:08 > 0:12:10they can access themselves.
0:12:13 > 0:12:1630-year-old Stephen Hills was only a baby
0:12:16 > 0:12:20when his dad lived at home and he has no memories of him.
0:12:20 > 0:12:23I have always had questions in my mind. What does he look like?
0:12:23 > 0:12:26What does he do? Where does he live?
0:12:26 > 0:12:30Why it all broke down between him and my mum?
0:12:30 > 0:12:33Stephen grew up with his mum and stepdad in Balby, Doncaster.
0:12:34 > 0:12:36He was good to me.
0:12:36 > 0:12:39When I was growing up, I had a brother and a sister,
0:12:39 > 0:12:42both younger than me.
0:12:42 > 0:12:43His family was always open
0:12:43 > 0:12:47and honest with Stephen about his background.
0:12:47 > 0:12:51When I was about ten, my mum and stepdad sat me down
0:12:51 > 0:12:54in the back garden and told me that he
0:12:54 > 0:12:58wasn't my real dad and asked me how I felt about it and what not.
0:12:59 > 0:13:02If I'm honest, it was on my mind all the time
0:13:02 > 0:13:08but I sort of put it to the back of my mind and got on with things.
0:13:09 > 0:13:15As soon as I turned 16, 17, I joined the army and left.
0:13:15 > 0:13:18Stephen was hoping to join the Coldstream Guards,
0:13:18 > 0:13:22but, sadly, was unable to complete his training.
0:13:22 > 0:13:25I had an accident in the army which made me medically discharged,
0:13:25 > 0:13:29so, I moved out and started a family of my own.
0:13:30 > 0:13:32But now, having children of his own,
0:13:32 > 0:13:35made Stephen think again about finding his dad.
0:13:35 > 0:13:40Now my kids are sort of growing up, I know how I'd feel
0:13:40 > 0:13:46if I didn't know them, so that's why I wanted to get in touch with my dad.
0:13:46 > 0:13:48Because me and Stephen are now getting married
0:13:48 > 0:13:52and obviously he's got children, we've got a child together, I think
0:13:52 > 0:13:57he wants his dad to be there for the children growing up.
0:13:57 > 0:14:00He wants him to be there on his wedding day and things like that.
0:14:00 > 0:14:02It really means a lot to him, so...
0:14:03 > 0:14:07Stephen has attempted to trace his father over the past 15 years
0:14:07 > 0:14:09but without success.
0:14:09 > 0:14:12I asked my mum if she had any information, but she said
0:14:12 > 0:14:15if she walked past him in the street, she wouldn't know him.
0:14:16 > 0:14:20It's been 30 years now, it's been a long time.
0:14:22 > 0:14:25Undeterred, Stephen started his search
0:14:25 > 0:14:28and looked to his birth certificate for clues.
0:14:28 > 0:14:32On the birth certificate, I've got his full name, where he was born,
0:14:32 > 0:14:34what job he actually did.
0:14:34 > 0:14:36His occupation was a coalface worker,
0:14:36 > 0:14:38so he would've been a miner at the time.
0:14:38 > 0:14:42With me being born, they were actually on strike,
0:14:42 > 0:14:49so that might have been a big key to why him and my mum split up.
0:14:49 > 0:14:51When I've asked my mum about it,
0:14:51 > 0:14:58she's sort of gone a bit distant but I think they had a bad break-up.
0:14:58 > 0:15:00Filled with curiosity about his father,
0:15:00 > 0:15:04Stephen first tried to find him through social media sites.
0:15:04 > 0:15:08When I typed his name up on the social media site,
0:15:08 > 0:15:10quite a few names came up -
0:15:10 > 0:15:1270 different people with the same name.
0:15:14 > 0:15:20So I did think about messaging people but I didn't know what to write,
0:15:20 > 0:15:22if I'm honest.
0:15:22 > 0:15:26Frustrated, Stephen turned to the professionals.
0:15:26 > 0:15:30I got in touch with the company FinderMonkey.
0:15:30 > 0:15:33I didn't think they were going to get anywhere.
0:15:33 > 0:15:34Basically, I thought,
0:15:34 > 0:15:38"It's been 30 years, he's probably moved on with his life."
0:15:41 > 0:15:45Stephen had been looking for his dad for 15 years, that's the
0:15:45 > 0:15:50information that he gave us, but he'd been unable to locate a match.
0:15:50 > 0:15:53Stephen gave the researchers what information he had.
0:15:53 > 0:15:58His name, his age, where he was born. I gave them all that.
0:15:59 > 0:16:01From that information, we went away
0:16:01 > 0:16:05and looked for his marriage to Stephen's mum,
0:16:05 > 0:16:10which we found, in 1982, and then we also, from then,
0:16:10 > 0:16:12went back and looked for a birth record.
0:16:12 > 0:16:15And we found somebody that we believed was the right one,
0:16:15 > 0:16:17who was born in Kent in 1956.
0:16:17 > 0:16:20We'd then wanted to try and trace him to a current address
0:16:20 > 0:16:22so that we could contact him to find out
0:16:22 > 0:16:24and confirm it was the right person.
0:16:24 > 0:16:27If Stephen had have been trying to find an address for his dad
0:16:27 > 0:16:30by himself, with the tools that are available to the general public
0:16:30 > 0:16:32through online searches,
0:16:32 > 0:16:35it would have been very difficult for him to do.
0:16:35 > 0:16:39In just two weeks, the researchers were able to call Stephen
0:16:39 > 0:16:43with the information he'd been waiting all his life to hear.
0:16:43 > 0:16:46I saved their phone number in my phone, so I knew it was them
0:16:46 > 0:16:50when they were ringing, and I was a bit...
0:16:50 > 0:16:53Well, I got nervous, as soon as I picked the phone up, and then
0:16:53 > 0:16:58they said that they've found someone that they believe to be my dad.
0:17:00 > 0:17:03They told Stephen they'd write to the man they believed to be
0:17:03 > 0:17:07his father on his behalf, saying he would like to get in touch.
0:17:10 > 0:17:16"Dear Mr Woodcock, we are people that find lost families.
0:17:16 > 0:17:22"We are trying to contact a Mr Alan John Woodcock, born in Kent,
0:17:22 > 0:17:24"lived in Doncaster in the '80s."
0:17:26 > 0:17:33Rang the phone number on the letter and...
0:17:36 > 0:17:42..they told me that my son has been trying to contact me,
0:17:42 > 0:17:44and I went...
0:17:44 > 0:17:46I went silent on the phone,
0:17:46 > 0:17:50went...was struck dumb...
0:17:50 > 0:17:55in surprise, with surprise.
0:17:55 > 0:17:56And the... I don't...
0:17:56 > 0:18:01Eventually, the voice on the phone says,
0:18:01 > 0:18:03"Are you still there?"
0:18:03 > 0:18:04I said, "Yes."
0:18:04 > 0:18:07He said to me, "Have you took it in?"
0:18:07 > 0:18:11And I said, "Well, no, not really, but, yes."
0:18:13 > 0:18:16"And do you want us to tell him?"
0:18:16 > 0:18:22I says, "Well, yes, I do, and you can pass my details onto him."
0:18:22 > 0:18:28Alan was born into a mining family in Kent in the 1950s.
0:18:28 > 0:18:32I was born in 1956, in Dover.
0:18:32 > 0:18:34Went to a boarding school...
0:18:36 > 0:18:37And then the...
0:18:37 > 0:18:43When I left school at 15, I went down the pit.
0:18:44 > 0:18:48Alan was a miner at the Bentley Colliery in Doncaster,
0:18:48 > 0:18:51one of the largest mining areas in the country.
0:18:51 > 0:18:53He worked on the coalface.
0:18:54 > 0:18:58Pit bottom is lit - electric light and everything -
0:18:58 > 0:19:01but when you get away from pit bottom,
0:19:01 > 0:19:06and you get up to the coalface, it's blacker than black,
0:19:06 > 0:19:10darker than the darkest night.
0:19:10 > 0:19:12If you turned your lamp off,
0:19:12 > 0:19:14and went like that, you couldn't see your hand.
0:19:14 > 0:19:17On the coalface, it could be quite warm,
0:19:17 > 0:19:22and you'd work in... work in your underwear.
0:19:22 > 0:19:25Just your under... a pair of pants on,
0:19:25 > 0:19:28and your belt, with your battery and your rescuer,
0:19:28 > 0:19:31and your kneepads, and your boots and your helmet.
0:19:34 > 0:19:38Alan lived with Stephen's mother in the village next to the colliery.
0:19:38 > 0:19:40I met Stephen's mother...
0:19:43 > 0:19:45..about three or four years before the strike.
0:19:47 > 0:19:48And...
0:19:51 > 0:19:55..we were courting and got married.
0:19:55 > 0:19:58Bought my own... we'd bought our own house,
0:19:58 > 0:20:03and then the strike came,
0:20:03 > 0:20:06and it just fell apart from then onwards,
0:20:06 > 0:20:09cos the... basically because of the strike.
0:20:09 > 0:20:13- Breaking through the police lines... - The 1984-85 miners' strike
0:20:13 > 0:20:15was a major conflict across the whole of
0:20:15 > 0:20:17the UK coal mining industry...
0:20:17 > 0:20:19You are nicked!
0:20:19 > 0:20:22..and signalled the end of coal mining in Britain -
0:20:22 > 0:20:25a state-subsidised and nationalised industry
0:20:25 > 0:20:28since the end of World War II.
0:20:28 > 0:20:31In 1984, the National Coal Board announced measures that would
0:20:31 > 0:20:34mean heavy job losses, and the closure of many pits.
0:20:34 > 0:20:36CROWD YELLS
0:20:36 > 0:20:40With tens of thousands of jobs at stake, the unions resisted,
0:20:40 > 0:20:44and in 1984, the leader of the National Union of Mineworkers,
0:20:44 > 0:20:47Arthur Scargill, called for a national strike.
0:20:47 > 0:20:50We shall now take those steps which are essential and necessary,
0:20:50 > 0:20:54to blockade all steel plants, power plants and other industry.
0:20:54 > 0:20:57It became one of the most bitter disputes in recent history.
0:20:57 > 0:21:00Jobs! Jobs! Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!
0:21:00 > 0:21:04As hardships increased, the strike split communities,
0:21:04 > 0:21:08as some miners returned to work for the sake of their families.
0:21:09 > 0:21:12Others refused to break the strike, and relied on support
0:21:12 > 0:21:15through soup kitchens and fundraising benefits.
0:21:15 > 0:21:19The strike ended on the 3rd of March 1985,
0:21:19 > 0:21:22following a union vote to return to work.
0:21:22 > 0:21:26It was seen as a major political victory for Margaret Thatcher.
0:21:28 > 0:21:33There was a lot of lads' wives supported the strike,
0:21:33 > 0:21:38and went on marches and picket duty,
0:21:38 > 0:21:40or worked in...
0:21:40 > 0:21:43in the kitchens, the soup kitchens.
0:21:43 > 0:21:47The money obviously stopped coming in,
0:21:47 > 0:21:54and we were living on, well, a shoestring,
0:21:54 > 0:22:00and the times were hard and that was it.
0:22:00 > 0:22:03Hard keeping the house warm in the winter,
0:22:03 > 0:22:06and she just broke down.
0:22:06 > 0:22:08We separated and that was it.
0:22:10 > 0:22:15The last time I saw Stephen, he was a bit more than a babe in arms.
0:22:15 > 0:22:19I think he was walking, but every time I went up,
0:22:19 > 0:22:25there was an argument, and I didn't want to go up and argue.
0:22:25 > 0:22:27I was going up to see Stephen.
0:22:27 > 0:22:30So I just said, in the end,
0:22:30 > 0:22:33"I'll stay away,"
0:22:33 > 0:22:36and lost touch.
0:22:38 > 0:22:4330 years later, and Alan now had Stephen's phone number,
0:22:43 > 0:22:46but making contact was never going to be easy,
0:22:46 > 0:22:49and meeting face-to-face even harder.
0:22:51 > 0:22:55What will happen when this father meets the son he's never known?
0:23:06 > 0:23:10As a young man, Eric Morgan discovered he was adopted but was
0:23:10 > 0:23:14told that as far as the records were concerned, he didn't actually exist.
0:23:16 > 0:23:19His identity remained a mystery until 60 years later
0:23:19 > 0:23:22when May and Brian Frith tracked him down.
0:23:22 > 0:23:24It appeared from May's research
0:23:24 > 0:23:26that all three of them shared the same mother.
0:23:28 > 0:23:33It said, "We've found out that in this area,
0:23:33 > 0:23:39"there was a boy adopted called Eric Frith,
0:23:39 > 0:23:44"which we now think turned into Eric Morgan."
0:23:46 > 0:23:48With the help of the Adoption Society that May was
0:23:48 > 0:23:52using as an intermediary, it emerged that Eric had been born
0:23:52 > 0:23:57Eric Frith, and only been given the new surname Morgan at a later date.
0:23:57 > 0:24:02This finally explained why Eric had been told he didn't exist.
0:24:02 > 0:24:06He'd been searching under the wrong name all those years ago.
0:24:06 > 0:24:09The Adoption Society made clear to Eric
0:24:09 > 0:24:11that the ball was now in his court.
0:24:11 > 0:24:16They said, "You don't have to see this lady.
0:24:16 > 0:24:20"If you say forget it, we'll forget it now."
0:24:22 > 0:24:26After all this time, did he want to revisit his past?
0:24:27 > 0:24:32They said, "Would you mind if I gave May your address?"
0:24:33 > 0:24:37I said, "Well, yeah, go on, then."
0:24:37 > 0:24:40With nothing to lose and everything to gain,
0:24:40 > 0:24:42Eric waited for May to write him a letter.
0:24:42 > 0:24:44When I wrote the letter, I just said,
0:24:44 > 0:24:51"Hello, Eric, I think you might be my brother, half-brother.
0:24:51 > 0:24:56"Erm, your mother has the same name as my mother,
0:24:56 > 0:25:00"and would you be interested in meeting?"
0:25:00 > 0:25:05She said, "Eric, you don't have to answer this, if you don't want."
0:25:05 > 0:25:08"But if you do, ring this number."
0:25:08 > 0:25:11So I rang the number and it was May.
0:25:12 > 0:25:14I said, "How have you done all this?"
0:25:14 > 0:25:16And she said, "I've done it on t'computer."
0:25:16 > 0:25:20It turned out the family were practically neighbours.
0:25:20 > 0:25:22When we found Eric,
0:25:22 > 0:25:25he lived five minutes away from my sister Margaret.
0:25:26 > 0:25:29They probably walked past one another on the street.
0:25:29 > 0:25:32She said, "Do you think we could meet up?"
0:25:32 > 0:25:34And I said, "Yeah, we can do."
0:25:34 > 0:25:37For May, there was an instant connection.
0:25:38 > 0:25:41It wasn't as if we were meeting strangers.
0:25:41 > 0:25:43We just walked in and says "Hello"
0:25:43 > 0:25:47and talked about different things from the past.
0:25:47 > 0:25:51But when Brian met Eric he was suspicious.
0:25:51 > 0:25:54Was this man REALLY related to them?
0:25:55 > 0:25:57I said to our May, "He's a con merchant."
0:25:59 > 0:26:02Because he evaded saying when I asked him things.
0:26:02 > 0:26:04So, I thought, well...
0:26:04 > 0:26:06is he really
0:26:06 > 0:26:08my brother?
0:26:08 > 0:26:12Even now, Brian remained unconvinced.
0:26:12 > 0:26:16At the moment, he could be any Tom, Dick or Harry, couldn't he?
0:26:17 > 0:26:22May suggested they do a DNA test to find out once and for all
0:26:22 > 0:26:24if Eric really was their half-brother.
0:26:26 > 0:26:30The three of them sent their swab samples to a testing company,
0:26:30 > 0:26:34who carried out a test much like one DNA scientist Chris Jones
0:26:34 > 0:26:35is carrying out here.
0:26:35 > 0:26:38The tests themselves have pretty big implications
0:26:38 > 0:26:41when you're doing any kind of relationship testing,
0:26:41 > 0:26:42or paternity testing.
0:26:42 > 0:26:45DNA is a very small thing. It doesn't look much in the lab
0:26:45 > 0:26:48but it can have a really big impact out in the real world of people.
0:26:48 > 0:26:50A complex extraction process
0:26:50 > 0:26:52isolates each person's DNA
0:26:52 > 0:26:54so that it can be effectively compared.
0:26:54 > 0:26:56I'm going to start the sequencer now.
0:26:56 > 0:26:58It will analyse all the DNA,
0:26:58 > 0:27:00so using the software downstairs
0:27:00 > 0:27:03we'll be able to get a visual representation of the DNA
0:27:03 > 0:27:05for use in the analysis.
0:27:05 > 0:27:08The results usually take around two days to come through.
0:27:08 > 0:27:13Will science rewrite history for Brian, May and Eric?
0:27:20 > 0:27:23Tomorrow Alan and Stephen are going
0:27:23 > 0:27:26to meet face-to-face for the first time in 30 years.
0:27:28 > 0:27:29And not only that,
0:27:29 > 0:27:33Alan will also meet his granddaughter, Lily Grace,
0:27:33 > 0:27:35and Stephen's fiancee, Steph.
0:27:35 > 0:27:37I think he's really nervous to meet him,
0:27:37 > 0:27:39but at the same time he's really excited.
0:27:39 > 0:27:43Obviously, he wants to meet his dad, he wants to see what he's like,
0:27:43 > 0:27:44if they like each other...
0:27:44 > 0:27:47Because I've said he does look like him, so, yeah.
0:27:49 > 0:27:50I am a bit nervous...
0:27:50 > 0:27:53but I don't know what to expect.
0:27:53 > 0:27:56I think he will just... go with the flow.
0:27:56 > 0:28:00I'm more nervous, I would say.
0:28:02 > 0:28:06What I want to do today is take them out for a meal...
0:28:09 > 0:28:11..and get to know...all of them.
0:28:14 > 0:28:16And then, hopefully, later on,
0:28:16 > 0:28:20me and Stephen can go out and have a pint.
0:28:25 > 0:28:30As Alan makes the 100-mile journey from his home in Stoke,
0:28:30 > 0:28:32Stephen drives to the arranged meeting place
0:28:32 > 0:28:35close to his home in Pontefract.
0:28:35 > 0:28:37I didn't get a good night's sleep. A bit of...
0:28:37 > 0:28:39Kept waking up.
0:28:39 > 0:28:41I think it's to do with nerves for today.
0:28:41 > 0:28:43So...
0:28:45 > 0:28:48It's been 30 years since I've seen him.
0:28:49 > 0:28:51I'm very anx...apprehensious.
0:28:51 > 0:28:53Can't even pronounce it!
0:28:57 > 0:29:00I don't know what I'll have to drink. What you having?
0:29:00 > 0:29:01- Can I have one?- Mm-hm.
0:29:07 > 0:29:11Stephen is the first to arrive, but steps outside
0:29:11 > 0:29:14in nervous anticipation of his father's arrival.
0:29:30 > 0:29:31Hiya. You all right?
0:29:31 > 0:29:32I am now.
0:29:32 > 0:29:34- Are you?- Aye.- Come on then.
0:29:36 > 0:29:39Stepping into the role of dad after 30 years
0:29:39 > 0:29:42isn't necessarily going to be easy for Alan.
0:29:43 > 0:29:44I can see you properly, now.
0:29:44 > 0:29:47- Hiya. You all right?- I am now.
0:29:47 > 0:29:48Good, good.
0:29:48 > 0:29:52It all starts off well, with Alan having made the effort
0:29:52 > 0:29:54to get a present for his young granddaughter.
0:29:54 > 0:29:55Who's that?
0:29:55 > 0:29:57- Peppa Pig!- Peppa Pig, yeah!
0:29:57 > 0:30:00- What do you say?- Thank you.
0:30:00 > 0:30:02But despite a good start,
0:30:02 > 0:30:05the emotions seem to get the better of him.
0:30:09 > 0:30:11Having gathered his thoughts,
0:30:11 > 0:30:13Alan returns and settles happily
0:30:13 > 0:30:16into the role of father and grandfather.
0:30:16 > 0:30:18Are you watching?
0:30:18 > 0:30:20Watch again. Are you watching?
0:30:20 > 0:30:23- Blow. - SHE BLOWS
0:30:23 > 0:30:25I ain't got it.
0:30:28 > 0:30:30Here. Put it in your pocket.
0:30:30 > 0:30:32- What do you say?- Thank you.
0:30:32 > 0:30:34- How's it going?- Spot on.- Good.
0:30:34 > 0:30:38I brought some photos and that.
0:30:38 > 0:30:41There's a lot of ground to be covered after 30 years apart
0:30:41 > 0:30:43so to get things started,
0:30:43 > 0:30:46Stephen's brought along some photos of him as a boy.
0:30:47 > 0:30:51- That you?- It doesn't look like him, I say.- It doesn't.
0:30:51 > 0:30:55And Alan's also brought photos, including one of him as a child.
0:30:55 > 0:30:57Me and my sister Maureen.
0:30:57 > 0:31:00So when was this?
0:31:00 > 0:31:01I was about 10.
0:31:01 > 0:31:04And that's your grandad.
0:31:04 > 0:31:05He died...
0:31:05 > 0:31:08He's been dead...
0:31:08 > 0:31:11eight years this coming February.
0:31:11 > 0:31:14Then it's time for a photo for the new family album.
0:31:14 > 0:31:16- Are you going to cheese? ALL:- Cheese.
0:31:21 > 0:31:22- Who's that?- Erm...
0:31:22 > 0:31:25- STEPH WHISPERS:- Grandad Alan.
0:31:25 > 0:31:27- Ga... - Grandad Alan.
0:31:27 > 0:31:28Grandad Alan!
0:31:30 > 0:31:33Off to a good, if tentative, start.
0:31:33 > 0:31:36Alan is keen for Stephen to know more about his life.
0:31:38 > 0:31:42The last time Alan saw Stephen, 30 years ago,
0:31:42 > 0:31:44he was still working as a miner.
0:31:46 > 0:31:50And today he wants to show him the site of the coalmine
0:31:50 > 0:31:51where he used to work.
0:31:51 > 0:31:53When was the last time you was here?
0:31:56 > 0:31:58'87, I think it was. '88.
0:32:00 > 0:32:03By 1985 the strikers were defeated,
0:32:03 > 0:32:07and by the '90s, most pits in the country had closed.
0:32:08 > 0:32:11Bentley colliery was demolished in 1984
0:32:11 > 0:32:13and is now woodland.
0:32:17 > 0:32:20Parts of the old rock-cutting works now mark the site
0:32:20 > 0:32:22where the mine once stood.
0:32:23 > 0:32:25This is a cutting head.
0:32:26 > 0:32:27A disc.
0:32:31 > 0:32:34I haven't seen one of them for years.
0:32:35 > 0:32:37Something I never expected to see again.
0:32:39 > 0:32:42The old mining equipment, so familiar to Alan,
0:32:42 > 0:32:45is totally alien to Stephen.
0:32:45 > 0:32:47They didn't actually cut coal, them.
0:32:47 > 0:32:48They cut rock.
0:32:48 > 0:32:50Right.
0:32:50 > 0:32:52They make the roadways.
0:32:54 > 0:32:56The whole hill is a product of the coal waste
0:32:56 > 0:32:58from the colliery's past.
0:32:58 > 0:33:01Well, it was a slag heap.
0:33:02 > 0:33:04Piles of slack.
0:33:04 > 0:33:06Coal dust.
0:33:06 > 0:33:08What couldn't be used.
0:33:10 > 0:33:11I lived...
0:33:11 > 0:33:15Well, me and your mum lived in Adwick-le-Street, didn't we?
0:33:15 > 0:33:16Over there.
0:33:16 > 0:33:17Has she spoke about it?
0:33:17 > 0:33:18No.
0:33:21 > 0:33:24That's where we bought our house, Adwick-le-Street
0:33:24 > 0:33:26which was...
0:33:26 > 0:33:29The pit was here, Bentley was there,
0:33:29 > 0:33:31Adwick-le-Street was here.
0:33:31 > 0:33:33- In the middle. - Yeah, the pit was in the middle.
0:33:35 > 0:33:36But it's altered a hell of a lot.
0:33:40 > 0:33:42What was it like around here, then?
0:33:44 > 0:33:45Erm, well...
0:33:48 > 0:33:50They employed lots of men
0:33:50 > 0:33:52working underground,
0:33:52 > 0:33:54digging coal out, basically.
0:33:54 > 0:33:57In fact, the workings will still be there.
0:33:57 > 0:33:59Underneath our feet.
0:33:59 > 0:34:00Mm-hm.
0:34:00 > 0:34:04Before the strike it was a completely different place.
0:34:06 > 0:34:09And then the strike...
0:34:09 > 0:34:10And, erm...
0:34:12 > 0:34:16..the men didn't have so much say
0:34:16 > 0:34:18in the matter,
0:34:18 > 0:34:19how the job was done.
0:34:21 > 0:34:24It was, "We're the managers, and you will do as we say."
0:34:26 > 0:34:28That's what killed it.
0:34:28 > 0:34:32They wanted the average working man
0:34:32 > 0:34:33under the thumb.
0:34:33 > 0:34:35And the miners,
0:34:35 > 0:34:37we weren't going to stand for it.
0:34:39 > 0:34:42So, that's what basically killed it.
0:34:42 > 0:34:45Not a question of closing it, it ruined people's lives, didn't it?
0:34:47 > 0:34:50And they had no work.
0:34:50 > 0:34:51Areas died off.
0:34:53 > 0:34:55The nerves and the tension leading up to their meeting
0:34:55 > 0:34:57have now subsided.
0:34:57 > 0:35:00It's a lot more calmer, less nervous now.
0:35:03 > 0:35:05I want to get to know you better.
0:35:07 > 0:35:10If that all goes well, I'd like you to probably come to my wedding
0:35:10 > 0:35:13and be a part of that day.
0:35:14 > 0:35:16Well, as I said about coming down here,
0:35:16 > 0:35:19wild horses wouldn't keep me away.
0:35:19 > 0:35:20Right.
0:35:20 > 0:35:22I'm very proud.
0:35:22 > 0:35:24You achieved something I never did,
0:35:24 > 0:35:28which I wanted to do, but I never did - is get into the army.
0:35:29 > 0:35:32I think I've had a good life.
0:35:32 > 0:35:34- But it's going to get better now I've got you.- Yeah.
0:35:34 > 0:35:36- Same.- Good.
0:35:41 > 0:35:42Shown him a bit about my life,
0:35:42 > 0:35:45and he's told me
0:35:45 > 0:35:48what I've missed out on.
0:35:48 > 0:35:50And I've been invited to the wedding
0:35:50 > 0:35:52and we are going to go and have a few beers.
0:35:53 > 0:35:55Today's gone well,
0:35:55 > 0:35:58and obviously today is the first step of many.
0:36:00 > 0:36:03He seems proud of me, so...
0:36:04 > 0:36:06See how the future comes.
0:36:14 > 0:36:17In Warrington, the DNA results are in.
0:36:17 > 0:36:21Do Brian, May and Eric share the same mother?
0:36:21 > 0:36:24The result of the analysis shows,
0:36:24 > 0:36:27with a probability of 99.9067%
0:36:27 > 0:36:30that Eric is the half-sibling of May Gray,
0:36:30 > 0:36:33sharing the same biological mother.
0:36:33 > 0:36:36So Eric and May are definitely related.
0:36:36 > 0:36:38But there was more.
0:36:38 > 0:36:43Brian's hunch had been right - Eric isn't his half-brother, at all.
0:36:43 > 0:36:45Eric is the full sibling of Brian Frith,
0:36:45 > 0:36:50sharing both the biological mother and a biological father.
0:36:50 > 0:36:54Instead, remarkably, it turned out Brian and Eric
0:36:54 > 0:36:56are actually full brothers.
0:36:56 > 0:36:59When we got the results, we were all over the moon.
0:36:59 > 0:37:04It came through that he was full brother.
0:37:04 > 0:37:10And I would've give you 1,000-to-1, that I wasn't their step-brother...
0:37:10 > 0:37:13but when I found out I were Brian's proper brother...
0:37:13 > 0:37:17- That were a shock, wasn't it? - That were a real shock.- Yeah, yeah.
0:37:17 > 0:37:18As you're getting older,
0:37:18 > 0:37:22something like that that comes out of the blue...
0:37:22 > 0:37:24- Yeah, yeah.- It's so good, isn't it? - Yeah.
0:37:26 > 0:37:28And now the three siblings are wasting no time,
0:37:28 > 0:37:31making up for the years they've missed out on.
0:37:31 > 0:37:33Hiya, love! How you going on?
0:37:33 > 0:37:34Fine, thank you. How are you?
0:37:34 > 0:37:37I'm very well. And how are you, Brian?
0:37:37 > 0:37:40- Are you all right, our kid? - I am, lad, aye. Up!
0:37:40 > 0:37:42- Can you manage?- Glad to see you.
0:37:44 > 0:37:47But there's one mystery that remains unsolved.
0:37:47 > 0:37:50Brian's always wondered who his father was.
0:37:50 > 0:37:52- If you're brothers...- Yeah.
0:37:52 > 0:37:54So if he were my father, he's got to be yours.
0:37:54 > 0:37:56As full brothers,
0:37:56 > 0:37:59Brian and Eric have the same dad,
0:37:59 > 0:38:00but as neither of them have details
0:38:00 > 0:38:02of a father listed on their birth certificates,
0:38:02 > 0:38:06neither can be sure who that man was.
0:38:06 > 0:38:08What they do know is all three of them -
0:38:08 > 0:38:12Brian, Eric and May - share the same mother.
0:38:12 > 0:38:15- You'd have loved mother. - Yeah.- You would.- Yeah, yeah.
0:38:15 > 0:38:18- It's like putting your last piece of jigsaw in.- Yeah.
0:38:18 > 0:38:21And it's...
0:38:21 > 0:38:25But, in the other hand, it's made me a bit sorrowful,
0:38:27 > 0:38:31because I think I've missed out on a family.
0:38:31 > 0:38:33Well, we've missed out on having...
0:38:33 > 0:38:36I have, in one sense, having another brother.
0:38:36 > 0:38:40And you can't blame your brothers and sisters...
0:38:40 > 0:38:42- No.- No.- No. - ..for what's happened.
0:38:42 > 0:38:44And you can't blame anybody, right?
0:38:44 > 0:38:46- It's just circumstances. - That's right.
0:38:46 > 0:38:49In those days, women went through
0:38:49 > 0:38:52what they shouldn't have gone through.
0:38:52 > 0:38:54They'd no choice.
0:38:54 > 0:38:56They had to work, they had to bring the kids up.
0:38:58 > 0:39:00May and Brian have come up with a way
0:39:00 > 0:39:03to try and share their memories of their mother with Eric.
0:39:03 > 0:39:06They are taking him to visit their childhood home.
0:39:07 > 0:39:10So, what do your family think about it, then?
0:39:10 > 0:39:12- Oh, they're chuffed. - Good.
0:39:14 > 0:39:19They all said to us, "Well, do we change us name now to Frith?
0:39:21 > 0:39:22Mind, it's a big drop, May.
0:39:22 > 0:39:25And you've got your Cuban heels on.
0:39:25 > 0:39:28Well, that makes it higher for me, don't it?
0:39:28 > 0:39:32Eric is just metres away from where his mother spent her adult life.
0:39:33 > 0:39:35Just across there...was our house.
0:39:35 > 0:39:37Number one.
0:39:37 > 0:39:39That's where we'd have lived.
0:39:39 > 0:39:41Just about there where that lamppost is.
0:39:41 > 0:39:44Yeah. Them's all new houses now.
0:39:44 > 0:39:46But in our day, we'd a gas lamp there.
0:39:46 > 0:39:50And I used to get out the bedroom window
0:39:50 > 0:39:53and come down the gas lamp, sneak out.
0:39:53 > 0:39:55LAUGHS: You were a little devil, Brian, weren't you?
0:39:55 > 0:39:58That makes two of you, don't it? From what I've heard!
0:39:58 > 0:40:01Yeah, HE were a little devil!
0:40:01 > 0:40:04- This street probably would've been full of kids.- It was. Yeah. It was.
0:40:04 > 0:40:07Playing hopscotch, skipping...
0:40:07 > 0:40:09- And there'd be no cars.- No. - Oh, no!
0:40:09 > 0:40:12Bonfire Night, the greengrocer's here...
0:40:12 > 0:40:15We all had a bit bonfire at the bottom of the street
0:40:15 > 0:40:19and the greengrocer's here used to put potatoes on't fire for us.
0:40:19 > 0:40:21We had it here, once.
0:40:23 > 0:40:25The differences between Eric's childhood
0:40:25 > 0:40:29and that of his new-found siblings are starting to sink in.
0:40:30 > 0:40:32With me being an only child,
0:40:32 > 0:40:36I think, "What did I miss?"
0:40:36 > 0:40:38when there was all that family.
0:40:38 > 0:40:41And they tell me what they used to do as kids.
0:40:41 > 0:40:43I missed all that.
0:40:43 > 0:40:46I would never forget my stepmum.
0:40:47 > 0:40:50But Eric longs for a stronger connection with birth mother
0:40:50 > 0:40:51Elizabeth.
0:40:51 > 0:40:55The only thing that annoys me is, why can't I love her?
0:40:55 > 0:40:57Because you never knew her.
0:40:57 > 0:40:59That's it. That's it exactly, isn't it?
0:40:59 > 0:41:01I never knew her.
0:41:01 > 0:41:03- But I know you would've done, if you'd had met her.- Yeah.
0:41:05 > 0:41:09From now, from what you're telling me now, all these times,
0:41:09 > 0:41:13- I think I would have fit in with her. - Yeah.
0:41:14 > 0:41:16May brought me a little photograph of her,
0:41:16 > 0:41:18and I do look at her a lot.
0:41:19 > 0:41:21She's not unlike me.
0:41:21 > 0:41:23I'm not unlike her, you know.
0:41:27 > 0:41:30Having shown Eric where their mother lived her life,
0:41:30 > 0:41:33May and Brian are taking their brother
0:41:33 > 0:41:35to see her final resting place.
0:41:35 > 0:41:37I wanted to come here to show you
0:41:37 > 0:41:40just where my mum came for her cremation.
0:41:42 > 0:41:43Seeing where their mother was laid to rest
0:41:43 > 0:41:45has made Eric, Brian and May
0:41:45 > 0:41:48all wish they'd found each other sooner.
0:41:48 > 0:41:52- The only thing is, it came a bit too late in life.- Yeah.
0:41:52 > 0:41:54Yeah, it's come, you know...
0:41:54 > 0:41:57If it had come before my mum died it, it'd have been real, wouldn't it?
0:41:57 > 0:41:59- ALL:- Yeah.
0:41:59 > 0:42:01But, for some reason, it couldn't happen.
0:42:01 > 0:42:03- No, it couldn't.- You know.
0:42:03 > 0:42:07Their mother was never given an official burial place,
0:42:07 > 0:42:08so May, Brian and Eric
0:42:08 > 0:42:11would like to arrange something to remember her by.
0:42:11 > 0:42:14What are we gonna to do then? Are we gonna get a plaque, May?
0:42:14 > 0:42:17- Yeah, definitely. We'll get a plaque.- Definitely.- Between us all.
0:42:17 > 0:42:19And where we can put it...
0:42:19 > 0:42:24- So that everyone can come and they can see...- Yeah.- Yeah.
0:42:24 > 0:42:25..where it is.
0:42:25 > 0:42:28Having spent most of their lives apart,
0:42:28 > 0:42:30the new-found siblings are determined
0:42:30 > 0:42:34to make the most of the time they have together now.
0:42:34 > 0:42:36May's brought something to me
0:42:36 > 0:42:38that I never would've had
0:42:38 > 0:42:40and I'd have probably died
0:42:40 > 0:42:42wondering who my mother was.
0:42:44 > 0:42:46Well, it's been a revelation for me.
0:42:46 > 0:42:52At last I've got some reference to my younger days, you know.
0:42:54 > 0:42:57Today has been marvellous.
0:42:57 > 0:43:01We've seen where me mum's lying at rest,
0:43:01 > 0:43:04and I've come with both of my brothers
0:43:04 > 0:43:07who have just found one another.
0:43:09 > 0:43:11Both my mother's sons.
0:43:11 > 0:43:14And it's been a brilliant day.