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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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.
For the person searching, it can feel like the most important quest of their life.
For the person being found, it may feel like an ambush.
I asked Michelle, with Jess's say-so, to take a look at all of Jess's results from the DNA companies she's used.
And what I was talking about earlier... She gets going, pulling in results from the different sites and creating a family tree.
Michelle goes back further and further in time, building out generation after generation of Jess's ancestors, parents, grandparents, great-grandparents.
I watch the screen as she gets to work.
It's kind of amazing.
And here's the thing.
All of Michelle's detective work to check Jess's conclusions is possible even though Jess's biological parents haven't done their DNA.
These databases are now so big, Michelle's able to use other people's DNA profiles to narrow a search right down.
And at that point, it doesn't take much to fill in the blanks.
These days, it's very hard to stay hidden.
Is it generally the case that finding out big gaps in your family using DNA leads to happy endings?
Lewis's long-term partner is Debbie.
She's a slim woman with light brown hair tied back in a ponytail.
We're sitting in her daughter's kitchen as the sun streams in the back window.
Debbie starts slowly, like she's not used to being the one doing the talking, and she tells me how she found out about Jess.
Debbie and Lewis have been a couple since they were in their teens.
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