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Thank you for downloading from our home correspondent.

I'm Michelle Hussein.

Our pieces this time, including one from a correspondent who was herself homeless as a child, and who's gone to meet a family in the same position today, even though the father is in full-time work.

We take a trip on England's and the world's first steam railway

and think about what it reveals about the current state of the train network.

And it's all about the outdoors this summer, so we have one correspondence struggling with the final stretch of a park run,

while another is on the Isle of Sky, attempting the inaccessible pinnacle and discovering rather quickly why it's called that.

We begin though with a family story, one little strike accord with anybody who was adopted or who has had to give a child up.

To try to trace a child or find your birth parents can be a painstaking process full of obstacles

and an emotionally challenging one too. When the BBC

Social Affairs correspondent Michael Buchanan set out to tell the story of how one

mother managed it, he also learned about the experience of her long lost son.

Paddy Farrle is an unusual Englishman.

He looks like a Viking and sounds like a Celt. He is flowing shoulder length sandy colored hair,

appropriate perhaps for a biker, and his rich melodious accent is straight from Father Ted.

Despite having spent weeks researching his story and hearing

his mother talks of fondly of him, when we first met and didn't know what to call him, which

name he preferred.

He'd been given the name Andre at birth and spent most of his life as Paddy,

but which name had prevailed after these recent tumultuous years was unclear.

It doesn't matter.

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