The fallout | Foundling Ep 4
4/14/202635 min
Jess ignores a plea from her birth mother to stop searching for answers. She decides to track down her father.
Foundling is a 6 part original series from Tortoise Investigates and The Observer
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First 90 secondsLucy Greenwell· Host0:00
[gentle music] Tortoise Investigates.
Speaker 10:06
Do I think about going to see these guys? I mean, this is kind of act two of this strange story, isn't it, where...
Lucy Greenwell· Host0:18
I'm in a taxi with my producer, Katie, and we're on our way to meet one of Jess's newly discovered half sisters and her mother.
Speaker 10:25
Kim and Debbie have experienced something really, just like this terrible, terrible loss, and we're trying to piece together how it came to be. From speaking to them on the phone, I know how, um, they're angry and really angry, and the stakes feel quite high.
Lucy Greenwell· Host0:45
Because they're hoping we'll help them find answers.
Speaker 10:48
Yeah, exactly.
Lucy Greenwell· Host0:50
[gentle music] When I think back to the day Jess did her DNA test five years ago now, I picture a large stone dropping into still, black water. A splash, a circle of ripples expanding outwards. And those waves, they've traveled quite far now, disturbing the water's calm surface, and they're still spreading. Jess's DNA sample has already linked her to her birth mother. Now Jess is using the technology to go in search