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David McBride was left in a car as a two-week-old infant in January 1962, while Helen Ward was left in a tartan bag in a telephone box in Dundalk in 1968.

Simon Jeffery was left in a box outside a railway tavern in Greenhithe, a story which hit the headlines but which he only learned about by chance at the age of 10. Fi Beazer was discovered in a public toilet in Warminster when she was only a few hours old. Both have spent their adult life trying to track down their parents, and submit DNA samples in the hope of finally getting the answers they seek.

Two baby girls were abandoned in Chesterfield in the late 1980s. Could they be related? Through DNA, the team make a shocking new discovery.

Time is running out for one foundling who was discovered on a luggage rack in Paddington station nearly 75 years ago.

A woman born in a hospital but whose birth mother disappeared, never to be traced, discovers a shocking secret.

There are shocking revelations for a man who was left as a baby on church steps over 50 years ago, when a long-held family secret is finally uncovered.

A man who became famous as 'The Ice Baby', after being found in a London phone box on the coldest night of the year, searches for answers.

Heart-wrenching news awaits a woman discovered as a newborn baby on the steps of a tower block, and can DNA finally help one man find his roots?

In this episode of the programme, a man left as a baby in a London phone box over 50 years ago discovers an extraordinary family history on the other side of the world.

A man left on a stranger's doorstep finds a painful family secret, and a woman discovered in the back of an Aston Martin car in the 1950s learns why she was put there.

Paul is a police detective who was discovered on the steps of a North London church in 1964. He has very limited info about his circumstances; he doesn't even know the name of the church in question, though the team are able to track down some more concrete info about his birth. Caroline Harris-Gray was abandoned at the Prince of Wales Hospital in 1968, but wasn't aware of any coverage of her discovery. Luckily, the search team are able to find a connection back to her family in an online database, allowing her to reconnect with surviving members of her family.

Thomas was left as a baby in the waiting room of Reading train station in 1965. Extraordinarily, the first birth relative the team finds for him is another foundling: Martina - left as a baby on the steps of a Dublin church. Apart from DNA, all they share at first are questions – however, their meeting soon leads to life-changing discoveries for them both.

‘Euston Baby’ Rachel’s adoptive mother always told her ‘you were like Paddington Bear, you were found at a train station’, but the parallels end there as Rachel still bears physical scars from her time left alone in a battered carry cot in Euston Station’s long-stay car park more than 50 years later. For most foundlings, the time and place they were left is all they know about their beginnings. Foundling Steve doesn’t even know this – taken into care from an unlicensed foster home, he doesn’t exist in any records before he was nine months old.

Found in a shopping basket under a Birmingham hedge, Liz has since triumphed over every challenge life has thrown at her except for the puzzle of her true identity. Foundling Susanne was left in an East London phone box along with a heartbreaking note from her birth mother. For years she’s been hoping for a close DNA match and, finally, she makes a joyful connection.

We find out what happened next to two foundlings - Harvey and Caroline - who forged new and enduring relationships after their stories were told.

In 1966, infant Simon was left in the outside toilet block of a mother and baby home in Neath in south Wales. In an unrelated incident, four years later in Christchurch, England, newborn Lisa was left in another baby's pram. Almost 60 years later, Simon and Lisa are still desperate to know who left them and why.

Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell help two more people who were found as babies after being abandoned to track down their birth families. Simon Jeffery was left in a box outside a railway tavern in Greenhithe, a story which hit the headlines but which he only learned about by chance at the age of 10. Fi Beazer was discovered in a public toilet in Warminster when she was only a few hours old. Both have spent their adult life trying to track down their parents, and submit DNA samples in the hope of finally getting the answers they seek.

Sarah was left in the stairwell of a Surrey car park in 2001. She is the youngest foundling to appear on the show. Also looking for answers is Chris who, at three months old, was dropped off at a childminder's near Kings Cross in London, 62 years ago. He still needs to know who his birth family is and why nobody ever returned to pick him up.