Lucy Greenwell
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1,613 appearances
7 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 28 Apr
Lucy Greenwell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So you text your birth dad and you know who it is.
You've got a little bit of information from his eldest son, your new found half-brother, about him.
What do you say to him in that text?
This new connection, like so much of the story, hinges on DNA.
And I want to be sure of something.
It's not that DNA can lie, but it's entirely possible to misread what it's telling you.
In your results, a close match tells you how much DNA you share with the person.
It doesn't say what relation they are, because it can't.
You share the exact same proportion of DNA, 25%, with someone who's your nephew, your uncle, or indeed your half-sibling.
So there's room for mistakes.
And Michelle tells me too many people assume the DNA test process is straightforward.
Spit is
Lab, name pops out.
In truth, it's a bit more complex than this.
DNA is microscopic in size, but mighty in impact.
Michelle uses it to help clients find answers about their families.
That right to understand where you come from means Michelle will go digging whatever the potential fallout is.
I went to Michelle to check that Jess had drawn the right conclusions from her DNA tests.
But this feels like a salutary warning that just because you find family doesn't mean you get to keep them close.
And mothers who give up their children for adoption or even abandon them as babies, they aren't necessarily waiting with open arms for the moment the child arrives back into their life.
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