No-one must ever know this
Life Changing
BBC
4.6 • 804 Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In the late 1950s a newspaper ran this small ad: 'Can Catholic people in London or the Home Counties offer a permanent home for an attractive baby girl aged one year who is above average intelligence?’ That girl was Teresa Weiler, who was subsequently adopted and raised in a loving family home. Twenty years later she went to read her adoption file. Alone in a room with those documents and totally unprepared, she discovered a terrible secret about her birth parents that would reverberate through her whole life and lead her to make a profound decision. Yet she told no-one about it for decades. Dr Sian Williams hears her story.
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| 1:35.3 | Hello and welcome. This series is all about moments that shift lives forever, but sometimes it's about the decisions of others which end up defining you. Today's episode is an adoption story, |
| 1:43.2 | but at its heart is a shocking, rather unsettling revelation, which is shaped Teresa Weiler's life. She's keen to tell it, and she's here. Hello, Teresa. Hello, Sean. Nice to meet you. And you too. Let's start then on day one, the day after you were born. What were you told about what had happened? |
| 2:03.9 | All I knew was that my mother had abandoned me. |
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