Under one roof | Foundling Ep 2
3/31/202644 min
Jess does a DNA test. And she and Lucy travel to visit a house where Jess’s birth mother once lived, and try and work out how nobody noticed a thing.
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First 90 secondsLucy Greenwell· Host0:00
[gentle music] Tortoise Investigates. It's half past 10 on a December night in 2010. Jess, who was found abandoned as a newborn baby 22 years earlier, is sitting on her sofa having a conversation she's waited half a lifetime to have. [gentle music] She's on Facebook messaging the person who found her, the woman who spotted a Sainsbury's plastic bag on a lonely verge and looked inside.
Jess· Guest0:36
Just to thank her because she'd obviously saved my life, and just, yeah, just to say, "Hi, thanks for finding me."
Lucy Greenwell· Host0:43
Except that's not all that Jess wants from this conversation. Six months earlier, an elderly lady called Jean, who lived near that verge, had mentioned something. Rumors, she said, that some people in the village may have known more about the baby than they let on.
Jess· Guest1:02
"Well, there was a couple of nannies in the village," she said, "and they, they weren't from around here." She said, "And I'm sure one of them has to, something to do with it."
Lucy Greenwell· Host1:12
The woman Jess is messaging was a nanny who worked nearby at the time. So once Jess has thanked her, she takes the plunge. She types...
Jess· Guest1:24
"A lot of people in the village still think you have something to do with it for some reason."